Robbie Brenner

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Robbie Brenner is an American producer and film executive with over 20 years of industry experience. In 2013 she produced Dallas Buyers Club, which starred Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, and Jennifer Garner and earned Brenner a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film went on to win 3 Academy Awards.

She is currently the Head and Executive Producer of Mattel Films, where she oversees the development of one the largest portfolios of brands and IP into cinematic franchises. Upcoming feature films include Barbie, Hot Wheels, Masters of the Universe, Thomas & Friends, View-Master, Polly Pocket, and many more.

In 2021, Brenner produced the supernatural romance The In Between starring Joey King and Kyle Allen for Paramount+ and women's rights drama Call Jane starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver with Academy Award-nominated writer Phyllis Nagy directing.

Prior to joining Mattel, Brenner produced the independent film Burden starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, and Andrea Riseborough. Burden, directed and written by first-time filmmaker Andrew Heckler, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award that year.

In 2009, she joined Relativity as Executive Vice President of Production and was integral to the studio's acquisition of the Sundance documentary Catfish, which became a cultural sensation. She was promoted to president in 2011 and oversaw movies such as Immortals, Safe Haven, Mirror, Mirror, Out of the Furnace, The Fighter, and many more.

Brenner worked at Miramax for 9 years and 2 years at 20th Century Fox overseeing and shepherding movies.

She is a film graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Executive Branch.

Filmography

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year Film Credit Notes
2001 Serendipity Co-executive producer
On the Line Executive producer
2003 View from the Top Executive producer
2004 Haven
2007 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Executive producer
2008 Deception
2009 A Perfect Getaway
2011 A Little Bit of Heaven Executive producer
Machine Gun Preacher
Immortals Co-executive producer
2012 Mirror Mirror Executive producer
2013 Safe Haven Executive producer
21 & Over Co-executive producer
Escape Plan
Dallas Buyers Club
Out of the Furnace Executive producer
2014 Earth to Echo Executive producer
The Best of Me Executive producer
2016 The Disappointments Room Executive producer
2017 The Space Between Us Executive producer
The Tribes of Palos Verdes
2018 Burden
Escape Plan 2: Hades Direct-to-video
2019 Escape Plan: The Extractors Direct-to-video
2020 The Night Clerk Executive producer
2022 Call Jane
The In Between
2023 Barbie
TBA Hot Wheels
Untitled Marc Forster Thomas & Friends film
View-Master
Wishbone
Miscellaneous crew
Year Film Role
1991 The Resurrected Additional legal services
1996 Bullet Assistant: Mickey Rourke
1997 Nightwatch Assistant: Michael Obel
2010 The Fighter Executive vice president of production: Relativity Media
2011 Limitless
Haywire
2012 Mirror Mirror President of production: Relativity Media
2013 Movie 43
21 & Over
Out of the Furnace
Production manager
Year Film Role
2014 Earth to Echo President of production
Thanks
Year Film Role
2008 Traitor The producers wish to thank
2013 Oculus The producers and director wish to thank
2019 Fractured Special thanks

Television

Thanks
Year Title Role Notes
2017 Please Tell Me I'm Adopted! Very special thanks Television short

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