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Paramount Pictures and Warner Music Group person closed a multi-year, first-look woody that will spot some companies partnering connected theatrical films, drafting connected nan lives and euphony of WMG’s roster of artists and songwriters.
Warner Music Group catalog is rich | including specified top-selling and award-winning performers specified arsenic Frank Sinatra, Cher, The Eagles, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Dua Lipa, Cold Play, Charli XCX, Joni Mitchell, Cardi B, Led Zeppelin and Bruno Mars.
Warner Music Group and its accumulation partner, Unigram, led by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will activity pinch Paramount to create each task successful collaboration pinch nan artists and songwriters aliases their estates. At nan moment, location are nary projects successful early improvement based connected circumstantial artists. While nan announcement of nan pact comes successful nan aftermath of Lionsgate and Universal’s half cardinal world grossing occurrence pinch Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, Paramount has made its people successful caller years pinch performing artists biopics specified arsenic 2019’s Rocketman about Elton John which grossed complete $195M WW and won an original opus Oscar, arsenic good arsenic 2024’s Bob Marley: One Love which minted adjacent to $181M WW.
Robert Kyncl, CEO of Warner Music Group, said, “This collaboration pinch Paramount unites 2 forward-looking and innovative companies, and together we’re taking a caller attack to nan space. Every creator deserves to show nan stories down their life and euphony successful their ain imaginative way, and we’re excited to partner pinch our unthinkable talent and world-class filmmakers to bring these stories to nan large screen, increasing their audiences astir nan world.”
Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, Co-Chairs of Paramount Pictures, added, “We’re excited to partner pinch WMG and their bonzer artists to create powerful theatrical experiences inspired by generation-defining euphony and talent.”
Unigram co-founder Amanda Ghost added, “This unprecedented collaboration provides Warner Music creator and songwriters pinch nan unthinkable opportunity to bring their stories, sounds, and repertoire to scripted features and animated films. This business finds caller ways to empower iconic artists and to bring their imaginative worlds to nan surface pinch euphony arsenic a cardinal character.”
WMG and Unigram are represented by WME.
WMG’s Recorded Music section includes labels specified arsenic 10K Projects, 300 Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, EastWest, Elektra, Erato, Fueled By Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin’, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Records Nashville.
