Lux Vide boss Luca Bernabei is exiting the firm he joined more than three decades ago, with Fremantle upping its 70% stake to 100%.
Bernabei, whose father Ettore Bernabei founded Lux Vide in 1992, joined The Medici and Sandokan producer in 1994 as an associate producer and worked his way up to CEO in 2013. Luca Bernabei’s sister Matilde Bernabei and will remain on the board and become Lux Vide President.
During his tenure, the company became the first in Italy to win an Emmy for Joseph from The Bible Collection and picked up Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for co-produced Coco Chanel. Other big-budget credits include Netflix‘s Medici starring Dustin Hoffman, Richard Madden and Sean Bean, Prime Video’s Leonardo starring Aidan Turner and Devils, the high-stakes financial thriller starring Patrick Dempsey.
Bernabei is exiting as Fremantle ups its stake to 100%. The super-indie took a 70% stake in Lux Vide in 2022, with the founding Bernabei family retaining the remaining 30% at that point.
Bernabei is not the first founder of a Fremantle-backed production outfit to step down this week. On Wednesday, Gaspard de Chavagnac, the co-founder and CEO of Asacha Media Group, revealed he was exiting as Fremantle completed its integration of Death in Paradise producer Asacha.
