EXCLUSIVE: Investor and Tony Award-winning producer Kevin J. Kinsella (Jersey Boys) and actress Paten Hughes (Heirloom) have launched movie and TV banner Cowboy + Cougar Entertainment.
Kinsella and Hughes will look to write down and produce round 4-6 initiatives per 12 months within the status and industrial areas and may have the capability to develop, bundle and finance. Already on the slate are books Confessions Of An Alien Hunter by astronomer Seth Shostak, which Cowboy + Cougar will adapt as a sci-fi TV collection referred to as Fermi’s Paradox, and Julia Oliver’s Goodbye To The Buttermilk Sky, which the corporate will adapt as a function movie.
The latter is a coming-of-age romantic drama within the vein of Bridges Over Madison County a few younger lady, Callie, in Despair-era 1938 rural Alabama whose torrid affair with a good-looking stranger jostles her life trajectory. Lily Houghton (Day By Day) is writing the tailored function movie script. Producers are Paten Hughes, Michael W. Grey and Michael Cuomo.
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Kinsella is teaming with Hook and Contact scribe Jim Hart on the script for Fermi’s Paradox, which is able to comply with an excellent younger feminine astrophysicist, Fermi Jacobsen, as she discovers find out how to evade the pace of sunshine, thus launching a scientific brawl between the U.S. and Russia to ascertain contact with a civilization in a distant a part of the cosmos. Kinsella and Hughes are producing the collection with Michael W Grey, Michael Cuomo and Untitled Leisure’s Laura Rister.
Investor Kinsella, founding father of Avalon Ventures, gained the 2006 Tony Award for producing Broadway mega-hit musical Jersey Boys and partnered with Rhino Data in producing the Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys Unique Solid Recording. In 2012, he bought a second Tony-nomination for Greatest Revival of a Musical for Jesus Christ Famous person and is an investor within the London manufacturing of Ebook Of Mormom. His investments over time have ranged from wineries to pharma and food-stuffs.
Mentioned Kinsella: “By cautious examination of the much-altered leisure ecosystem, what stood out is an incredible alternative to ship tales that audiences are actually responding to now. Most attention-grabbing to us are tales about unusual folks intersecting with challenges, bodily or moral, from which they need to pivot with a view to transfer ahead in a journey. These bodily challenges, ethical dilemmas, and comparable conditions are what audiences care about and may relate to most. If we ship on the degree we set our requirements to by way of creativity and execution, we imagine that betting on ourselves will repay and nice tales will discover their audiences.”
Hughes’ display screen credit embody net collection Heirloom, which clocked up 4.5M on-line views earlier than being licensed by Display screen Media. Her movie credit embody Rebecca Eskris’ What Breaks The Ice and Chadd Harbold’s Lengthy Nights Brief Mornings. She just lately appeared as Ivanka Trump in a viral satirical Twitter collection entitled The Ivanka Diaries. She additionally has intensive theater credit behind her together with Chekhov’s Three Sisters directed by Oliver Award-winner Eve Greatest and Halo/Titanic directed by David F. Chapman.
Added Hughes: “Kevin and I are thrilled to tackle this thrilling new endeavor collectively and work creatively and collaboratively to construct one thing very particular. Whereas the movie and tv landscapes proceed to shift earlier than our eyes, this appears to us like the best time for a calculated DIY method to championing robust materials and bringing our artistic visions to life. We’re creators at coronary heart and have initiatives we’ll develop and nurture rigorously, however stay versatile in collaborating with numerous filmmakers, show-runners and distribution companions across the globe. The construction of our firm displays how the trade is working right this moment. Nimble, hyper-creative, collaborative and lean.”
