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Skydance Media said today it's completed a $400 million strategic investment round led by KKR, a first-time investor, and joined by the Ellison family, who remain majority shareholders. Existing investors RedBird Capital Partners and Tencent also participated in the fundraise, which values Skydance at…

Leonine, the German media conglomerate backed by New York investment outfit KKR, has appointed Christiane Goldberg as Senior Vice President Sales. Goldberg joins the company on October 1 and will report directly to CEO Fred Kogel. In her role, she will head up the group's licensing activity across film and TV…

The impressive new German film and TV conglomerate backed by New York investment firm KKR has finally found a name, eight months after launch: Leonine. The entertainment firm includes local film distributors TMG and Universum Film and TV companies i&u TV and Wiedemann & Berg Film. The holding company will go by…

U.S. box office hit Hustlers is heading to Germany and Austria after STXfilms struck a deal with the still-unnamed KKR-backed indie run by Fred Kogel. The German distributor is a merger between Tele München Group, Universum Film, i&u TV and Wiedemann & Berg Film. Pic will be released in Germany via Universum Film on…

The recently-launched, KKR-backed German indie studio has appointed Stephan Katzmann as managing director, finance. Katzmann, who joined June 1, is responsible for “production activities and the creation of a joint license database for the trading activities” at the as yet-unnamed company, which is a merger of Tele…

An emerging, KKR-backed German studio formed by Tele München Group, Universum Film, i&u TV and Wiedann & Berg Film has added Christian Meinberger as Chief Digital Officer. Meinberger, a co-founder of multichannel network Studio 71, joined the management team led by Fred Kogel at the still-unnamed studio. The company…

After making a Cannes splash with its acquisition of Roland Emmerich’s big budget sci-fi project Moonfall, the newly-formed German indie conglomerate founded by KKR and Fred Kogel, has confirmed a series of further high-profile pick-ups made on the Croisette. They include Robert Lorenz’s The Minuteman starring Liam…

New York-based private equity group KKR has continued its remarkable German buying spree with the acquisition of leading local film producer Wiedemann & Berg, whose films include 2019 Oscar nominee Never Look Away and Oscar winner The Lives Of Others. The pact marks the fourth German media company acquisition by KKR…

Just a few days after splashing on Germany production and distribution company Tele Munchen Group, New York-based investment firm KKR has bought German film distributor Universum from local broadcaster RTL. The two acquisitions will form part of a new German entertainment platform for KKR. Universum has a library of…