2023-08-29 23:00:00
Hollywood stars are no longer content to shine on screen. In recent years, several great stars of American cinema have embarked on production, guided in particular by the desire to develop projects that are close to their hearts. From Margot Robbie to Brad Pitt, here are 10 actors and actresses who became producers.
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Margot Robbie
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We learned last week that the huge success of the comedy Barbie will earn him approximately $50 million in salary and bonuses. In addition to playing the title role, Margot Robbie also co-produced Greta Gerwig’s film with her company LuckyChap Entertainment, which she founded in 2014 with her husband Tom Ackerley. In creating LuckyChap, the 33-year-old actress and producer has set herself the goal of telling feminine stories and putting forward women behind the camera. The box has also produced films like Birds of Prey et A young woman full of promisean Emerald Fennell thriller that won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2021.
Tom Cruise
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Of all the actors named in this list, Tom Cruise was the first to found his own company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, in 1993, with his partner, Paula Wagner. It is with this production company that the star of Top Gun relaunched the franchise Mission: Impossiblein 1996, and co-produced the hit films Minority Report (by Steven Spielberg), The last Samourai (d’Edward Zwick) et Vanilla Sky (by Cameron Crowe). When Paula Wagner left the company in 2008, Tom Cruise renamed the company TC Productions.
Brad Pitt
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Been to Plan B Entertainment? This production company co-founded in 2002 by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (when they were still a couple) is behind several successful films of recent years such as Vice, World War Z et Moonlight (winner of the Oscar for best film in 2017). It was even as a producer that Brad Pitt won the first Oscar of his career, in 2014, for the film Slave for 12 years (he later won another statuette as an actor for his performance in Once upon a time in Hollywood). Jennifer Aniston sold her shares in the company to Brad Pitt after the couple divorced in 2005. Plan B Entertainment recently produced the hard-hitting She said, a drama chronicling the journalistic investigation that led to the downfall of producer Harvey Weinstein.
Reese Witherspoon
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Behind the devastating smile of Reese Witherspoon, who has been lighting up the screen for more than 30 years, hides a formidable producer. In 2016, the 47-year-old actress founded her own production company, Hello Sunshine, which aims to tell women-centric stories. It was she who recruited the late Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée to sign the direction of the film. Wild and series Big Little Liesprojects for which she wore both the hats of actress and producer.
George Clooney
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Like his good friend Brad Pitt, George Clooney can boast of having won Oscars both as an actor and as a producer. It was he, in fact, who took to the stage of the Dolby Theater in 2013 to pick up the Oscar for best film, awarded to Argo, a Ben Affleck thriller that Clooney produced with his box, Smokehouse Pictures. Founded in 2006, Smokehouse Pictures financed most of Clooney’s later films, including the steps of power, Welcome to Suburbicon et ticket to paradise.
Jennifer Lawrence
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If she has been more discreet on the screen for a few years, it is because Jennifer Lawrence devotes more and more time to production. The 33-year-old actress founded the Excellent Cadaver box in 2018 with her partner, Justine Ciarrocchi, a seasoned producer she had already met on film sets. Hunger Games et American scam. Excellent Cadaver financed Jennifer Lawrence’s two most recent films, Crossing et Without hard feelings.
Charlize Theron
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For the past twenty years, the South African actress has produced most of the films she plays in herself through her production company Denver and Delilah Productions. Movies Monster (drama by Patty Jenkins for which she won the Oscar for best actress), young adult et Atomic Blonde were notably produced under the Denver and Delilah Productions banner.
Will Ferrell
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Succession, the most recent success of the American channel HBO, is without a doubt one of the best TV series to have been released in recent years. But did you know that comedian Will Ferrell actively participated in the success of this project as executive producer? The actor and comedian, known for his roles in The Elf et Featured Presenter: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is also very present behind the camera since he created in 2016 his own company, Gary Sanchez Productions, with filmmaker Adam McKay. Ferrell is now the sole owner of the box which was recently renamed Gloria Sanchez Productions.
Mark Wahlberg
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We know him as an actor and also, for the older ones, as a former member of the hip-hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. But know that Mark Wahlberg is also a formidable businessman. In addition to starting his own hamburger chain (Wahlburgers) and running a five-branch car dealership in Ohio, the 52-year-old actor founded his own production company, Closest to the Hole, 20 years ago. which allowed him to produce films like The coup de grace, An immediate family et patriots day.
Elizabeth Banks
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What do the movies have in common? Pitch Perfect), Charlie and his Charlie’s Angels et Cocaine Bear? These box-office hits were all produced by actress Elizabeth Banks under the banner of Brownstone Productions, a company she founded in 2002 with her husband, Max Handelman. A true jack-of-all-trades, the 49-year-old actress has also directed several feature films, including her most recent, Cocaine Bear.
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