After Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, Mediawan joins forces with Reese Witherspoon to buy the Hello Sunshine studio

A new Hollywood conquest for Mediawan. The French audiovisual group is joining forces with American actress and producer Reese Witherspoon to buy the production company Hello Sunshine. This studio, behind the successful series The Morning Show, Big Little Lies and Daisy Jones & the Six, joins the twenty production companies owned by the French giant, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. “Mediawan today takes control of Hello Sunshine and Reese also becomes a minority shareholder in the Mediawan adventure. The money that we co-invest goes into the development of the company and the creation of new IP (intellectual properties, editor’s note),” explains to Figaro Pierre Antoine Capton, co-founder and president of Mediawan, without revealing either the amount or the financial details of the operation.

For Reese Witherspoon, this is a real relaunch of the entrepreneurial adventure, started in 2016 with Seth Rodsky. After creating…