The Splendid Group

Founded in 1974 as a sole proprietorship "Splendid" by Albert E. Klein, the company has undergone far-reaching development over the decades and developed into the Splendid Group in its present form. The operating subsidiaries have significant market positions in their areas and with the necessary medium-sized entrepreneurial spirit, the Group has managed in recent decades to reinvent itself again and again and adapt to market conditions.
8 Group companies
Amsterdamned IIHighest-grossing theatrical release 2025
1,800+films and series in the Program of the Splendid Group
Jahrhundertfrauen OT: „20th Century Women“
128employees in the Splendid Group

The value-added chain for feature films

We are a broad-based, innovative media group and cover all evaluation stages of film marketing. In addition, we provide services (digitization, content management and synchronization) for our customers from the film and television industry.

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1-8
Cinema

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4-40
Pay per View, TVoD/EST, Blu-ray, DVD

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10-40
Pay-TV, SVoD

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22-40
Free-TV

Governing bodies

Executive Board

Andreas R. Klein

joined Splendid Film, which was founded by his father Albert E. Klein in 1974, in 1980. He built up and expanded the home entertainment and post-production divisions in particular and founded the group companies Splendid Synchron, Enteractive and Splendid Entertainment. Andreas R. Klein is a producer and co-producer of internationally successful feature films, including the four-time Oscar-winning Steven Soderbergh thriller "Traffic" with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and, together with Meg Ryan, "Desert Saints" with Kiefer Sutherland. As part of the Splendid Group's US commitment, further internationally successful film productions were made, including the Martin Scorsese epic "Gangs of New York" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, "Dr T and the Women" by Robert Altman with Richard Gere and "Lost Heaven" (OT: "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys") by and with Jodie Foster. The award-winning TV productions "James Dean" with James Franco (Golden Globe) and "Victoria & Albert" (Emmy) were also co-financed by the Splendid Group managed by Andreas R. Klein. Andreas R. Klein also acted as producer and executive producer for the German productions "SYSTEMFEHLER - Wenn Inge tanzt" and "MISFIT" as well as for various Dutch cinema productions, including the successful "Slijmfilm" series, and for the international cinema successes "Agent Cody Banks".

Supervisory Board

Hans-Jörg Mellmann

Sandra Münstermann

Arno Füser

Splendid Brands

Segments and value-added stages

Segments and value-added stages

Mia und die Traumzauberer (OT: Dreambuilders)

Content

The Splendid Group acquires license rights to feature films, series, documentaries and other entertainment programs from various genres from mainly foreign producers. In addition, we develop and produce films, together with co-production partners, for exploitation in cinemas, TV and on SVoD platforms (SVoD = subscription video-on-demand = digital subscription offers). The programs are exploited across the entire value chain.

We evaluate selected feature films and documentaries in the cinema. Theatrical distribution in the Netherlands is handled by our own sales company. In Germany, Austria and Belgium, we work with various cooperation partners in what is known as "booking & billing". Through a theatrical release, a film receives increased attention, which usually has a positive effect on marketing in the subsequent exploitation stages.

About four months after the theatrical release, the film is usually exploited in home entertainment. This business segment of the Splendid Group comprises the areas of rental and sales via the Internet (video-on-demand VOD and electronic sell-through EST), as well as the sale and rental of physical visual sound carriers (Blu-ray and DVD).
In the VOD/EST sector, the Splendid Group markets its content via all major Internet platforms as well as via its own portal maxdome. Under the "meinVoD" label, we also make our VOD platform concept available to business customers from various sectors (e.g. telecommunications, industry, trade), offering B2B customers a range of services including content, development, operation and portal management for their end customers.
Splendid distributes its own and third-party programs as a digital service provider and content aggregator. This includes the technical provision and processing of film content for our customers Amazon, Google, Apple, Sky and many other portals.

The Splendid Group's customers include all major streaming providers and TV broadcasters in German-speaking countries and the Benelux countries. We sell the license rights for a contractually agreed period of time or for a contractually agreed number of broadcasts in a given period. The exploitation of the product (film or series) on streaming platforms or on TV begins approximately four to six months after the start of home entertainment exploitation. As a rule, the film is first licensed to pay TV or SVoD (streaming) providers for the so-called "Pay1-Window", usually for twelve months. This is followed by the free TV window, a second pay window or AVoD exploitation ("advertising" VOD, with ad-financed portals instead of subscription models). As an alternative to this model, in special cases there is a "direct to stream" sale, in which the film or series premiere takes place on the same start date as home entertainment (or completely without) at the streaming service or pay TV provider, for a correspondingly higher license price. Once the license agreement expires, the film is available for renewed licensing (subsequent exploitation).

Services

The Splendid Group's service companies produce dubbing and audio post-production work and provide digitization services and content management for VOD and EST marketing on the Internet and for Blu-ray and DVD productions. The in-house dubbing and digitization of films and series not only guarantees a consistently high standard of quality for the company's own film library, but is also in high demand from external customers.

Splendid Synchron was founded in 1989 and is one of the leading service providers in the German dubbing industry. At its two locations in Cologne and Berlin, Splendid Synchron specializes in the production of German-language versions and the editing of series, feature films, and documentaries. The company handles content for all distribution channels: theatrical releases, television, streaming platforms and media libraries, as well as DVD/Blu-ray releases. Its clients include a wide range of international and national producers, distributors, broadcasters, and streaming platforms. The studio facilities at both locations are equipped according to the latest security standards and are closely interconnected, enabling access to the combined creative talent pool of both locations within a single project.

Enteractive is one of the leading service providers in the film and media industry and has been helping rights holders distribute their content for over 25 years. Its range of services includes mastering and quality control of films and series for digital distribution to global streaming platforms and TV broadcasters, the creation of DCPs for theatrical release, the production of physical media, localization with dubbing and subtitles in numerous languages, and the secure archiving of all content. With its proprietary media management platform, TODOS©, Enteractive consolidates all core processes into a single application – from license management and production coordination to the delivery and archiving of video content.