Erik Feig, the previous Lionsgate co-president and present CEO of Picturestart, is embarking on a brand new enterprise enterprise with the assistance of Saudi Arabia and Japan.
In response to a brand new report from Puck, the movie producer is about to launch a brand new impartial studio, referred to as Enviornment SNK Studios — tackling all the things from films to tv to stay occasions.
Per the outlet, Feig’s new studio has been backed to the tune of $1 billion by MiSK Group — a fund that’s management by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia — SNK, a Japanese gaming firm (which can be owned by MiSK) and MBC Group, a media and leisure conglomerate that can be managed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund.
A person with information of the deal confirmed the information to TheWrap.
Whereas the Saudis have invested in leisure enterprises earlier than — together with Reside Nation, LIV Golf, Activision Blizzard, and so on. — Enviornment SNK Studios will reportedly be their largest funding in a standard leisure studio to-date.
The timing for this announcement comes on the heels of one other Saudi-Hollywood collaboration, which appeared to divide the leisure trade. We’re, in fact, referring to the Riyadh Comedy Pageant, which noticed the likes of Aziz Ansari, Invoice Burr, Louis C.Ok., Pete Davidson, Jimmy Carr, Jessica Kirson and Whitney Cummings carry out within the capital of Saudi Arabia — regardless of the nation being recognized for censorship.
David Cross was one of many occasion’s most outspoken critics, noting he was “disgusted, and deeply disenchanted on this complete gross factor.”
Ansari, Burr, C.Ok. and Cummings have all doubled down on their determination to take part, arguing it was higher to interact with the folks of Riyadh quite than isolate them.
