Anton Studios Joins The Creatives as Partner and Investor as Producer-Led European Company Enters Jointly Owned Holding Structure (EXCLUSIVE)

CEO Romain Bessi says the new model is a "natural step" for the leading European group, which will now become "a one-stop shop" for commissioners and distributors

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Fast-growing European studio Anton Studios is taking a minority position as a partner and investor in The Creatives. The group, first founded as a long-term strategic partnership in 2021, is moving into a solidified company, with a jointly owned holding structure. The new model will see The Creatives become the first European-rooted producer-owned group of its scale in film and television, with Romain Bessi remaining as CEO.

The Creatives consists of some of the leading production companies in Europe, as well as one each in Israel and the U.S. They are Haut et Court and Unité in France, Komplizen and Razor Film in Germany, the U.K.’s Good Chaos, Lemming Film in Netherlands and Belgium, Maipo Film in Norway, Spiro in Israel and the U.S.’s Masha.

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