Backrooms producer Chris Ferguson and his Oddfellows banner have signed a first look deal with Warner Bros. Picture Group.
The partnership also follows Ferguson collaborating with Osgood Perkins on earlier box office hits like Longlegs and The Monkey. Ferguson and his studio work with emerging talent from their filmmaking base in Vancouver.
Warner Bros. and Ferguson will team to produce films, whether with projects Ferguson brings to the studio, or WB projects that go north to Oddfellows from labels like Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.
“The future of theatrical depends on a slate with real range — films of every size, style and ambition, from world-class established filmmakers to the bold new voices who will define what comes next. Chris Ferguson and the team at Oddfellows have built a filmmaker-first creative engine with a proven ability to discover, support and elevate original talent, and this partnership gives us an exciting new way to bring distinctive, smartly produced films to audiences across the theatrical landscape,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group co-chairs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy said in a statement.
Warner Bros. pursued a first-look deal with Ferguson after he produced Backrooms as a $10 million Vancouver-shot and produced adaptation by Kane Parsons of his viral YouTube short films series, before it went on to net around $364 million at the global box office to date.
