Cannes — For years, reports of MipTV’s terminal decline were somewhat exaggerated. Now, however, they’re real. On March 26, Rx France, organizers of MipTV, announced the launch of Mip London, over Feb. 23-28, 2025. MipTV’s 2024 edition will be its last.
Attendance, once 10,000 in 2018, 9,500 in 2019, had plunged to 5,510 on-site delegates last year. That still made it the second biggest TV event in the world. Still dwindling participation this year, is down to around 3,000.
What a MipTV swan song, bulwarked by Canneseries, can deliver, is another question. 10 takes on this year’s edition:
MipTV Sticking to Its Guns
Traditionally, MipTV delivered a straight sales market where sales companies or divisions hold back-to-back meetings with distributors who get links to their shows. History has hardly been on MipTV’s side. As simply raising the finance for a show in an environment of rising costs and declining commissions has become more and more of a challenge,...
Attendance, once 10,000 in 2018, 9,500 in 2019, had plunged to 5,510 on-site delegates last year. That still made it the second biggest TV event in the world. Still dwindling participation this year, is down to around 3,000.
What a MipTV swan song, bulwarked by Canneseries, can deliver, is another question. 10 takes on this year’s edition:
MipTV Sticking to Its Guns
Traditionally, MipTV delivered a straight sales market where sales companies or divisions hold back-to-back meetings with distributors who get links to their shows. History has hardly been on MipTV’s side. As simply raising the finance for a show in an environment of rising costs and declining commissions has become more and more of a challenge,...
- 4/5/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Swiss film startup FinFilm, an innovative platform that finances European and African film projects, has boarded the Sky Original family adventure film “Robin and the Hoods.”
The Zurich-based company is actively involved in co-financing the film as a gap lender.
Produced by Silver Reel and Future Artists Entertainment and directed by Phil Hawkins, the modern-day tale inspired by the hero of Sherwood Forest features James Bond star Naomi Harris, Gwendoline Christie (“Game of Thrones”), Mark Williams (“Harry Potter”) and Darcey Ewart in the lead role as the 11-year-old Robin.
When an unscrupulous developer (Harris) threatens their magical kingdom of overgrown bushes at the end of their cul-de-sac, the tenacious Robin and her loyal friends, the “Hoods,” take matters into their own hands to save their beloved woodland.
“Robin and the Hoods” is produced by Claudia Bluemhuber, managing partner at Zurich-based Silver Reel and Matt Williams of Future Artists Entertainment in London.
The Zurich-based company is actively involved in co-financing the film as a gap lender.
Produced by Silver Reel and Future Artists Entertainment and directed by Phil Hawkins, the modern-day tale inspired by the hero of Sherwood Forest features James Bond star Naomi Harris, Gwendoline Christie (“Game of Thrones”), Mark Williams (“Harry Potter”) and Darcey Ewart in the lead role as the 11-year-old Robin.
When an unscrupulous developer (Harris) threatens their magical kingdom of overgrown bushes at the end of their cul-de-sac, the tenacious Robin and her loyal friends, the “Hoods,” take matters into their own hands to save their beloved woodland.
“Robin and the Hoods” is produced by Claudia Bluemhuber, managing partner at Zurich-based Silver Reel and Matt Williams of Future Artists Entertainment in London.
- 1/31/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Investment vehicle has backed 20 productions including upcoming Sundance premieres Skywalkers: A Love Story, Krazy House.
LA-based XYZ Films and European fund management company Ipr.Vc have renewed their slate financing partnership initially established in November 2019.
The investment vehicle has resulted in 20 productions to date including last year’s Berlinale selection Blackberry and upcoming Sundance premieres Skywalkers: A Love Story, a documentary by Jeff Zimbalist, and Krazy House starring Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone.
Other XYZ Films which have received backing from Ipr.Vc include Atom Egoyan’s TIFF selection Seven Veils starring Amanda Seyfried, Ash with Eiza González and Aaron Paul and directed by Flying Lotus,...
LA-based XYZ Films and European fund management company Ipr.Vc have renewed their slate financing partnership initially established in November 2019.
The investment vehicle has resulted in 20 productions to date including last year’s Berlinale selection Blackberry and upcoming Sundance premieres Skywalkers: A Love Story, a documentary by Jeff Zimbalist, and Krazy House starring Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone.
Other XYZ Films which have received backing from Ipr.Vc include Atom Egoyan’s TIFF selection Seven Veils starring Amanda Seyfried, Ash with Eiza González and Aaron Paul and directed by Flying Lotus,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Scarso, a well-established entertainment financier who previously worked at Ingenious Media, has joined the fund management company Ipr.Vc.
Ipr.Vc has just raised nearly €100 million ($109 million) in its third funding round and will be investing further in content under the leadership of Scarso, who is joining the banner as partner and investment director.
The company, launched in 2015 and based in Finland, has so far raised €150 million from a broad range of investors. Half of the funds have already been allocated to 35 film and TV productions in Europe and the U.S.
Ipr.Vc initially focused its investment on Nordic scripted projects, including the Netflix hit series “Bordertown,” and went on to establish strategic partnerships with U.S. and international banners such as A24, XYZ Films and the animation studio Gigglebug.
Based in the company’s London office, Scarso has a long experience in media and entertainment financing, including the sourcing and evaluating of projects,...
Ipr.Vc has just raised nearly €100 million ($109 million) in its third funding round and will be investing further in content under the leadership of Scarso, who is joining the banner as partner and investment director.
The company, launched in 2015 and based in Finland, has so far raised €150 million from a broad range of investors. Half of the funds have already been allocated to 35 film and TV productions in Europe and the U.S.
Ipr.Vc initially focused its investment on Nordic scripted projects, including the Netflix hit series “Bordertown,” and went on to establish strategic partnerships with U.S. and international banners such as A24, XYZ Films and the animation studio Gigglebug.
Based in the company’s London office, Scarso has a long experience in media and entertainment financing, including the sourcing and evaluating of projects,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Company has slate wide partnerships with US and European producers including A24, XYZ Films and Gigglebug.
Fund management company Ipr.Vc Management – which has invested in slates by A24 and XYZ Films - says it has raised the majority of a targeted €100m for its latest film and television production financing fund.
The Finnish based company has also hired former Ignenious Media senior investment director Andrea Scarso as a partner and investment director who will be based in its London office.
Ipr.Vc has to date raised €150 million from institutional investors, pension funds, family offices and non-profit sector investors through three...
Fund management company Ipr.Vc Management – which has invested in slates by A24 and XYZ Films - says it has raised the majority of a targeted €100m for its latest film and television production financing fund.
The Finnish based company has also hired former Ignenious Media senior investment director Andrea Scarso as a partner and investment director who will be based in its London office.
Ipr.Vc has to date raised €150 million from institutional investors, pension funds, family offices and non-profit sector investors through three...
- 11/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Finland-based fund management company Ipr.Vc Management has completed the first closing of its largest film and television production financing fund to date (Ipr.Vc Fund III), and has appointed entertainment financier Andrea Scarso as Partner and Investment Director.
Established and headquartered in Finland since 2015, Ipr.Vc has to date raised €150 million ($164M) from institutional investors, pension funds, family offices and the non-profit sector through three content funds. More than half of the capital has already been allocated against film and TV projects in Europe and the U.S.
The company has moved from an initial phase of investment in Nordic scripted projects including Netflix’s Bordertown, to establishing strategic long-term slate-wide partnerships with U.S. and European producers including A24 and XYZ Films and European animation studio Gigglebug. In total to date, Ipr.Vc has financed 35 productions.
Ipr.Vc Fund III is the company’s most ambitious to date. With...
Established and headquartered in Finland since 2015, Ipr.Vc has to date raised €150 million ($164M) from institutional investors, pension funds, family offices and the non-profit sector through three content funds. More than half of the capital has already been allocated against film and TV projects in Europe and the U.S.
The company has moved from an initial phase of investment in Nordic scripted projects including Netflix’s Bordertown, to establishing strategic long-term slate-wide partnerships with U.S. and European producers including A24 and XYZ Films and European animation studio Gigglebug. In total to date, Ipr.Vc has financed 35 productions.
Ipr.Vc Fund III is the company’s most ambitious to date. With...
- 11/23/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In a seven-figure deal finalised over the last week, Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has beaten out competitors for UK rights to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, which A24 is releasing in the U.S. on April 21.
Stage 6 also acquired rights from A24 in Middle East, worldwide ships and airlines and pan Asia pay TV.
As we revealed last week, Leonine has picked up German rights. Russia (Volga), Switzerland (Ascot Elite) and Australia (Roadshow) have also been sold.
Ari Aster’s (Midsommar) third feature for A24 stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey, and Patti LuPone.
Described as a “bold and depraved film”, the big-budget movie will chart the story of a paranoid man who embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. Phoenix will play the man at different stages in his life.
Stage 6 also acquired rights from A24 in Middle East, worldwide ships and airlines and pan Asia pay TV.
As we revealed last week, Leonine has picked up German rights. Russia (Volga), Switzerland (Ascot Elite) and Australia (Roadshow) have also been sold.
Ari Aster’s (Midsommar) third feature for A24 stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey, and Patti LuPone.
Described as a “bold and depraved film”, the big-budget movie will chart the story of a paranoid man who embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. Phoenix will play the man at different stages in his life.
- 2/22/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Leonine Studios and A24 have closed an all rights-deal for Ari Aster’s upcoming movie Beau Is Afraid for Germany and Austria.
The deal marks the second collaboration between the two companies after their deal for Oscar hopeful Everything Everywhere All At Once, which has drawn 250,000 admissions in Germany and Austria to date.
Beau Is Afraid will bow in the U.S. on April 21 and is now set for German release on May 11th.
The film is Hereditary and Midsommar director Aster’s third feature for A24 and stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey and Pattie LuPone.
In the surrealist movie, a paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. Phoenix will portray the man at different stages in his life. The film is the latest bigger-budget project from A...
The deal marks the second collaboration between the two companies after their deal for Oscar hopeful Everything Everywhere All At Once, which has drawn 250,000 admissions in Germany and Austria to date.
Beau Is Afraid will bow in the U.S. on April 21 and is now set for German release on May 11th.
The film is Hereditary and Midsommar director Aster’s third feature for A24 and stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey and Pattie LuPone.
In the surrealist movie, a paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. Phoenix will portray the man at different stages in his life. The film is the latest bigger-budget project from A...
- 2/15/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Denis Ménochet, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini and Zoe Lister-Jones have joined the ensemble of Ari Aster and A24’s Disappointment Blvd., starring Joaquin Phoenix. A24 came on earlier this year to finance and produce after Phoenix made it his follow-up after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Joker.
Nathan Lane, Pattie Lupone, Amy Ryan and Kylie Rogers also are on board.
Aster, whose past two films also were financed by A24, will write and direct, with Aster and Lars Knudsen producing under their Square Peg banner. Access Industries will co-finance with Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen executive producing. Elisa Alvares and Timo Argillander of Ipr.Vc will exec produce.
Project details are being kept under wraps, but the plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Posey is represented by The Gersh Agency. Henderson is...
Nathan Lane, Pattie Lupone, Amy Ryan and Kylie Rogers also are on board.
Aster, whose past two films also were financed by A24, will write and direct, with Aster and Lars Knudsen producing under their Square Peg banner. Access Industries will co-finance with Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen executive producing. Elisa Alvares and Timo Argillander of Ipr.Vc will exec produce.
Project details are being kept under wraps, but the plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Posey is represented by The Gersh Agency. Henderson is...
- 7/21/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In what is turning into an impressive cast for Ari Aster’s anticipated movie, Broadway darlings Nathan Lane and Patti LuPone along with Oscar nominee Amy Ryan and Kylie Rogers have joined A24’s Disappointment Blvd., starring Joaquin Phoenix. A24 came on earlier this year to finance and produce after Phoenix made it his follow-up after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Joker.
Aster, who’s past two films were also financed by A24, will write and direct, with Aster and Lars Knudsen producing under their Square Peg banner. Elisa Alvares and Timo Argillander of Ipr.Vc will exec produce.
Project details are being kept under wraps, but the plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Aster has had a knack for attracting talent to scripts with Hereditary and Midsommar, but this cast is becoming his most impressive to...
Aster, who’s past two films were also financed by A24, will write and direct, with Aster and Lars Knudsen producing under their Square Peg banner. Elisa Alvares and Timo Argillander of Ipr.Vc will exec produce.
Project details are being kept under wraps, but the plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Aster has had a knack for attracting talent to scripts with Hereditary and Midsommar, but this cast is becoming his most impressive to...
- 6/21/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jamie Carmichael (Black Book) and Simon Mirren’s (Criminal Minds) London and Los Angeles-based production label Atlantic Nomad has closed a TV and film slate financing deal with Finland-based venture capital fund manager Ipr.Vc.
The deal will provide overhead, development and production financing for the company, focusing on premium TV, with documentaries and feature films in consideration on a project-by-project basis.
Atlantic Nomad says it currently has co-productions set up in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and Australia, and is currently exploring English language projects in France and Canada.
Ipr.Vc has previously backed companies including U.S. genre specialist XYZ Films and Nordic animation firm Gigglebug Entertainment.
Mirren is best known for writing and producing hit TV series such as Criminal Minds (for which he was showrunner) for Touchstone Television and CBS, Without A Trace for Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS, and Third Watch for NBC. He also co-wrote,...
The deal will provide overhead, development and production financing for the company, focusing on premium TV, with documentaries and feature films in consideration on a project-by-project basis.
Atlantic Nomad says it currently has co-productions set up in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and Australia, and is currently exploring English language projects in France and Canada.
Ipr.Vc has previously backed companies including U.S. genre specialist XYZ Films and Nordic animation firm Gigglebug Entertainment.
Mirren is best known for writing and producing hit TV series such as Criminal Minds (for which he was showrunner) for Touchstone Television and CBS, Without A Trace for Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS, and Third Watch for NBC. He also co-wrote,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Xyz Films and Finland-based venture capital firm Ipr.Vc have joined forces to raise a $100m fund that will be utilized to back a slate of genre pictures.
The money will fund 15-20 features and will focus on filmmaker-driven independent genre fare. It gives Xyz more muscle to fully-finance in-house.
The move is the latest in a busy year for Xyz, with the company having also established a talent management division with the hiring of former Universal & ICM Exec Peter Van Steemburg in June. Xyz also hired Tatyana Joffe as its President of International Sales & Distribution back in January.
“Our model has always been making responsibly-budgeted films from filmmakers we want to support. With funding from Ipr, we can now be a one-stop shop for production, distribution and financing,” said Xyz partners Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian.
The deal was negotiated by Maxime Cottray for Xyz Films and by Elisa Alvares for Ipr.
The money will fund 15-20 features and will focus on filmmaker-driven independent genre fare. It gives Xyz more muscle to fully-finance in-house.
The move is the latest in a busy year for Xyz, with the company having also established a talent management division with the hiring of former Universal & ICM Exec Peter Van Steemburg in June. Xyz also hired Tatyana Joffe as its President of International Sales & Distribution back in January.
“Our model has always been making responsibly-budgeted films from filmmakers we want to support. With funding from Ipr, we can now be a one-stop shop for production, distribution and financing,” said Xyz partners Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian.
The deal was negotiated by Maxime Cottray for Xyz Films and by Elisa Alvares for Ipr.
- 11/7/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Los Angeles-based production, sales and management outfit Xyz Films has raised $100 million in production financing across a slate of 15 to 20 films.
Venture capital firm Ipr.Vc, based in Helsinki, Finland, is co-financing the slate. Xyz made the announcement Thursday on the second day of the American Film Market.
Notable Xyz titles include Gareth Evans’ “The Raid” and “The Raid 2,” Macon Blair’s Sundance winner “I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore,” Karyn Kusama’s “The Invitation,” Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” and Joe Penna’s “Arctic.”
Xyz said the funds enable it to fully finance or co-finance the filmmaker-driven independent genre fare on which it has built its brand. Earlier this year, it hired Tatyana Joffe as its president of international sales and distribution, formed a documentary division and most recently establishing a talent management division.
“Our model has always been making responsibly budgeted films from filmmakers we want to support.
Venture capital firm Ipr.Vc, based in Helsinki, Finland, is co-financing the slate. Xyz made the announcement Thursday on the second day of the American Film Market.
Notable Xyz titles include Gareth Evans’ “The Raid” and “The Raid 2,” Macon Blair’s Sundance winner “I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore,” Karyn Kusama’s “The Invitation,” Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” and Joe Penna’s “Arctic.”
Xyz said the funds enable it to fully finance or co-finance the filmmaker-driven independent genre fare on which it has built its brand. Earlier this year, it hired Tatyana Joffe as its president of international sales and distribution, formed a documentary division and most recently establishing a talent management division.
“Our model has always been making responsibly budgeted films from filmmakers we want to support.
- 11/7/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Next step in evolution of ambitious 11-year-old genre specialists.
In a significant step that signals its ambitions, Los Angeles-based genre specialist Xyz Films has secured approximately $100m in production financing to support a slate of 15-20 features co-financed by Finnish venture capital firm Ipr.Vc.
The fund raise enables Xyz to fully finance or co-finance the filmmaker-driven independent genre fare on which it has built its brand and is the latest expansion after the hire of Tatyana Joffe as president of international sales and distribution, and the launch of documentary and talent management divisions.
Helsinki-based Ipr.Vc is backed...
In a significant step that signals its ambitions, Los Angeles-based genre specialist Xyz Films has secured approximately $100m in production financing to support a slate of 15-20 features co-financed by Finnish venture capital firm Ipr.Vc.
The fund raise enables Xyz to fully finance or co-finance the filmmaker-driven independent genre fare on which it has built its brand and is the latest expansion after the hire of Tatyana Joffe as president of international sales and distribution, and the launch of documentary and talent management divisions.
Helsinki-based Ipr.Vc is backed...
- 11/7/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Four years after it was founded, the Finnish company is entering its second phase of expansion. Helsinki-based venture capital company Ipr.Vc has announced the creation of a €42 million fund specialised in European film, TV and web content. With this move, the firm is planning to raise about €60-70 million by the end of next year. Ipr.Vc, the first Nordic venture capital investment firm dedicated to media content, was founded four years ago by entrepreneurs Timo Argillander, Tanu-Matti Tuominen and Jarkko Virtanen, and invested €20 million in 16 content projects or companies, and in the development of 14 projects. Some of their backed productions include Miikko Oikkonen’s crime series Bordertown, and features such as Dome Karukoski’s Tom of Finland and Klaus Härö’s One Last Deal. During this second phase of expansion, the funds for which have been raised through a group of institutional, private and public investors, the firm will.
- 10/16/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Santiago De Compostela, Spain – Finland’s leading media fund Ipr is financing the development of TV series project “The Red Harlequin,” based on Italian writer Roberto Ricci’s young adult fantasy books saga.
The partnership follows a deal inked by the Finnish fund with Pantomimus Media, the company Ricci, agent Lisa Hryniewicz and creative director Pascal Demure have launched to hold and develop all “The Red Harlequin” rights.
Conceived as a transmedia project, “The Red Harlequin” will have the TV series at its heart.
As a TV drama, “The Red Harlequin’s” first season is envisaged as a 12-episode one hour drama with an international cast and an estimated budget of €30 million ($34.8 million) per season. Pantomimus is in final negotiations with a U.K. head writer and showrunner, Ricci told Variety.
“As Ipr invests in development with the aim of financing the actual production, the plan is for our pact to continue beyond development,...
The partnership follows a deal inked by the Finnish fund with Pantomimus Media, the company Ricci, agent Lisa Hryniewicz and creative director Pascal Demure have launched to hold and develop all “The Red Harlequin” rights.
Conceived as a transmedia project, “The Red Harlequin” will have the TV series at its heart.
As a TV drama, “The Red Harlequin’s” first season is envisaged as a 12-episode one hour drama with an international cast and an estimated budget of €30 million ($34.8 million) per season. Pantomimus is in final negotiations with a U.K. head writer and showrunner, Ricci told Variety.
“As Ipr invests in development with the aim of financing the actual production, the plan is for our pact to continue beyond development,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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