Patrick Renna, a longtime actor with credit throughout movie and tv, is teaming with actor Kyle Howard and actress/advertising and marketing govt Lynsey Bartilson Moore to launch a manufacturing banner that has a slate of scripted and unscripted tasks within the works.
The banner, titled Hambino Media, nods to Renna’s breakout position in 1993’s sports activities comedy The Sandlot.
Among the many shingle’s non-fiction tasks is an untitled sequence in improvement with Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman’s Left/Proper productions and the MLB, a “Surviving the Scorching Listing” internet sequence with Golf Digest in addition to two untitled tasks with Blind Nil, Chip and Joanna Gaines’ manufacturing firm.
Renna, Howard and Moore are additionally creating a half-hour comedy sequence set on this planet of fan conventions titled The Massive CON, with Ethan Sandler and Adrian Wenner writing and Victor Nelli to direct. The Hambino Media crew can also be engaged on creating a characteristic therapy of World of Damage, primarily based on the fiction of horror novelist Thomas Tessier, with a script tailored by Chris L. McKenna. Each tasks would star Renna if offers are made.
“We’re constructing Hambino Media to be a artistic power that not solely produces nice content material for different manufacturers, but in addition develops authentic tales we’re enthusiastic about telling,” Renna mentioned. “Our objective is to carry contemporary concepts to the trade whereas persevering with to assist different artists and companies inform their tales in progressive methods.”
Howard, whose credit embrace Your Household or Mine and Royal Pains, just lately had a 10-episode run in Apple TV+’s sci-fi sequence Me. Moore, who has appeared on a number of seasons of Grounded for Life, has just lately served as chief operations officer at artistic company Studio III Advertising.
Final yr Renna appeared in Mel Gibson horror-mystery movie Monster Summer time and sports activities drama You Gotta Consider, with Luke Wilson and Greg Kinnear.
The actor has beforehand branded an athleticswear firm (“impressed by The Nice Hambino”) and a non-profit youth sports activities group with the Hambino title. And, on Feb. 25, he’ll launch, by way of Penguin Younger Readers, a ebook, A Little Slugger’s Information to the Unwritten Guidelines of Baseball and Life.
Renna is represented by Griffin Expertise, UTA and Persona PR.