Access Entertainment is a British investment firm specializing in funding production companies, as well as projects in film, television, theatre, and digital media. The company, co-founded and led by Danny Cohen, is a division of Access Industries, a multinational industrialist group owned by Len Blavatnik. Notable films financed include the A24's Beau Is Afraid, The Zone of Interest, The Iron Claw, (all 2023) and Focus Features' Conclave (2024). In 2026 the company co-founded Fireside Access TV to fund and co-produce TV content.
History In late 2015, senior executive Danny Cohen in charge of television output for BBC Television left the company and joined Len Blavatnik's Access Industries. Cohen founded Access Entertainment in May 2016 to invest in the entertainment sector focusing on television and film dramas. By August 2016, Access obtained a first-look deal to develop and finance feature films from Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell's newly formed indie production company, House Productions.
In October 2016, the company entered into a $61.3 million investment deal with BBC Worldwide, allowing scripted shows greenlit by Access to be sold to international markets. In January 2017, Access, BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point jointly founded Benchmark Television, enabling producers to have their television series greenlit without the backing of a network or platform.
In March 2017, Access bought a 24.9% stake in British television production company Bad Wolf. Later in 2021, Sony Pictures Television took a majority stake in Bad Wolf for a reportedly $80 million, acquiring Access's minority shares. In April 2017, Access acquired James Packer's controlling stake in his and Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment company, which gave ownership of RatPac's film, television and documentary business, along with the deal of RatPac-Dune Entertainment venture to co-finance films for Warner Bros. Pictures. A year later, Warner Bros. bought RatPac-Dune Entertainments' film catalogue and its operations.
In 2023, Access began investing in A24 films. In June 2023, Access invested in A24's Euphoria makeup artist Donni Davy's beauty brand Half Magic, inspired from styles popularized by the series . As of March 2025, Access and Warner Bros. Discovery collectively hold a 26% stake in Israeli broadcaster Reshet 13.
Fireside Access TV In April 2026, Toby Emmerich, former head of Warner Bros. Pictures, said in an interview that he was shifting his focus to television, expanding his production company Fireside Films into TV development and forming a partnership with Access. Emmerich and former Netflix executive producer Amanda Krentzman formed Fireside Access TV, a production company backed by Access Entertainment that co-finances, developments and produces TV series. The company's first project to back was the 2025 Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen.
Credits Film + YearTitleDistributorExecutive producedGross 2018 The 15:17 to Paris Warner Bros. Pictures $57.1 million Rampage Warner Bros. Pictures $428 million 2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League HBO Max 2023 Beau Is Afraid A24 $12.3 million The Zone of Interest A24 $52.8 million The Iron Claw A24 $45.2 million A Kind of Kidnapping Bulldog Film Distribution 2024 MaXXXine A24 $22.1 million Bird Mubi $1.9 million Conclave Focus Features $127.6 million Starve Acre Brainstorm Media $160,498(limited) 2025 The Last Musician of Auschwitz Cosmic Cat Films The Legend of Ochi A24 $3.7 million Materialists A24 $106.5 million Eddington A24 $13.1 million 2026 The Deb Rialto Distribution $239,640 Mother Mary A24 $3.1 million
Upcoming + YearTitleDistributorExecutive produced 2026 Our Loves Young Stalin Sweetsick Searchlight Pictures
Television Red Skies (2023; Reshet 13)
Theatre A View from the Bridge (2024; Theatre Royal Haymarket) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2025; Broadway) The Deep Blue Sea (2025; Theatre Royal Haymarket) High Noon (2025–2026; Harold Pinter Theatre) Grace Pervades (2026; Theatre Royal Haymarket) Game of Thrones: The Mad King (2026; Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
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