It seems Thomas Benski’s new enterprise Lumina Media has acquired a notable stake in Benedict Cumberbatch‘s manufacturing outfit SunnyMarch, based on paperwork filed within the U.Ok.
Cumberbatch launched SunnyMarch with good friend and producer Adam Ackland in 2013 and so they have since made quite a lot of movies and TV tasks, together with “The Factor with Feathers,” which stars Cumberbatch as a grieving father, and comedy-drama “The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain,” additionally that includes the actor.
Paperwork filed at U.Ok. enterprise registrar Firms Home late final month present that Ackland, who beforehand owned greater than 75% of SunnyMarch Group Restricted, now not has “vital management” of the corporate. He has been changed by the Benski-controlled Lumina Studios Group, which now owns between 25% and 50% of the shares. Ackland stays the only real director of the corporate nonetheless.
Cumberbatch and Ackland have additionally each ceased to be vital house owners of SunnyMarch Holdings Restricted in favor of Sunnymarch Group Restricted however they continue to be administrators of the corporate alongside Anton CEO Sebastien Raybaud, to whom they bought a minority stake in 2021. Two costs Anton had registered in opposition to one other subsidiary, SunnyMarch Restricted, which can also be owned by SunnyMarch Holdings, had been paid off across the identical time Lumina took on vital management of the corporate.
Cumberbatch just lately set out his imaginative and prescient for SunnyMarch, saying it’s centered on “character-driven” movies with budgets of between £9 million and £20 million, though he acknowledged it’s “more and more onerous” to get films with such small budgets made. “Our USP is to attempt to match high quality with commerciality that understands the sort of movies that we beloved rising up watching,” he advised Display screen.
Lumina, which publicly launched final yr and is backed by quite a lot of buyers together with Magnus Rausing, Charles Dorfman and Philip Van Sandwijk, has already partnered with Omar Sy’s Carrousel Studios and Yann Demange’s Wayward Movies.
Selection has contacted Lumina and SunnyMarch for remark.
