The production house founded in 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse has taken control of the Hollywood company Plan B Entertainment, chaired by the famous American actor.
“Cinema is internationalizing. Talents are emerging all over the world. For our future projects, we must look outside the United States“, has just explained Brad Pitt in an interview granted to our colleagues from the Parisian . The actor has, in fact, welcomed the takeover of the Hollywood production company Plan B Entertainment, which he co-founded and which he chairs. This news was confirmed by Mediawan to AFP.
This press release states that “This majority stake is acquired partly in Mediawan shares, thus leading the three co-presidents of Plan B, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, to also become shareholders of Mediawan“. For the American star, this transaction with Mediawan is a deal “win-win” because “we have the same idea of how to produce films and series.»
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Still according to the company Mediawan, this “unique partnership“made between two producers in Europe and the United States”marks the deployment of Mediawan in the American market“. The group, which created the production company Blue Morning Pictures in September with director Florian Zeller, will bring together its activities across the Atlantic in a new dedicated entity. “It’s an exceptional chance to be able to develop Mediawan alongside Plan B, the most beautiful independent production company in the US“, commented the CEO of Mediawan, Pierre-Antoine Capton.
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Founded in the early 2000s in Beverly Hills (California), Plan B has produced several successful films including Infiltrators by Martin Scorsese The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick, or even The Big Short by Adam McKay, and has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar 8 times in the past 10 years.
The operation, in which the shareholders of Mediawan (KKR, Bpifrance, MACSF and Société Générale) take part via a capital increase, values Plan B Entertainment at more than 300 million dollars and will be carried out in several installments, according to the Financial Times.
Founded in 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, the Mediawan group is present in the production, distribution and broadcasting of films, series and streaming programs. It now brings together more than 60 production labels, gradually acquired in France and Europe. The group behind the film’s successes North ferry and the series Ten percent now employs 1,500 people, for a turnover of around one billion euros.