| The Playtone Company | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Film production Television production |
| Founded: | in Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Founders: | Tom Hanks Gary Goetzman |
| Location City: | Santa Monica, California |
| Location Country: | United States |
| Key People: | Tom Hanks (CEO) Rita Wilson Hanks (CFO)[1] |
| Owner: | Tom Hanks |
| Subsid: | Playtone Records |
The Playtone Company (stylized on-screen as PLAY•TONE; a.k.a. Playtone Productions)[2] [3] is an American film and television production company established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman.
It was named after the fictional record company of the same name in the 1996 film That Thing You Do!, written and directed by Hanks; it also uses the same company logo, typically revealed on-screen with a brief instrumental snippet of the titular song itself, with some variations in each film depending on subject manner. The success of the film served as a spring-board to launch an actual Playtone Records label. Playtone has had an exclusive television development deal with HBO since the company was formed. Over the course of that time, Playtone's projects for HBO have won 46 Emmy Awards, while garnering 113 Emmy Award nominations.
| Aired | Series | Created by | Production partner(s) | Distributor | Original Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Released series | ||||||
| 2001 | Band of Brothers | Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg | DreamWorks Television | Warner Bros. Television | ||
| 2003 | My Big Fat Greek Life | Nia Vardalos and Marsh McCall | Brad Grey Productions / Marsh McCall Productions | Sony Pictures Television | CBS | |
| 2006–11 | Big Love | Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer | Anima Sola Productions | Warner Bros. Television | HBO | |
| 2008 | John Adams | David Coatsworth and Steve Shareshian | High Noon Productions / Mid Atlantic Films | |||
| 2010 | The Pacific | Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman | DreamWorks Television | |||
| 2012 | Game Change | Mark Halperin and John Heilemann | HBO Films | |||
| 2014 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | As Is Productions | |||
| The Sixties | Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog | Herzog & Company | CNN | |||
| 2015 | The Seventies | |||||
| 2016 | The Eighties | |||||
| 2017 | The Nineties | |||||
| 2018 | The 2000s | |||||
| 2019 | The Movies | |||||
| 2023 | The 2010s | |||||
| 2024 | Masters of the Air[5] | John Shiban and John Orloff | Amblin Television / Apple Studios | Apple Inc. | Apple TV+ | |