Eagle Pictures, one of Italy’s leading film distribution and production houses, has acquired fellow distributor M2 Pictures for around €8.5M ($10M), the company has confirmed to us. The deal …
With the pact, which was completed in late July, Eagle’s library swells to around 1,450 movies. The company has an output deal with Sky Italia and has arranged for the broadcaster to take on a handful of the recent M2 titles.
M2 founders Rudolph Gentile and Marco Dell’Utri set the company up in 2010 but the firm had been challenged by the tough releasing landscape in recent years so the sale includes a fair amount of debt obligation, we understand. The company’s 10 staff will not be transferring to Milan-based Eagle. Eagle, which was a top five distributor in the market in 2019, inked a significant output deal this year with Paramount, whose movies had been released in the market by Fox since 2017.
The company already distributes MGM movies and in 2018 partnered with the studio to produce Patrick Dempsey-starring TV seriesDevilsOn the production side, among movies in development is the English-language version of Paolo Genovese’s 2016 hit movie, which has Issa Rae aboard to write, produce and star. That film is being made with Spyglass. Co-production, directed by Nate Parker, debuted at Venice last year where it won the Sconfini section best film prize.
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