Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment has set plans to partner with entertainment company 5th Planet Games (5Pg) to acquire the Nordic production company Sagafilm Ehf.
Under the terms of the agreement, BetaFilm Nordics will remain a minority shareholder in Sagafilm. The existing Sagafilm leadership team, including Kjartan Thor Thordarson, Managing Partner, and Ragnar Bjorn Agnarsson, Chairman, will continue on at the company working across strategy.
Producer and Nordic industry veteran Tjorvi Thorsson will join Sagafilm as CEO. In a statement, the three companies said Thorsson’s “extensive industry experience and expertise” will aid the “company’s growth and expansion.”
“This appointment demonstrates the commitment to assembling a talented and diverse leadership team within Sagafilm,” they said.
Discussing the deal, Rick Jacobs, Managing Partner of Linear Entertainment at Skybound, said: “This acquisition signifies a substantial foray into the European TV market for Skybound by leveraging Sagafilm’s...
Under the terms of the agreement, BetaFilm Nordics will remain a minority shareholder in Sagafilm. The existing Sagafilm leadership team, including Kjartan Thor Thordarson, Managing Partner, and Ragnar Bjorn Agnarsson, Chairman, will continue on at the company working across strategy.
Producer and Nordic industry veteran Tjorvi Thorsson will join Sagafilm as CEO. In a statement, the three companies said Thorsson’s “extensive industry experience and expertise” will aid the “company’s growth and expansion.”
“This appointment demonstrates the commitment to assembling a talented and diverse leadership team within Sagafilm,” they said.
Discussing the deal, Rick Jacobs, Managing Partner of Linear Entertainment at Skybound, said: “This acquisition signifies a substantial foray into the European TV market for Skybound by leveraging Sagafilm’s...
- 6/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2022 Nostradamus report was launched in Cannes by the Göteborg Film Festival.
Transforming working conditions across the industry should offer financial, artistic, and efficiency benefits directly. That’s one message in the 2022 Nostradamus report, launched in Cannes yesterday by the Göteborg Film Festival.
The ninth report, which is usually published each January, looks at the near-future of the audiovisual industries by talking to industry experts with analysis by author Johanna Koljonen. This year’s report is entitled “Imagining a Sustainable Industry.”
Questions posed by the report include “How can we build a long-term sustainable industry, taking into consideration financial, social as well as environmental perspectives?...
Transforming working conditions across the industry should offer financial, artistic, and efficiency benefits directly. That’s one message in the 2022 Nostradamus report, launched in Cannes yesterday by the Göteborg Film Festival.
The ninth report, which is usually published each January, looks at the near-future of the audiovisual industries by talking to industry experts with analysis by author Johanna Koljonen. This year’s report is entitled “Imagining a Sustainable Industry.”
Questions posed by the report include “How can we build a long-term sustainable industry, taking into consideration financial, social as well as environmental perspectives?...
- 5/24/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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