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Gracie Films is an American film and television production company founded by James L. Brooks in 1986. The company is primarily responsible for producing its long-running flagship animated series, The Simpsons. The Gracie Films headquarters is located on the Fox Studios lot at 10201 West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. [3]
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- Executive In Charge of Production for Gracie Films
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Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986. The company has produced many award-winning films and television series, some of which include Broadcast News and Jerry Maguire, but most notably The Simpsons. The company is primarily associated with film studio, and distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment, but it still has an office at the 20th Century Studios lot due to the indefinite contract Gracie Films has with Fox for 31 years of The Simpsons (and counting).
Its vanity plate is set on a black background with two thick white lines sandwiching it.
It starts off in a movie theater with dimmed lights and a screen in front. The audience is animated and can be seen from the back. As the movie patrons are talking, a woman says "Shh!". Then, the audience becomes silent, and the projector comes on, where "GRACIE FILMS" is seen on a blue background.
The sound of an audience muttering and murmuring is heard, sometimes extended during the logo's early years and on a few early episodes of Weakest Link USA (the American version of the BBC UK game show), followed by a shushing sound effect, and then a 9-note electric piano theme with drums, but on the 1st season of The Tracey Ullman Show and a few early episodes of Weakest Link USA (the American version of the BBC UK game show), the last note of the jingle was extended. The jingle was composed by Jeffrey Townsend, and the "Shh!" was done by Tracey Ullman. The people talking were Jeffrey Townsend and then-CEO of Fox Garth Ancier, double-tracked to sound like more people. The Halloween jingle was composed by Alf Clausen back when he did work on the show.
Some standard and special versions of the company's logo and jingle were made to fit television shows, most notably The Simpsons, which has lots of unique variants, as described below.
Gracie Films was also involved in the making of the majority of the video games, such as The Simpsons Road Rage and Tapped Out.
••In most Treehouse of Horror episodes, including "Not It", there is usually a pipe organ that plays the jingle in a minor key after a woman scream.
•Only I and "Halloween of Horror" have the normal logo.
•In addition, "Thanksgiving of Horror" replaces the shush with Homer gobbling as a turkey.
•In II and III as well as Russian and French prints of IX, it was the organ only.
•In IV and V, the scream was added in with a heavy reverb.
•In VI, the jingle plays in a Myst/Philip Glass style as constantly heard during "Homer³", and the scream isn't heard.
•Homer Simpson once claimed in his first ramble that he created Gracie Films.
•In the episode "Moho House", the fourth wall is broken when the Gracie Films logo appears at the end of Homer's flipbook to Marge. This is the second episode to have the Gracie Films logo play within the episode; the first was "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
•Richard Sakai (for feature films only, 1987-1994)
•Michael Stanislavsky (1989-1991)
•The Tracey Ullman Show (1987-1990)
•Broadcast News (1987)
•Big (1988)
•Say Anything (1989)
•The Simpsons (1989-present)
•War of the Roses (1989)
Sep 24, 2024 · Gracie Films is the film and television production company of James L. Brooks, established in 1986 and named after comedian Gracie Allen (1895-1964). Their first production was The Tracey Ullman Show, an early hit for Fox.
Jan 25, 2009 · Background: Gracie Films is the film and television production company of James L. Brooks, established in 1986. Their first production was The Tracey Ullman Show, an early hit for FOX. They soon produced Broadcast News, another hit. They began to produce hit after hit such as Big, The Simpsons...
Background: Gracie Films is the film and television production company of James L. Brooks, established in 1986. Their first production was The Tracey Ullman Show, an early hit for FOX.
It was produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox with animation produced by Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios, and was released worldwide on July 27, 2007, just after 18 seasons.
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