Cary Granat recently launched Bedrock Studios with an experienced team of industry leaders including Academy Award winner and former Industrial Light and Magic executive, Ed Jones. The new studio serves as a dynamic home for the creation of “family franchise films” in the $35 million-budget range. Bedrock Studios has currently secured and is actively developing Rats of NIMH, A Wrinkle in Time, Turkeys, and Dinosaur Bob among others.
As former CEO and co-founder of Walden Media, Granat developed the studio into a leader in the world of film, publishing, children’s live entertainment and music, as well as expanded the brand with two unique extension businesses focused on education and faith both domestically and overseas. He successfully relaunched the estates of and secured the rights for developing some of the most beloved adventures of all time: C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, E.B. White’s Babe and Charlotte’s Web, King-Smith’s The Water Horse, Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia and author Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Prior to Walden Media, Granat was President/Chief Operating Officer of Miramax’s Dimension division building one of the most recognizable brands in the entertainment business. Granat is particularly adept at developing intellectual property, building franchises, and finding and developing new revenue models for content with such franchises as Scream, Scary Movie, Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn and others.
