Sony Music Masterworks’ Terrapin Station acquires a majority stake in stay occasion producer Black Ink Presents.
Terrapin Station Leisure, a Sony Music Masterworks firm specializing in family-friendly and brand-oriented stay occasions and administration, has introduced a majority stake within the Los Angeles-based stay occasion manufacturing companies firm Black Ink Presents.
Black Ink Presents, a pacesetter in options for music performances, supplies inventive route, design, and manufacturing administration for concert events, excursions, and different distinctive and immersive occasions in the US. The corporate produces live-to-film exhibits the place a full orchestra performs a movie rating stay, synced with a movie screening or different media.
Beneath the brand new settlement, Black Ink Presents’ CEO John Kinsner, CFO Alek Deva, and COO Mike Kasper will proceed to supervise the corporate’s every day operations whereas working carefully with Jonathan Shank, Founder and CEO of Terrapin Station Leisure, to develop and develop new live-to-film productions and a spread of distinctive stay experiences for IP-based leisure, together with concert events, immersive reveals, and cruise leisure.
“I’ve collaborated with Black Ink on a variety of tasks, and they’re tremendously inventive and future-focused,” says Jonathan Shank. “They’ve robust data of the mental property house, they’ve labored on a spread of progressive tasks, and so they have a ardour for locating new pathways. Their ability set, mixed with Terrapin’s rising IP roster, will give us a stable basis and additional develop our presence in non-traditional leisure.”
“After years of working carefully with Jonathan and his workforce, we couldn’t be extra excited in regards to the alternative to deepen our partnership with Terrapin and the broader Sony Music Masterworks group,” provides John Kinsner. “This subsequent chapter represents an unparalleled alternative for Black Ink to proceed to develop and to construct new stay leisure experiences on the reducing fringe of music, media, and know-how.”
The partnership expands upon a long-running collaboration between Shank and Black Ink Presents, together with Deal or No Deal Reside and The Bob Marley One Love Expertise. Current tasks backed by Black Ink Presents embrace Danny Elfman’s 2022 performances at Coachella and Hollywood Bowl, Get Completely happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration that includes stay singers, a giant band orchestra, and media from The Judy Garland Present, and Disney’s Encanto in Live performance, a large-scale live-to-film occasion.
Previous live-to-film productions embrace occasion screenings of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, the Disney animated movies Magnificence and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, the Elton John-inspired musical Rocketman, Get Out from director Jordan Peele, Chicago, The Batman, The Evil Useless, The Goonies, and Ghostbusters.