Robbie Brenner is President, Production at Relativity Media, where she continues to shepherd Relativity's homegrown productions while leading the production team and overseeing all production and acquisitions. She was promoted from Executive Vice President, Production in September 2011.
Before joining Relativity, Ms. Brenner produced Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler as real-life activist Sam Childers and directed by Marc Forster. She produced Dallas Buyers Club separate from her Relativity duties.
She has been executive producer on several Relativity movies, including Scott Cooper's soon-to-be-released drama Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, and Woody Harrelson; Lasse Hallström's Safe Haven, based on the Nicholas Sparks book; the fantasy comedy Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, and Armie Hammer for director Tarsem Singh; and the latter director's epic Immortals, starring Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke.
At Relativity, Ms. Brenner was supervising the completion of such features as Three Days to Kill, starring Kevin Costner and directed by McG; and Luc Besson's The Family, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones. Previously at Relativity, she has been instrumental in the acquisition of such movies as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon and Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's sleeper Catfish; and in the production of such movies as David O. Russell's Academy Award-winning The Fighter and Lasse Hallström's Dear John, based on the Nicholas Sparks book.
She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and studied film there. She began her entertainment career working for Mickey Rourke's Red Ruby Productions, where she assisted in the production of Bullet, directed by Julien Temple, and Fall Time, directed by Paul Warner.
Ms. Brenner's industry education progressed at Miramax Films, where she worked for nine years in production and development. During her time there, she became a Senior Vice President and worked on numerous films, including Peter Chelsom's Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. She later went worked at another movie studio, Twentieth Century Fox, as Senior Vice President, Production.
Following her time at Fox, she produced the thriller Deception, directed by Marcel Langenegger and starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and Michelle Williams; and the crime drama Haven, directed by Frank E. Flowers and starring Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton.
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