Jeff Silver
Jeff Silver is a literary manager, partner and co-founder of Grandview.
Ex-CAAers Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Matt Rosen, Jeff Silver Form Grandview Management Co. | Deadline | May 19, 2014
Producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Insidious), CAA lit agent Matt Rosen, and manager Jeff Silver (Fourth Floor Productions) are forming their own new management company focused on repping writers, filmmakers, and TV producers across multi-genres and mediums. The trio first met while working at CAA, where Rosen and Silver were in the film lit department and Kavanaugh-Jones was in film finance and sales. Grandview will see Rosen and Silver running management and repping clients while Kavanaugh-Jones advises on film production and packaging. Doors open in June on the new venture which will add Fourth Floor managers Chris Goble and Zac Frognowski. Automatik will retain executives Bailey Conway and Rian Cahill.
Rosen will be leaving his post at CAA to co-run Grandview. He first joined the agency in 2006 before being upped to MP Literary Agent in 2009, representing clients including Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco), Mark Heyman (Black Swan), and Aron Coletie (WB’s upcoming The Twilight Zone). Rosen also packaged and negotiated the Skydance-Annapurna rights deal for The Terminator and negotiated comic book label Boom/Archaia’s first-look deal with Fox.
Silver brings with him a number of Fourth Floor Productions clients including screenwriters Michael Mitnick (The Giver), Andrew Dodge (Bad Words), and Matthew Charman (Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ Untitled James Donovan Project).
Kavanaugh-Jones is still an active features producer whose upcoming titles include Air starring Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou and Focus Features’ The Signal, starring Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne. He’ll continue to serve as President of his production/finance co. Automatik. Kavanaugh-Jones is currently producing Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special and the Nicholas Hoult-starrer Autobahn, and has horror threequel Insidious 3 starting this summer.
Former CAA Agents Form Grandview Management Company | Variety | May 19, 2014
Former CAA lit agent Matt Rosen, manager Jeff Silver and producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones have formed management company Grandview.
Grandview will manage writers, filmmakers, and television producers, focusing on high-end commercial fare stretching across all genres and mediums.
Rosen and Silver will helm the management side, working as representatives, which will allow them to focus more time on building the careers of their clients while offering a more complete package than a management company alone. Kavanaugh-Jones will advise clients on production and packaging while continuing to produce films under his Automatik banner.
“We are building a company that is solely client focused and rooted deeply in talent, ambition and culture. Grandview will provide the resources of a big firm but still have the intimate feel of a family operation,” said Silver.
“CAA has been an amazing home for me, and while I am sad to leave, I am very excited to start this new endeavor with Jeff and Brian,” said Rosen.
Grandview will retain clients from Silver’s past company, Fourth Floor Productions, including screenwriters Michael Mitnick, Andrew Dodge and Matthew Charman. Kavanaugh-Jones’ upcoming credits include Jeff Nichols’ “Midnight Special” and “Autobahn.”`
“I am so excited to be partnering with Jeff and Matt and have the opportunity to bring my producing and financing background to the table for Grandview and their clients,” said Kavanaugh-Jones.
CAA Literary Agent, Manager, ‘Midnight Special’ Producer Form New Management Company | The Hollywood Reporter | May 19, 2014
Matt Rosen, Jeff Silver and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Grandview will rep clients, build careers, and advise clients on production and packaging.
CAA literary agent Matt Rosen, manager Jeff Silver and producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones have formed Grandview, a management company that will have writers, directors and TV producers in its lens.
The focus will be across all genres as well as mediums with clients creating high-end commercial fare, the trio say.
The company will be split into two areas of concentration: Rosen and Silver will be repping clients and building careers, and Kavanaugh-Jones will help clients with packaging and production. (He will also continue to produce films via his Automatik production shingle, which is behind Autobahn, which will star Nicholas Hoult andFelicity Jones; he also produced Jeff Nichols’ new feature, Midnight Special with Michael Shannon, and this summer will be in production on Insidious: Chapter 3.)
Grandview will open for business in June, and the plan is to expand into other areas beyond literary management, such as talent.
Grandview will retain clients from Silver’s past company, Fourth Floor Productions, including screenwriters Michael Mitnick
The trio originally met at CAA, where Rosen and Silver were in the motion picture literary department and Kavanaugh-Jones was part of the firm’s finance and sales group.
Rosen, who joined CAA in 2006 and worked for Richard Lovett and John Campisi before his promotion to agent in 2009, reps clients such as Arash Amel(Grace of Monaco) and Mark Heyman (Black Swan). He packaged and negotiated the Terminator rights deal with Skydance/Annapurna as well as negotiated a first-look deal at Fox for comic book publisher Boom!/Archaia.
Silver’s 5-year-old Fourth Floor Productions had clients running the gamut from screenwriter Jonathan Igla (Mad Men) to playwright Robert Askins (Hand to God, which is getting a Broadway run this fall) to novelist Charles Cumming (The Trinity Six).
Kavanaugh-Jones recently wrapped Air, starring Norman Reedus and
Grandview have a staff that includes Fourth Floor managers Chris Goble and Zac Frognowski as well as Automatik executives Bailey Conway and Rian Cahill.