Deluxe acquires Omnilab Media brands
The Australian arm of international screen service company Deluxe has acquired a number of Omnilab Media’s key creative and media services.
The acquisition includes post houses Iloura, Digital Pictures, Cornerpost, Boffswana and PAX Entertainment to augment into Deluxe’s Australian services.
Omnilab Media will retain Ambience Entertainment, The Playroom, Dubsat, Adsend, The Substation and Oktobor Animation as well as continue to produce screen content.
For Deluxe, the acquisition means an expanded offering of visual effects, design and broadcast post production services in Sydney and Melbourne as well as a life-cycle library management, digital asset management, file-based mastering, archiving, DBD and Blu-ray authoring.
It would be interesting to know if any of the effected companies are going to move in or out of 180 Bank Street.
Hi Chris
At the moment, all companies are staying put, with no mergers announced either.
Colin
– Encore/Mumbrella
What a great result for the Australian Industry, this brings together the Creative Teams that have made some Award winning Vfx Commercials and Films such as Ted, with some of the world best artist.
This should be a big win for Victoria as it will draw in more international work through Deluxes subsidiaries.
Yes, at the moment, but we all know what happens with these mergers.
Rumours have been around the industry for at least 6 months that this was going to happen.
Speaking of Tomorrow When The War Began… I wonder what will happen to this supposed sequel? Last I heard was that a script was being produced for it.
Hey Able… True, key people could leave and setup up smaller more boutiquee type shops, teams don’t gel ……
My guess is that all will be fine.
This is hardly a ‘great result’. Tying up more than half of Australia’s post production resources into one company is only going to reduce competition. I’m surprised that this doesn’t trigger anti-competition measures. It’s a sad day.