Red Arrow Entertainment Group


Red Arrow buys film firm in TV investment push

Red Arrow Entertainment Group has bought a majority stake in US-based film distribution company Gravitas Ventures. The two companies plan to make “significant investments into global film and TV projects via acquisitions, coproductions and co-financings”, they said in a statement. Red Arrow’s current sales arm, Red Arrow International, will remain as a standalone, independent business, […]

Etspueler upped at Red Arrow

Nina Etspueler has been elevated to executive VP of creative operations at Germany’s Red Arrow Entertainment Group. This effectively makes her deputy to Red Arrow chief creative officer Michael Schmidt, and gives her control of the creative operations team. She will also focus on identifying and development TV formats within Red Arrow’s production companies and […]

MGM forms JV with Redseven

MGM Worldwide Television has formed a coproduction joint venture with Germany’s Redseven Entertainment. The partnership agreement was described as “multi-year”, and will see the pair look to place MGM unscripted formats such as Steve Harvey’s Funderdome and American Gladiators in Germany. The pair will coproduce any local commissions from Germany’s broadcasters. Redseven is part of […]

Red Arrow teams with new Ringbakk prodco

Red Arrow Entertainment Group has signed a commercial and creative partnership with a new LA-based prodco that produces Craig Armstrong and Rick Ringbakk founded. The deal with 10Fold does not include an equity stake, but ProSiebenSat.1-owned Red Arrow has an option to acquire a majority position in the future. 10Fold is the latest venture from […]

Trio keeps Snowman standing

The management team at Married at First Sight prodco Snowman Productions has extended their contracts. Michael von Würden, Rasmus Steentoft and Lars Fønss have each agreed “multi-year” contract renewals. Copenhagen-based Snowman has been part of Germany’s Red Arrow Entertainment Group since 2011, focusing on social experiment and entertainment formats. Married at First Sight, in which […]

Red Arrow creates new factual unit

Red Arrow Entertainment Group has create a Unterföhring-based factual prodco, 7Stories. The prodco will aim to produce factual shows and branded entertainment programming for Red Arrow parent ProSiebenSat.1 Group, other national and international media firms, and digital platforms. Already on the slate are ProSieben MAXX series Galileo 360°, SAT.1 Gold’s Lenßen Klärt Auf and TV24’s […]

Digital delivers growth at ProSiebenSat.1

Digital revenues helped boost ProSiebenSat.1’s second-quarter performance, with the German broadcaster reporting overall revenues of €886 million (US$985.2 million), up 15%, and EBITDA of €254 million, up 7%. Digital and adjacent revenues grew by an impressive 43% year-on-year to reach €263 million, with EBITDA for this segment rising by 15% to €43 million. The company […]

Red Arrow invests in Band of Outsiders

Germany-based Red Arrow Entertainment Group has acquired a minority stake in Band of Outsiders (BOO), a US prodco that focuses on both broadcast and digital entertainment. This new investment hands the ProSiebenSat.1-owned Red Arrow 20% of LA-based BOO, and means Red Arrow International will sell its shows overseas. BOO will sit alongside Ripple Entertainment, another […]

ProSiebenSat.1 copros chief exiting

The senior VP of international coproduction and documentaries is exiting the German broadcast group in July. During his tenure Koby Gal-Raday expanded ProSieben’s international coproduction activities in scripted and factual, greenlighting a number of projects. He joined the firm in October 2014, and went on to initiate a worldwide open call for scripted series pitches, […]

Red Arrow promotes Baker to president

Red Arrow Entertainment Group has promoted its UK chief, James Baker, to president of the wider business. Baker (pictured) will keep his duties as managing director of Red Arrow UK and global scripted strategy, but increases his responsibilities at the ProSiebenSat.1 Media-owned production and distribution company. He will now manage global production operations, strategic initiatives […]