Amy Baer

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About Amy Baer

Amy Baer's entertainment career is multi-faceted and collectively, the films she has supervised and/or produced have grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Currently, Baer is President of Landline Pictures, a film production label launched in February 2020 with MRC Film (BABY DRIVER, KNIVES OUT). Landline produces feature films focusing on a 50+ audience for both theatrical and streaming distribution. Its first film, JERRY & MARGE GO LARGE, starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, and directed by David Frankel ("Marley & Me"), had its World Premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival before launching on Paramount+ on June 15, 2022. In 2012, Baer raised a 7-figure development fund and launched Gidden Media, one of the industry’s only female-led, independently financed content incubation companies. Her first film as a producer was the 2013 hit LAST VEGAS (starring Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline) which grossed $136MM worldwide. She has also produced the IFC romantic drama MARY SHELLEY, starring Elle Fanning (THE GREAT) which had its World Premiere at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, and Bleecker Street's inspirational true story BRIAN BANKS, starring Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear, which premiered at the 2018 LA FILM FESTIVAL and won the Audience Award. Additionally, She was an executive producer of the 2022 Netflix hit PURPLE HEARTS. Baer served as President & CEO of CBS Films (2007-2011), launching the division for CBS Corp. Baer spent the previous 17 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she oversaw such hit films as MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING (1997), ADAPTATION (2001), SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE (2003), THE HOLIDAY (2006) and MONEYBALL (2011). She began her career at Creative Artists Agency in 1988 as an assistant to the late Jay Moloney. Baer is Board President of Women in Film, stepping into the role in 2018 at a critical moment as the entertainment industry faced a broad reckoning over gender disparities and sexual harassment. Founded in 1973, Women in Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries – to achieve parity and transform culture. Baer graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 1988 with a B.A. in English literature. She is married to producer Matt Baer (UNBROKEN) and has two sons.