Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) is an American multinational film and television production and distribution company. Fifth Season has financed, produced and distributed TV series and films such as Severance, Killing Eve, The Night Manager, Tokyo Vice, Flora and Son, Cha Cha Real Smooth, and The Lost Daughter. Fifth Season is headquartered in West Los Angeles, California, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Miami, Stockholm, Hong Kong, and Colombia.
The company was originally formed by Endeavor Group Holdings in 2017. In January 2022, an 80% majority stake was sold to CJ ENM, part of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group. In December 2023, CJ ENM sold 25% of its ownership stake to Japanese studio Toho.
History
Endeavor Content Endeavor Content was formed in October 2017 from the Endeavor Group's film financing and scripted TV sales units, WME's advisory group for film financiers and content producers, and international sales company Bloom, which continued to operate autonomously until 2018, when it was fully integrated into Endeavor Content.
Sale to CJ ENM and rebranding to Fifth Season In 2021, Endeavor announced its intent to divest Endeavor Content, due to a new franchising deal with the Writers Guild of America that prohibits talent agencies from holding more than a 20% stake in a production company. Implemented as part of a new code of conduct also targeting movie packaging agreements, the WGA had deemed studio ownership by a talent agency to be a conflict of interest.
In November 2021, Endeavor announced an agreement to sell an 80% controlling stake in Endeavor Content's scripted content business to CJ ENM for US$775 million, marking the South Korean conglomerate's largest purchase to-date. Endeavor would keep the company's non-scripted production assets, and Graham Taylor and Chris Rice would remain co-CEOs of the company. The acquisition closed in January 2022.
In September 2022, CJ ENM renamed the studio to Fifth Season, introducing a new mosaic-themed logo. The name is derived from a term in Asian medicine referring to the harvest season.
In December 2023, Japanese studio Toho announced it would acquire a 25% stake in Fifth Season through its American subsidiary Toho International for $225 million. The deal valued the company at $900 million. Taylor and Rice stated that this deal would allow the company to continue expanding its offerings and create opportunities to work with Toho and CJ ENM on both Japanese and global content. In 2026, the company signed a deal with Media Res International for a distributing deal.
Productions
Films Title Year Distributor Book Club 2018 Paramount Pictures The Informer 2019 Warner Bros. Pictures The Peanut Butter Falcon Roadside Attractions Hala Apple TV+ Just Mercy Warner Bros. Pictures Bill & Ted Face the Music 2020 Orion Pictures (through United Artists Releasing) Cherry 2021 Apple Studios Blue Miracle Netflix In the Heights Warner Bros. Pictures Pig Neon The Lost Daughter Netflix Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022 Apple Studios Ambulance Universal Pictures My Best Friend's Exorcism Amazon MGM Studios Maybe I Do 2023 Vertical Entertainment 80 for Brady Paramount Pictures Book Club: The Next Chapter Focus Features Bones of Crows Elevation Pictures Flora and Son Apple Studios Eileen Neon The Long Game 2024 Mucho Mas Media and Bonniedale Entertainment Jim Henson Idea Man Disney+ La cocina Willa Friendship A24 Girl Haunts Boy Fifth Season Nonnas 2025 Netflix A Working Man Amazon MGM Studios Anniversary Lionsgate Films Animals2026 Netflix Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) HBO Documentary Films Old Gold Mountain TBA TBA You Deserve Each Other TBA Amazon MGM Studios Samo Lives TBA TBA A Head Full of Ghosts TBA Lionsgate Nightwatching TBA TBA
Television series Title Years Network Wayne 2019 YouTube Premium Limetown Facebook Watch See 20192022 Apple TV+ Truth Be Told 20192023 The Eddy 2020 Netflix McCartney 3,2,1 2021 Hulu Nine Perfect Strangers 2021present Scenes from a Marriage 2021 HBO Wolf Like Me 20222024 Peacock Severance2022present Apple TV+ Life & Beth 20222024 Hulu Tokyo Vice 20222024 Max Anatomy of a Scandal 2022 Netflix Roar Apple TV+ Surfside Girls The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart 2023 Amazon Prime Video Lady in the Lake 2024 Apple TV+ Omnivore The Last Anniversary 2025 Binge Chief of WarApple TV+ His & Hers 2026Netflix East of Eden The Good Daughter TBA Peacock American Classic TBA MGM+ The Savant TBAApple TV
Distribution Fifth Season globally distributes series including Killing Eve, Wild Cards, The Morning Show, Normal People, and The Night Manager.
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