Fremantle has laid off all of the workers at drama producer Euston Films and documentary label Simple.
“As a part of ongoing strategic planning, we’re repeatedly reviewing measures needed for making a more practical, coordinated and streamlined method to our enterprise to make sure it’s in one of the best place for future success and development, and to proceed to ship distinctive creativity and world class content material for our valued companions and purchasers world wide,” mentioned a rep for Fremantle.
“As our trade evolves, we should do the identical, and with this in thoughts, now we have made the tough choice to make modifications inside Fremantle. We need to take this time to thank our colleagues, who’ve been behind some unimaginable, award-winning programming, and want all of them one of the best for the longer term.”
Based on a supply, it’s “too quickly” to substantiate what is going to occur to both Euston Movies or Simple, with the labels not but technically shuttered, regardless of having no workers.
Euston Movies, who’ve produced collection together with “Wreck” and the forthcoming “Nightsleeper,” was initially based in 1971 as a subsidiary of Thames Tv, producing exhibits together with ’70s favourite “The Sweeney,” earlier than shuttering in 1994. Fremantle, who purchased Thames in 2001, subsequently revived Euston Movies in 2014 led by managing director Kate Harwood.
Simple was solely launched final March below the purview of Fremantle’s world head of docs Mandy Chang. The imaginative and prescient was for the label, which sat below Fremantle’s docs division, to develop and produce premium initiatives. The label has a slew of documentaries out this yr, together with Chris Smith’s “Devo,” concerning the new wave band, and Penny Lane’s “Mrs. America,” concerning the Mrs. America magnificence pageant.
Chang, Harwood and Harwood’s co-MD Noemi Spanos are amongst these leaving.
“Kate Harwood and Noemi Spanos wish to thank the groups, the expertise and the broadcasters we’ve labored with during the last ten years of Euston Movies and in addition Fremantle for the religion they’ve proven in us,” mentioned Harwood and Spanos in a press release. “We’re very happy with the seven daring authored exhibits now we have made on this time and are wanting ahead to future initiatives and challenges.”
Chang mentioned “I’m proud to have performed a job in organising and constructing Fremantle’s documentary division and in founding and main the Fremantle’s premium label, Simple. Nevertheless, the time has come to maneuver on and focus by myself slate of movies within the impartial documentary area. The variety of movies and folks that I’ve been lucky to work with – my very own crew included – has been a pleasure. It has been a privilege working with Fremantle’s world documentary labels and I want all of them success sooner or later.”
Deadline first reported the information of the redundancies.
