Steve Jaggi Firm Inks Movie, TV Slate Deal With Properly Leisure

Australia’s The Steve Jaggi Firm and the Los Angeles-based Properly Leisure have hatched a pact to develop and produce a major slate of movie and TV sequence.

“A Royal in Paradise,” the third film collaboration between the 2 companions and the primary beneath the brand new deal, began manufacturing this week in Australia’s Queensland.

Beforehand, the 2 collaborated on younger grownup sequence “Dive Membership” and romantic characteristic “This Little Love of Mine,” which claimed to be the primary Australian movie into manufacturing in the course of the world pandemic. Each productions have been bought to Netflix.

The brand new deal requires them to develop a minimal of six new TV tasks, together with each dramas and YA sequence, and two to a few new motion pictures per 12 months.

Starring Rhiannon Fish (“The 100,” “Residence and Away”) and Mitchell Bourke (“The Household Legislation”), “A Royal in Paradise” is directed by Adrian Powers (“Forbidden Floor”) from a script by Powers and Caera Bradshaw (“Dive Membership”).

The story entails a New York author (Fish) and a prince (Bourke) discovering friendship and extra at a marine conservation fundraiser in Australia’s Haven Isles.

Along with the brand new deal, Properly Leisure will even be dealing with world gross sales and distribution of the Big Display screen 8k HDR household pleasant documentary “Past the Reef,” produced by The Steve Jaggi Firm and In Three Manufacturing. The image showcases Australia’s Nice Barrier Reef and its biodiversity in a enjoyable and pacy presentation aimed toward tween audiences. It’s hosted and narrated by actor and social media influencer Shuang Hu and can be launched to the worldwide market later this 12 months.

“The Steve Jaggi Firm has discovered its candy spot working throughout each the younger grownup and romance genres, and it has been rewarding to see our tasks attain Netflix’s high 10 in so many territories all over the world,” stated founder Stave Jaggi. “We’re spoilt for alternative right here in Australia in the case of expertise and places, and we’re trying ahead to persevering with our profitable working relationship with the group at Properly.”

Properly was based in 2020 and is headed by Vanessa Shapiro, earlier president of worldwide TV distribution & co-productions at Gaumont. Her firm brings to market greater than 15 new motion pictures annually and has delivered a dozen new motion pictures on Lifetime, together with “A Very Charming Christmas City,” “Lonestar Christmas,” “The Christmas Itemizing” and “Christmas on the Menu.”

Properly can be the worldwide distributor on a brand new 2022 Australian-made Netflix household sequence “Gymnastics Academy: A Second Likelihood!,” created by Clay Glenn.