“Ginny & Georgia” government producer Holly A. Hines has teamed up with the previous Eric Jarboe, former COO of the Movement Image Company of America (MPCA), to launch the brand new movie and tv studio primarily based in Los Angeles, Joyful Accidents.
The studio will work with worldwide companions to supply and distribute a variety of unique content material together with characteristic movies, scripted and unscripted collection, documentaries and codecs. Joyful Accidents may also distribute third-party content material internationally.
Hines and Jarboe might be co-CEOs, managing each the inventive and monetary sides, and have already constructed a gross sales group that features GRB Studios alum Sarah Coursey and Tyler Massey, previously of Eyeworks Distribution.
Along with “Ginny & Georgia”, Hines was behind the US-Australian co-productions “Please Like Me” and “Fortitude” and was a producer on “The Workplace”, “Ugly Betty” and “The Tudors”. He beforehand labored for Spotify Studios as head of community improvement, in addition to finishing stints at Pivot and Fremantle North America.
In the meantime, Jarboe has produced greater than 130 movies and 125 scripted tv episodes. Manufacturing credit embrace the directorial debuts of Mariah Carey and Courtney Cox, in addition to the primary Netflix unique Christmas films.
“I’m thrilled to companion with Eric to launch our new studio, Joyful Accidents,” stated Hines. “Joyful Accidents is our imaginative and prescient of a twenty first century studio and celebrates the confluence of nice expertise, deep expertise and widespread attain in an more and more international market.”
Jarboe stated: “Producers of this period of content material have the potential to form the storytelling panorama for years to return and Joyful Accidents signifies a strategic convergence of expertise, imaginative and prescient and keenness from all corners of the leisure trade. Holly and I concentrate on international collaboration, partnerships, revolutionary financing fashions and the best high quality manufacturing requirements. “I couldn’t think about a extra formidable partnership.”
Joyful Accidents launches in TV MIPthe place Hines and Jarboe will arrive with their first slates from Syrup Studios and Important Content material, together with Christmas films, mysteries and exhibits like “Storage Hunters.”