SANTA MONICA, Calif. and
PARIS, July
10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Globalgate Entertainment, the
local-language film and television production and financing venture
aligned with global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B),
today announced that it has added TF1 Group's movie label TF1
Studio to its global consortium of 13 world-class production and
distribution partners. Other Globalgate partners include
Televisa (Mexico), Nordisk
(Scandinavia), Tobis (Germany), Rai
(Italy), Lotte (Korea), Kadokawa
(Japan), TME (Turkey), Paris Filmes (Brazil), CineColombia/Dynamo (Colombia), Belga (Benelux), and Viva
(Philippines).
"We're delighted to take our relationship with Globalgate
partners Clifford Werber,
William Pfeiffer and Paul Presburger and Globalgate executive
Meg Thomson to the next level," said
TF1 Studio Deputy CEO Nathalie Toulza
Madar. "Globalgate has successfully harnessed the
fast-growing local content market and their growing roster of
blue-chip production and distribution partners is both very
compatible with TF1 Studio and will advance our footing in
France and globally."
"We look forward to working with Nathalie Toulza Madar, Sabine Chemaly and the entire TF1 Studio team to
broaden our pipeline in France and
create exciting new opportunities for TF1 Studio's properties
around the world," said the Globalgate team. "The growth of
our TF1 Studio relationship is a natural evolution of our expanding
focus on television and digital content, as well as the theatrical
films we're already working on together including remakes of
Nordisk's hit franchise Reunion and Televisa's Ya
Veremos."
The Globalgate cofounders continued, "We remain grateful for our
relationship with Gaumont with whom we continue to collaborate on
existing projects and complementary opportunities."
Globalgate's pipeline of over 40 films and series includes
remakes of Pantelion/Televisa's Instructions Not
Included in India and
Korea and Ya Veremos in Italy; Gaumont's Rolling to You in
China and India; Lotte's Terror Live in
Japan and India, Midnight Runners in China, Man on High Heels in the US; and
No Kids in Germany, Korea
and Mexico; as well as local
adaptations of original Hollywood
screenplays in Mexico and
France.
ABOUT GLOBALGATE ENTERTAINMENT
Globalgate Entertainment is a producer and financier of
mainstream, local-language motion pictures and digital/television
content with a proprietary, global consortium of best-in-class
production and distribution partners in key and emerging
territories. Globalgate's consortium partners include Lionsgate
(US/UK/Canada), Televisa
(Latin America), TF1 (France), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Kadokawa
(Japan), Lotte (Korea), Tobis
(Germany), Rai (Italy), TME
(Turkey), Belga Filmes
(Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Paris Filmes (Brazil), CineColombia/Dynamo (Colombia), and Viva Communications
(Philippines). Globalgate, aligned
with its consortium partners, has first-priority access to over
20,000 titles and – from its offices in Los Angeles, New
York, London, Mumbai and Beijing – curates commercial intellectual
property from its partners and third-party rightsholders worldwide
and co-finances the resulting films and series.
ABOUT TF1 STUDIO
TF1 Studio is the movie label of the TF1 Group, its mission
being to initiate the development, co-production or acquisition of
new cinema projects, to value films and talents through
Cinema/Ultra VOD releases, Home Entertainment, VOD, TV/SVOD France
& International sales. Among 2019 new high profile projects:
The Lion, Way Down, Of Loves And Lies, Roxane, Who's That Granny ?!
or The Morning After. Digital distribution is at the heart of the
studio, which houses in its organization the services of France
VOD's top brand MYTF1VOD as well as the TFou Max, France's #1 Youth SVOD service.
TF1 Studio also values and distributes a major movie library of
nearly 1,000 films, including classic masterpieces such as Rocco
and His Brothers, That Man From Rio, Life Is A Long Quiet River,
The Piano and The Wages Of Fear.
For further information and inquiries, please contact:
Peter D. Wilkes
Lionsgate
310-255-3726
pwilkes@lionsgate.com
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