ESGC - Mergers and acquisitions

Eros Now, a leading over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX" or "the Company"), a global entertainment company, today, announced that it has expanded its partnership with Airtel, India's premier communications solutions provider, to bring the vast Eros Now OTT content library to Airtel Xstream Premium, a new aggregation oriented video streaming service launched by Airtel. The symbiotic partnership allows Eros Now to expand its reach further by tapping into Airtel's 300+ million customer base across India. Airtel users will get access to Eros Now's rich content of over 12,000 movies, Originals, music, short-form conten

STXfilms Takes Worldwide Rights With May Start for Biopic Academy Award®-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies, Heat) has cast Academy Award® nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Star Wars) and Academy Award® winner Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Enzo and Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants) as Lina Lardi in his highly anticipated film Ferrari. Mann will direct from a script written by Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job) and Mann based on Brock Yates' book Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine. Mann will produce via his Moto Productions banner alongside P.J. van Sandwijk and John Lesher, as well as Lars Sylvest,

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Dec. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SLING TV, the leading provider of international news and entertainment, continues to expand its South Asian offering with the addition of Eros Now, a leading over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX" or "the Company"), a global entertainment company. Eros Now is now available to stream on SLING. SLING TV, the leader in international programming, provides U.S. users with premier content from around the world.SLING's International subscribers have access to Er

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Najafi Companies ("Najafi") today announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire STX Entertainment ("STX Entertainment") from Eros STX Global Corporation ("ErosSTX"). The transaction is expected to close by the end of January 2022. At the closing of the transaction contemplated by the purchase agreement, an affiliate of Najafi will acquire STX Entertainment through the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of a parent entity of STX Entertainment and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ErosST

BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- STXfilms, a division of Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC), announced today the company has entered into a first-look film deal with CrossCheck Studios, the production company founded earlier this year by internet entrepreneurs and mega-influencer Josh Richards and Michael Gruen. The announcement was made today by Adam Fogelson, chairman, STXfilms Motion Picture Group, and by Josh Richards, CEO, Cross Check Studios and Michael Gruen, co-president.. STX will have a first look at all original CrossCheck film development. As their first film collaboration the companies are developing Halloween Party, a new comedy written by Nick Cion & Annie Ha

Fans can watch 30 movies over 30 days starting from 3rd November Eros Now, a leading over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX" or "the Company"), a global entertainment company, is launching a month-long Bollywood Film Festival on Facebook Watch this Diwali. As part of this collaboration, Eros Now will premiere a movie every day from its massive library of over 12,000 Indian films and stream them on Eros Now's Facebook page from 3rd November to 2nd December. The movies will be powered by Mzaalo, a blockchain-based video streaming application in the gamified video and entertainment ecosystem. Eros Now has carefully pic

BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- STXfilms, a division of Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), announced today it has acquired worldwide rights to Bed Rest, a supernatural thriller to star Melissa Barrera (Scream, Carmen, In the Heights) for writer-director Lori Evans Taylor, who will make her directorial debut. The announcement was made by Adam Fogelson, chairman, STXfilms Motion Picture Group. The film, which will be produced by William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein through their Project X banner, along with Evans Taylor and Barrer

Services to share windows throughout the term of the innovative deal. Film to premiere on Peacock September 15, 2021. STXfilms, a division of Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), has reached deals with Peacock and Roku® to debut the highly anticipated missing-person thriller My Son, starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy. The film, an English-language remake of the hit French thriller, is directed by Christian Carion, who also directed the French film. The announcement was made today by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of the STXfilms Motion Picture Group. As part of the innovative deal, the partnership will allow both services to share windows throughout the term. The windows fo

Eros STX Global Corporation ("ErosSTX" or the "Company") issued on March 31, 2021 its unaudited consolidated income statement and balance sheet as of and for the six months ended September 30, 2020, in accordance with the New York Stock Exchange semi-annual financial statement reporting requirement for foreign private issuers. It also announced that to supplement that required submission, it would file full unaudited consolidated financial statements for that same period by April 30, 2021. The Company will not be making this supplemental filing as previously announced. Alternatively, the Company intends to file its audited annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and BURBANK, Calif., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), a global entertainment company, announced today that STXfilms has acquired the rights to Thunder Road and game1's sports drama National Champions, which is set to star Golden Globe nominee Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk, 21 Bridges) and Academy Award® winner J. K. Simmons (Whiplash, Justice League), it was announced today by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of the STXfilms Motion Picture Group. Written by Adam Mervis and based on his play of the same

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and BURBANK, Calif., April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), a global entertainment company, announced today that STXfilms has signed F. Gary Gray to direct Vin Diesel in the action-comedy Muscle. Reginald Hudlin and Byron Phillips are producing alongside Diesel and Samantha Vincent for One Race Films. Gray will also executive produce. Muscle will be Gray's next project. The latest draft is by John Swetnam and Malcolm Spellman. The original script was written by Scott Taylor & Wesley Jermaine Johnson. The film's

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and BURBANK, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), a global entertainment company, announced today that STXfilms has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Black Bear Pictures and Anonymous Content's psychological thriller The Marsh King's Daughter, starring Daisy Ridley, directed by Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist, Voyagers) and written by Elle Smith & Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Midnight Sky), adapted from Karen Dionne's best-selling novel of the same name. The film is produced by Black Bear Pictures' Teddy Schwarzman (The Imitation Game, I Care a Lot), Anonymous Content's Keith Redmon (The Revenant, Midn

Eros STX Global Corporation ("ErosSTX" or the "Company") (NYSE:ESGC), a global entertainment company, is pleased to announce today that it has reached a settlement favorably resolving all matters with Manuel P. Asensio, Asensio & Company, Inc., and Mill Rock Advisors, Inc. As previously disclosed, on September 29, 2017, Eros International Plc, a predecessor of ErosSTX, filed a lawsuit in New York state court against Mr. Asensio, a well-known short-seller, and several of his companies in connection with statements that Mr. Asensio made or caused to be made that were critical of Eros. Mr. Asensio states, "The five-year-old statements are in the past and have no applicability to the existing

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and BURBANK, Calif., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), a global entertainment company, announced today that the studio has acquired from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance rights to release Universe's Most Wanted, the upcoming sci-fi adventure starring Dave Bautista, in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. The announcement was jointly made today by Adam Fogelson, chairman, STXfilms Motion Picture Group, and Stuart Ford, chairman, AGC studios. Brad Peyton (Rampage, San Andreas), whose feature fil

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: ESGC) (“ErosSTX”), a global entertainment company, announced today that Eros Now, a leading digital OTT South Asian entertainment platform owned by ErosSTX, has collaborated with Google Cloud to use its Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for streaming the entire range of Eros Now movies and originals with automated subtitles. With this initiative, Eros Now becomes the first streaming service globally to automate this previously manual and demanding workflow with the help of Google Cloud technologies. With the use of AI frameworks and vast amount of pre-existing data, Eros Now’s in-house Data Science team simu

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: ESGC) (“ErosSTX” or the “Company”), a global entertainment company, and Amazon Prime Video announced today they have closed a multi-year first window output deal in the Nordics effective immediately. This deal expands on the existing multi-territory output partnership the two companies signed in the UK, France and Italy in 2020. SF Studios will continue to manage the theatrical release of the majority of STX films in the Nordics with Amazon Prime Video to distribute in the Pay 1 window across the region in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. As recently announced, SF Studios and STX ext

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros Now, the over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: ESGC), a Global Entertainment Company, today announced multiple marketing partnerships with leading consumer brands in the Middle East to enhance audiences' online video streaming experience. The new partnerships include: Emirates NBD and National Bank of Fujairah; Fazaa, a social initiative that aims to develop social interdependence and maintain effective bonds of solidarity within the UAE community; 6thStreet, a retailer of High Street fashion brands for women, men and kids; and Emax, one of the largest electronics retailers in the UAE. C

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros Now, a leading South Asian streaming entertainment service owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: ESGC), a global entertainment company, announced today that STX films’ ‘Greenland’ will be available exclusively in India on the Eros Now platform starting in March 2021. With this exciting announcement, Eros Now also expands its content strategy with the launch of a new offering called ‘First Day, First Show’. ‘First Day, First Show’ is a Premium Video On-Demand (PVOD) offering which will offer premium film content to Eros Now subscribers in India at an additional cost of INR. 149 per film. The hit action movie Greenland starring Gerard Butler

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros Now, a leading South Asian streaming entertainment service owned by Eros STX Global Corporation (NYSE: EROS), a Global Entertainment Company, has made its content available through Eros Now Select for Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, and other platforms in 11 new countries. After its successful launch in the US, Canada and India, Eros Now Select is now available to customers in significant overseas markets, such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Cambodia, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan. The global demand for Bollywood movies and Indian origi