Jonathan Gray (producer)
Jonathan Gray (born 24 August 1980 in Cannes, France) is a French-American film producer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of The Hideaway Entertainment, an independent film production company based in Los Angeles. Early life and education. Gray is the son of French-American Holocaust survivor and writer Martin Gray. He attended the Carnot high school in Cannes, with a literature-focused curriculum, and then attended the SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis. Career. Entertainment. In 2017, Gray launched the independent film production company The Hideaway Entertainment, marking the start of his career as  a producer. The first film produced by The Hideaway Entertainment was "Mile 22", an action thriller film featuring Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich and Iko Uwais (August 2018), followed by "Bloodshot" (March 2020), a sci-fi action film based on the Valiant Entertainment comic book series of the same name starring Vin Diesel as the lead character. In 2019, Sony Pictures produced "" in association with The Hideaway Entertainment. It opened #1 in every country with a worldwide box office of $260 Million. It stars Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson, and Emma Thompson. In  2020, Gray produced Cherry, based on the award-winning book of the same name, alongside Anthony and Joe Russo, who also directed the film which was released in 2021 on Apple TV+. In 2021, Gray will produce and co-finance, through The Hideaway Entertainment, "Combat Control", a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Sam Hargrave which tells the true story of Combat Controller and Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman. In 2021, Gray will also produce the film "Freedom Ride", a feature film depicting the story of a group of young anti-racist activists during the civil rights era  in the United States in the 1960s. The film's script is based on the personal stories of early Freedom Riders such as civil rights icon John Lewis. The film is produced by The Hideaway Entertainment, INDE Companies and Brooklyn Media, a production company linked to Benjamin Crump, an attorney who played a leading role in the George Floyd case and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Real Estate. In 2005, Gray partnered with Gary Hersham, a powerful London broker, to set up Beauchamp Estates France, a high-end real estate agency, based in Cannes and Saint-Tropez . The company rapidly became a major player in the high-end real estate market in the South of France. Over the past fifteen years, Beauchamp Estates has been involved in many prestigious and record-breaking sales, in France and beyond, including the sale of Villa les Cèdres in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (sold in August 2019 for €200 million) and the Château Miraval, Correns-Var to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (sold in 2008 for an estimated $60 million).