Creative agency Once Upon a Time (Ouat) has acquired film content specialist The Special Treats Production Company for an undisclosed sum.
Colin Burrows founded Special Treats more than 30 years ago and served as MD. Special Treats has produced a range of documentaries, TV movies and electronic press kits for the film, TV and music industries. It has several clients in common with Ouat including Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros, Universal and Netflix. Twenty year veteran of the company, Lisa Fass, will become the new MD.
Ouat is headquartered in London with offices in Nottingham, New York and Los Angeles. The addition of Special Treats is aligned with its strategy to offer specialist audio visual and advertising services in the entertainment, music, gaming and hospitality sectors and with its focus on expanding its capabilities in the audio visual arena, Ouat said. Ouat’s previous acquisitions include New York-based IdeaWork Studio Inc and health and beauty specialist,...
Colin Burrows founded Special Treats more than 30 years ago and served as MD. Special Treats has produced a range of documentaries, TV movies and electronic press kits for the film, TV and music industries. It has several clients in common with Ouat including Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros, Universal and Netflix. Twenty year veteran of the company, Lisa Fass, will become the new MD.
Ouat is headquartered in London with offices in Nottingham, New York and Los Angeles. The addition of Special Treats is aligned with its strategy to offer specialist audio visual and advertising services in the entertainment, music, gaming and hospitality sectors and with its focus on expanding its capabilities in the audio visual arena, Ouat said. Ouat’s previous acquisitions include New York-based IdeaWork Studio Inc and health and beauty specialist,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“In the old days, at some point when people were leaving [Cannes], you said, ‘Well, before you go, this has to be wrapped up,’” says Constantin’s Martin Moszkowicz. “Now it doesn’t have to be done this way anymore. You can basically say, ‘Well, we’ll do it on Zoom next week.’”
Running July 6-17, Cannes, the physical festival and parallel Marché du Film, is over, but dealing could stretch into high summer. Some studio deals could indeed take months to close.
That said, to date, the 2021 Cannes Festival and Marché du Film did much to underscore the resilience of the international film business at least for its top-top players. Following, 10 takeaways:
Cannes Genre Consecration
The first outright win for a woman, Cannes’ 2021 Palme d’Or for “Titane” is also the first time the biggest fest prize in the world has gone to an out-and-out horror schlock fest. Other genre...
Running July 6-17, Cannes, the physical festival and parallel Marché du Film, is over, but dealing could stretch into high summer. Some studio deals could indeed take months to close.
That said, to date, the 2021 Cannes Festival and Marché du Film did much to underscore the resilience of the international film business at least for its top-top players. Following, 10 takeaways:
Cannes Genre Consecration
The first outright win for a woman, Cannes’ 2021 Palme d’Or for “Titane” is also the first time the biggest fest prize in the world has gone to an out-and-out horror schlock fest. Other genre...
- 7/20/2021
- by John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Bentley-driving, cigar-smoking proprietor is credited with transforming film trade journalism.
Tributes have poured in for Peter King, the groundbreaking former publisher of Screen International from 1975 to 1989, who died last week at the age of 90.
The Bentley-driving, cigar-smoking proprietor is credited with transforming film trade journalism, overseeing the publication of the first ever film trade dailies at the Cannes film festival in the late 1970s.
Journalists who worked with him spoke of his elegance, his business acumen and his love of good living.
“King was an immaculate man in every way,” said Tina McFarling, BFI media advisor, corporate, partnerships and industry,...
Tributes have poured in for Peter King, the groundbreaking former publisher of Screen International from 1975 to 1989, who died last week at the age of 90.
The Bentley-driving, cigar-smoking proprietor is credited with transforming film trade journalism, overseeing the publication of the first ever film trade dailies at the Cannes film festival in the late 1970s.
Journalists who worked with him spoke of his elegance, his business acumen and his love of good living.
“King was an immaculate man in every way,” said Tina McFarling, BFI media advisor, corporate, partnerships and industry,...
- 10/29/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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