Creativity Capital have appointed former Odin’s Eye Entertainment exec Tianna Roberts as Acquisitions Manager.
Roberts worked for almost five years at Odin’s Eye, latterly as Head Of Development and Co-Director of Acquisitions. In her new role she will leverage her background in international development, distribution, and acquisitions to boost global co-production and financing opportunities.
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Say goodbye to the old ways of doing TV business and hello to new ones.
“We need to rethink everything. The business model we used to have, that’s gone,” said Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber, a panelist at this year’s TV Beats Forum at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
“We’re going to see fewer shows. The costs have skyrocketed, we have inflation, and if you’re looking to attach a meaningful cast, there’s huge competition with streamers. At the moment, our industry is driven by fear. We need to overcome the fear of failure.”
And find new solutions. According to Meg Thomson, an executive at Globalgate Entertainment, there needs to be more cross-continental collaboration in the near future, as well as more focus on YouTube and TikTok, “where advertising is more targeted,” added James Copp, co-head of content at Night Train Media.
Patrick Fischer, co-founder and Managing Director of Creativity Capital, “would like to see more licensing from streamers.” He argued during the State of Play in Series Financing panel that broadcasters, like their platform counterparts, have significantly cut back on what they used to commission.
“We knew it was a bubble, and we knew it was going to burst,” he went one. “I would love for Netflix and other streamers not to look at themselves as an old-style Hollywood studio where they need to tell certain stories. Let’s face it: They are cable. You can watch unscripted content while you are doing the dishes, and you can watch an Oscar-winning movie from an auteur. I would love them to embrace it, saying: ‘Why don’t we pre-buy? Why don’t we act like cable used to?’”
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Marco van Belle’s Irish female vampire origin feature Feed has begun shooting in Ireland’s coastal region of County Wexford. The film follows a group of twenty something social media influencers who spend a weekend at a remote contemporary house in an Irish forest, and must fight for their lives when they awaken the world’s original vampire from her slumber. Van Belle previously wrote sci-fi Mercy starring Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Annabelle Wallis, which is currently in post-production.
Producers are Ripple World’s Jac Kerrin and Dominic Wright (The Last Rifleman, Never Grow Old), with Big Safari’s Richard Kondal and Tianna Roberts (Get Away, Giant) as UK co-producers.
Niamh Fagan is Executive Producer for Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann, who are providing production finance and financed development. Creativity Capital is providing production finance, with Patrick Fischer executive producing.
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