In a serious German movie and TV trade shakeup, Vuelta Germany CEO Al Munteanu – who not too long ago accomplished the merger of the pan-European studio’s German models – is stepping down to deal with manufacturing. Munteanu will hand the reins to Dirk Schweitzer, who’s stepping down as head of German studio MMC.

Schweitzer, who prior to becoming a member of MMC held senior positions at a number of German media teams — together with being CEO of German producer/distributor Splendid Media and managing director of Tele-München Group — will lead Velta Germany in an interim function, in accordance to an announcement.

Munteanu has been instrumental to the combination course of of Vuelta’s SquareOne Leisure, Telepool and EuroVideo models. As half of this merger, Telepoo’s worldwide gross sales arm, World Display screen, has now been folded into Vuelta’s French division Playtime. The Vuelta Germany group additionally closed a brand new reserving and billing take care of Constantin Movie for its intensive slate of theatrical movies. The merged Telepool-SquareOne unit now has a library of greater than 1,000 titles for German-speaking Europe, together with standouts such as “The Imitation Recreation,” “Olympus Has Fallen” and French hit “Intouchables.”

At Vuelta Germany, Muntenau oversaw the manufacturing of an enormous quantity of movie and tv titles, together with “Ironclad,” Netflix’s “Totenfrau” and “Oxen,” which is predicated on the Danish thriller ebook trilogy.

Munteanu will now transition to proudly owning and operating SquareOne Productions, which is being rebranded as BriskPace Studios and can collaborate with Vuelta. He’ll stay a Vuelta shareholder and senior advisor.

BriskPace Studios, which is predicated in Munich and London, has a lineup of movie and TV productions within the pipeline that’s being saved below wraps.

“From the outset, Al was a number one architect of our technique in Germany,” mentioned Vuelta Media Chairman Jerome Levy in an announcement. “Whereas we will miss his management, we embrace his ardour for manufacturing and need him all the very best for his future journey,” he added, additional noting that “given our mixed synergies throughout Europe, we glance ahead to collaborating with him and his group sooner or later.”

Exterior Germany, Vuelta, which is backed by non-public fairness, owns France’s Pan and Playtime, Italy’s Indiana Manufacturing, WW Leisure in Benelux and Scanbox Leisure in Scandinavia, amongst different outfits.