EXCLUSIVE: Warner Music Group and Netflix have set an unique multi-year first-look deal that can see the streamer make documentary collection and movies exploring the lives, music, and legacies of WMG’s artists and songwriters, previous and current.
Unigram, run by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will function the manufacturing arm for WMG’s longform programming, working with the corporate to develop every mission in collaboration with the artist or their estates.
Warner Music Group’s CEO, Robert Kyncl, stated: “The combination of Warner Music Group’s IP with Netflix’s global reach is an incredible opportunity to introduce new fans to our artists and songwriters all around the world.”
Added Adam Del Deo, VP, Documentary Films & Series at Netflix: “We’ve seen how music inspires incredible fandom on Netflix so we’re excited to partner with Warner Music Group and the best-in-class artists they work with to bring even more indelible music storytelling to our members.”
WMG reps legends like David Bowie, Cher, Phil Collins, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Madonna and Joni Mitchell, alongside modern superstars similar to Charli xcx, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, and extra. Operating in additional than 70 nations, the corporate encompasses labels similar to 10K Projects, 300 Entertainment, Atlantic, Big Beat, EastWest, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled By Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin’, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Records Nashville. WMG’s music publishing arm, Warner Chappell Music, has a catalog of over a million copyrights spanning each musical style, from the requirements of the Great American Songbook to the largest hits of the twenty first century.
Unigram was based by Ghost in 2015, in partnership with Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, which owns and controls Warner Music Group. The manufacturing firm’s credit embody Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and The Deb, to call just some.
Highly energetic within the music doc house, in collaboration with varied labels, Netflix has the anticipated BTS: The Return developing for launch on March 27. Most not too long ago releasing The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel, a doc on the band’s early life in Los Angeles, the streamer is coming off the SXSW premieres of docs Noah Kahan: Out of Body and Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, which can respectively launch on the platform on April thirteenth and twenty second.
WMG and Unigram are repped by WME.
