Lily Collins has announced the launch of her first production company, alongside her filmmaker husband Charlie McDowell.
The actress, 33, described the new venture as ‘a childhood dream come true’ as she announced the launch of Case Study Films on Instagram on Wednesday, alongside a series of sweet throwback images.
The Emily In Paris star and her director husband, 39, will work with their Blue Valentine producer friend Alex Orlovsky as they tell ‘outside of the box stories’ from ‘acclaimed talents as well as new, exciting voices of upcoming generations’.
New venture: Lily Collins has announced the launch of her first production company, alongside her filmmaker husband Charlie McDowell (pictured last month)
Lily wrote: ‘Today marks a very special day — a childhood dream come true.
‘I finally have the honor of announcing CASE STUDY FILMS to the world, a production company I’m launching with the best partners I could ever ask for, @charliemcdowell and @aorlovsky1.
‘We’ll be working to tell compelling and outside of the box stories alongside both established talent and new, exciting voices of this generation and the next.
‘Our hope is that this company grows into a very unique one stop shop for creatives from all walks of life, helping them foster an idea from conception to release.
Way back when: The actress, 33, announced the launch of Case Study Films on Instagram on Wednesday, alongside a series of sweet throwback images
‘A very special day’: Lily described the new venture as ‘a childhood dream come true’
‘I cannot wait to develop and collaborate with this incredible team. Much more coming on @casestudy.films…
Case Study kicks off with a profitable partnership with High Frequency Entertainment, allowing the company to choose whether to produce a project completely in-house or find an external streamer.
The trio already partnered on the McDowell-directed movie Windfall, which was sold for eight figures to Netflix and developed by Legendary Entertainment.
After the successful crime-thriller starring Lily, Jesse Plemons and Jason Segel, the company reached a deal with Legendary Entertainment to create TV series on spec.
‘Case Study Films is about collaboration and storytelling,’ Lily said in a statement. ‘Our hope is that this grows into a very special one stop shop for creatives.’
The production banner has several projects in development, among those is Hulu’s series Razzlekhan: The Infamous Crocodile of Wall Street, directed by Charlie and co-produced by Scoop Wasserstein, starring Lily.
A limited series set up at Amazon is also underway, The Accomplice, based on a New York Times bestselling novel by Lisa Lutz with Lily set to star.
The couple met while working on the set of Charlie’s upcoming film Gilded Rage in 2019.
The pair made their first public appearance in 2020, and became engaged during a trip to New Mexico that September.
Lily and Charlie tied the knot in an intimate wedding ceremony in Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado, in September 2021.
Happy couple: The couple met while working on the set of Charlie’s upcoming film Gilded Rage in 2019 (pictured last month)
Lily, the daughter of British rocker Phil Collins and his model ex-wife Jill Tavelman, recently spoke about her marriage to Charlie, saying he is her ‘best friend’.
She also praised the filmmaker for supporting her ’emotionally’ during her long stints in France while shooting Netflix rom-com series Emily In Paris.
She said in an interview with E! News: ‘We can kind of conquer anything. We’ve been through so many changes.
‘To be able to have a partner next to you that makes you laugh in times when you need it the most and helps you emotionally get through things, like moving to a foreign country for four months.
‘I just feel so grateful that I have someone next to me to be able to accomplish that and [have] your best friend with you all the time.’
No secrets: the couple met in 2019, got engaged in 2020 and married in an intimate wedding celebration in Colorado in 2021 (pictured last week)
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