Former Rogue Management founder and Entertainment 360 alum Charlie Gavshon and Peach House founder Rowena Wallace have launched Common Ground Entertainment, a UK management and production outfit. Based in London, the company is representing international acting and filmmaking talent and launches ahead of Berlin Film Festival, where clients Dara Van Dusen and Seemab Gul premiere their debut features.
Van Dusen’s A Prayer For The Dying, starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly and Common Ground client Hilton Pelser and produced by Eye Eye Pictures, will have its World Premiere at Berlin with Gul’s Ghost School having its European premiere following TIFF 2025.
Common Ground’s roster includes Talent clients Taz Skylar, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Jess Alexander, Kola Bodunde, Dan Fogler, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Levi Miller, Hera Hilmar and Ben Robson to name a few. On the Literary side, the company is focused on auteur filmmakers and international writer/creators including Ohio-natives The Thiele Brothers, Danish filmmaker Gabriel Bier Gislason, whose sophomore feature Wallace is co-producing; Scottish filmmaker Siri Rødnes who directs four episodes of upcoming BBC1 legal drama Counsels, New York bestselling novelist and screenwriter Lea Carpenter, German rising-star Joscha Bongard whose debut feature Babystar, premiered at TIFF 2025, filmmaker Samona Olanipekun whose debut feature is in development at Film4, produced by Steve McQueen’s Lammas Park, writer/director/producer Ben Bond who develops under his own banner Starcross and Cornish company Bosena and Emma Holly Jones who recently announced Guinevere in development at Sony.
Common Ground’s production slate will have an emphasis on international collaboration, supporting both clients and external filmmakers in creative development, financing, and physical production. The current development slate includes sophomore feature from CGE client, BIFA-nominated Matt Chambers, with Des Hamilton casting. Chambers is also set to adapt Booker Prize Shortlisted novel The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller for the company alongside award-winning producer Lucy Barzun-Donnelly. Debut feature Lit from client Laurie Kirwan-Ashman in late stage development with the BFI. The company is also venturing into the theatre world developing debut stage play from Lea Carpenter in collaboration with Stephen Garrett’s Character 7. 2025 saw a workshop of the same directed by the acclaimed Patrick Marber.
Prior to Common Ground, Gavshon spent 11 years building his business in L.A. at Entertainment 360 and Untitled before returning to his native UK and founding Rogue Management. Wallace has run management and production company Peach House for the last 5 years. Prior to Peach, she was Associate Producer on Max Minghella’s debut Teen Spirit, assisted filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Favourite for Element Pictures and worked in-house at Pulse Films and 42 M&P.
“We’re excited to launch Common Ground as an inspiring and collaborative space where ambitious filmmakers and acting talent can thrive in their own way. We both represent with the long term in mind and with a lot of our clients being multihyphenated, they need a really tailored approach. Our mission is simple, shaping careers and stories to be proud of,” Gavshon and Wallace said in a statement.
“Our shared experiences and relationships both in the UK and U.S. puts us in a unique position to assemble exceptional teams around our clients and productions. We champion indisputable voices, whilst always keeping the target audience front and centre. We look forward to announcing more about our distinctly Common Ground projects very soon.”
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