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The Agency That Put a Dragon Dance Around a Shoe
Modest was a 13-person creative company with a worldwide address book and an appetite for the strange detail. Its best work suggests a useful rule: when the brief is global, make the idea more specific - not less.
Hollywood's Most Unusual Production Office Has Tanks, Pilots and One Nonnegotiable Rule
The Marine Corps can lend a production the details no prop department can fake. The price is early paperwork, a real distributor, a reviewable script - and reimbursement down to the flying hour.
Alta Media USA wants your next minute
A TikTok creator network on one side. A short-drama studio and app on the other. Alta Media USA is working on both sides of the same question: what makes somebody stay?
Vision Entertainment wants talent to travel. Now it is building the vehicle.
A conversation in Spanish helped start a Hollywood management company. Vision Entertainment’s next act puts actors, writers and a production studio on the same international itinerary.
Grace Hill Media sells Hollywood on Sunday
A movie clip, a sermon outline, a pastor who picks up the phone. How a Hollywood marketing firm gets entertainment into the conversations that advertising alone cannot buy.
Ballast and the case of the floating handcuffs
A backyard pool, a World Cup explosion and Dolly Parton’s family album reveal how this creative studio turns a visual idea into something an audience can believe.
Inbeon knows a story needs a crowd
A stalled werewolf comic, a convention built around artists, and an animation launch on the horizon. Inbeon’s history is a lesson in getting creative people into the same room.
Bubba’s LA knows how to move a pickle
A dancing pickle, a robot filming sneakers, and a cartoon with a devastating turn: inside the small motion studio that changes its methods to fit the story.
National Forest Put a Paintbox Inside the Ad Agency
The Los Angeles studio turned a refusal to separate art, advertising, objects and environments into a durable business - and a useful lesson in making one visual idea travel.
Astro Wants to Make the TV Bundle Worth Paying For Again
Malaysia’s satellite-TV veteran is cutting the price of entry, inviting streaming rivals onto its boxes and betting on stories made at home. The audience is there. Rebuilding the business is harder.
The Company That Made Hollywood Lighting Cheap Enough for the Rest of Us
A camera-accessory side hustle turned into the lighting brand on more film sets than almost anyone else. The trick was refusing to charge ARRI prices.
The Camera Shop Run by People Who Actually Held the Camera
In a business full of order-takers, this Burbank shop bets that filmmakers would rather buy cameras from people who have actually pulled focus at 3 a.m. on a real set.
The Family Office That Bought a Dallas Street and a Giant Eyeball
How a billionaire's family office quietly bought up 16 addresses on one downtown Dallas street - then filled them with a hotel, a dozen restaurants, a fashion flagship, and a 30-foot eyeball.
The Film Streamer That Turned Taste Into a Studio
MUBI began with one impossible-to-find Wong Kar-wai film. It has since built a business that can discover a movie at a festival, put it in theaters, stream it at home and keep the conversation alive in print.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
NBCUniversal’s Second Century Runs Through the Fandom Machine
The company that helped teach America to watch television now has to make broadcast, streaming, cinema and theme parks behave like one business. Its advantage is not a single screen - it is the loop between them.
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery owns more than a shelf of famous titles. It owns a system for sending the same story through theaters, television, streaming, games, licensing and experiences - while managing the costly tension between a growing digital future and a shrinking cable past.
Telfaz11
Telfaz11 is a Riyadh-based creative media studio that pioneered Arabic online video in the early 2010s and has since grown into one of Saudi Arabia's leading film and content producers. Founded in 2011 by Alaa Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami and Ibraheem Alkhairallah, it began as a YouTube-first network aimed at Saudi youth and evolved into feature films, streaming originals and branded content. Its 2022 wrestling comedy 'Sattar' became the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, and the studio holds a multi-picture deal with Netflix.
Visinema
Visinema is a Jakarta-based integrated entertainment and intellectual-property company founded in 2008 by director Angga Dwimas Sasongko and producer Anggia Kharisma. It produces award-winning Indonesian films, animated features and series, and builds long-lived IP franchises - including Keluarga Cemara, Filosofi Kopi, Nussa and the record-breaking animated hit Jumbo - across cinema, streaming, licensing and consumer experiences. The company positions itself as a storytelling powerhouse aiming to make Indonesian creative work competitive with Hollywood and Korea.
Level Forward
Level Forward is a Los Angeles-based public benefit entertainment company co-founded in 2018 by philanthropist and filmmaker Abigail Disney and producer Adrienne Becker. It develops, produces, and finances films, documentaries, and stage productions that pair commercial ambition with social progress, backing work such as the film The Assistant and the Tony-nominated Broadway shows Jagged Little Pill, Slave Play, and What the Constitution Means to Me. Legally bound to weigh profit against public benefit, the company routes a share of proceeds and cultural attention toward nonprofit partners working on gender and racial equity, youth empowerment, and gun-violence prevention.