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A decade ago, actor/director Matt Cohen and his filmmaking partner Sean Flanagan had an idea to make an animated comedy series about a group of over-the-hill legendary characters hanging out in a Cheers-like bar called Public Domain. “The regulars at this Hollywood watering hole were all once famous characters that have fallen into the public domain,” says Cohen, who played young John Winchester on Supernatural and directed the final-season episode “Give Me Shelter.” “They drink together and wait for the opportunity to be rediscovered, and rebooted by Tinseltown,” Cohen explains. “We’ve never asked the question, when life gets hard, where do they go and how do they deal with it? It’s essentially the look at every actor in Hollywood told by a favorite animated character. We’ll see what they’re doing in their 40s-60s, post their Hollywood careers.” According to Cohen, there are about “200 public...

Public Domain is an upcoming adult animated series, whose pilot is moving into production with a cast of familiar TV actors from the long-running cult CW series Supernatural. Written and created by Sean Flanagan, the satirical series follows a group of formerly famous fictional characters who have fallen out of grace in Hollywood, spending their days at a local watering hole where they struggle to relaunch their careers. There is currently a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo to complete the independently produced pilot, which will be released online for free while simultaneously being presented to networks.

In an exclusive interview, Cbr sat down with creators Matt Cohen and Sean Flanagan to discuss their new animated show and the Supernatural alumni who are already a part of the project. They describe the show's premise, their artistic style and creative approach, and their ultimate hopes for the series. They also reveal what classic...

Ahead of the American Film Market, Buffalo 8, the Los Angeles-based production, post, distribution and finance outfit, has hired Nikki Stier Justice as Head of Distribution.

Stier Justice previously served as the COO and Head of Production of Good Deed Entertainment, overseeing titles including Loving Vincent, To Dust, and Extra Ordinary for the indie studio. At Buffalo, she will oversee a distribution business that was set up in 2018 to help indie filmmakers filmmakers seeking alternative options for their project releases across aggregation, direct distribution.

She joins Sean Flanagan, previously of Visual Data Media and Premiere Digital, in overseeing the expanding division.

Buffalo 8 is part of BondIt Media Capital, which has provided debt financing to more than 325 feature film and television projects in the last seven years. Recent BondIt-backed projects include Liam Neeson-starring The Honest Thief, Roland Emmerich’s Midway, and the Oscar-nominated animated film Loving Vincent.

“BondIt is a company...

"I've done it this time." Gravitas Ventures has released an official Us trailer for an indie drama titled Lost & Found, one of those films where various interconnected stories intertwine showing how we're all linked in some way. This one takes place at/around a lost & found office of an Irish train station. All the segments are inspired by true stories, and share a theme of something lost or found and characters that come in and out of each other’s lives. The ensemble cast of Lost & Found includes Liam O Mochain (who's also writer and director), Norma Sheahan, Brendan Conroy, Aoibhin Garrihy, Liam Carney, Mary McEvoy, and Sean Flanagan. This looks particularly cheap & cheesy, moreso than most of these interconnecting films. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Liam O Mochain's Lost & Found, direct from YouTube: Lost & Found is 7 interconnecting stories set in and around...