Shamrock Capital, the LA-based investment firm created by the late Roy E. Disney, has closed a new content fund with $400 million in committed capital to acquire existing entertainment IP rights in film, TV, music and video games.
The Shamrock Capital Content Fund II follows an inaugural fund that raised $250 million and holds an interest in more than 800 films, 1,000 television episodes, and 5,000 music compositions. The funds don’t invest in unreleased content but beyond that have a broad scope, eyeing product that was just released into its initial window, to content that’s decades old. It tends to acquire rights directly from producers, directors, showrunners and artists versus major studios.
The deals aren’t announced but occasionally a seller will agree to make them public. In fall 2018, Shamrock acquired Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Erikson’s Stargate music publishing catalog with Katy Perry’s Firework, Rihanna’s Diamonds and Beyonce’s Irreplacable.
The Shamrock Capital Content Fund II follows an inaugural fund that raised $250 million and holds an interest in more than 800 films, 1,000 television episodes, and 5,000 music compositions. The funds don’t invest in unreleased content but beyond that have a broad scope, eyeing product that was just released into its initial window, to content that’s decades old. It tends to acquire rights directly from producers, directors, showrunners and artists versus major studios.
The deals aren’t announced but occasionally a seller will agree to make them public. In fall 2018, Shamrock acquired Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Erikson’s Stargate music publishing catalog with Katy Perry’s Firework, Rihanna’s Diamonds and Beyonce’s Irreplacable.
- 7/21/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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