{"id":129680,"date":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/129680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:48:09","slug":"vancouver-studio-inks-major-deal-with-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/129680\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver studio inks major deal with Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver film producer\u00a0Chris Ferguson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0his studio Oddfellows<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0signed a first-look\u00a0deal\u00a0with the\u00a0Warner Bros. Picture\u00a0Group.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2013,\u00a0Ferguson’s Oddfellows<\/a> was behind the director Osgood Perkins’ horror hits Longlegs and The Monkey. Ferguson was also part of the producing team behind the hugely successful Vancouver-shot film Backrooms.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since its May 29 release, Backrooms<\/a>, which was made for $10 million, has brought in a whopping $375 million in box office receipts\u00a0making it A24’s highest-grossing film.<\/p>\n

As part of the new deal, Ferguson will bring projects to Warner Bros., and Warner Bros. will bring him projects from across its various titles, including Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Pictures Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy said in a joint statement that\u00a0Ferguson and the Oddfellows\u00a0team “have built a filmmaker-first creative engine with a proven ability to discover, support and elevate original talent.”<\/p>\n

In a statement, Ferguson said they share the “same passion for talent” with the studio.<\/p>\n

“Together we are going to be able to be ambitious and take the risks we need to elevate the next generation of filmmakers while continuing to forge new ground with the greatest artists of today,” said Ferguson, who was honoured last year with the Mayor’s Achievement Award for his work in film and the Overdose Prevention Society in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.<\/p>\n

A key ingredient\u00a0to\u00a0Oddfellows’\u00a0<\/a>success has been the\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0crew\u00a0that\u00a0Ferguson\u00a0has assembled\u00a0and uses for each of his projects.<\/p>\n

“Chris Ferguson and his merry band of brilliant collaborators at Oddfellows did nothing less than teach me what it actually means to be a filmmaker; we discovered\u00a0Longlegs\u00a0as a collective and without their inspiration and\u00a0impact,\u00a0I’d still be just some guy,” said Perkins, who wrote and directed the\u00a0Nicholas Cage-starring film that, to date, has made close to $130 million on a $10-million budget.<\/p>\n

Ferguson and Perkins, who formed the production company Phobos last\u00a0year, also\u00a0worked together on The Monkey, which\u00a0had a $10-million budget and brought in close to $70 million at the box office.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0pair have also teamed up for the\u00a0upcoming\u00a0feature The Young People\u00a0starring Nicole Kidman and Lola Tung,\u00a0as\u00a0well as\u00a0working on the sequel to Longlegs.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/p>\n

On the heels of Chris Ferguson\u2019s Vancouver production company Oddfellows signing a first look deal with Warner Bros., Backrooms director Kane Parsons had this to say: \u201cI cannot stress enough how integral Chris and the Oddfellows team were to the creation and success of\u00a0Backrooms. The level of intense care, focus, and trust I found from every individual we worked with was incredibly heartening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backrooms director Kane Parsons echoes Perkins’ belief in Ferguson and\u00a0the team he works with.<\/p>\n

“I cannot stress enough how integral Chris and the Oddfellows team were to the creation and success of\u00a0Backrooms. The level of intense care, focus, and trust I found from every individual we worked with was incredibly heartening,” said Parsons in a statement. “Chris is a fantastically meticulous creative partner and has done a stand-out job of curating a well-oiled, human-centric production system over the last decade.\u00a0I am very excited to continue collaborating with this lot.\u00a0They’re\u00a0great.”<\/p>\n

Dgee@postmedia.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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