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Newen Studios Buys ‘The Gryphon’ Producer & Consolidates In Germany Newen Studios has made a big play in Germany, taking a majority stake in Amazon Prime Video’s The Gryphon producer Dog Haus and consolidating its activities under a new outfit, Spark Studios. Spark will be run by CEOs Martin Heisler…

Paris-based pan-European production and distribution company Newen Studios has acquired a majority stake in independent production Felicita. The French company led by Marie Guillaumond is best known for its series Belle belle belle, Mensonges and Entre ses mains. It has also recently branched…

EXCLUSIVE: Newen Connect is jumping on the Cleopatra bandwagon by leading its Sunny Side of the Doc slate with a documentary about the last queen of Egypt. Cleopatra: Cracking the Enigma helms an eight-strong slate being shopped this week at the La Rochelle confab, as Newen attempts to exert…

EXCLUSIVE: Newen Connect CEO Rodolphe Buet is happy to be back in person at the Berlinale's European Film Market after the three-year Covid-19 hiatus. "It's fun to be in Berlin. When I started in the industry in 2005, my first market was Berlin with Studiocanal," he says. In the interim, Buet…

Anton is opening a TV production arm helmed by former Fremantle alums Sangeeta Desai and Sarah Doole. The producer-financier’s London-based TV shingle will make global shows via the boutique studio and the outfit is seeking to attract creatives to partner with on scripted labels across Europe. The TV…

Shane Allen’s Boffola Pictures Names Comedy Head Shane Allen's Boffola Pictures has hired Ladhood producer Joe Nunnery as its Head of Comedy. Established by former Channel 4 and BBC Comedy boss Allen and Kate Daughton in 2021, the indie is behind Daisy May Cooper BBC comedy thriller series Am I Being…

New DNEG Studio In Sydney Lands 'Mad Max' Prequel 'Furiosa' VFX Work London-based DNEG is launching a studio in Sydney, Australia and has confirmed it has taken on the visual effects for George Miller's Mad Max prequel feature Furiosa. Located in the city's Tech Central district, it is slated to open…

Newen Studios has acquired Vanessa Djian’s French production company Daï-Daï Films, in a move that continues its recent expansion. Djian began her career in the film industry working with figures such as Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Luc Besson and Dany Boon, before creating Daï-Daï Films in…

Newen Studios has pushed into the Scandinavian scripted market with the acquisition of a majority stake in Nordic film and TV company Anagram. The news was unveiled earlier today at a press conference for the TF1-owned giant, which was led by recently-promoted Newen Studios CEO Romain…

EXCLUSIVE: Acquisitive French media giant Newen Studios has expanded its UK footprint with the purchase of a majority stake in Rise Films, the Oscar-winning producer of Netflix’s Icarus and All That Breathes, Deadline can reveal. The deal closed very recently but Rise had been on Newen’s radar for a while, according…

Newen Studios’ Spanish divison iZen has launched documentary producer CAPA Spain with Emmy and Peabody-winning director and journalist Tomás Ocaña. CAPA Spain will work to develop international documentaries in Spain and the wider Hispanic market. Investigative journalist Ocaña is known for docu-series such…

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking to Romain Bessi, CEO of French group Newen Studios. The company, which is producing Liaison, the first English and…