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EXCLUSIVE: ICS Nordic, nan Finland-based accumulation location of Ilkka Hynninen and Ilkka Rahkonen, is pushing into nan unrecorded drama space.
The company, which is down nan Anne Watanabe-starring Blood & Sweat, has hired unrecorded drama events master Ilona Puttonen successful nan domiciled of Talent and Operations Executive, and signed a business woody pinch Ismo Leikola, Finland’s apical world comedian.
Puttonen, who has 17 years’ acquisition successful nan civilization and unrecorded events world, will spearhead a push into nan unrecorded space, which is portion of ICS’s scheme to create cross-platform concepts that harvester unrecorded experiences pinch movie and TV content. She will attraction connected creator collabs, operational development, partner networks and caller business.
“In nan future, we are seeing clear expanding synergy betwixt film, television, and unrecorded events,” said Puttonen. “Our extremity is to create innovative concepts wherever different types of contented support 1 different to create unsocial experiences for audiences and partners.”
The woody pinch Leikola plays into nan strategy and deepens his business pinch ICS. The brace antecedently produced characteristic movie Ismo – Breaking Bad English, which had a theatrical merchandise and broadcasted connected HBO successful nan Nordics and nan Baltic region, on pinch trading internationally into nan likes of Australia.
Leikola precocious sold retired nan Nokia Arena successful Finland, marking nan largest stand-up assemblage successful nan country’s history. He is group to embark connected a European tour, and ICS represents him successful Finland connected each business related to unrecorded events, partnerships and audiovisual contented wrong nan territory of his tour.
“It’s breathtaking to return nan adjacent steps pinch ICS Nordic,” said Leikola. “We stock nan aforesaid ambition to build drama that travels internationally while still staying existent to its roots.”
“This is simply a earthy adjacent measurement successful building a modern, internationally oriented contented institution – nan strengthened business reinforces each of our positions arsenic world players and opens caller opportunities for film, television, and globally scalable drama formats,” said ICS’s co-founders successful a statement.
“More broadly, ICS sees intelligence spot arsenic a wider beingness from which different kinds of content, experiences, and business opportunities tin beryllium built. From our perspective, this move is simply a earthy strategical hold of that thinking. That is precisely why Ilona’s presence is important — she brings heavy applicable acquisition from nan civilization and events assemblage and strengthens this capacity significantly.”
For Tampere-based ICS, nan news comes a period aft it hired caller development, production, finance and ineligible and business affairs execs, and 3 months aft we reported nan institution had teamed pinch Sherlock & Daughter creator Brendan Foley connected Operation: Arctic Fox, a TV adjustment of a book by journalist and erstwhile service officer Helena Immonen.
