PLAN B Entertainment, the production company run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, has signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. The move puts the producers of such challenging and Oscar-winning dramas as “Moonlight” and “12 Years a Slave” on the lot of the studio that is home to Harry Potter, DC heroes and Stephen King’s “It.” It is also a homecoming for Plan B, which was first formed at Warners in the early 2000s and was involved in the making of “The Departed” and “Troy.” Plan B was most recently aligned with Annapurna, with whom it signed a deal in 2017 and for whom it made the Adam McKay-directed Dick Cheney biopic “Vice” and Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Annapurna came through a tough 2019, which saw the Megan Ellison-led company escape a bankruptcy after a companywide restructuring, during which time it offloaded the projects “Hustlers” and “Bombshell.” Plan B is currently working on the Miranda July effort “Kajillionaire,” which Annapurna sold to Focus Features after the film’s Sundance debut, and Jon Stewart’s political drama “Irresistible,” also with Focus. (SD-Agencies) |