to head Black Bear’s film division. The company has the financial resources to build aggressively to build slates of material and filmmaker-centric content reflected in past pics“We’ve made a strong commitment at a time it’s become more difficult than ever to create content,” Schwarzman told Deadline. “We picked up 10 projects in film and TV in the last six months, some in the development phase and others close to going into production.
Setting Stillman to head TV and Kittay to steer film has given Schwarzman more of an ability to strategically diversify the company into other growth opportunities. “We created Elevation five years ago and have moved that company quickly to be the number one distributor in Canada, releasing 35 films a year with outputs with STX and many others, and a growing co-production business,” Schwarzman said. “And even though consumer behavior is shifting, we’re continuing to look at opportunities in core traditional distribution in areas complementary to what we already have in Canada.