Entities/Company/Vertical

Vertical

Company ⌖ Watchlist Tracks 2 name variants incl. Vertical Entertainment
last seen in coverage 4 days ago
153
Wire items · since Feb 24
8
Deal items
5
Tracked projects
6
Months active
18
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 8 tracked deal items

38% of tracked dealflow (3/8) is book adaptation; 44% of classified deal mediums are film; 57% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
book adaptation 3
public domain adaptation 2
series order pilot pickup 2
greenlight 1
Reported stage
in development 3
completed seeking distribution 2
in production 1
acquired 1
Medium
film 4
tv limited series 4
industry 1

Slate · 5 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

In development 3
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Platform
Dee Wallace · Josh D’Amaro · Dana Walden
greenlight public domain adaptation in development 27 Jul 11 ↗
Game
Josh D’Amaro · Dana Walden
acquired 6 May 23 ↗
Pendulum
Mark Heyman · Darren Aronofsky · Phoebe Dynevor
acquired 3 May 14 ↗
Greenlit 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Clips
Andy Cohen · Billy Magnussen · Jonathan Glatzer
greenlit 6 May 2 ↗
Seeking distribution 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Desert Warrior
Anthony Mackie · Ben Kingsley · Antonio Banderas
completed seeking distribution 4 May 2 ↗

Key people · from coveragenames as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design

Bob IgerNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Josh D’AmaroNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Anthony MackieNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Dana WaldenNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Mark HeymanNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Yeon Sang-hoNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Koo Kyo-hwanNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Ji Chang-wookNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Taye DiggsNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Dee WallaceNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Ted SarandosNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Ethan HawkeNamed in coverage2i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL VERTICAL COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Activity · by month

2
FEB
35
MAR
40
APR
61
MAY
7
JUN
8
JUL
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 25click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
Netflix 320
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Disney 253
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Cannes Film Festival 180
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Paramount Pictures 150
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Warner Bros. Pictures 110
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ReelShort 91
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SXSW 81
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Max 81
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Deal record · 8 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jun 13 A Disney Channel pilot x an indie-horror, among productions in Chicago this summer
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Kevin Tancharoen, James Stoteraux, Chad Fiveash, Roger Lewis, Jeff Lewis
Reel Chicago A
May 28 China’s iQIYI greenlights vertical microdrama Rent A Plus-One
series-order-pilot-pickup @ in-development
with iQIYI, Rent A Plus-One
Playback Magazine B
Apr 10 There’s Something in the Fields in ‘The Whistler’ Clip [Exclusive]
book-adaptation @ acquired
with Diane Guerrero, El Silbón, The Whistler
Bloody Disgusting A+
Mar 31 Canneseries 2026 to showcase Apple TV’s ‘Star City’, Richard Gadd’s ‘Half Man’, Disney’s ‘Alice And Steve'
series-order-pilot-pickup
with Canneseries, AMC+, Shudder, Ridley Scott, Apple TV
Screen Daily+1 src A+
Mar 30 Disney Reveals Webtoon Deal With Nascent Platform Comixit! Days After Sora Partnership Collapses
public-domain-adaptation @ in-development
with Disney, Comixit!, Michael Nakan, Envision Entertainment, David Barron
Deadline A+
Mar 28 ‘Megan is Missing’: New Series Adaptation Has Reportedly Finished Filming
public-domain-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Megan Is Missing, Michael Goi, IATSE
Dread Central A
Mar 17 Review: Women as Lovers - Luxembourg 2026
book-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with Caroline Kox, Elfriede Jelinek, Johanna Wokalek, Hannah Schiller, Visit Films
Cineuropa A
Mar 13 Charles Band’s Full Moon Features Teams With Microdrama Stars To Launch Vertical Video Label FMA Productions
greenlight @ in-production
with Charles Band, Eric Guilmette, Sarah Moliski, Felix Merback, Rebecca Stoughton
Deadline A+

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Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 153 wire items (Feb 24 → Jul 23) matching Vertical or a tracked alias, deduplicated by URL (1 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.7% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. Amber “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

THE RECORD · SCREAMWIRE ENTITY INDEX · GENERATED 2026-07-27