Producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Leaves Range for Oddfellows, Reuniting With Longtime Collaborator Chris Ferguson
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones is leaving Range, where he was Partner and Co-President of Film & Production, to join Chris Ferguson's Vancouver-based production banner Oddfellows in the same role, Deadline reported on 24 August 2026. The move ends his formal producing partnership with Fred Berger — a ten-year alliance that began with their banner Automatik and continued when the label folded into Range, the management and production company led by CEO Peter Micelli.
Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger worked together on films including La La Land, Loving, A Complete Unknown, Longlegs and The Monkey. Their upcoming slate still includes the Venice-bound drama Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson for A24; Jeff Nichols' Kingsnake; and Russell Crowe vehicle The Last Druid. The two will continue to collaborate on a number of existing projects, and Range and Oddfellows will also keep working together, according to Deadline.
The reunion with Ferguson is the real story here. The two have produced 24 film and television projects together since 2013, a run that includes two recent horror hits directed by Osgood Perkins: Longlegs and The Monkey, both box-office successes, plus the upcoming Perkins project The Young People. Ferguson, a Vancouver-born producer who has been making movies in the city for over a decade, also produced Kane Parsons' Backrooms, which became A24's highest-grossing release at $400 million worldwide.
Oddfellows carries fresh momentum into the partnership. The company recently announced a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Picture Group — an arrangement giving the studio first dibs on Oddfellows' projects — and Kavanaugh-Jones will split his time between Los Angeles, Texas and Vancouver.
Before launching Automatik, Kavanaugh-Jones worked as a film finance agent at CAA, the talent and sports agency. At Range, he also helped advise on the company's recently launched game publishing division with Ben Jones.
The broader producing relationship between Range and Oddfellows has already spanned multiple titles. On The Monkey — the Stephen King adaptation acquired by Neon, financed by C2, and starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood and Christian Convery — Kavanaugh-Jones produced for Range and Ferguson for Oddfellows, with Berger among the executive producers. The Perkins-directed Keeper, a Neon horror film starring Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, was produced by Oddfellows and Range Media, with Fred Berger and Peter Micelli representing Range.
What makes this stand out is the scale of the partnerships being reshuffled rather than severed. Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger built a decade-long collaboration that touched prestige drama, horror and musicals; Kavanaugh-Jones and Ferguson have their own deep filmography across the same genre terrain. The formal structures change, but the creative relationships that feed the pipeline keep running.
Ferguson stays put in Vancouver. Berger stays at Range. Kavanaugh-Jones now straddles three cities and two companies. The films already in motion will keep both names in the credits.
