Metro Goldwyn Mayer has signed a two-year second-look film production deal with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner'a Plan B Entertainment.As part of this new pact, Plan B has set several projects with MGM, including a love story from "Minari" writer and director Lee Isaac Chung. The pic centers on a young man lost in New York City's corporate drudgery, who finds love with a beautiful young woman from Hong Kong, only to break up with her out of...
MGM Studios
Michael
De
Luca
Chairman, Motion Picture Group
When De Luca took office as chairman of MGM’s motion picture group in February 2020, he hit the ground running, quickly putting in place female executives Pamela Abdy and Alana Mayo to lead the studio’s two film divisions and rebranding Orion Pictures as a film label that is dedicated to underrepresented voices. He also went on a dealmaking spree, striking first-look deals with producer Jennifer Todd and Killer Films as well as a second-look deal with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, all the while lining up a slate of films that includes Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” Ridley Scott’s untitled Gucci project, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a new Paul Thomas Anderson film, Joe Wright’s “Cyrano,” Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin’s directorial debut “Dog,” Tommy Kail’s remake of “Fiddler on the Roof,” David Slade’s “Dark Harvest” and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel “Project Hail Mary.”