US EditionNetflix, Warner Music Strike Multi‑year Deal for Artist Documentaries
Netflix will produce documentaries on Warner Music Group’s iconic and contemporary artists, leveraging WMG’s catalog of over one million copyrights, under a multi-year exclusive agreement.
- On Friday, Netflix and Warner Music Group announced an exclusive multi-year first-look deal to develop documentaries about WMG's artists and songwriters.
- Rights holders and streamers are increasingly partnering as they race to turn deep catalogues into premium visual content, with interest surging after Taylor Swift's Eras Tour film grossed more than $260 million globally.
- Unigram, run by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will serve as WMG's longform production arm, developing projects with artists or their estates and represented by WME.
- The deal gives Netflix access to one of the most extensive catalogues in music history and bolsters its growing music documentary slate, marking the first partnership of this scale with WMG.
- Operating across more than 70 countries, WMG's catalog includes over one million copyrights, supporting Netflix's active music‑doc pipeline including BTS: The Return on March 27.
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Warner Music Group (WMG) and Netflix have announced a creative alliance of great depth: a first exclusive look of several years to produce documentaries and long series about the music, trajectory and legacy of the artists and composers of the record group. The news, released this week, places Netflix as the main audiovisual window of one of the world's largest musical catalogues, with the aim of feeding the fervid community of musical fans in s…
Netflix Sets Documentary Partnership With Warner Music Group
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Music Group and Netflix have set an exclusive multi-year first-look deal that will see the streamer make documentary series and films exploring the lives, music, and legacies of WMG’s artists and songwriters, past and present. Unigram, run by Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, will serve as the production arm for WMG’s longform programming, working with the company to develop each project in collaboration with the artist or the…
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