All Companies articles – Page 3
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NewsCinesite acquires ‘Indiana Jones 5’ VFX studio FX3X
Follows acquisitions of Imagine Engine, Trixter.
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NewsFremantle buys majority stake in Element Pictures
Lorenzo De Maio will be a strategic advisor and partner across Element slate.
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NewsBanijay acquires Italian film and TV production outfit Grøenlandia Group
Grøenlandia has made films including ‘Rose Island’ and Sky series ‘Romulus’.
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NewsPape Boye, Logical Pictures join forces on Africa-focused Black Mic Mac
First production is South African director Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s previously announced second feature film Halo Daze.
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NewsMubi buys The Match Factory in major international deal
The Match Factory management team will continue to lead company.
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NewsUK’s Good Chaos teams with eight international companies for Fremantle-backed label The Creatives
The nine companies come from eight countries, include Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos.
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NewsNetflix buys the UK’s Roald Dahl Story Company in biggest acquisition to date
The company has 19 creative adaptations in the works.
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NewsFormer Protagonist, Soda, Vertigo trainees set up UK distributor Other Parties (exclusive)
The company is debuting with Elegance Bratton’s documentary ‘Pier Kids’.
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NewsLightbox sets co-production partnership with Warner Music Entertainment
Warner Music Entertainment will co-produce, co-develop and co-finance projects with Lightbox.
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NewsSony completes £850m purchase of anime streaming platform Crunchyroll
The platform was acquired from AT&T, owners of WarnerMedia.
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NewsGabrielle Tana, Troy Lum, Andrew Mason create Brouhaha with backing from EIS fund Calculus
Firm will operate from London and Sydney.
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NewsFormer Icon exec launches UK sales firm Buckstop Films with horror ‘Jump Out’ (exclusive)
Anthony Buckner is debuting the firm during Cannes with first title ‘Jump Out’.
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NewsIdris Elba’s Green Door joins with Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures on film & TV deal
Partnership will augment Green Door’s production capabilities.
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NewsLegendary Entertainment teams with ‘The Spanish Princess’ showrunners on UK company Watford & Essex
Emma Frost and Matthew Graham have started with 10 projects in development.
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NewsCourtney Love, Prince Naseem projects on maiden White Star Productions slate (exclusive)
The Liverpool-based company is backed by AGC Studios founder Stuart Ford.
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NewsDominic Buchanan, Bennett McGhee launch film and TV outfit Home Team
The firm will focus on under-represented creatives.
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NewsEdgar Wright, Nira Park, Joe Cornish, Rachael Prior launch production company Complete Fiction
They are developing three projects for Netflix.
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NewsUK’s Trafalgar Releasing acquires event distributor More2Screen (exclusive)
The agreement will see Trafalgar invest in the growth of More2Screen.
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NewsUK’s Grimmfest launches horror production company (exclusive)
Grimmfest Films will develop, produce and part-finance features and streaming content.