EXCLUSIVE: Greg Cohen has joined Peter Craig and Bryan Unkeless’s production company Night Owl as SVP of Film and TV. He comes over after eight and a half years at Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s di Bonaventura Pictures, where he built and shepherded a slate of action-forward film and TV projects across both streaming and theatrical studios.
“It’s only a couple weeks in and we’re already loving working with Greg,” Craig and Unkeless told us. “He hustles. He has great taste and a point-of-view. He is a stand-up, honest person. And at his core he just genuinely loves movies and television. We think he’s the perfect addition as Night Owl Stories lifts off.”
Most recently, Cohen was an executive producer on the Amazon MGM action film Subversion, starring Chris Hemsworth and Lily James, which is currently in post-production. He also sold the paranoid espionage thriller Silencer to Paramount, with Ben Jacoby attached to adapt. On the TV side, he was Di Bonaventura’s executive on Apple TV’s Christian Dior and Coco Chanel series, The New Look, created by Todd A. Kessler.
Cohen got an early jump on his entertainment career while interning for Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch’s Film Rights during high school. He also interned at FX Networks, while attending UC Berkeley, before joining the TV lit department at Gersh, and then making his way to di Bonaventura Pictures.
In a statement on his appointment, Cohen said, “I am so incredibly excited to work with two of the best humans and exciting creatives in the business. Bryan is a one of a kind producer with endless ambition to support creatives and give them the space to be original and bold and Peter is a rare artist always in search of the truth while serving up muscular stories in genres that audiences know and love, but always in unexpected and deeply philosophical ways. There are no two better partners to join in the fight with as we continue to build a fresh slate of film and tv series in a wildly exciting time in Hollywood.”
Cohen joins Night Owl as they head into production on Rabbit Rabbit, Netflix and MRC’s hostage thriller series created by Craig. Emmy winner Philip Barantini (Adolescence) is set to direct with Adam Driver leading a cast that also includes Regina Hall, Will Poulter and Odessa Young.
Night Owl has Remarkably Bright Creatures, an adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s NYT bestselling novel directed by Olivia Newman and starring Sally Field and Lewis Pullman, premiering on Netflix in May. Additionally, Unkeless has Fight for ’84 in post-production. Jamie Foxx leads the film, based on the true story of the devastating 1980 plane crash which claimed the lives of America’s Olympic boxing team, leading a determined coach to take on the monumental task of assembling and training new fighters for glory at the 1984 games. Andrés Baiz directed a script from Andrea Berloff & John Gatins and Andy Weiss.
Founded in 2024, Night Owl is under a first-look deal with MRC on the TV side. They are represented by CAA and Untitled.