European manufacturing and gross sales studio Vuelta Group is merging subsidiary gross sales arms Movie Constellation and World Display screen right into a single entity known as World Constellation.
Fabien Westerhoff takes government function as Managing Director of the Theatrical movie division bringing collectively the complementary strengths of each corporations, with a strategic market deal with animation, household leisure, and style cinema. Ulrike Schroder, Managing Director of the TV division will head the unique hub for worldwide TV distribution inside VUELTA.
London and Paris-based Movie Constellation was launched throughout Cannes 2016 by gross sales exec Fabien Westerhoff, after stints at WestEnd Movies and HanWay Movies. The corporate additionally created a Paris-based manufacturing arm in 2022.
The corporate has since dealt with the worldwide sale of greater than 40 options together with James Marsh’s Dance First with Gabriel Byrne; Fernando Trueba’s feature-length animation The Shot The Piano Participant, and documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus, with present titles together with Jérémy Comte’s Captive and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive.
Movie Constellation’s 2016 launch was supported with an fairness funding by Paris-based gross sales firm Movies Distribution, which rebranded as Playtime and expanded the scope of its actions additional into financing and manufacturing in 2017.
Playtime was then acquired by the Vuelta Group in 2023. Movie Constellation is amongst three gross sales entities, alongside Brussels-based B For Movie and Berlin and Lyon-based Movies Boutique, working underneath the umbrella of Playtime, which additionally runs its personal gross sales operation.
World Display screen is the worldwide gross sales arm of German manufacturing group Telepool, which Vuelta Group acquired in Could 2024. Its previous gross sales titles have included animation productions The Superb Maurice and Luis and the Aliens, dramas together with The Collini Case and The Convention, Stella – A Life and Lassie – A New Adventure.
Pan-European studio Vuelta brings collectively a community of distribution and manufacturing corporations, together with Pan in France, SquareOne/Telepool in Germany, WW Leisure in Benelux, Indiana Manufacturing and Piper Movie in Italy, Scanbox Leisure in Scandinavia, and Playtime.
