By Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-manager EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Murphy, a former scripted executive at Wayans Alvarez Productions, has partnered with James Sears Bryant, founder of National Litigation Law Group and former president of ProServ Basketball, to form Jesse James Films.
The two first collaborated on Only Human, the satirical Off-Broadway musical. The Culver City-based newly formed production company is backed by a seven-figure intellectual property fund.
Murphy will oversee development and the formation of strategic partnerships with first-look term deals that do not have discretionary funding.
Projects currently in development include a horror anthology series about an insomnia pandemic based on the book Sleep Over by H.G.
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