Nine international indies have teamed up to form a Fremantle-backed alliance for high-end drama series.
The Creatives alliance is launched with a three-year partnership between Fremantle and Fremantle in order to fund and develop high-quality projects around the world.
The Creatives is comprised of the likes of France’s Haut Et Court and Unité, U.S. producer Masha and UK’s Good Chaos. Also featured are Netherlands’ Lemming Film, Belgium’s Versus Production, Norway’s Maipo Film, Germany’s Razor Film and Israel’s Spiro.
This group has over 100 films and series at various stages of development and production. They will collaborate closely on coproduction, strategic partnerships, and information sharing while combining each others.’Your talent and your networks.
The Creatives group stated that the move would be implemented. “offer writers and directors a home of significant scale where they will benefit from a global approach”While retaining their rights “as much as possible.”
“Nine companies, nine different identities, who want to keep their individuality and their cultures as well as that of the talent they work with,”The statement was also added.
“We cooperate, we exchange ideas, we develop, we produce, and we maintain our idiosyncrasies.”
The Creatives is similar in scope to The Alliance group of European broadcasters, which was formed by France’s Canal+, Germany’s ZDF and Italy’s Rai to co-produce shows and help compete with the colossal budgets of the streamers.