Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Leaves Range Media Partners to Join Oddfellows as Partner and Co-President
Producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones has left his post as co-president of Range Media Partners to join the production company Oddfellows as partner and co-president, working alongside founder Chris Ferguson (The Hollywood Reporter).
The move formalises a producing relationship that stretches back over a decade. Kavanaugh-Jones and Ferguson have produced 24 film and television projects together since 2013, including the horror hits The Monkey and Longlegs, and the upcoming The Young People, all directed by Osgood Perkins (The Hollywood Reporter). Their collaborations go further back still: in 2013, Sony acquired their horror film Grace, starring Alexia Fast, when Kavanaugh-Jones was at his earlier company Automatik and Ferguson was building Oddfellows (Variety).
Ferguson said in a statement that since founding Oddfellows, Kavanaugh-Jones has been his closest producing partner (The Hollywood Reporter). In his new role, Kavanaugh-Jones will focus on production and strategic growth for the company.
The timing aligns with Oddfellows building momentum. Ferguson recently signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Picture Group — an arrangement that gives the studio first dibs on Oddfellows projects before they are offered elsewhere (The Hollywood Reporter). Ferguson also produced Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, which has grossed $396 million worldwide and stands as A24's highest-grossing film (The Hollywood Reporter).
Kavanaugh-Jones departs Range after a strong run. There, he and Fred Berger co-ran the company and produced James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders (The Hollywood Reporter). Their producing partnership spanned more than 10 years and 60 films, beginning at Automatik before the two moved together to Range.
Berger described Kavanaugh-Jones as family, noting the pair built their partnership over the last decade from Automatik through to Range Media Partners (The Hollywood Reporter). The split is a professional one — the two produced through a company structure, and Kavanaugh-Jones is now consolidating his producing work under a single roof with a long-time collaborator.
The Kavanaugh-Jones–Ferguson partnership has quietly threaded through the independent film marketplace for years. The two co-produced the Jon Bernthal thriller Sweet Virginia in 2017 (Variety), the Aaron Paul drama Come and Find Me in 2016 (Deadline), and Boundaries, starring Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer, the same year (Deadline). More recently, they teamed on Dangerous Animals, which Mister Smith Entertainment sold to IFC Films and Shudder for US release in 2025 (Variety).
For audiences, the practical upshot is a consolidated producing operation with a Warner Bros. first-look deal, an A24 mega-hit on its résumé, and a pipeline of Osgood Perkins films still arriving in theatres. The machinery behind what reaches the screen just got a little more concentrated.
