EXCLUSIVE: Irish producer Playhouse Studios has bought the assets of Halo Post and will launch its own post house as a result.
The deal for Halo comes after Mojo Bridge, the parent company that housed the famed Soho post house, went into administration in December 2025. Financial terms of the deal weren’t revealed, but it includes the acquisition of Halo’s Noel Street facility in Soho.
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.
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Playhouse, based in Dublin, operates development, financing, and production and has been building out its post-production assets. The company is led by co-founders Peggy Cafferty, who is CEO and Lorcan Kavanagh, who is CIO. Deepak Sikka as Group CFO.
Mark Foligno, who has been heading up the LipSync business, will lead the new company, which will sit within Playhouse’s studio infrastructure, as CEO. LipSync’s credits included The Brutalist, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and The Salt Path.
Halo launched 22 years ago and became one 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 Mojo 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.”
We asked if Playhouse plans to retain or re-employ Halo staff, but a Playhouse spokesman said it was too early to confirm plans.
“Playhouse Post is not able to share more information about staffing currently,” he said. “The recent deal has been focused on the acquisition of Halo Post’s property and assets. The wider Playhouse Post management team is still being built and further news will be announced once the team structure is finalised.”
Focus Capital Partners Ireland is the corporate finance adviser and fundraising partner to Playhouse Group.
