Pair are looking to ” create unique opportunities and content to strategically growing the business”.
Updated: Hollywood actor-producer Will Smith and German-born Swiss director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) have acquired the German sales and distribution company Telepool from German public broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Swr Media Services, and Switzerland’s Telvetia, a subsidiary of Swiss broadcaster Srf.
The acquisition was made by The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office, and the Zurich-based strategic investment holding Elysian Fields co-founded by Marc Forster.
Executives in the Us independent space who spoke to Screendaily reacted with varying levels of bewilderment.
Updated: Hollywood actor-producer Will Smith and German-born Swiss director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) have acquired the German sales and distribution company Telepool from German public broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Swr Media Services, and Switzerland’s Telvetia, a subsidiary of Swiss broadcaster Srf.
The acquisition was made by The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office, and the Zurich-based strategic investment holding Elysian Fields co-founded by Marc Forster.
Executives in the Us independent space who spoke to Screendaily reacted with varying levels of bewilderment.
- 6/26/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Pair are looking to ” create unique opportunities and content to strategically growing the business”.
Hollywood actor-producer Will Smith and German-born Swiss director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) have acquired the German sales and distribution company Telepool from German public broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Swr Media Services, and Switzerland’s Telvetia, a subsidiary of Swiss broadcaster Srf.
The acquisition was made by The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office, and the Zurich-based strategic investment holding Elysian Fields co-founded by Marc Forster.
”All management positions at subsidiary companies and all other management functions will remain unchanged for the time being,...
Hollywood actor-producer Will Smith and German-born Swiss director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) have acquired the German sales and distribution company Telepool from German public broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Swr Media Services, and Switzerland’s Telvetia, a subsidiary of Swiss broadcaster Srf.
The acquisition was made by The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office, and the Zurich-based strategic investment holding Elysian Fields co-founded by Marc Forster.
”All management positions at subsidiary companies and all other management functions will remain unchanged for the time being,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Will Smith and director Marc Forster have teamed up to acquire Telepool GmbH, the German licensing and distribution company that is a major European player in theatrical and multi-platform distribution. Beyond that preexisting business, Telepool will become a development, financing and distribution partner for projects involving the duo. The acquisition was made by The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office, and Elysian Fields, a Zurich-based investment holding company co-founded by Forster. Purchase price was not disclosed.
The team-up and acquisition target seems unusual, but both Smith and Forster are entrepreneurial multi-hyphenates who are taking the initiative at a disruptive moment to diversify and better control the product they generate in German-speaking territories. Telepool’s core business is the acquisition, sale and promotion of narrative and gaming content as well as merchandising and licensing of publishing and excerpt rights for German-speaking territories. The Telepool group has headquarters in Munich,...
The team-up and acquisition target seems unusual, but both Smith and Forster are entrepreneurial multi-hyphenates who are taking the initiative at a disruptive moment to diversify and better control the product they generate in German-speaking territories. Telepool’s core business is the acquisition, sale and promotion of narrative and gaming content as well as merchandising and licensing of publishing and excerpt rights for German-speaking territories. The Telepool group has headquarters in Munich,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Works in Progress 2016 Awards at the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film FestivalIndustry@Tallinn and Baltic Event is one of the fastest growing entertainment sector development summits in the winter season. They are held during the annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the only Fiapf accredited Competition Feature Film Festival in Northern Europe.
The Works in Progress sessions were first organized 15 years ago as a regional showcase part of the Baltic Event. Last year, upcoming international films were added to the program and today, its 2 sections, Baltic Event Works in Progress and International Works in Progress, offer buyers, producers and programmers a diverse and dynamic range of local and international projects to discover.
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event organized this year as well their Works in Progress pitching sessions. As a matter of fact, 26 films in production or postproduction looking for sales agents or festivals for international premieres were presented on...
The Works in Progress sessions were first organized 15 years ago as a regional showcase part of the Baltic Event. Last year, upcoming international films were added to the program and today, its 2 sections, Baltic Event Works in Progress and International Works in Progress, offer buyers, producers and programmers a diverse and dynamic range of local and international projects to discover.
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event organized this year as well their Works in Progress pitching sessions. As a matter of fact, 26 films in production or postproduction looking for sales agents or festivals for international premieres were presented on...
- 11/26/2016
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
Foam At The Mouth, The Line [pictured] among winners at market event which awards post-production services to up-and-coming projects.
The Industry@Tallin & Baltic Event has announced the winners of its Works in Progress selections.
The event (which ran November 20-21) featured 26 Baltic and international films in production or post-production seeking sales agents, co-producers, finance, distribution or festivals.
The Baltic Event Works In Progress award was presented to Foam At The Mouth, directed by Janis Nords and produced by Alise Gelze and Aija Berzina. A Latvia-Lithuania-Poland co-production, the psychological drama focuses on a former policeman who, after losing a leg, begins to train his three beloved police dogs while his marriage collapses.
“Our curiosity was piqued by the scenes we were shown from this film, both in terms of potential narrative progression and stylistic execution,” said the jury, which was made up of Thomas Weymar, managing director of Telepool, Mads Peter Ole Olsen, CEO of Red...
The Industry@Tallin & Baltic Event has announced the winners of its Works in Progress selections.
The event (which ran November 20-21) featured 26 Baltic and international films in production or post-production seeking sales agents, co-producers, finance, distribution or festivals.
The Baltic Event Works In Progress award was presented to Foam At The Mouth, directed by Janis Nords and produced by Alise Gelze and Aija Berzina. A Latvia-Lithuania-Poland co-production, the psychological drama focuses on a former policeman who, after losing a leg, begins to train his three beloved police dogs while his marriage collapses.
“Our curiosity was piqued by the scenes we were shown from this film, both in terms of potential narrative progression and stylistic execution,” said the jury, which was made up of Thomas Weymar, managing director of Telepool, Mads Peter Ole Olsen, CEO of Red...
- 11/23/2016
- ScreenDaily
Directors Chanya Button, Adrian Sitaru, Xavier Seron scoop prizes; festival reveals works in progress winners.
UK filmmaker Chanya Button’s debut feature as director and producer, Burn Burn Burn, was voted by the audience at the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff) as the winner of this year’s Grand Prix.
Producer Daniel-Konrad Cooper accepted the Golden Duke statuette on behalf of the production team from Oiff’s festival president Victoria Tigipko during the gala closing ceremony in the Black Sea city’s historic National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Button’s melancholic comedy had premiered at last year’s London Film Festival and is being handled internationally by Urban Distribution International.
International Competition
Meanwhile, the International Competition jury - headed by the UK writer Christopher Hampton and also including Oiff 2015 winner Eva Neymann, Us writer-director-actor Alex Ross Perry, producer Rebecca O’Brien and producer-director Uberto Pasolini - gave the Golden Duke statuette for Best Film to...
UK filmmaker Chanya Button’s debut feature as director and producer, Burn Burn Burn, was voted by the audience at the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff) as the winner of this year’s Grand Prix.
Producer Daniel-Konrad Cooper accepted the Golden Duke statuette on behalf of the production team from Oiff’s festival president Victoria Tigipko during the gala closing ceremony in the Black Sea city’s historic National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Button’s melancholic comedy had premiered at last year’s London Film Festival and is being handled internationally by Urban Distribution International.
International Competition
Meanwhile, the International Competition jury - headed by the UK writer Christopher Hampton and also including Oiff 2015 winner Eva Neymann, Us writer-director-actor Alex Ross Perry, producer Rebecca O’Brien and producer-director Uberto Pasolini - gave the Golden Duke statuette for Best Film to...
- 7/25/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ukraine film industry set to receive fivefold cash injection and first rebate scheme.
Ukraine’s new Cinema Law could see a massive cash injection for the State Film Agency and the introduction of a cash rebate scheme from 2017.
Speaking at the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival’s Film Industry Office this week, Philip Illienko, head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, explained that the Cinema Law had already passed its first reading in the national parliament and is expected to be finally adopted in a second reading this autumn.
¨The provisions [of the new Law] will be revolutionary for our industry and we will say goodbye to many Soviet elements which have still existed [in the flm funding legislation],¨ Illienko said.
According to the draft law going through parliament, the Film Agency would expect to receive financial support equal to 0.2% of Ukraine’s state budget from 2017, which would be equivalent to $55.2m (€50m), a substantial increase on the Film Agency’s current...
Ukraine’s new Cinema Law could see a massive cash injection for the State Film Agency and the introduction of a cash rebate scheme from 2017.
Speaking at the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival’s Film Industry Office this week, Philip Illienko, head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, explained that the Cinema Law had already passed its first reading in the national parliament and is expected to be finally adopted in a second reading this autumn.
¨The provisions [of the new Law] will be revolutionary for our industry and we will say goodbye to many Soviet elements which have still existed [in the flm funding legislation],¨ Illienko said.
According to the draft law going through parliament, the Film Agency would expect to receive financial support equal to 0.2% of Ukraine’s state budget from 2017, which would be equivalent to $55.2m (€50m), a substantial increase on the Film Agency’s current...
- 7/22/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Across the globe, female audiences are driving the box office, and it’s impacting Cannes film buyers — even if they don’t like it. “It’s not just the box office, the television channels are also going female, female, female,” says Thomas Weymar, managing director of European buyer Telepool. “I’d just love to be able to buy a real macho Western, but it’s not to be.” Elizabeth Banks’ femme-fueled Pitch Perfect 2 is on course to gross $60 million or more in North America this weekend (beating the action-heavy Mad Max: Fury Road’s projected $42 million). It follows
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- 5/17/2015
- by Pamela McClintock, Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Submarine and Global Screen have licensed all Us rights excluding TV to Nadav Schirman’s psychological thriller.
Further territory negotiations are ongoing and rights previously closed with Curzon for the UK and Madman for Australia and New Zealand.
Music Box plans an awards season qualifying run later this year on the Germany-Israel-uk story about a Hamas defector’s complex relationship with his Israeli handler.
John Battsek and Simon Chinn produced The Green Prince and the executive producers are Thomas Weymar, Sheryl Crown and Maggie Monteith.
Josh Braun and David Koh of Submarine negotiated the Us deal with Ed Arentz and William Schopf of Music Box.
Further territory negotiations are ongoing and rights previously closed with Curzon for the UK and Madman for Australia and New Zealand.
Music Box plans an awards season qualifying run later this year on the Germany-Israel-uk story about a Hamas defector’s complex relationship with his Israeli handler.
John Battsek and Simon Chinn produced The Green Prince and the executive producers are Thomas Weymar, Sheryl Crown and Maggie Monteith.
Josh Braun and David Koh of Submarine negotiated the Us deal with Ed Arentz and William Schopf of Music Box.
- 3/26/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Telepool has picked up all German rights to Fathers & Daughters, the new drama from Pursuit of Happyness helmer Gabriele Muccino starring Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. The project, which Voltage is selling at Afm, centers on a woman (Seyfried) whose current relationship is falling apart, who looks back on the relationship she had with her father (Crowe) 25 years earlier. Afm: Download THR's Day 5 'Daily' "It was a great script and it looks like a very nice fit for the so-called 'golden ager' demographic given its parent-child relationship theme," Telepool head Thomas Weymar told The Hollywood
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- 11/10/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More Mipcom news
Cologne, Germany -- International sales outfit Telepool has extended its distribution deal with leading German commercial channel Rtl.
Telepool boss Thomas Weymar and Rtl sales head nm3185330 autoDirk Schweitzer[/link] made the announcement ahead of next week's Mipcom confab, where Telepool will be shopping around Rtl hit series including hospital comedy "Doctor's Diary," martial arts actioner "Lasko" and long-running Autobahn cops show "Alarm for Cobra 11," which recently aired its 200th episode.
Cologne, Germany -- International sales outfit Telepool has extended its distribution deal with leading German commercial channel Rtl.
Telepool boss Thomas Weymar and Rtl sales head nm3185330 autoDirk Schweitzer[/link] made the announcement ahead of next week's Mipcom confab, where Telepool will be shopping around Rtl hit series including hospital comedy "Doctor's Diary," martial arts actioner "Lasko" and long-running Autobahn cops show "Alarm for Cobra 11," which recently aired its 200th episode.
- 9/30/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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