Entities/Company/Vertical

Vertical

Company ⌖ Watchlist Tracks 2 name variants incl. Vertical Entertainment
last seen in coverage Sep 25
122
Wire items · since Feb 24
10
Deal items
3
Tracked projects
8
Months active
23
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 10 tracked deal items

30% of tracked dealflow (3/10) is book adaptation; 64% of classified deal mediums are film; 67% 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
remake reboot 2
greenlight 1
series order pilot pickup 1
spec sale 1
Reported stage
acquired 4
completed seeking distribution 2
in development 2
in production 1
Medium
film 7
tv limited series 3
industry 1

Slate · 3 projects from coverage

Grouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred.

In development 2
Greenlit 1

Key people · from coverage

Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.

Mark HeymanNamed in coverage4i · 0d
Russell CroweTalent attached3i · 0d
Bob IgerNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Darren AronofskyNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Phoebe DynevorNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Taye DiggsNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Jaume Collet-SerraTalent attached3i · 3d
Dee WallaceNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Ted SarandosNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Ethan HawkeNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Michael ClearNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Akela CooperNamed in coverage2i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL VERTICAL COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Activity · by month

2
FEB
35
MAR
15
APR
37
MAY
7
JUN
5
JUL
10
AUG
11
SEP
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 23

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CounterpartyItemsDeals
NetflixPLAT 251
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DisneyCO 193
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ParamountCO 150
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Cannes Film FestivalFEST 141
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SXSWFEST 101
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Warner Bros.CO 101
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SonyCO 93
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Prime VideoPLAT 92
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Deal record · 10 entries

Amounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps.

Sep 17 Netflix Developing Action Thriller ‘Scope’ From ‘Warfare’s Ray Mendoza, Jaume Collet-Serra
spec-sale @ acquired
with Netflix, Charley & Vlas Parlapanides, Scott Charnick +5
Deadline+2 src A+
Sep 15 Vertical catches Cliffhanger reboot mid-freefall
BUYER remake-reboot @ acquired
with Row K, Jaume Collet-Serra, Lily James +5
AV Club B
Sep 13 Vertical Saves Lily James & Pierce Brosnan Starring ‘Cliffhanger’; Spring 2027 U.S. Release Eyed – TIFF
BUYER remake-reboot @ acquired
with Jaume Collet-Serra, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan +5
Deadline+4 src A
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 +5
Reel Chicago A
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 +5
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 +4
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 +5
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 +5
Deadline A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 112

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 122 wire items (Feb 24 → Sep 25) matching Vertical or a tracked alias, deduplicated by URL (2 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 1.5% 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. “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.

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