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Plan B Entertainment, the award-winning company co-founded by Brad Pitt, is in talks to sell a significant stake to French media group Mediawan. According to a report from Bloomberg, Plan B has received bids from more than one potential investor. However, Mediawan, which has been backed by KKR & Co…

Plan B, the Oscar-winning producer of 12 Years a Slave, The Departed and Moonlight and current awards-season movies Blonde and She Said is exploring deals with potential investors, including an outright sale. Deadline has confirmed that global independent investment bank Moelis & Co. was hired by…

EXCLUSIVE: Film industry veteran Emily Wolfe has joined Plan B Entertainment’s film division as it continues to expand its prolific slate of films. "We are excited to have Emily join our team as we look towards the future of our company, and the continued building of our feature-film slate. She will be a welcome…

Amazon Freevee has released the first trailer for High School, an eight-episode coming-of-age drama based on the New York Times best-selling memoir of the same name from Tegan and Sara Quin. The first four episodes of High School will premiere Oct. 14, with new episodes available every Friday on Amazon Freevee…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free’s Carina Sposato and Netflix’s Ernest McNealey have joined Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment as the company’s first dedicated, senior-level TV executives. The expansion of Plan B’s television division is part of the ongoing TV ramp-up at the company, run by co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Plan B Entertainment have acquired the film rights to No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Taddeo's novel Animal, which she will adapt for the screen, marking her feature writing debut. Plan B will produce the film as part of its overall deal with MGM. The novel follows a woman who, after…

Adria Arjona is ready to walk down the aisle with Andy Garcia. She has been tapped to play Garcia’s daughter and the bride-to-be in Warner Bros and Plan B’s reboot of Father of the Bride. Gaz Alazraki has been set to helm the studio's new reboot, which will revolve around a Cuban-American family, with Matt Lopez pennin…

EXCLUSIVE: IMDb TV, Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service, has put in development High School, a coming-of-age comedy series based on the bestselling memoir by Grammy-nominated, Platinum recording artists Tegan and Sara Quin. It hails from Housebroken co-creator Clea DuVall, Plan B Entertainment and Amazon…

EXCLUSIVE: In an early buy for recently arrived producer Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros has acquired Mickey7, a science fiction novel by Edward Ashton that will be published in 2021. Run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Plan B will produce. UK rights to the book have been acquired by Solaris, and the…

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment has locked in a first-look deal at Warner Bros, which will be the global distributor of the label’s titles. Previously, the Dede Gardner-Jeremy Kleiner-Pitt run studio had a three year first look with Annapurna Pictures, which released Oscar winners Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could…

Josh Brolin is returning to television as the star of Amazon’s mystery drama Outer Range. Under the rich talent deal, Brolin also will executive produce the series from playwright Brian Watkins, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios. Created by Watkins, Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a…

EXCLUSIVE: Topher Grace will join previously announced Oscar nominee Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Oscar winner Chris Cooper, and Mackenzie Davis in Jon Stewart's next directing gig Irresistible. The film follows the story of a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired ex-Marine colonel (Cooper) run for…