Brad Grey, Hollywood studio head, dies
Impossible, prestige properties like “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Up in the Air” and “The Big Short,” and multiple films from Martin Scorsese including “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Hugo.”
During his storied career in the entertainment business, Mr. Grey founded the management and production company Brillstein-Grey Entertainment with the late Bernie Brillstein, co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and produced multiple Emmy Award-winning television shows, including “The Sopranos,” “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “The Larry Sanders Show.”
Among his achievements at Paramount, Mr. Grey was at the helm for the release of the top-grossing film in the studio’s history, Transformers:
Dark of the Moon, led the acquisition of DreamWorks SKG, and shepherded the distribution agreement with Marvel, releasing “Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor” and “Captain America” before the Walt Disney Co. acquired Marvel Studios in 2009.
Born in New York in 1957, Mr. Grey started out in the entertainment business as an assistant to Harvey Weinstein, who was then a concert promoter.