HQ: Paris
Launched: 2015
Main shareholders: Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse, and Bpifrance, MACSF, Societe Generale, KKR, Atwater Capital
Key staff: CEO Pierre-Antoine Capton, executive director in charge of operations Delphine Cazaux
Turnover: $1.08bn (€1bn), 2022
Labels: More than 70, including Troisieme Oeil Productions, Mon Voisin Productions, Atlantique Productions, Black Dynamite Production, Septembre Productions, Scarlett Production, Storia Television, Making Prod (France); Drama Republic, Wildseed (UK); Plan B, Blue Morning Pictures (US); Submarine (Netherlands); Palomar (Italy); The Good Mood (Spain)
Recent acquisitions: Misfits Entertainment (2024); 24 25 Films, Côte Ouest, Submarine, Wildseed (2023); Plan B (2022)
Latest productions: One Day (Drama Republic), HPI series 3 (Septembre Productions), The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (Chapter 2), November (Chi Fou Mi Productions), Bob Marley: One Love (Plan B), Call My Agent! — Italia (Palomar)
Veteran French TV producer Pierre-Antoine Capton set up his indie Troisieme Oeil Productions in 2001, behind talk shows including C Á Vous and C L’hebdo. In 2015, Capton co-founded Mediawan with telco billionaire Xavier Niel and financier Matthieu Pigasse. They have since built it into a significant international producer and distributor on the back of a string of acquisitions, including France’s AB Productions, Storia Television (the former TV division of Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp), the UK’s Drama Republic and Italy’s Palomar.
Mediawan now has around 40 scripted companies and is known for shows such as Mon Voisin Productions’ Dix Pour Cent (adapted in multiple territories as Call My Agent!), Drama Republic’s Netflix hit One Day and Plan B’s feature Bob Marley: One Love. Backed by KKR, Mediawan expanded beyond its core European market in 2022 with a headline-grabbing investment in Brad Pitt’s Plan B.
Mediawan also backed the launch of Blue Morning Pictures, the new US-France production company from director Florian Zeller (The Father). The company’s reach extends to Africa, where it has indies in Sengal and Côte d’Ivoire.
Last year, the firm signed a $108m (€100m) deal with Entourage Ventures to develop global TV series. Mediawan is reportedly weighing a takeover of fellow KKR-backed Leonine Studios in Germany.
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