EXCLUSIVE: Vice Media Group has introduced a brand new artistic construction for its world manufacturing enterprise now dubbed Vice Studios Group, which is able to oversee 5 premium manufacturing entities: Pulse Movies, UnTypical, Vice Studios LatAm, Vice Studios Canada and a information documentary unit. Vice Studios Group might be led by the newly elevated Jamie Corridor in London and Danny Gabai in Los Angeles as Co-Presidents.
The brand new content-studio, which has a distribution catalogue of greater than 1,000 hours, will work with world streamers, linear broadcasters and types around the globe to develop, finance and produce multi-genre, innovative content material. It at the moment has greater than 20 productions filming or in edit throughout the group, together with scripted, non-fiction, information and music documentaries. Moreover, Gabai mentioned that the group has “began manufacturing on a comedic however character-driven documentary in regards to the 1994 World Cup with Jamie Crawford (Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99) connected to direct – one of many a number of initiatives we’re doing with Jamie.”
Talking to Deadline in regards to the new construction, Corridor mentioned: “It looks like we at the moment are at a degree the place we’re in a a lot easier, streamlined construction and that has given us the chance throughout the studio to get some actual readability as to what we’re available in the market. What Danny and I’ve been engaged on is making a construction that basically exemplifies what we’re about. By having Vice Studios Group as our high firm after which the person manufacturers beneath, I believe that provides an actual readability to the market as to what every completely different label does.”
Gabai added: “What we actually realized as we began to delve into the completely different teams that had shaped inside our bigger studios group of the final 12 years was that it was actually 5 corporations with one model – and that was a really key factor for us. There have been completely different teams that had come collectively both by way of acquisitions or partnerships by way of rising considerably related spiritually however completely different business-wise, and what we realized was that as an alternative of attempting to pack all of them into only a single manufacturing group, it truly made sense to let every of them flourish by way of who they’re and what they do to allow them to actually personal that. With this mannequin, every one of many corporations can develop, finance, produce and make issues that they do finest.”
Pulse Movies will proceed its legacy in producing filmmaker and talent-focused lengthy and quick type content material throughout commercials, music movies, scripted movie and TV sequence and music docs. Latest credit embrace Gangs of London, at the moment in its third season for Sky and AMC+, Saorise Ronan characteristic movie Gangs of London; Netflix doc Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now and Victoria’s Secret: The Tour 23 for Amazon.
UnTypical is the brand new identify for the manufacturing firm previously often called Vice Studios. It’s going to deal with world docs and codecs, working with auteurs securing distinctive entry to supply viewers a brand new perspective. Earlier work contains MAX hit Bama Rush, ESPN 30 for 30, The American Gladiator Documentary, Netflix sequence Encounters and Sean Penn doc Superpower. The outfit is coming off the again of two premieres at Sundance with The Gospel Based on Tammy Faye and DEVO.
In the meantime, Vice Studios Canada, the corporate behind franchise Darkish Facet and doc Qanon: The Seek for Q, will deal with factual format sequence servicing broadcasters comparable to Vice TV and Bell Media’s Crave, whereas Vice Studios LatAm, the studio behind Netflix hits 1994 and La Divina Gula, will focus Latin American and LatinX tales within the doc and non-scripted area. The latter will see unique format sequence Lucha De Antojos (Road Cooks) air on ViX later this 12 months.
The group additionally features a long-form information doc staff (but to be named), which is able to produce premium, present affairs documentaries and non-fiction sequence with a up to date lens. Earlier this 12 months, the staff received an RTS Award for On-Demand Journalism Stealing Ukraine’s Kids
“Leveraging the strengths throughout our manufacturing corporations underneath the Vice model creates a robust providing for producers and expertise who create content material that pushes the boundaries of conventional movie and tv,” mentioned Bruce Dixon, Vice Media Group CEO. “Jamie and Danny are the fitting leaders to drive the Studios’ enterprise ahead and lead our extremely gifted groups.”
Corridor, who has been with Pulse Movies since 2018, was most lately Chief Working Officer of Scripted Content material on the firm and integral to bringing sequence comparable to Gangs of London to life, whereas Gabai, beforehand Chief Content material Officer at Vice Studios, performed an instrumental a part of constructing the manufacturing firm from the bottom up and has produced initiatives comparable to animated doc Flee and Netflix docs Fyre: The Biggest Occasion That By no means Occurred, Jim & Andy: The Nice Past and Adam Driver starrer The Report.
Vice Media has gone by way of rounds of layoffs lately, with Dixon saying in February that the corporate was going by way of “elementary adjustments to our strategic imaginative and prescient.” The corporate was bought out of chapter final 12 months to hedge fund and former investor Fortress for $350M. It has now moved out of the net information sport and is specializing in: Vice Studios; Vice TV, a three way partnership with A&E; the Advantage advert company; and Vice Digital, a tradition hub publishing content material on and round Vice’s platforms.
