Bruce Berman

Bruce Berman

Bruce Berman is Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. Under the Village Roadshow Pictures banner, Berman has executive produced such wide-ranging successes as “Training Day,” for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar®; the “Ocean’s” trilogy; “Two Weeks Notice,” pairing Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant; Clint Eastwood’s “Mystic River,” starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins in Oscar®-winning performances; “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions”; Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” starring Johnny Depp; the blockbuster “I Am Legend,” starring Will Smith; the acclaimed drama “Gran Torino,” directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; director Guy Ritchie’s hit action adventure “Sherlock Holmes,” starring Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law and its sequel “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”; and George Miller’s Oscar®-winning animated adventure “Happy Feet.”

Berman got his start in the motion picture business working with Jack Valenti at the MPAA while attending Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC. After earning his law degree, he landed a job at Casablanca Films in 1978. Moving to Universal, he worked his way up to a production vice president in 1982.

In 1984, Berman joined Warner Bros. as a production vice president, and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Production four years later. He was appointed President of Theatrical Production in September 1989, and in 1991 was named President of Worldwide Theatrical Production, where he served through May 1996. During his tenure at Warner Bros. Pictures he produced and distributed such films as Presumed Innocent, GoodFellas, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Oscar®-winning Best Picture Driving Miss Daisy, Batman Forever, Under Siege, Malcolm X, The Bodyguard, JFK, The Fugitive, Dave, Disclosure, The Pelican Brief, Outbreak, The Client, A Time to Kill and Twister.

In May of 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture company at Warner Bros. Pictures. He was named Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in February 1998.

Filmography

As executive producer.

• Practical Magic (1996)
• Analyze This (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Deep Blue Sea (1999)
• Three Kings (1999)
• Three to Tango (1999)
• Gossip (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Red Planet (2000)
• Valentine (2001)
• Saving Silverman (2001)
• See Spot Run (2001)
• Exit Wounds (2001)
• Swordfish (2001)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Training Day (2001)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
• Don't Say a Word (2001)
• The Majestic (2001)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Queen of the Damned (2002)
• Showtime (2002)
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
• Ghost Ship (2002)
• Analyze That (2002)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002)
• Dreamcatcher (2003)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• Mystic River (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Torque (2004)
• Taking Lives (2004)
• Catwoman (2004)
• Ocean's Twelve (2004)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
• House of Wax (2005)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Rumor Has It... (2005)
• Firewall (2006)
• The Lake House (2006)
• Happy Feet (2006)
• Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
• Music and Lyrics (2007)
• The Reaping (2007)
• No Reservations (2007)
• License To Wed (2007)
• The Invasion (2007)
• The Brave One (2007)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
• Lucky You (2007)
• Speed Racer (2008)
• Get Smart (2008)
• Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
• Yes Man (2008)
• Gran Torino (2009)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Sex and the City 2 (2010)
• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
• Life as We Know It (2010)
• Happy Feet Two (2011)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
• The Lucky One (2012)
• Dark Shadows (2012)
• Gangster Squad (2012)
• The Great Gatsby (2012)

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Biography for Bruce Berman

Bruce Berman is Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. Under the Village Roadshow Pictures banner, Berman has executive produced such wide-ranging successes as "Two Weeks' Notice," pairing Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, and "The Fugitive," (He "buys" Randy Quaid’s house and turns Mr. Quaid into a "fugitive)

In May of 1996 Berman started Plan B Entertainment (taking Randy Quaid’s Bees N Honey S corp profits for himself along with Randy Quaid’s house. Plan B is an independent motion picture company at Warner Bros. Pictures independent of its financier Randy Quaid.

Of course, Berman could not have achieved such success without his sidekicks Lloyd Braun, Warren Grant and Alan Watenmaker.

• Village Roadshow Pictures Official Website