Leonine’s Fred Kogel To Be Feted In Zurich; ‘Million Dollar Island’s Talpa Creates Adventure Reality Unit; RTL Accepts Dutch Networks Merger Is Off; Pluto TV Debuts In Australia — Global Briefs
deadline.comLeonine’s Fred Kogel To Be Feted In Zurich Leonine CEO Fred Kogel is to receive the Zurich Film Festival’s Game Changer Award, which has previously gone to executives including Pamela Abdy, Patrick Wachsberger, Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.
The Leonine boss will accept the award during the Zurich Summit industry conference on Sunday, October 1. Prior to setting up German studio Leonine, Kogel served as Head of Entertainment at ZDF and Managing Director of SAT1, where he was responsible for the station’s merger into ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.
He was CEO of Constantin Film AG from 2003 – 2009, working on Oscar nominees including Downfall and The Baader Meinhof Complex. “Fred Kogel has built Leonine from the ground up, a new entertainment company for the digital age that brings together the most exciting artists and successful producers, allowing them to focus on their core strengths while the studio takes care of services such as HR, marketing and sales,” said Zurich Artistic Director Christian Jungen. ‘Million Dollar Island’s Talpa Creates Adventure Reality Unit Talpa, the Dutch unscripted indie behind Million Dollar Island, has launched an entire division dedicated to adventure reality formats.
The John de Mol-owned company drafted in Geraldine Smink and Wim van Dam, both prominent European producers in the genre, to lead the unit.
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