TORONTO – Television, film and digital production company Temple Street Productions is expanding operations after receiving a “significant” capital investment from Fairfax Financial.
The company unveiled the formation of Boat Rocker Media, a global entertainment company that creates, produces and distributes premium content and brands across all platforms. With headquarters in Toronto and offices in New York and Los Angeles, Boat Rocker Media will serve as the parent brand for Temple Street and several new lines of business.
Consolidated under the Boat Rocker umbrella are Boat Rocker Studios, under which Temple Street and other original content creation brands and divisions will live; Boat Rocker Rights, a global content distribution, sales and licensing and team; Boat Rocker Ventures, which will acquire, invest and build consumer-facing entertainment intellectual property and technology; Boat Rocker Brands, which will develop the strategy and execute on global marketing and monetization plans for high-potential entertainment brands; and Boat Rocker Animation, a full service animation studio housed in a newly created 5,000 square foot space at Boat Rocker's Toronto headquarters.
The announcement was made Tuesday by David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, co-executive chairmen of Boat Rocker Media and its CEO John Young.
“We started Temple Street with the singular goal of making great TV, and thanks to an amazing team and some fantastic creative partnerships, we’ve been associated with groundbreaking endeavors of which we’re immensely proud”, said Fortier and Schneeberg, in a statement. “But, the business of Temple Street has grown beyond just the making of television. Boat Rocker marks our company's mission to build a platform for the creation and distribution of world class content of all kinds, with the same core business and creative philosophies we’ve had from the start, but on a much greater scale.”
