Tom Holland, Margot Robbie and so many other huge Hollywood stars have set up their own production companies.
In December 2024, became one of the many celebs who has a producer’s chair, and signed a producing deal with Sony Pictures under his newly-launched Billy17 banner, alongside his brother Harry Holland and Will South.
“I’ve had an incredibly happy and successful relationship with Sony Pictures for almost a decade, so they felt like the perfect partner to launch our production company with,” he said in a statement, via Variety. “It’s been an ambition of mine to take this step for some time now, and we’re incredibly excited to bring entertaining, and rewatchable movies to the big screen. This is the hope for us, and it starts with ‘Burnt,’ an idea which has been sitting in our heads for a few years, and having Rodney attached to pen our most ambitious project is incredible. We’re diving into the deep end here, and we’re extremely excited for what comes next.”
Another very successful celebrity-owned production company is, of course, Margot’s LuckyChap. She released her first movie under the banner in 2017, with the hit, I, Tonya.
“It was one of the best moments of my life,” she told Variety of the movie’s Oscar nods. “There’s a really specific satisfaction to sit there and say, ‘ I played a part in seeing that person flourish.’”
Since then, she’s released other extremely successful films such as Barbie and Saltburn.
“Originality is definitely the key,” she said of the movies she’s produced. “But the thing about being original is you can’t do the thing that worked before. As much as we’re trying to celebrate the moment we’re in right now, our minds immediately go to what’s next. You can’t be original again; you have to be original every time. Whether it’s I, Tonya — the tone of that was so completely original — or Barbie, they’re all very bold. We swing for the fences, and sometimes you hit it out of the park and it’s amazing. But even if you didn’t hit it out of the park, you can’t not keep taking those big swings.
Scroll through our gallery below to uncover all of the celebrities who have their own production company.
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