Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s subsidiary Screen Media Ventures is teaming with UK outfit Great Point Media on a film acquisition facility that the companies say will be initially funded to $10M.
Great Point is providing 100% of the funds and Chicken Soup’s chief exec William J. Rouhana Jr said the deal would allow it to accelerate its content acquisitions activity, adding that it would continue to use a “capital efficient, lower-risk approach” to buying content.
“This financing allows us to build on our momentum in delivering higher-profile movies and TV series at a significantly lower cost of capital,” added David Fannon, president of Screen Media. “We have a solid track record of identifying content that will be successful and this fund enables us to significantly expand our library by acquiring that type of content when it is available.”
“We had previously financed two of Chicken Soup for...
Great Point is providing 100% of the funds and Chicken Soup’s chief exec William J. Rouhana Jr said the deal would allow it to accelerate its content acquisitions activity, adding that it would continue to use a “capital efficient, lower-risk approach” to buying content.
“This financing allows us to build on our momentum in delivering higher-profile movies and TV series at a significantly lower cost of capital,” added David Fannon, president of Screen Media. “We have a solid track record of identifying content that will be successful and this fund enables us to significantly expand our library by acquiring that type of content when it is available.”
“We had previously financed two of Chicken Soup for...
- 9/2/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Line of Duty and This Is England star Vicky McClure is to front a bomb squad drama for ITV, produced by Htm Television, the production company set up by Line of Duty and Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio.
Trigger Point is a six-part thriller, written by new writer Daniel Brierley, that follows counter terrorism policing and the terrifying work of the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad.
Set in London, Trigger Point, follows the ‘expo’ officers, who risk their lives daily on the long walk towards danger. Death is always just a heartbeat away.
McClure, who also starred in Broadchurch, plays front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative. Reckless and out of control, Lana is ex-military and pushed to breaking point dealing with a series of improvised explosive devices which threaten the capital during a terrorist summer campaign. Under extreme pressure and searching for answers, Lana...
Trigger Point is a six-part thriller, written by new writer Daniel Brierley, that follows counter terrorism policing and the terrifying work of the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad.
Set in London, Trigger Point, follows the ‘expo’ officers, who risk their lives daily on the long walk towards danger. Death is always just a heartbeat away.
McClure, who also starred in Broadchurch, plays front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative. Reckless and out of control, Lana is ex-military and pushed to breaking point dealing with a series of improvised explosive devices which threaten the capital during a terrorist summer campaign. Under extreme pressure and searching for answers, Lana...
- 2/20/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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