Brad Grey co-founded Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, and afterwards became the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he held from 2005 until 2017.
20 Facts About Brad Grey
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Brad Grey produced eight out of Paramount's 10 top-grossing pictures of all time after having succeeded Sherry Lansing in 2005.
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Brad Grey was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx, the youngest child of a garment district salesman.
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Brad Grey majored in business and communications at the University at Buffalo.
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The first show Brad Grey produced was a concert by Frank Sinatra at Buffalo's Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in 1978.
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Brad Grey traveled to Manhattan on weekends to look for young comics at The Improv.
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Brad Grey brought comedian Bob Saget to New York, thus making Saget his first client.
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In 1984, Brad Grey met talent manager Bernie Brillstein in San Francisco, California, at a television convention.
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Brad Grey began producing for television in 1986 with the Showtime hit, It's Garry Shandling's Show.
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In 1996, actress Linda Doucett alleged that Brad Grey and Shandling fired her from The Larry Sanders Show after her personal relationship with Shandling ended.
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Brillstein-Brad Grey said in a court filing that Zenga presented himself as a successful investment banker who became a prize-winning screenwriter to satisfy his creative urges.
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Brad Grey produced two films for Warner Bros: Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp, and Martin Scorsese's The Departed, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson.
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Brad Grey was named chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation in 2005.
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Brad Grey was responsible for the worldwide business operations for Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Media Distribution, Paramount Animation, Studio Group and Worldwide Television Distribution.
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Brad Grey oversaw the creation and revitalization of several major franchises, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek, and Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000 and generated $192 million at the global box office.
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In 2011, based on the success of Rango, the studio's first original, computer-animated release, Brad Grey oversaw the launch of a new animation division, Paramount Animation.
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Brad Grey was ousted from Paramount Pictures shortly before his death, a result of a power struggle between his backers and the family of majority owner Sumner Redstone, along with a series of flops that cost the studio $450 million in losses.
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Brad Grey died on May 14,2017, from cancer at his Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles, California.
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Brad Grey received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from SUNY during a visit to Buffalo and UB in 2003.
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Brad Grey was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.