108 Media (UK) Ltd., the global media, IP, and content investment firm with a key focus on emerging markets, has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in one of Asia-Pacific’s top production companies, Revolution Media. The deal is its first Asian corporate acquisition with a view of a concerted charge across key global markets under 108 Media’s corporate and financing umbrellas in London and Singapore. As part of 108 Media (UK)’s deeply rooted mandate to establish cross-cultural … [Read more...] about 108 Media acquires majority stake in Asian production company Revolution Media
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108 Media acquires DCD Media Plc in US$6.3 million deal
108 Media, the global financing and production studio, with a key focus on emerging markets, has acquired all the assets of AIM-listed DCD Media Plc, the independent TV distribution and production group, in a deal worth $6.3m (£4.7m) in the first of several major corporate acquisitions being negotiated within the next 18 months. The deal comprises all DCD Media Plc assets, which include September Films, RIZE USA and DCD Rights, which has a catalogue of more than 3,500 hours of programming … [Read more...] about 108 Media acquires DCD Media Plc in US$6.3 million deal
Singapore Media Festival 2021 connects Singapore’s content creators to global media players and audiences
The eighth edition of the Singapore Media Festival (SMF) will connect a key player in the media ecosystem – showrunners – to Singapore’s creative talents to bring Asian stories to international markets. Showrunners, which are also known as executive producers, call the shots in the content creation process, with overall creative and management responsibility from conceptualisation to financing to talent selection to production and distribution. With the rise in audience interest in Asian … [Read more...] about Singapore Media Festival 2021 connects Singapore’s content creators to global media players and audiences
108 Media takes international distribution rights to Italian romantic drama ‘The Fifth Taste’
108 Media announced that they have acquired international distribution rights (excluding Italy theatrical and China) to The Fifth Taste, from director Angelo Frezza (La Piantina, Sweet Sweet Marja) and starring Karin Proia (Boris, Una Gita A Roma), Angelo Orlando (I thought it was Love…Instead it was a Buggy, Sfiorarsi), and Daphne Scoccia (Flower, Far Away). The film marks an impressive addition to 108 Media’s growing international and cross-cultural slate, further showcasing the company’s … [Read more...] about 108 Media takes international distribution rights to Italian romantic drama ‘The Fifth Taste’
108 Media takes world sales rights on ‘Lorni – The Flaneur,’ the debut feature film from Wanphrang K Diengdoh, starring Adil Hussain
108 Media have acquired world sales rights on Lorni - The Flaneur from the award-winning documentary/non-fiction filmmaker and music producer, Wanphrang K Diengdoh. The film stars Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, What Will People Say) as Shem, an out of work, self-styled detective who escapes the lethargy of small-town Shillong in northeast India when asked to investigate the disappearance of objects of great cultural value. Navigating narrow streets and dark alleys, he … [Read more...] about 108 Media takes world sales rights on ‘Lorni – The Flaneur,’ the debut feature film from Wanphrang K Diengdoh, starring Adil Hussain
108 Media acquires premium sports docuseries, ‘FEARLESS: Rise of the Johor Southern Tigers’, charting the climb of six-time Malaysian Super League champions, Johor Darul Ta’zim
108 Media have acquired international sales rights to the first Asian docuseries of its kind – FEARLESS: Rise of the Johor Southern Tigers - which takes the highly successful “Dressing Room” docuseries concept and turns the floodlights on Johor Darul Ta’zim FC (JDT), the Southeast Asian football team, whose victories have helped build a community, a society, a state, and a nation. A heartfelt, behind-the-scenes story, FEARLESS takes viewers from the epic vistas of football fandom to the … [Read more...] about 108 Media acquires premium sports docuseries, ‘FEARLESS: Rise of the Johor Southern Tigers’, charting the climb of six-time Malaysian Super League champions, Johor Darul Ta’zim
