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Kew takes Awesome stake

MIPCOM: Canada’s Kew Media Group (KMG) has revealed its latest acquisition deal, this time taking a stake in a London-based entertainment producer.

Steven Silver

KMG has signed a letter of intent to acquire an undisclosed stake in Jeff Norton’s Awesome Media & Entertainment following last week’s deal for Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights.

Awesome was originally founded around the rights of Norton’s novels but has since moved into developing original material for TV and optioning third party IP. Last year, the company said it would be expanding its slate of kids and family projects with a move into primetime drama.

KMG has acquired 11 production companies in a flurry of activity since its formation little over a year ago, including Content Media Corp and Bristow Global Media. Blue Ice Group co-founder Steven Silver and Alliance Atlantis alum Peter Sussman listed the firm on the Toronto Stock Exchange last year.

Original projects at Awesome include: Woodland, about the search for the missing grandson of a literary icon; Cortex, a high-tech police procedural about human memory hacking; and Expat, a contemporary drama in development with Monumental Television.

Awesome also recently announced the co-development of Stomp School with Cloth Cat Animation, based on Norton and Leo Antolini’s debut picture book.

Elsewhere, Vancouver-based OmniFilm is adapting Norton’s upcoming book, Dino Knights, about a team of teenage knights riding on the backs of dinosaurs.

KMG founder and CEO Steven Silver described Norton as an “amazing talent” who had “generated the most extraordinary slate of content…”

Norton added: “This partnership with KMG gives Awesome the resources to scale up into a world-class, creatively-driven IP and production company.”

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