Cavalry Media added to its growing development team, tapping Jason Seagraves as the burgeoning production outfit’s vice president development on Tuesday.
Seagraves, who comes from Cross Creek where he served as vice president of production and development, is Cavalry’s third executive hire this month, joining former Legendary Entertainment exec Jennifer Preston Bosari and Erin Conroy, former WME literary agent, as vice presidents of development.
Seagraves will report to Dana Brunetti, Cavalry’s co-founder and chief content officer. Brunetti and co-founder and CEO Keegan Rosenberger announced the finance and production company’s formation in June.
“Jason is a talented production executive as well as an expert dealmaker,” Brunetti said in a statement. “His extensive background in every aspect of film and television production, from identifying and developing properties to financing and negotiating rights and talent deals, makes him eminently qualified to develop the kind of commercially appealing projects Cavalry Media was formed to make.”
While at Cross Creek, Seagraves worked closely with filmmakers to develop feature and television projects from inception through production and release. He structured financing and developed sales strategies for numerous independently funded films and procured several million in financing for various development projects.
Seagraves served as a producer on films including the upcoming psychological thriller “Keepers,” starring Gerard Butler and Peter Mullan, Tom Cruise’s “American Made,” and Oscar-nominated “Hacksaw Ridge.” He was also the lead executive for Cross Creek on many other high-profile film projects including “Roman J. Israel, Esq” and “Black Mass.”
Prior to joining Cross Creek, Seagraves was executive assistant to producer Scott Rudin during a run of acclaimed and commercially successful projects including “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Captain Phillips” and the HBO series “The Newsroom.”
Cavalry’s first production will be “Hispaniola,” a scripted series based on Hans Koning’s 1976 book “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth.” The project will be produced in conjunction with the UK’s Raw TV. Cavalry’s Brunetti and Michael De Luca are also set to produce Universal’s film based on the divers and survivors of Thailand soccer team cave rescue that rapt the world over the summer.