{"id":5904,"date":"2016-04-05T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/red-arrow-invests-in-drama-producer-mad-rabbit\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:24:53","slug":"red-arrow-invests-in-drama-producer-mad-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/red-arrow-invests-in-drama-producer-mad-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Arrow Invests in Drama Producer Mad Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"
MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has invested in new production company Mad Rabbit, which will\u00a0specialize in high-end drama.<\/p>\n
Mad Rabbit is a joint venture between Canadian director and showrunner Kari Skogland and Red Arrow Entertainment. Skogland has directed successful dramas such as House of Cards<\/em>, The Walking Dead<\/em>, The Americans<\/em>, Vikings<\/em>, Boardwalk Empire<\/em> and The Borgias<\/em>. Red Arrow Entertainment holds a minority stake in Mad Rabbit and Red Arrow International will distribute the company’s projects globally.<\/p>\n The company board of directors will be chaired by Peter Sussman, who is former Entertainment Group CEO and co-controlling voting shareholder at Alliance Atlantis Communications, and more recently co-founder and executive chairman of film and television financier Aver Media. Development at Mad Rabbit will be led by Elsie Choi, a former development exec for Bruce Willis, whose credits include Fifty Dead Men Walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n Jan David Frouman, the chairman and CEO of Red Arrow Entertainment Group, said: “Kari and Elsie, together with Peter, are exactly what we look for in partners: smart, absurdly talented and thoroughly likable in every way. We think that Mad Rabbit is a great opportunity for both our global scripted business, and our group as a whole.”<\/p>\n Skogland, CEO of Mad Rabbit, added: “I am thrilled to be embarking on this new venture with such a terrific and well respected group. As a woman I am proud to be part of an emerging voice of diversity in the rapidly changing and increasingly exciting world of content production. The launch of Mad Rabbit couldn’t be better timed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has invested in new production company Mad Rabbit, which will specialize in high-end drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[702,703],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-mad-rabbit","tag-red-arrow-entertainment-group","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n