Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks

James Lawrence Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the...

 in 1986. The company has produced many award-winning films and television series, including Broadcast News

Broadcast News (film)

Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer , who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival...

, Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire

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, and most notably The Simpsons

The Simpsons

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. The company is primarily associated with film studio and distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment

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, but it still has an office at the 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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 lot as The Simpsons is still produced there.
The Gracie production logo

Production logo

A production logo, vanity card, vanity plate, vanity logo or vogo is a logo used by movie studios and television production companies to brand what they produce. Vanity logos are usually seen at the beginning of a theatrical movie , or at the end of a television program or TV movie...

 (seen at the end of all of their television productions - The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie

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is the only one of their theatrical efforts to date where the logo appears, at the very end of the film) depicts noisy movie patrons at a movie theatre hearing a woman in the back row shushing them out so the title, the company's name, is projected, and that the company's musical signature (composed by Jeffrey Townsend, associate producer of the first season of Gracie Films' The Tracey Ullman Show

The Tracey Ullman Show

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) can be heard.