Boat Rocker has acquired a minority fairness stake in TeaTime Footage, based by Dakota Johnson and former Netflix government Ro Donnelly, which has had a first-look cope with the Canadian TV studio since 2019. Below the settlement, Boat Rocker will lengthen its present first-look cope with TeaTime to develop and produce scripted and unscripted tv and digital content material.
Katie O’Connell Marsh is stepping down as Vice-Chair of Boat Rocker efficient January 2022 and might be becoming a member of TeaTime as a accomplice. Moreover, O’Connell Marsh has signed an general cope with Boat Rocker to deal with including scripted initiatives to the studio’s roster.
“Dakota and Ro are constructing TeaTime right into a cultural platform with large artistic and business promise. The addition of Katie’s expertise and acumen to this rising enterprise will undoubtedly supercharge TeaTime’s current strong slate and ambitions,” stated David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, Co-Government Chairmen, Boat Rocker Media and Co-Chairmen, Boat Rocker Studios, including that the corporate is “actively exploring making comparable offers with main creators.”
Below the first-look cope with Boat Rocker, the studio optioned the memoir Cult Following by author Bexy Cameron, with Johnson hooked up to star and TeaTime set to government produce. Following the fairness funding, TeaTime will proceed working as an unbiased enterprise, with Boat Rocker offering capital, in addition to enterprise and strategic assist.
“Boat Rocker’s perception and funding in us and our future is humbling and provoking,” Johnson and Donnelly stated. “As an organization that was based purely on ambition, huge goals, and our shared love of movie and tv, Ro and I couldn’t be extra excited to accomplice with Katie O’Connell Marsh, whose knowledge and experience are important to our rising model.”
Below her new general cope with Boat Rocker, O’Connell Marsh will proceed to be an government producer on the studio’s present slate of scripted initiatives whereas additionally growing new initiatives.
“Becoming a member of Dakota and Ro to proceed to construct on their unbelievable imaginative and prescient for TeaTime is a dream come true,” O’Connell Marsh stated. “I’m grateful to Dave and Ivan and everybody at Boat Rocker for believing and investing in us as we take TeaTime to the following stage.”
O’Connell Marsh, who was Chairman and CEO of Platform One Media, was named Vice-Chair of Boat Rocker Studios following Boat Rocker’s acquisition and rebranding of Platform One.
TeaTime’s function movies, Cha Cha Actual Clean and Am I OK? have been chosen to premiere on the Sundance Movie Pageant. Moreover, TeaTime is producing Daddio, with Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn hooked up to star, and Christy Corridor on board to put in writing and direct.
Boat Rocker’s slate of scripted, unscripted, and children & household productions embody American Rust for Showtime, Invasion, Pricey… and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, all for Apple TV+, Go-Huge Present for TBS, and Dino Ranch for Disney+. The corporate has first-look offers with Lena Headey’s Peephole Productions, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Maroon Visions, Stephanie Langhoff’s Excessive Tide Productions, and Shamier Anderson & Stephan James’ Bay Mills Studios.