Overview

• Cristin Milioti, fresh off her first Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for HBO’s The Penguin, has been cast as the lead in the indie horror thriller Buddy.
• Production launched this week in Greater Cleveland with a $1.2 million state tax incentive supporting an estimated $4 million budget and local crew.
• Too Many Cooks creator Casper Kelly is directing and co-wrote the screenplay with Jamie King, though plot details are being tightly guarded.
• The film is produced by J. D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight Pictures alongside Tyler Davidson and Drew Sykes of Low Spark Films in partnership with Substance.
• Associate producer Sipur Studios has made its first investment in horror as the team touts Buddy as a “new experience in horror.”