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Bruce Berman

Highest Rated: 97% Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Lowest Rated: 6% The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

Birthday: Apr 25, 1952

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Bruce Berman is a producer and studio executive, best known as Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. In this capacity, Berman served as executive producer of critical and commercial successes including Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" (2014), the animated hit "The Lego Movie" (2014), and Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" (2013), among many others. Born April 25, 1952 in New York, NY, Berman studied American history at UCLA, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1975. After receiving a degree from Georgetown Law School in Washington D.C., Berman entered the film industry in 1978 at Casablanca Filmworks, the short-lived spinoff of Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records best known for producing the disco comedy "Thank God It's Friday" (1978), starring Donna Summer, Jeff Goldblum, and Debra Winger. By 1982, he was a production vice president at Universal; he joined Warner Brothers Pictures in the same capacity in 1984, moving up to Senior Vice President of Production before becoming President of Theatrical Production in 1989 and Worldwide President of Theatrical Production in 1991. Films he worked on during his tenure at Warner Brothers included hits like "The Fugitive" (1993), "Goodfellas" (1990), and the Oscar-winning "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989). In February 1998, Berman was named Chairman and CEO of the newly formed Village Roadshow Pictures. His first executive producer credit came the same year on the Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman romantic comedy "Practical Magic" (1998). With Village Roadshow, Berman went on to executive produce films in an impressive variety of styles and genres, including "The Matrix" (1999), Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) trilogy, "Mystic River" (2003) and George Miller's animated hit "Happy Feet" (2006). The company's success continued in the '10s with the hits "The Lego Movie" (2014), "American Sniper" (2014), "the Dwayne Johnson action thriller "San Andreas" (2015), Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), and Ron Howard's "In the Heart of the Sea" (2015).

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 86% Mad Max: Fury Road Watchlist 96% 87% The LEGO Movie Watchlist
94% 77% Three Kings
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91% 90% Edge of Tomorrow Watchlist 89% 89% Mystic River Watchlist 85% 84% Sully Watchlist
83% 85% The Matrix
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83% 80% Ocean's Eleven Watchlist 81% 90% Gran Torino Watchlist 78% 62% Goosebumps Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Matrix Resurrections 63% 63% 2021 Executive Producer Joker 68% 88% 2019 Executive Producer Ocean's 8 69% 47% 2018 Executive Producer Ready Player One 71% 77% 2018 Executive Producer The 15:17 to Paris 24% 37% 2018 Executive Producer The House 20% 35% 2017 Executive Producer King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 31% 69% 2017 Executive Producer Going in Style 47% 58% 2017 Executive Producer Fist Fight 25% 40% 2017 Executive Producer Passengers 30% 63% 2016 Executive Producer Collateral Beauty 14% 64% 2016 Executive Producer The Magnificent Seven 64% 71% 2016 Executive Producer Sully 85% 84% 2016 Executive Producer The Legend of Tarzan 36% 58% 2016 Executive Producer The Brothers Grimsby 37% 41% 2016 Executive Producer Concussion 58% 74% 2015 Executive Producer In the Heart of the Sea 42% 54% 2015 Executive Producer Goosebumps 78% 62% 2015 Executive Producer San Andreas 48% 52% 2015 Executive Producer Mad Max: Fury Road 97% 86% 2015 Executive Producer Jupiter Ascending 28% 38% 2015 Executive Producer American Sniper 72% 84% 2014 Executive Producer The Judge 49% 72% 2014 Executive Producer Into the Storm 21% 41% 2014 Executive Producer Edge of Tomorrow 91% 90% 2014 Executive Producer
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