Gross sales Agent Dutch Options Rebrands Into SKOOP Media

Dutch Options World Leisure (“Mocro Maffia”), an Amsterdam- and LA-based gross sales agent, is rebranding as SKOOP Media.

The corporate, which is popping 10 this 12 months, has been increasing its companies and portfolio of TV, movies and content material throughout all media. Underneath its new model title, SKOOP Media will proceed growing, financing and distributing high-end European drama collection and have movies.

The banner’s portfolio contains greater than 75 characteristic movies and TV drama collection, dispatched throughout two labels, SKOOP Prime and SKOOP Household.

The rebranding received’t have an effect on the management construction of the corporate. Pim van Collem will stay CEO, with Fulko Kuindersma as head of acquisitions and advertising and marketing, Muriel Horvers as controller and Jacqueline Ruinen as advertising and marketing and visitors supervisor. Erika Larson, who is predicated in LA, is becoming a member of the group as worldwide gross sales supervisor.

“The brand new firm title SKOOP Media displays the huge ambitions of our content-driven organisation: to proceed creating and distributing high quality content material for movie and TV, to be loved by audiences the world over,” stated van Collem.

“SKOOP Media stands for distinctive storytelling and high-end European drama,” stated van Collem, who added that the banner’s new title was impressed by his late father, the Dutch movie critic and TV presenter Simon van Collem, who hosted the favored TV present “SimonSkoop” from 1975 to 1989.

“With SKOOP, I need to pay tribute to him and his work and thank him for instilling a love for cinema in a number of generations of Dutch audiences,” the manager continued.

SKOOP Media will make its market debut at this 12 months’s content material markets MipJunior and Mipcom in Cannes, the place it is going to unveil the primary episodes of the Scandinavian thriller crime collection “Evilside” which was ordered by Finnish streaming service Elisa Viihde. The corporate has additionally boarded the Belgian-Dutch horror characteristic “Pan” by award-winning administrators Thomas Vanbrabant and Jasper Vrancken.

The slate contains “Raspberry Hill,” a Finnish horror collection for younger audiences produced by Helsinki-based Soder Movies, and “Victory,” a three-part Czech documentary on a martial arts world champion which is produced by Emmy-winning Prague-based outfit Bionaut.