BREAKING: Plan B, the production shingle run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, is in the process of moving away from Paramount Pictures to New Regency, we’re told. This will happen very quickly. Pitt formed the label with Brad Pitt and his ex Jennifer Aniston when Grey ran Brillstein Grey before taking the top job at Paramount. Pitt brought his shingle to Paramount, where they produced such films as World War Z. They also produced 12 Years A Slave, the Oscar front runner that was distributed by Fox Searchlight.
We’re told that this move is not acrimonious and that the relationship between the Brads is fine. In fact, they completed their biggest film, World War Z, and they are starting moving on a sequel that Juan Antonio Bayona directing. But the feeling was the Plan B label fit better with another Brad, Brad Weston, over at New Regency, which co-financed 12 Years A Slave and has developed several projects for Pitt to star in over the past several years. The move happens shortly after Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer took residence at Paramount in a first look deal he moves to from Disney.
As a production label, Plan B has always been a book savvy acquirer of tasteful material that has attracted strong filmmakers. The films it has made include Kick-Ass and its sequel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Eat Pray Love, The Tree Of Life and Killing Them Softly. Pitt has starred in some of these. There is a plethora of development that includes the Paramount-based Lost City Of Z, which has James Gray directing, and Benedict Cumberbatch starring; the troubled Terrence Malick-directed Voyage of Time with Pitt as a narrator, and the Rupert Goold-directed True Story, which New Regency financed, with Jonah Hill and James Franco starring.
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