Biographie
Amy Baer's three decade entertainment career is multi-faceted - experience with major studios, an entrepreneurial start-up, and traditional producing. Collectively, the films she has supervised and/or produced have grossed over $2 billion worldwide.
As of 2022, Baer is President of Landline Pictures, a film production label launched in February 2020 with MRC Film (Baby Driver, Knives Out). Landline produces feature film content that focuses 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 + in June 2022, quickly becoming the #1 title for active subscribers.
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.
Before starting her own company, 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 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, Oscar nominated Adaptation (2001), S.W.A.T. (2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), and The Holiday (2006). She also developed the 2011 Oscar-nominated Sony hit Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt. She began her career at Creative Artists Agency in 1988 as an assistant to the late Jay Moloney.
Baer became Board President of Women in Film in June 2018, stepping into the role as the entertainment industry faced a broad reckoning over gender disparities and sexual harassment. As part of her WIF work, Baer executive produced her first television show in 2020 - the CW variety special "Women in Film Presents: Make it Work!" which was part of WIF's 2020 Hire Her Back campaign, providing grants to women in the screen industries whose livelihoods had been jeopardized by Covid shutdowns.
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. Since 2021, she has been a Visiting Lecturer at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts since January 2021, co-teaching the class "Industry Insiders" with her husband.
