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EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brightburn producer The H Collective Films has formed a pact with Saudi Arabia’s Inqisam Studios to co-invest in and co-produce movies and TV with a focus on the Arabic-speaking market. The co-pro deal is one of the first to be announced between a Saudi and Hollywood production company. Inqisam is…

EXCLUSIVE: Brightburn producer The H Collective is to adapt the ancient Chinese book of myths and legends The Classic of Mountains and Seas into a feature, with a view to creating a film and TV universe inspired by the text. Kent Huang, Chairman of the company, and Mark Rau, European Chief, will supervise the…

The H Collective (Brightburn) is teaming with Breaking Bad exec producer and Rain Man producer Mark Johnson on coming-of-age film The Vineyard, which will be directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Love Guaranteed) from Tory Kamen’s script. “Foodie drama” The Vineyard will follow an American teenager whose life is uprooted…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production firm The H Collective (Brightburn) has expanded its offices to Germany with Mark Rau (Look Who’s Back) set as Europe CEO. The Berlin-based arm will focus on film development and production and coordinate all efforts with the LA-based HQ. The division’s 2021 slate will launch with an Asian…

Tokyo-based internet services giant Rakuten and LA-based production and distribution company The H Collective have agreed to establish Rakuten H Collective Studio, a joint venture film production entity in Japan. They have also formed Rakuten Distribution which will primarily release films produced by The H Collective…

The H Collective has secured investment funding from Japanese internet services giant Rakuten for upcoming features Brightburn and xXx 4. Under the agreement, Rakuten has provided financing to Brightburn, The H Collective's first global title, starring Elizabeth Banks and produced by James Gunn. Sony is releasing Brigh…

The H Collective has teamed with Out of the Blue Entertainment to develop a feature adaptation of the 2015 English and Chinese language short, A Children’s Song, which was inspired by the true story of how thousands of migrated to China to refuge during World War II. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs (C…

EXCLUSIVE: The H Collective, the LA production outfit which is teaming up with Vin Diesel to produce the next installment in the xXx franchise, has set rising filmmaker Christine Crokos (Pimp) to direct their upcoming elevated horror-thriller The Beast. The company landed Aaron W Sala’s 2018 Blacklist (2018) script in…

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded international sales rights to Christopher Cantwell’s (Halt And Catch Fire) thriller The Parts You Lose, starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Fargo), Scoot McNairy (Argo) and newcomer Danny Murphy. Written by Darren Lemke (Goosebumps), The Parts You L…

The H Collective and Chinese streaming giant iQiyi have set a three-picture co-production and distribution deal. The first film under the pact will be action comedy Counter Spy which is currently being rewritten by former Marvel exec Craig Kyle (Thor: Ragnarok) from an original draft by David Rothenberg and Lionel…

EXCLUSIVE: Sherryl Clark, who had served as a consultant to The H Collective, has now joined the company as its new President of Production while former FOX Networks Group veteran Del Mayberry has been hired as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. In addition, the company has moved other executives up. This all…

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions will market and distribute up to four H Collective films per year globally. That comes on the heels of yesterday’s news that Vin Diesel and The H Collective had acquired rights to the xXx franchise from Revolution Studios with Diesel back as Xander Cage in the fourth installment…