Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, a Best Feature Documentary Oscar nominee in 2005 for Super Size Me, has entered his multiplatform production company, Warrior Poets, into a strategic partnership with Authentic Brands Group, LLC (ABG), owner of a global portfolio of fashion, sports and entertainment brands.
Per the agreement, Warrior Poets can tap into ABG’s globally recognized brands for the development of new scripted and unscripted projects for distribution across multiple platforms including film, television, and digital.
Warrior Poets has produced a number of notable documentary films, television and digital series. Documentaries include One Direction: This Is Us, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope, Mansome, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? and Freakonomics. Among Warrior Poets’ TV projects are the FX series 30 Days, Showtime’s Seven Deadly Sins and CNN’s Morgan Spurlock Inside Man which has been greenlit for a fourth season. Digital projects include Yahoo’s Losing It with John Stamos, AOL’s Connected and Smartish, the upcoming channel in collaboration with Maker Studios.
ABG owns, manages, and builds the long-term value of fashion, sports, and entertainment brands including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Juicy Couture, Jones New York, Judith Leiber, Frederick’s of Hollywood, Hickey Freeman, Prince, Spyder, Tapout, and Tretorn.
“Warrior Poets provides a vehicle for our brands to reach a wider audience and deliver new experiences across a multitude of channels,” said Nick Woodhouse, president and CMO, ABG. “We are excited to partner with Spurlock and team to further expand ABG’s growing content pipeline, which serves to keep our iconic entertainment properties, fashion, and sports brands firmly top-of-mind around the world.”
“It is a producer’s dream to partner with Authentic Brands Group to develop and produce new projects based on their hugely impressive portfolio,” said Morgan Spurlock, President and Founder, Warrior Poets. “This partnership allows us unprecedented access to these resources and we are already in the works on several exciting new projects.”
SCHROM x Yacht Club and Be Electric Studios Launch Electric XR for Virtual Production
SCHROM x Yacht Club, a full-service live-action, tabletop, and postproduction company, has teamed with Be Electric Studios, a soundstage, equipment rental, and virtual production company, to launch Electric XR, a virtual production collective.
Industry veteran Thomas Rossano will lead the new venture, which provides advanced virtual production solutions across multiple facilities. He brings over 25 years of experience in live-action, tabletop, postproduction and talent curation to enhance Electric XR’s offerings as a resource for brands and agencies, as well as other production companies in need of virtual production solutions. Additionally Rossano continues to serve as EP at XR New York (XR-NY), a role he’s held since December 2022. SCHROM x Yacht Club originally established XR-NY to help provide XR services for third-party rentals. While XR-NY will continue to function independently for SCHROM X Yacht Club, it now operates under the Electric XR umbrella.
Rossano’s expertise spans producing live-action commercials, branded content, interactive and experiential content. In addition to leading Electric XR, he holds responsibilities at SCHROM x Yacht Club which include driving business development, collaborating with sales reps and expanding the company’s creative talent network. Rossano’s career includes serving as an exec producer at Hungry Man for about 11 years, right from that company’s inception. He then went on to become a partner at Station Film where he also had a lengthy tenure. Later he was a partner at PRISM. Then after the pandemic hit, he became a freelance EP for nearly two years, looking into opportunities in virtual production, which led him to XR NY and now Electric XR. Over the years, he has produced high-profile... Read More