17 Movies And TV Shows Produced By Celebs

Now some of these names will be loosely involved in the films they produce, but not Drake. He’s apparently been heavily involved in Euphoria, even turning up at the table reads! Top Boy first and now this – “Lord Knows” what the limit is for this man! I’ll see myself out.

I bet you didn’t know this! Yes, Danny DeVito was ~seriously~ involved in the making of the movie via his production company, Jersey Films. He was so impressed with Quentin Tarantino that he bought the script without seeing it. For some reason, various studios turned it down, but Danny persisted and got it made with Miramax Films. I still can’t believe this is true.

You might have known that Selena Gomez is heavily involved in producing 13 Reasons Why, but that’s not even the most amazing part. She got matching tattoos with some cast members and even appeared on a Netflix panel discussing the show. If you knew that too, then you win.

Succession is pretty much one of the biggest shows around right now, and one that everyone is talking about! I wonder how many of you knew that it was Will Ferrell out here making this amazing piece of TV. Alongside Adam McKay, these two have been creating magic for years in the form of Anchorman, The Big Short, and Stepbrothers. Rumour has it that things aren’t going too well between them right now though, so fingers crossed all gets resolved!

Yes, this is actually true. Whitney Houston – “The Voice” – produced The Princess Diaries, and even served as a mentor to a young Anne Hathaway. This one truly had me freaking out — I mean, I had to go tell my mum right away. It all makes sense now because you can actually ~feel~ the Whitney magic in this move.

Through his production company Plan B, Brad has produced a fair few films including 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight, and Minari – impressive right? I could’ve chosen any of those, but this movie is one of my absoluteeee favourites. It’s actually a remake based on a brilliant Hong Kong thriller called Infernal Affairs – a free fact for you there. This was also their first film to win an Oscar!

They say a brilliant actor produces a brilliant film – actually, I have no idea if they do, but I’m saying it! So Denzel Washington acquired the rights for the playwright August Wilson’s estate and set out to produce Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Some of the performances in this film are seriously good. Viola Davis really shows what she’s about here and Chadwick Boseman, in his last performance before he sadly passed away, is incredible. You can be sure that we’re gonna see a lot more of Denzel and his production company in the future.

I don’t know how, but Jennifer Lopez somehow found the time to produce award-winning family drama The Fosters, a show that reflects today’s society pretty well, I think. JLo has been keen to point out that there’s no “normal” family, which is definitely something The Fosters captured. Is there seriously anything she can’t do?

This one definitely caught me off-guard! The Mean Streets actor was – for some reason – one of the producers of the 2005 adaptation of Rent, which starred Anthony Rapp, Rosario Dawson, and Idina Menzel. The film wasn’t received especially well, which is probably why people don’t know it’s a part of Bobby’s career. The internet never forgets though!

This was probably the weirdest find of all for me. Steve Mnuchin – ex-US secretary of the treasury and a part of Donald Trump’s cabinet – has actually produced A LOT of films. Truly, I don’t know where to begin, but he’s been the executive producer on films such as Suicide Squad, Batman v. Superman, and Mad Max: Fury Road. I’m not sure why I find this all so shocking. Oh, and it’s pronounced muh-noo-chn if you were wondering.

If you’ve seen Power, you’ll know that 50 Cent is the executive producer and that he’s heavily involved. He actually used his own life experiences for inspiration and ended up making a masterpiece! You probably already knew this, I’m just here to give 50 his flowers.

Tom Hanks and his production company Playtone have had a hand in quite a few films. His most well-known venture is Mamma Mia, and Tom is such a big ABBA fan that he even tried out for a role himself! His singing voice just wasn’t it though. Sorry Tom, you can’t be good at everything.

Through his production company Seven Bucks Productions – a reference to the amount of money he had in his pocket when he was released from the Canadian Football League – Dwayne has been involved in a great many recent releases. Shazam! is one of them, and others include movies like Fighting with My Family and Baywatch. He’s only getting bigger, so I reckon we’re gonna see his name in even more credit sequences soon.

Let’s be clear, Slash is a brilliant guitarist and is seriously talented, but when it comes to producing films, well, there’s Nothing Left to Fear. This film isn’t remotely scary – I guess the film title is to be taken ~very~ literally? I really doubt we’ll be seeing Slash produce any other films.

When you think of horror films, you probably think of Slash and Nothing Left… no wait, you think Romero, Raimi, and Hitchcock, right? I highly doubt anyone would associate Leonardo DiCaprio with this genre, but he has done it, and Orphan is actually kinda good! His production house Appian Way Productions has also produced the horrors such as Delirium and Red Riding Hood. Maybe we’ll see Leo in a horror soon.

One of the reasons Margot started her own production company is because she wanted to make “female stories” with “female storytellers”. Promising Young Woman is a perfect example of this, and I’m pretty sure she isn’t gonna stop there!

P Diddy was the executive producer for this short, which took home the Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film Award last year. He recruited help from NBA players Mike Conley and Kevin Durant, and together they made a sort of modern version of Groundhog Day. Tbf, I could see it – no wonder the film did so well!