Mob Scene Creative + Productions, an Emmy-nominated and multi-award winning entertainment marketing, advertising, content and production agency for high profile entertainment properties, announced today the majority sale of the company. Through the transaction, co-founder Brian Daly will be exiting the company to pursue new business and creative endeavors. Thomas C. Grane, co-founder, will remain with the company in his role as CEO and retain a significant ownership interest in the company.
Said Daly, “This was a lot of work to put together, but we could not ask for a better situation. The company is getting an infusion of capital from passionate and experienced investors, and we as founders are able to follow our individual passions; Tom with Mob Scene and myself to explore new opportunities.”
Grane will continue to oversee the day-to-day operations and drive the company’s strategic growth. Grane added, “This is an amazing new chapter for the company and I’m incredibly excited about my new partners and our shared vision for the future. Though I will miss having Brian as my partner, I am excited to say that Mob Scene’s leadership otherwise remains intact with Jeff Lamont as president of creative advertising and Jason Groff as executive vice president.”
The transaction was sponsored by Five Crowns Capital and StoneCreek Capital, in partnership with Grane, management and a group of leading private equity investment firms, including Banyan Mezzanine Funds, Diamond State Ventures and Jefferson Capital Partners. “We are very excited about partnering with Tom Grane who will be working closely with our operating partner David Hope, a veteran entertainment industry executive, to leverage off of the company’s unique strengths and to pursue strategic growth opportunities”, said Jeff Schaffer, Five Crown’s managing partner.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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