Access Entertainment

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Access Entertainment
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
FoundedMay 2016; 9 years ago (May 2016)
Founders
Headquarters
London, England
,
United Kingdom[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Danny Cohen (president)[1]
Services
ParentAccess Industries
Websiteaccessentertainmentmedia.com

Access Entertainment is a British investment firm specializing in funding production companies, as well as projects in film, theatre, and digital media. The company, co-founded and led by Danny Cohen, is a division of Access Industries, a multinational industrialist group owned by Len Blavatnik. Notable films financed include the A24's Beau Is Afraid, The Zone of Interest, The Iron Claw, (all 2023) and Focus Features' Conclave (2024).

History

In late 2015, senior executive Danny Cohen in charge of television output for BBC Television left the company and joined Len Blavatnik's Access Industries.[3] Cohen founded Access Entertainment in May 2016 to invest in the entertainment sector focusing on television and film dramas.[4] By August 2016, Access obtained a first-look deal to develop and finance feature films from Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell's newly formed indie production company, House Productions.[5]

In October 2016, the company entered into a $61.3 million investment deal with BBC Worldwide, allowing scripted shows greenlit by Access to be sold to international markets.[3] In January 2017, Access, BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point jointly founded Benchmark Television, enabling producers to have their television series greenlit without the backing of a network or platform.[6]

In March 2017, Access bought a 24.9% stake in British television production company Bad Wolf.[7] Later in 2021, Sony Pictures Television took a majority stake in Bad Wolf for a reportedly $80 million, acquiring Access’s minority shares.[8] In April 2017, Access acquired James Packer's controlling stake in his and Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment company, which gave ownership of RatPac's film, television and documentary business, along with the deal of RatPac-Dune Entertainment venture to co-finance films for Warner Bros. Pictures.[9] A year later, Warner Bros. bought RatPac-Dune Entertainments' film catalogue and its operations.[10]

In 2023, Access began investing in A24 films.[11] In June 2023, Access invested in A24's Euphoria makeup artist Donni Davy's beauty brand Half Magic, inspired from styles popularized by the series .[12] As of March 2025, Access and Warner Bros. Discovery collectively hold a 26% stake in Israeli broadcaster Reshet 13.[13]

Credits

Film

List of films
Year Title Distributor Executive produced Gross Ref(s)
2018 The 15:17 to Paris Warner Bros. Pictures No $57.1 million [14][15]
2018 Rampage Warner Bros. Pictures No $428 million [16][17]
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League HBO Max No — [18]
2023 Beau Is Afraid A24 Yes $12.3 million [19][20]
2023 The Zone of Interest A24 Yes $52.8 million [21][22]
2023 The Iron Claw A24 Yes $45.2 million [23][24]
2023 A Kind of Kidnapping Bulldog Film Distribution Cohen only — [25]
2024 MaXXXine A24 Yes $22.1 million [26][27]
2024 Bird Mubi Yes $1.6 million [28][29]
2024 Conclave Focus Features Yes $116.1 million [30][31]
2024 Starve Acre Brainstorm Media Yes $160,498
(limited)		 [32][33]
2025 The Last Musician of Auschwitz Cosmic Cat Films Yes — [34]
2025 The Legend of Ochi A24 Yes $3.5 million [35][36]
2025 Materialists A24 Yes $62 million [37][38]
2025 Eddington A24 Yes $10.5 million [39][40]

Upcoming

List of upcoming films
Year Title Distributor Executive produced Ref(s)
2026 Young Stalin TBA Yes [41]
TBD The Deb TBA Yes[a] [42]
TBD The Match TBA Cohen and Emily Blavatnik produced [43]

Television

Theatre

Notes

  1. ↑ Blavatnik produced through AI Film, while Cohen executive produced through Access. Released at a 2024 film festival only.

References

  1. 1 2 Bano, Tim (18 July 2024). "President of Access Entertainment Danny Cohen". The Stage. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Szalai, Georg (12 May 2016). "Former BBC TV Boss Danny Cohen Joins Len Blavatnik to Launch Access Entertainment". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  3. 1 2 Barraclough, Leo (27 October 2016). "BBC Worldwide Eyes $61.3 Million Drama Deal With Danny Cohen's Access". Variety. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (12 May 2016). "Danny Cohen Resurfaces At Len Blavatnik-Backed Access Entertainment". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 14 January 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Ritman, Alex (8 August 2016). "Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell Launch New U.K. Indie". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (12 January 2017). "BBC Worldwide, Access, Lookout Point Launch Benchmark". Variety. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  7. ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (27 March 2017). "Access Ent Takes Bite Of Bad Wolf; Tom Pullen Joins Dragonfly – Global Briefs". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  8. ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (1 December 2021). "Sony Confirms Acquisition of His Dark Materials Producer Bad Wolf, Buys Out Sky/HBO Minority Stake". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  9. ↑ Szalai, Georg (18 April 2017). "Len Blavatnik's Access Entertainment Buys James Packer's Stake in RatPac". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  10. ↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2 January 2019). "Warner Bros Exercises Matching Rights To Win RatPac Dune Library: $290M-$300M". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  11. ↑ Thomas, Daniel (19 November 2023). "Leonard Blavatnik's entertainment empire plans media acquisition spree". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  12. ↑ Raoti, Priya (27 July 2023). "The Makeup Artist At The Centre of Gen-Z". The Business of Fashion. Archived from the original on 3 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  13. ↑ Vlessing, Etan (17 March 2025). "Len Blavatnik's Access Industries, Warner Bros. Discovery to Sell Controlling Stake in Reshet 13". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  14. ↑ "The 15:17 to Paris (2018)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "The 15:17 to Paris (2018)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  16. ↑ McNary, Dave (3 January 2019). "Warner Bros. Buys RatPac-Dune Library, Including Wonder Woman, Gravity". Variety. Archived from the original on 23 April 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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  18. ↑ "Zack Snyder's Justice League Registration record PA0002285188". U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  19. ↑ Wiseman, Andreas (15 February 2023). "Leonine & A24 Close All Rights Deal For Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid: EFM". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  20. ↑ "Beau is Afraid (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  21. ↑ Goldbart, Max (30 July 2024). "Zone Of Interest Backer Funds BBC Doc On Last Musician Of Auschwitz". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  22. ↑ "The Zone of Interest (2023)". Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  23. ↑ Gonzalez, Umberto (21 September 2023). "A24's The Iron Claw Wrestling Movie Gets SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement". TheWrap. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  24. ↑ "The Iron Claw (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  25. ↑ Film, Bulldog (11 June 2023). "A Kind of Kidnapping". Bulldog Film Distribution. Archived from the original on 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  26. ↑ Rooney, David (26 June 2024). "MaXXXine Review: Mia Goth and Ti West's Slasher Trilogy Wraps With a Torrid Love Letter to '80s Genre Filmmaking". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  27. ↑ "MaXXXine (2024)". Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  28. ↑ Roxborough, Scott (4 June 2024). "Andrea Arnold's Bird Takes Flight With Global Distribution Deals". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 25 August 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  29. ↑ "Bird (2024)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  30. ↑ Tabbara, Mona (7 February 2025). "House execs talk 'Conclave' challenges, BBC relationship and upcoming projects". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 11 February 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  31. ↑ "Conclave (2024)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  32. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (30 October 2023). "Folk Horror Starve Acre, Starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, Sells to Multiple Territories, Including North America". Variety. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  33. ↑ "Starve Acre (2024)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  34. ↑ Goldbart, Max (7 May 2025). "BBC's Last Musician Of Auschwitz Lands Theatrical Release". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  35. ↑ Lowe, Justin (27 January 2025). "The Legend of Ochi Review: A24's Family-Friendly Fantasy Is a Richly Imagined, Gorgeously Designed Throwback". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 11 February 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  36. ↑ "The Legend of Ochi – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  37. ↑ Smart, Jack (18 March 2025). "Dakota Johnson Must Choose Between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in Dramatic Materialists Trailer". People. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  38. ↑ "Materialists – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  39. ↑ Rooney, David (16 May 2025). "Eddington Review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Shoot Blanks in Ari Aster's Neo-Western, Which Confuses Absurdism With Incoherence". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  40. ↑ "Eddington – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  41. ↑ "Production: Géla Babluani to Shoot Young Stalin in Georgia and Romania". Film New Europe Association. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  42. ↑ Ravindran, Manori (24 March 2023). "Rebel Wilson Directing Her First Movie The Deb, An Australian Musical Comedy About a Debutante Ball Set in the Outback". Variety. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  43. ↑ Grobar, Matt (13 May 2025). "Liz Maccie Tapped To Pen Feature Adaptation Of The Match Book On Groundbreaking Tennis Stars Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton; Venus Williams & Serena Williams Among EPs". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  44. ↑ Balaga, Marta (17 March 2023). "Access Entertainment Invests in Israeli Series Red Skies, Co-Created by Euphorias' Ron Leshem (Exclusive)". Variety. Archived from the original on 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  45. ↑ "Dominic West-Led A View From The Bridge Begins Performances in London's West End May 23". Playbill. Archived from the original on 13 November 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  46. ↑ Bamigboye, Baz (10 May 2024). "Breaking Baz: Sarah Snook Signs For 2025 Broadway Run Of Her West End Hit The Picture Of Dorian Gray'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  47. ↑ Wild, Stephi (3 March 2025). "Hadley Fraser and Selina Cadell Join the Cast of The Deep Blue Sea". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 18 March 2025.