After Shari Redstone sold Paramount Global to David Ellison’s Skydance in 2024, she chose something unexpected for her next act: Sipur, a growing film and TV studio based out of Israel.
\n\nWhen Redstone joined as chair last year, it supercharged the company, says co-founder Emilio Schenker, who met Redstone two years ago when Paramount picked up the rights to Sipur’s Oct. 7 documentary “We Will Dance Again.” Today he considers her a “dear friend” as well as business partner.
\n\n“Bringing Shari Redstone on board was a game-changer,” Schenker tells Variety, in his first interview with recently-hired president Ludovic Attal, who joins from Amazon MGM Studios. Now Sipur, whose USP is high-end international co-pros on modest budgets, has opened a London office, a natural step for a company Schenker co-founded with investor Gideon Tadmor seven years ago.
\n\nThe plan is to continue making smart investments into a range of international co-pros like Casper Kelly’s feature “Buddy,” popular fare such as “Mirame Asi, El Camino de Noa” starring Noa Kirel, high-end dramas such as “Heart of a Killer” (featuring “Tehran’s” Niv Sultan) and the upcoming Yariv Mozer doc “Blood Brothers,” about rival Iranian and Israeli Olympic judo players who form an unlikely…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/