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EXCLUSIVE: Studio71, the Red Arrow Studios-owned company behind Maya Erskine comedy Plus One, is developing a TV series with Michael Younesi, director of Netflix series Project Mc2. Younesi has created and written Lost Island, an adventure mystery series. Inspired by Tiki culture and folklore from the South Pacific…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio71, a Red Arrow Studios company, has teamed with Snarled Entertainment (Something Scary) on The Shadow Diaries, its first serialized scripted podcast, starring Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) and Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom). Directed by K. Asher Levin and co-written by Levin and Zack Imbrogno, the…

Red Arrow Studios-backed Studio71 has hired Joe Varley as its first UK director of development. He joins from Brown Bred Productions, which he co-founded in 2018 after previous roles at Endemol Shine Group’s Zeppotron, All3Media’s Objective Media Group, Tiger Aspect and Fulwell73. Varley will spearhead Studio71 UK's…

Multi-faceted media company Studio71 has acquired more than 50 individual streaming apps from Unreel Entertainment across the automotive, lifestyle, comedy, gaming and kids and family categories. The purchase gives Studio71, a unit of Red Arrow Studios, a portfolio of more than 200 total apps, making it a leading…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio71 has picked up the film rights to MakerForce 5, a new live-action family adventure movie based on the original idea from Michael Younesi, director and executive producer of Netflix’s educational comedy series Project Mc2. The plot follows five kids – a gamer, a comic book geek, an inventor, a skater…

Digital media company Studio71 unveiled a slate of original programming today that includes new content from comedian Lilly Singh and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Digital Studios, as well as a partnership with Fine Brothers Entertainment, the studio best known for its popular React series of YouTube videos. Singh, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Digital media company Studio71 is suing a San Francisco startup that sought its content to power a mobile application to teach English to Chinese millennials, but never paid the $1 million deposit. The suit (read it here), filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, maintains that the startup, Say Say K…

Studio71, a Red Arrow Studios company, has hired veteran television executive Andrew Strauser as SVP of unscripted content. In his new position, Strauser will be responsible for developing and producing unscripted content for Studio71 across all platforms, reporting to Rabih Gholam, President of Unscripted. Strauser…

EXCLUSIVE: Production has begun in Los Angeles on romantic comedy Plus One from first-time feature directors Andrew Rhymer and Jeff Chan. Jack Quaid (Logan Lucky, The Hunger Games) and Maya Erskine (Casual, Man Seeking Woman) are starring in the pic from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Studio71, the LA-headquartered…

Studio71 is producing the film adaptation to Alyson Noël’s bestselling young adult novel Saving Zoë starring sisters Laura & Vanessa Marano. Jeffrey Hunt is directing the pic, which follows high school freshman Echo (Laura), who after the murder of her sister Zoë (Vanessa), is determined to uncover what led to her…

The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik has joined Studio71, the multichannel network of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, to expand her social media presence. Studio71 will manage Bialik's digital content. The company says her channels will focus on pop culture content, as well as tackle the real issues around motherhood…

France’s leading commercial network TF1, and Italian broadcaster Mediaset, have taken minority stakes in Studio71, the media studio and multi-channel network of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. The companies are putting in a combined investment of 53M euros ($56.4M) at a valuation of approximately 400M euros ($425.7M)…