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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Music Group and Netflix person group an exclusive multi-year first-look woody that will spot nan streamer make documentary bid and films exploring nan lives, music, and legacies of WMG’s artists and songwriters, past and present.
Unigram, tally by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will service arsenic nan accumulation limb for WMG’s longform programming, moving pinch nan institution to create each task successful collaboration pinch nan creator aliases their estates.
Warner Music Group’s CEO, Robert Kyncl, said: “The operation of Warner Music Group’s IP pinch Netflix’s world scope is an unthinkable opportunity to present caller fans to our artists and songwriters each astir nan world.”
Added Adam Del Deo, VP, Documentary Films & Series astatine Netflix: “We’ve seen really euphony inspires unthinkable fandom connected Netflix truthful we’re excited to partner pinch Warner Music Group and nan best-in-class artists they activity pinch to bring moreover much indelible euphony storytelling to our members.”
WMG reps legends for illustration David Bowie, Cher, Phil Collins, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Madonna and Joni Mitchell, alongside modern superstars specified arsenic Charli xcx, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, and more. Operating successful much than 70 countries, nan institution encompasses labels specified arsenic 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 euphony publishing arm, Warner Chappell Music, has a catalog of complete 1 cardinal copyrights spanning each philharmonic genre, from nan standards of nan Great American Songbook to nan biggest hits of nan 21st century.
Unigram was founded by Ghost successful 2015, successful business pinch Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, which owns and controls Warner Music Group. The accumulation company’s credits see Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and The Deb, to sanction conscionable a few.
Highly progressive successful nan euphony doc space, successful collaboration pinch various labels, Netflix has nan anticipated BTS: The Return coming up for merchandise connected March 27. Most precocious releasing The Rise of nan Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel, a doc connected nan band’s formative years successful Los Angeles, nan streamer is coming disconnected nan SXSW premieres of docs Noah Kahan: Out of Body and Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, which will respectively motorboat connected nan level connected April 13th and 22nd.
WMG and Unigram are repped by WME.
