The Hideaway Entertainment is an independent American film and TV production company founded in 2017 by Jonathan Gray and based in

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. The company's first films produced were ''

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'' (2018), '' Men in Black: International'' (2019), '' Bloodshot'' (2020), and ''

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'' (2021).

History

The Hideaway Entertainment was launched in 2017 by the French American entrepreneur Jonathan Gray who hired Matthew Rhodes (former president of

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) as president. The following year, in 2018, the company produced its first film, the action thriller ''

'', directed by

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and featuring

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, John Malkovich and Iko Uwais. In 2019,

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produced '' Men in Black: International'' in association with The Hideaway Entertainment. It opened #1 in every country with a worldwide box office of $260 Million. It starred Chris Hemsworth,

Liam Neeson William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed 7th on ''The I ...

Tessa Thompson Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. She appeared in productions of '' The Tempest ...

Kumail Nanjiani Kumail Ali Nanjiani (; ur, کمیل علی ننجیانی, ; born May 2, 1978) is a Pakistani-American actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series ''Silicon Valley'' (2014–2019) and for co-wri ...

, Rebecca Ferguson, and

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. In 2020, The Hideaway Entertainment produced the film '' Bloodshot'', a sci-fi action film based on the Valiant Entertainment comic book series of the same name starring Vin Diesel as the lead character. Since 2020, The Hideaway Entertainment expanded from splashy big-budget movies to more intimate film dramas and TV movies and produced the film ''

'', based on the eponymous book, alongside Anthony and Joe Russo, who also directed the film that was released on

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in 2021. Since then, the company has announced several upcoming productions: ''Freedom Ride'' (directed by

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), the story of a group of young anti-racist activists during the

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era in the

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in the 1960s with a script based on the personal stories of early

Freedom Riders Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions ''Morgan v. Virginia' ...

such as civil rights icon John Lewis; ''Combat Control'' (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by

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), the true story of

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and Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman; ''Otherwise Illegal Activity'' (written by Terence Winter), the true story of a convict recruited by anti-terrorist forces to infiltrate a terrorist organization; ''Sleep Train'' (written by Andrew Nunnelly), a parenting comedy; ''Escape'' (directed by James Watkins), the true story of the escape convicts Robert Greenhill and

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Description

The Hideaway Entertainment was founded by Jonathan Gray in 2017 and is presided by Matthew Rhodes. Kristy Grisham is the SVP of development & production. The company tags itself as a "story-driven first" production vehicle which aims to support the creative community.

Filmography

References

External links

The Hideaway Entertainment
at IMDb
Official website
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