{"id":8962,"date":"2016-07-20T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/red-arrow-picks-up-majority-stake-in-wahlburgers-producer\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:31:17","slug":"red-arrow-picks-up-majority-stake-in-wahlburgers-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/red-arrow-picks-up-majority-stake-in-wahlburgers-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Arrow Picks Up Majority Stake in Wahlburgers Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH\/LOS ANGELES: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has purchased a 65-percent stake in the U.S.-based production company 44 Blue Productions.<\/p>\n<p>44 Blue specializes in non-scripted productions, with a focus on docuseries, factual entertainment, celeb-reality, lifestyle and action-adventure programming. Its credits include <em>Wahlburgers<\/em>, <em>Nightwatch<\/em>, <em>Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry<\/em> and <em>Pit Bulls &amp; Parolees<\/em>. As part of the acquisition of 44 Blue, Red Arrow will also gain access to Ovrture, the virtual reality studio launched in 2015 to produce 360-degree and immersive content for broadcasters. Red Arrow International will distribute the company\u2019s programs internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Frouman, the chairman and CEO of Red Arrow Entertainment Group, said: \u201cRasha and Stephanie have over 40 years of combined production experience and have established a first-rate and highly respected team. Working together with 44 Blue is a great opportunity for Red Arrow to partner with a dynamic, successful and highly collaborative company. This partnership offers us expanded access to A-list talent and premium factual and reality TV content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Red Arrow immediately unlocks global distribution and access to the kind of scale that will allow us to leverage our formats and expand our storytelling to new audiences around the world,\u201d said Rasha Drachkovitch, co-founder and CEO of 44 Blue Productions. \u201cThe combination of our loyal and talented team, our deep network and talent relationships, and Red Arrow\u2019s global reach represents virtually limitless opportunities to create and distribute our best work yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been consistently impressed by Red Arrow for quite some time, and couldn\u2019t have asked for a better strategic partner. They recognize and appreciate the intense commitment that the 44 Blue team brings to each of our projects,\u201d added Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch, co-founder and president of 44 Blue Productions. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to continuing to create top-notch content with one of the industry\u2019s global leaders and accelerate our innovation in areas such as digital and virtual reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH\/LOS ANGELES: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has purchased a 65-percent stake in the U.S.-based production company 44 Blue Productions.<\/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":[69],"tags":[1334,634],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-44-blue-productions","tag-red-arrow-entertainment-group","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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