EXCLUSIVE: Irish producer Playhouse Studios has bought the assets and Noel Street facility of Halo Post and will soon launch its own post house as a result.
The deal, financial terms of which weren’t revealed, for Halo comes after Mojo Bridge, the parent company that housed the famed Soho post house, went into administration in December 2025. Halo is known for work on the likes of Poor Things, Polite Society, Bookish and We Are Lady Parts.
Playhouse plans to merge Halo’s assets with those of the assets of another British post house that went into administration, LipSync, to launch Playhouse Post. Noel Street is receiving an “ongoing extensive refurbishment” this summer and create a unified operation.
Mark Foligno, who has been heading up the LipSync business, will lead the new company, which will sit within Playhouse’s studio infrastructure also including production and content financing. LipSync’s credits included The Brutalist, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and The Salt Path.
Halo launched 22 years ago and became of the UK’s top post houses, battling it out with the likes of LipSync, MPC and Framestore for Hollywood business. Its parent, Mojo Bridge, bought rival Evolutions in 2024 before itself being acquired by another post house, Envy, a year later.
With financial pressures and the global production downturn that followed Covid putting paid to many players in the post game, Envy took a strategic review of Moho Bridge and decided to close late last year. Insolvency firm Oury Clark then took on the assets and began looking for a buyer.
Playhouse claims its new-look studio will offer services ranging from picture finishing, sound, VFX, colour grading, online editing and delivery from its Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision facilities, which are being framed as the heart of the operation. This comprises a 17-seat screening and finishing theater environment.
“The addition of Halo Post to LipSync represents an important step in the continued growth of our post-production and VFX production arm, Playhouse Post,” said Foligno. “The team has an outstanding reputation for creative excellence and technical expertise, and together we are building a high-end post-production offering that is equipped to support projects of every scale.”
Focus Capital Partners Ireland are the Corporate Finance Advisers and Fundraising partners to Playhouse Group.
