FourBoys Entertainment was founded by David Hunt and Patricia Heaton with the goal of creating projects for film and television which explore the human condition while uplifting and inspiring the audience.
The most recent project is the feature film comedy Unexpected directed by Hunt and starring Anna Camp and Joe Mazzello. One of FourBoys’ earliest producing endeavors was the West End production of This is Our Youth with a cast that included Matt Damon and Casey APleck.
FourBoys Entertainment also co-produced the feature film drama Amazing Grace, directed by Michael Apted, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon and Albert Finney.
Television projects include Carol’s Second Act for CBS, for The Engagement Ring for TNT which starred both Heaton and Hunt, the documentary feature directed by Hunt entitled The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, the web series Versailles (also directed by Hunt), and two Christmas movies for the Hallmark Channel, The Christmas Heart and Christmas at Cartwright’s.
The company has numerous film and TV projects currently in development.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Hunt has worked with directors such as Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Apted and William Friedkin.
Films include Merv, The Dead Pool, Jade,Mom's Night Out, The Black Velvet Gown, The Engagement Ring, Just Like A Woman,Bobby Jones, Trip to Tunis & The Deal, with William H. Macy & Meg Ryan. TV films include Closing Ranks, The Bombmaker,Anna Lee, The Dancer’s Touch, The Grid (TNT/BBC), Murder on The Orient Express, Miracle In The Woods, and Liz & Dick.Series regular roles include the role of Darren McCarthy in season six of 24, The Chief (ITV), Beck (BBC), The Dream Team(Sky), and appearances on TV shows including Homeland, White House Farm Murders (ITV/HBO), Mad Men, Castle, Numbers, Monk, Everybody Loves Raymond, Nasty Boys, The Client amongst many others.
Stage work includes Memory of Water at the MTC in NYC, Therese Raquin & Triumph of Love at La Jolla Playhouse, Progress at The Long Wharf Theatre & Hamlet at Baltimore Center Stage.
Along with his wife, Patricia Heaton, Hunt founded FourBoys Films with the goal of creating projects for film and television which explore the human condition while uplifting and inspiring the audience.
Through FourBoys he made his directorial debut with the documentary film, The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, which won a Crystal Heart Award at Heartland Film Festival in 2006. FourBoys’ productions include the films The Engagement Ring (TNT), and Amazing Grace, directed by Michael Apted and starring Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Most recently he directed and produced the 2023 film, Unexpected, now available on Amazon Prime, which starred Anna Camp and Joseph Mazzello.
One of FourBoys’ earliest producing endeavors was the West End production of This is Our Youth with a cast that included Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
Television projects include Carol’s Second Act for CBS, for The Engagement Ring for TNT which starred both Heaton and Hunt, the documentary feature directed by Hunt entitled The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania, the web series Versailles (also directed by Hunt), and two Christmas movies for the Hallmark Channel, The Christmas Heart and Christmas at Cartwright’s.
The company has numerous film and TV projects currently in development.
David and FourBoys Entertainment are represented by The Artists Partnership and the law firm of Skryzniarz & Mallean.
Best known for playing iconic television moms Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond and Frankie Heck on The Middle. Nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmys, Heaton won for Best Actress twice. She was also nominated for five consecutive SAG awards and won the SAG Award for Ensemble in a Comedy: additionally she won Best Comedy Actress Award from Viewers for Quality Television, and a Daytime Emmy Award for her Food Network show Patricia Heaton Parties.
Other acting credits include Mom’s Night Out for Sony AOirm, Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Front of the Class, the TNT/Neil Simon production of The Goodbye Girl, TNT’s The Engagement Ring, Sony’s animated feature The Star and ABC’s The Path to 9/11. Other feature film credits include Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven, New Age, and Space Jam. Heaton recently acted in the features Mending the Line starring Brian Cox.
Upcoming releases include Unbreakable Boy, (Lionsgate) Merv, (Amazon) and horror movies The Beldham and The Ritual starring Al Pacino.
Heaton’s theater credits include the role of Stella in The Scene by Theresa Rebeck for which she garnered a Lucille Lortel Award nomination.
Heaton recently authored the book Your Second Act for Simon and Schuster. This follows her cookbook Food for Family and Friends and her New York Times best-selling autobiography Motherhood and Hollywood – How to Get a Job Like Mine.