EXCLUSIVE: Adam Barth has left his position as Director of Co-Productions, Growth and Acquisitions at European distributor Eccho Rights and its dad or mum Night Train Media.
We’ve received phrase of the information lower than every week forward of MIPCOM Cannes, the place Eccho Rights can be purchasing Safe Harbor, the buzzy crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams. Barth will stay as an exec producer on the present.
Barth has been with Eccho Rights since 2021, having joined after exiting NENT Studios UK (aka DRG), the place he was SVP for EMEA. Additional again, he labored at New Media Imaginative and prescient, performing as an government producer on worldwide codecs diversifications of exhibits similar to NBC procedural Mysteries of Laura.
Eccho confirmed his departure to Deadline this week.
At Eccho, he has labored on exhibits similar to Sundance and Virgin Media drama Vanishing Triangle and BBC drama Granite Harbour. He has labored as an exec producer on Secure Harbor, which we first told you about in November final 12 months.
The present, which is for streamers in The Netherlands and Belgium, follows a gifted hacker and his formidable finest buddy, who’re intent on cracking into the tech billionaires membership. They’re plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organised crime after they cross paths with the Irish mob. Main the household’s operations in Holland are Sloane (Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Gleeson), who enlist their companies to hack into the safety system of Rotterdam harbour — Europe’s largest delivery port — to safe undetected drug shipments. Alfie Allen, Jack Gleeson, Charlie Murphy, Martijn Lakemeier and Colm Meaney star.
There can be a screening of the present, which is from Williams’ Zero Gravity and Submarine, subsequent week at MIPCOM. Stars from the sequence can be in attendance.
Eccho is a part of Germany-based Night time Prepare Media, which has grow to be a significant manufacturing, distribution and content material financier out of Europe. Moreover buying Eccho from CJ ENM in 2022, it has achieved offers for Chess Masters indie Curve Media and one other UK-based distributor, BossaNova. It has upcoming exhibits together with The Inheritance and The Ex-Spouse Season 2, and is named a key distributor of Turkish dramas.
