T-Street Productions

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T Street Productions
T-Street
Company typePrivately held company
Industry Motion pictures
Television
Founded2019;5 years ago (2019)
Founder Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, United States
Key people
Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman
Owner MRC (minority stake)
Divisions T-Street Productions
T-Street Television

T-Street is an American film and television production company led by Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman. Under its T-Street Productions division, the company is responsible for the feature-length film Knives Out and the sequel Glass Onion . [1]

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History

In September 2019, Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman launched T-Street, an entrepreneurial company that will generate original content for film and TV shows. [1] The venture is fully capitalized by global media company Valence Media. [1] T-Street launched with a first look deal with Valence Media's Media Rights Capital for film and television projects. [1] Valence Media holds a substantial minority equity stake in the company. Johnson and Bergman intend to make their own original creations through the company, and produce others. [1]

On October 25, 2019, Nena Rodrigue was named President of Television for T-Street. [2] [3] Rodrigue will have creative oversight of all television projects for the studio. [2] She most recently served as EVP of Programming and Production for BBC America, overseeing original scripted programming at the network following its acquisition by AMC Networks. [2]

On November 14, 2019 it was announced Kiri Hart, Stephen Feder and Ben LeClair had been named producers at T-Street. [4] [5] Hart most recently served as Lucasfilm's Senior Vice President of Development from 2012 to 2018. [4] Feder most recently served as Vice President of Film Development at Lucasfilm, reporting to Hart. [4] LeClair most recently had a first-look deal with Blumhouse Television, and in 2018 was nominated by Film Independent for the Piaget Producers Award. [4] Leopold Hughes and Nikos Karamigios were also named producers at T-Street. [6]

Productions

Films

YearTitleDirectorCo-production withDistributorBudgetGross
2019 Knives Out Rian Johnson MRC Film Lionsgate $40 million$311.4 million [7]
2022 Glass Onion [8] N/A Netflix $15 million [9]
2023 Fair Play Chloe DomontMRC Film
Star Thrower Entertainment		N/AN/A
2023 American Fiction [10] Cord Jefferson MRC Film
3 Arts Entertainment 		Orion Pictures (through Amazon MGM Studios)$10 million$23 million
2024 Snack Shack [11] Adam Carter RehmeierMRC Film
Paperclip Limited		 Republic Pictures $4,5 million$455,708
2025 Wake Up Dead Man [12] [13] Rian JohnsonN/A Netflix TBATBA
TBASatellite [14] TBA Higher Ground Productions
Untitled Gene Kelly film [15] TBATBATBA

Television series

YearTitleCreator(s) / Developer(s)Co-production withNotesNetwork
2023–present Poker Face [16] Rian Johnson Zucks.
Animal Pictures
MRC Television 		Peacock
2024–present 3 Body Problem [17] David Benioff
D.B. Weiss
Alexander Woo 		BLB
The Three-Body Universe
Plan B Entertainment
Primitive Streak		 Netflix
TBAA Cool Breeze on the Underground [18] Cory Finley MRC Television
The Story Factory		TBA
The Whites [19] Jez Butterworth MRC Television
Civic Center Media		 Showtime
Golf [20] Will Ferrell
Ramy Youssef
Josh Rabinowitz		 Gloria Sanchez Productions
Cairo Cowboy 		Netflix

Awards and recognition

Nominations

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