EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Harry Hadden-Paton and Rebecca Night on Friday morning announced the launch of Symphony Films, a new production company that they’ve co-founded.
Based out of London, the company will be active across a variety of genres, in both film television, pursuing projects that embody the values of diversity, inclusion, sustainability and equality.
Symphony Films’ first project is Legacy, a dramatic comedy short starring James Purefoy, Luke Norris and Amelia Gething, which marks Hadden-Paton’s first as writer-director, and Night’s first as a producer. In it, a girl brings her fiancé home to meet her father for the first time. But… home is not merely a home. And her father is from a very different world. Social classes and generations clash in this black comedy of manners set in the stunning English countryside, where the responsibility of conserving the family legacy is not for the faint-hearted.
Already completed, the short has been screened at the Berkshires Film Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival and The European Short Awards, at which Hadden-Paton was awarded Best First Time Director, with plans to screen at additional festivals through the fall. Hadden-Paton and Night got the short into production in October 2023 after developing it for a couple of years.
In addition to a series adaptation of Legacy, a comedy series about a group of misfit artists working in a swanky chocolate shop and a dramedy about juggling motherhood with a beloved career in the arts are among the projects in development at Symphony Films.
As of today, Hadden-Paton can be seen starring alongside Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar Jones in Twisters, from Universal Pictures. Nominated for a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for his Broadway debut role as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, he’s also previously been seen on Netflix’s The Crown and ITV/PBS’s Downton Abbey, with plans to reprise his role from the latter in the upcoming Downton Abbey 3. Recently, he’s also joined the cast of HBO’s Industry, which returns for its third season on August 11.
As an actress, Night is well known for her leading roles in Fanny Hill for BBC, directed by James Hawes, and Wuthering Heights for ITV, alongside Tom Hardy, Sarah Lancashire and Andrew Lincoln. On stage, she most recently starred opposite Stockard Channing in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play Night, Mother at Hampstead Theatre. She is also set for her first writing commission on a musical in the UK, which will open next summer.
Hadden-Paton and Night are both represented by Independent Talent in the UK. Hadden-Paton is also repped by Gersh and Atlas Artists; Night by Venture Entertainment.