EXCLUSIVE: Recently launched production company Roundtable Entertainment has received minority investment from streaming company Cinedigm.As part of the deal the companies will co-finance and co-own the IP of original films to be distributed domestically on Cinedigm’s OTT networks and on other third-party streaming platforms.The partnership also plans to launch streaming channels together.
Erick Opeka, Cinedigm’s President and Chief Strategy Officer, will be taking a seat on Roundtable’s Board of Directors, joining President and CEO Dominic Ianno, Robert Norton and James Fields of Klingenstein Fields Advisors.The partnership kicks off with a 10-picture, $15M thriller slate, led by All My Friends Are Dead, directed by Kevin Greutert, director and editor on multiple Saw movies.
The film will tell the tale of a group of close college friends who get a great deal on a killer Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year.
A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn for the worse, as the group is murdered one by one. They soon discover that each death directly corresponds to one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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