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Schwalbe launches production financer
Former DreamWorks Animation exec Doug Schwalbe has launched a boutique firm which specialises in the finance and distribution of high-end international productions.
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The Co-Production Company has already scored backing from France’s Superprod Group and formed partnerships with companies including Pukeko Pictures in New Zealand, August Media in Singapore, Chatrone in Brazil, Anima Estudios in Mexico and DreamWorks Animation Television.
Deals have also been secured with Hannah Montana creator Michael Poryes to develop international programming, and UK private equity firm Impact X Capital for African-inspired shows with creator Roye Okupe’s YouNeek Studios including Iyanu, Child of Wonder from Dark Horse Comics.
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He dreamed of creating his own African superhero universe - now it s finally paying off
David Betancourt, The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2021
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Roye Okupe dreamed of creating an African superhero universe.
He discovered superheroes from Transformers and X-Men cartoons while growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. He arrived in the United States in 2002 at the age of 17, the same year Sam Raimi s first Spider-Man movie broke records at the box office and made superheroes a mainstay in theaters.
By the time he graduated from George Washington University with a degree in computer science (while also studying animation at the Art Institute of Washington), Okupe was shopping around an 8-minute animated trailer for an African superhero. Years before Black Panther would go on to make a billion dollars at the box office, Okupe received little interest from the TV world. One producer told him his ideas might work if he changed the race of his heroes.