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Grey was the youngest child of a garment district salesman. He majored in business and communications at the University of New York at Buffalo. While attending the university, he became a gofer for a young Harvey Weinstein who was then a concert promoter. Grey would also travel to Manhattan on weekends to look for young comics at the Improv. Grey brought comedian Bob Saget to New York thus making Saget become Grey's first client. Grey's career soon took off in 1984 when he met talent agent Bernie Brillstein in San Francisco for a television convention. Grey proposed that he and Brillstein should form their two companies and Brillstein agreed and soon after they formed Brillstein-Grey Entertainment. Grey began producing for television in 1986 with the Showtime hit, "It's Garry Shandling's Show." With his success, he went on to produce the HBO Series " The Larry Sanders Show ." He also produced the ABC nightly talk show " Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher ." Grey also ventured into film by producing the ” (1996), “ The Replacement Killers ” (1998), “ Screwed ” (2000) and “ What Planet Are You From? ” (2000) were typical film projects. Only “ The Wedding Singer ” (1998) and “ Scary Movie ” (2000) proved to be financial successful. In 1996, Brillstein sold his shares of the company to Grey, giving the still-youthful manager full reign over operations. Grey later formed Plan B with stars Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston in 2002 with a first-look deal at Warner Bros. Meanwhile, Grey was tapped by Paramount Pictures to run the studio after the long and successful tenure of 12-year studio head, Sherry Lansing . Grey was forced to divest himself, however, from both Brillstein-Grey and Plan B, leaving future profits from existing film and television deals in doubt. |
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