Naomi Osaka and LeBron James launch new media firm
Hana Kuma, which implies “flower bear” in Japanese, will produce tales which can be “culturally particular however common to all audiences,” an announcement learn.
James and Maverick Carter’s The SpringHill Firm will, mentioned the assertion, present “important manufacturing, improvement, and strategic assets” to Hana Kuma.
“There was an explosion of creators of shade lastly being geared up with assets and an enormous platform,” Osaka mentioned within the assertion.
“Within the streaming age, content material has a extra world perspective. You’ll be able to see this within the recognition of tv from Asia, Europe, and Latin America that the distinctive may also be common.
“My story is a testomony to that as nicely. I am so excited for what we’re constructing at Hana Kuma. We’ll carry tales to life with this purpose in thoughts: to make distinctive views really feel common and encourage folks alongside the way in which.”
The manufacturing firm is the most recent mission between Osaka, 24, and her long-time agent Stuart Duguid. The pair even have a sports activities company named Evolve, which signed Australian tennis participant Nick Kyrgios on Monday.
