EXCLUSIVE: Jude Law‘s Riff Raff Entertainment has received “significant funding” via a new TV development deal with France’s Newen Connect.
Unveiled at Newen’s London TV Screenings occasion, the deal sees Riff Raff – which the two-time Oscar nominee co-founded with Ben Jackson – handed a money injection to develop a slate of TV tasks, whereas giving the corporate a distribution pipeline.
The improvement partnership has already spawned three early-stage tasks: political thriller Foreign Desk starring Law, a female-led present from Pure author Kirstie Swain and a “talent-led TV project with acclaimed playwright Chris Urch.”
The funding determine was not disclosed however is known as “significant.” It is being underwritten by European studio-financier Anton, which individually invested €50M ($54M) in Newen in early 2022 that allowed the French main to maneuver into options.
Riff Raff CEO Stephen Fuss stated: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Newen and leveraging their international distribution expertise to expand our television slate. This partnership will help us further our goal of making Riff Raff Entertainment the ultimate home for high-end talent to build their TV projects.”
Newen Connect boss Rodolphe Buet referred to as the transfer a “significant step forward” for the outfit’s progress technique within the English-language house. “Our investment and distribution expertise will offer Riff Raff an important route to market and the ability to quickly take its projects from the page to the screen,” he added.
Riff Raff had already been rising quickly as a result of a multi-million greenback capital injection 18 months in the past from Calculus Capital. The indie has since appointed former Ingenious Media government Fuss, Blueprint Pictures alumnus Katie Sinclair as Head of Development and Studiocanal’s Lionelle Galloppa into the event staff.
Up subsequent for Riff Raff is 2 tasks starring Law: Justin Kurzel film The Order and Netflix TV collection Black Rabbit that includes Jason Bateman and co-produced with Bateman’s Aggregate. On the event slate is a rom-com written by Sharon Horgan, a historical-drama movie penned by Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers) and different TV collection with Jonathan Glatzer (Succession), Temi Wilkey (Sex Education) and Seth Sinclair (Pennyworth). More will likely be introduced quickly, Riff Raff stated.
Along with its distribution arm, TF1-owned Newen owns greater than 50 manufacturing corporations round Europe in 11 territories. It sells the likes of Dark Heart, Gael Garcia Bernal’s Another End and Kevin Macdonald’s High & Low – John Galliano. Earlier this month, it introduced that ex-Warner Bros. Discovery exec Pierre Branco will likely be changing Romain Bessi as CEO in April.
The Riff Raff-Newen tie-up is the newest between a Hollywood film star-producer and a French main, following Mediawan’s acquisition of Brad Pitt’s Plan B in late 2022.
The partnership was negotiated between Josephine Fontaine, VP Acquisition & Co-production, and Pia Valentie, Head of Legal for Newen Connect, and Fuss CEO for Riff Raff.
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