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Among pandemic success stories, few rival Netflix. Globally, lockdowns have helped push its subscriber rolls to more than 200 million and even better, it recently scored an impressive 35 Academy Award nominations. In the last 12 months its shares are up 49%.
But as giants like Netflix, Amazon and Disney battle at the top for streaming market dominance and Oscars, a little known entertainment company with a schmaltzy name,
Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment, is on a tear, gobbling up lesser known streamers, film distribution and production companies, as its stock climbs higher. In the last 12 months, Chicken Soup’s o-t-c traded shares are up 289% nearly six times as much as Netflix.
New York DJs M.O.S. and Kiss
Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment (CSFTSE)’s US prodco Landmark Studio Group (LSG), known for Nicholas Cage film Willy’s Wonderland, is working on a drama series created by DJ couple Kiss and M.O.S.
With the working title Heartbeat (10×60’), the 10-part series is loosely based on the couple’s rise to fame. It follows two DJs who meet and fall in love at the New York club where they perform, only for their past to haunt their future together.
LSG founder David Ozer exec produces along with Tim Rouhana, and Kiss and M.O.S themselves. Production is expected to begin in the final quarter of this year.