Wild Bunch (film company)
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| Aktiengesellschaft | |
| Traded as | : WBAG |
| ISIN | DE000A13SXB0 |
| Industry | Motion Pictures |
| Predecessor | Senator Entertainment AG Wild Bunch S.A. |
| Founded |
1979 (as Senator Film Verleih GmbH) 2002 (as Wild Bunch S.A.) |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
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Key people
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Vincent Grimond (CEO) Brahim Chioua (COO) Markus Maximilian Sturm (CFO) Vincent Maraval (CCO) |
| Website | wildbunch |
Wild Bunch AG is a film distribution and international sales company, originally created in 1979 as Senator Film Verleih GmbH, which later became Senator Entertainment AG. The name Wild Bunch comes from the French company Wild Bunch S.A., created in 2002, which became a subsidiary of Senator Entertainment in February 2015. Senator Entertainment AG renamed itself Wild Bunch AG in July 2015. Wild Bunch has distributed and sold films such as Land of the Dead, Southland Tales, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Whatever Works, and Steven Soderbergh's Che, The King's Speech, and The Artist. Wild Bunch is also the international seller of Studio Ghibli's works.
Originally a division of StudioCanal, Wild Bunch S.A. was established as an independent company in 2002 by former employees of StudioCanal.
In July 2014, the German film distributor Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch announced their intention to join forces to launch an independent film distribution and production group. In February 2015, Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch completed their merger. Senator Entertainment AG subsequently renamed themselves to Wild Bunch AG and will use Senator as a brand.
In May 2015, Wild Bunch announce the founding of a new LA-based company Insiders, to handle international sales of independent films. In February 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that a majority stake in this outfit has since been sold to Bliss Media, a Chinese film production and distribution company.
Wild Bunch is a film sales company and also a pan-European film distributor.
In France, Wild Bunch is a theatrical distributor and also a video distributor through its subsidiary Wild Side.
Wild Bunch also positioned itself on the digital distribution market through its VoD/SVoD subsidiary Filmo TV.
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