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Executive Producer Benjamin Forkner with directors Cynthia Wade & Sharon Liese at the 2023 Emmy Awards for The Flagmakers.

Ben Forkner arrives at the 36th Producers Guild of America Awards, nominated for David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Benjamin Forkner attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix's "Ripley" at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on April 03, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (

Executive Producers Philipp Keel, Steven Zaillian, Guymon Casady, and Ben Forkner celebrating Ripley's 13 nominations and 4 Emmy wins at Netflix’s 2024 Emmy Celebration

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14: Clayton Townsend and Benjamin Forkner attend the Netflix Emmy Nominee Toast at LAVO Ristorante on September 14, 2024 in West Hollywood, California.

Ripley World Premiere, The Egyptian Theater, 2024.

Cynthia Wade, Ben Forkner, and Sharon Liese at the 2023 Emmy Awards in New York for the Emmy winning documentary The Flagmakers (Disney & NatGeo).

Anthony Hopkins has a bite to eat during a roasting in his honor with Ben Forkner, producer of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Ben Forkner on the set of Deep Water in New Orleans.

Dean Schinder, Cassidy Gifford, Ben Forkner

Inside Hollywood Reporter's Next Gen Bash Celebrating the Class of 2014

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Jeremy Bell, Steven Grossman, Dan Weinstein and Benjamin Forkner pose for a portrait during Variety's Hollywood New Leaders portrait session at Vodvil on September 27, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Dana Brunetti President Trigger Street Productions, Paul Green COO Anonymous Content, and Ben Forkner President Motion Picture Production Management 360 - Variety's Future of Film Summit

Producers, Dean Schnider, Ben Forkner, and Guymon Casady attend New Line Cinema's Premiere of "The Gallows" in Los Angeles on July 7, 2015

Benjamin Forkner at an event for The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards (2024)

Ben Forkner is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and the founder of Pendleton Media Group. He has been named one of Variety's "New Leaders of Hollywood" and The Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation." Ben has received Emmy, Critics Choice, and Golden Globe nominations for his scripted and documentary work, as well as a Producers Guild of America nomination for the David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television. His Peabody Award recognized "excellence in storytelling that reflects the social issues and emerging voices of our day."

Since founding PMG, Ben has produced the Netflix limited series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley novels; the documentary The Flagmakers for Disney and National Geographic; and Deep Water for New Regency, directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, and Jacob Elordi.

Previously, Ben spent fifteen years at Management 360 where he was the President of Motion Picture Production of Entertainment 360 (HBO's Game of Thrones). He worked with clients and their studio deals and companies on all matters relating to intellectual property, development, financing, and production; working closely with clients including Margot Robbie, Reese Witherspoon, Channing Tatum, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Garner, Jimmy Fallon, Jessica Biel, Daniel Kaluuya, Anne Hathaway, Chadwick Boseman, and Michelle Pfeiffer, as well as augmented reality companies such as Magic Leap.

Ben also produced The Gallows, ranked among the "Top 10 Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time Based on ROI," earning over $42 million worldwide on a $100,000 budget-the least expensive film in history to receive a global theatrical release.

He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy, and serves as a Director of The Palace Head Foundation, a charitable non-profit. Ben graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.

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