---
name: "Max Handelman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-handelman"
fi1m_id: "max-handelman"
imdb_id: "nm2583641"
tmdb_id: 1005814
wikidata_id: "Q3302144"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "3 May 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T02:44:20.164277+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Max Handelman

## Identity

Max Handelman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/max-handelman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** max-handelman
- **IMDb ID:** nm2583641
- **TMDB ID:** 1005814
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3302144
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302144, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2583641/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1005814

Producer. Born 3 May 1973 in Portland.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 3 May 1973, Portland
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Elizabeth Banks](https://film.one/person/elizabeth-banks.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 68 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Crime 1, Music 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $217m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302144, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2583641/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1005814

## Coming up

- *DreamQuil* (2026-10-29), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Pitch Perfect*](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md) (77)
- **Peacock:** [*Cocaine Bear*](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Max Handelman is an American film and television producer. He was born on 3 May 1973 in Portland, Oregon, and graduated from the Catlin Gabel School in 1991. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Handelman co-founded the production company Brownstone Productions with his wife, actress and director Elizabeth Banks. Their credits include *Surrogates* (2009), the *Pitch Perfect* trilogy (2012–2017), *Charlie's Angels* (2019), *Cocaine Bear* (2023) and *Bottoms* (2023). He has also served as executive producer on series such as *Shrill* (2019–2021).

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Bottoms* (2023), Fi1m 73, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)
- *Cocaine Bear* (2023), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md)
- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *DreamQuil* (2026), Producer
- *Cat Person* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Bottoms* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)
- *Cocaine Bear: The True Story* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Cocaine Bear* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md)
- *Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Charlie's Angels* (2019), Producer
- *Shrill* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Pitch Perfect 3* (2017), Producer
- *The Most Hated Woman in America* (2017), Producer
- *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015), Producer
- *Resident Advisors* (2015), series, Executive Producer
- *Resident Advisors* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)
- *Surrogates* (2009), Producer
- *Where the Fore Are We?*, Producer
- *Invisible Woman*, Producer
- *She's Fine*, series, Executive Producer
- *Harness*, Producer
- *Betas*, Producer
- *Bad Hand*, Producer
- *The Magic School Bus*, Producer
- *Throttled*, Producer

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