Vice Media Unveils New Creative Structure For Global Production Biz; Elevates Jamie Hall & Danny Gabai To Co-Presidents Of Newly-Formed Vice Studios Group
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Vice Media Group has announced a new creative structure for its global production business now dubbed Vice Studios Group, which will oversee five premium production entities: Pulse Films, UnTypical, Vice Studios LatAm, Vice Studios Canada and a news documentary unit.
Vice Studios Group will be led by the newly elevated Jamie Hall in London and Danny Gabai in Los Angeles as Co-Presidents. The new content-studio, which has a distribution catalogue of more than 1,000 hours, will work with global streamers, linear broadcasters and brands around the world to develop, finance and produce multi-genre, cutting edge content.
It currently has more than 20 productions filming or in edit across the group, including scripted, non-fiction, news and music documentaries.
Additionally, Gabai said that the group has “started production on a comedic but character-driven documentary about the 1994 World Cup with Jamie Crawford (Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99) attached to direct – one of the multiple projects we’re doing with Jamie.” Speaking to Deadline about the new structure, Hall said: “It feels like we are now at a point where we’re in a much simpler, streamlined structure and that has given us the opportunity across the studio to get some real clarity as to what we are in the market.
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