Wenvoe Content

New Wenvoe logo, in use since October 22, 2019.

### Headquarters

Brampton, Ontario, Canada. and Miaml, FL. (main)London, UK. and Burbank, CA. (secondary)

Raleigh, NC, Myrtle Beach, SC, Virginia Beach, VA, Chicago, IL (additional offices)

New Orleans, LA and New York City, NY (planned offices)

### Key people

Allison Taylor (President, CEO and Head of Development)Oliver Watson

### Divisions

Wenvoe FilmsWenvoe Television

Wenvoe Music

Wenvoe Audio

Wenvoe Games

Wenvoe Interactive

Wenvoe Animation

Wenvoe Comics

Wenvoe Books

Wenvoe Podcasts

Wenvoe Immersive

Wenvoe Digital Studios

Wenvoe Experiences

Wenove Creative

Wenvoe Rights

Wenvoe Distribution

Wenvoe Products

Wenvoe Studioworks

Wenvoe Alternative

Wenvoe Theatrical

Wenvoe Home VIdeo

Wenvoe Magazine

Wenvoe Radio

Wenvoe Store

Wenvoe Cares

### Subsidiaries

Persistence of Vision
theWorks
Graphene
Almost Music
Rel Creative
Wenvoe (JV with WarnerMedia, AMC Networks, ViacomCBS)
Myrtlebank Productions
Big Finish Studios
FanCon
Close The Gap
Ventures That Care
Change For All
Shift Media
The Kennedy Movement
America United
America United Fund

### Website

wenvoecontent.com

**Wenvoe Content, LLC** is an American-British-Canadian entertainment, production, and multimedia company owned by Allison Taylor.

Founded in the summer of 2017, it is known for producing films such as the 2018 sci-fi film *bestcase*, the 2018 television film *The Day After*,the 2019 sci-fi horror film *Adopted Son*, and the upcoming 2020 horror film *Christine*. Wenvoe has also produced other films such as *The World is Not Enough*, *A Bucket of Blood*, *Outbreak: Dread the Undead*, and *The Telephone Box*, Taylor's theatrical debut.

It also produces well known online and television shows such as *Game On*, *Partners In Crime*, *Sunny Acres*, *The Traveler*, *Welcome to the Internet*, *Tales of the Mystery Theater*, *Games Without Frontiers*, *The Big Picture*, *Labyrinth*, *Alliance*, *The Daily*, *Man of the People*, *One of Us*, *A Second Chance, US VS. Them*, *Infinity Ring*, *Puncture, The Edge, Special Delivery, The Tower, The Illusionist, Night Tracks, Starcade, True America,* and *Come Walk With Me.*

It is also the producer *The Rundown* and its companion show *The Breakdown*, and *Late Night Tonight*, all 3 shows hosted by Taylor.

Wenvoe has participated in activist movements that have created and produced content that has been meant to spur political and social change, such as the establishment of Close The Gap shortly before Wenvoe's first production of content in 2017, Ventures That Care and Wenvoe Cares, a company wide volunteering effort, also in 2017, Change For All and Shift Media (now Jetty Media) in 2018, and in 2020, The Kennedy Movement, America United and the America United Fund, founded to stop the reelection of Donald Trump, and to help support and advocate for those affected by issues such as racial injustice and inequality.

The company is based in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and Miami, FL, with a third base in London and a planned forth and fifth bases in New York City and New Orleans, with additional offices in Raleigh, Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, Chicago, and on the Warner Bros Studios Lot in Burbank, CA

In addition to its various divisions, Wenvoe also owns Persistence of Vision, theWorks, Almost Music, the upcoming Wenvoe channel (JV with ViacomCBS, AMC Networks, and WarnerMedia), Rel Creative, Graphene, A digital entertainment company and YouTube MCN (multi channel network), Myrtlebank Productions, FanCon, and Big Finish Studios, a television production joint venture with Big Finish Productions and BBC Studios.

The company is named after the Wenvoe transmitter tower, and indirectly, the village of Wenvoe in Wales.

## History

### 2017-2020: Founding and expansion, and activist movements

Wenvoe was formed by Allison Taylor and her partner Oliver Watson in early 2017 following Taylor's 2 year deal with Sony Entertainment and a separate deal with Sony Interactive Entertainment. The deal included film and television, music, and video games, in partnership with Sony Pictures, Sony Music, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, respectively. Sony would also invest in Wenvoe during that period.

The company was originally intended to form in 2016, but was called off temporary, as Taylor was not ready to fully become a producer yet at that time, and taking into account preparations, in which the company set up offices in the US, Canada and the UK, it was later formed in mid-2017, when it began on August 24th.

Wenvoe would later make 2 deals with Netflix and Disney, also in early 2017, in which Netflix would be the exclusive streaming home for many of the shows and movies produced by Wenvoe, while a separate deal with Walt Disney Television would see some of Wenvoe's programs broadcasted on Disney's networks, such as ABC. Both deals gave Disney and Netflix first right of refusal to distribute Wenvoe's content on their platforms.

Throughout 2018 and 2019, the company later expanded into books, comics, podcasts, and live events, via partnerships with Simon & Schuster, Valiant Comics, iHeartMedia, Big Finish Productions, and Live Nation Entertainment respectively.

Wenvoe would also launch new units of the company that created and produced content that is meant to spur political and social change, and company policies and units that are meant to unite and inspire change, establishing Close The Gap shortly before Wenvoe's first production of content in 2017. An effort which originally aimed to tackle the women's pay gap in entertainment, in which men and women would be paid equally, both in front and behind the camera and in the company itself. Close the Gap later became a movement outright, fighting for equality for minorities and people in all fields of work and society

Wenvoe would launch Ventures That Care and Wenvoe Cares, a company wide volunteering effort, both also in 2017. Both worked to help those who were affected by Hurricane Maria, the Parkland Shootings, and later COVID-19, and Climate Change.

In 2018, Wenvoe would launch both Change For All and Shift Media, months after the Parkland shooting and before the 2018 midterms.

### 2019-2020: Rebranding and rapid expansion

In 2019, Wenvoe would launch a new venture, Wenvoe Audio, with Big Finish Productions. In addition, Wenvoe would co launch Big Finish Studios, Big Finish's film and television arm with Big Finish, and BBC Studios.

On October 22, 2019, Wenvoe officially dropped the Helvetica Neue type logo it had used since its inception, in favor of a new logo, created in house by Wenvoe Creative. Wenvoe would also establish a holding company, known as Wenvoe Holdings, on the same day.

On October 27th, 2019, Wenvoe announced it would acquire a lease at the former campuses of Walt Disney Television's properties in New York City, at 149–155 Columbus Avenue and 77 West 66 Street from Silverstein Properties, following the end of Disney's lease on the building, in which Disney will continue to be occupy while Disney builds it's new offices in lower Manhattan. The purchase was made with the intention that Wenvoe would create a new combined company base in NYC, while retaining its Brampton, and now Burbank (formerly Culver City) offices. As part of the deal, Wenvoe will have a first right to refusal to buy, and/or lease the other property.

On October 29th, 2019, Wenvoe established Wenvoe Alternative, an experimental content creation and unscripted unit, after two years of creating content under the banner of the same name.

On November 4th. 2019, Wenvoe rebranded Nitro9, its creative agency, into Persistence Of Vision.

On November 11th, 2019, Wenvoe rebranded Atomicsheep, its effects unit, into theWorks.

On November 12th, 2019, Wenvoe launched Almost Music, an independent record label. It, like Wenvoe Music, was distributed by Sony Music, It is currently distributed by Warner Music, while Wenvoe is distributed by WaterTower Music.

On November 14th, 2019, Wenvoe launched Rel Creative, a media production company. Also on the same day, the company announced a new deal with Warner Music, WarnerMedia, and ViacomCBS. It is slated to begin on January 10, 2020. In a post on the blog section of Wenvoe's website regarding the move, Taylor stated;

> "Personally, my time at Sony and Disney has been a blast, and i have fully enjoyed working with two of the most unique entertainment companies in the world, but my intention to bring Wenvoe's work to a new place was long desired and my respect and wish to work with a company like WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS was Paramount (no pun intended), and so i felt like it was time to forge a new relationship.
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> This deal with WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS will allow me a new chance to work with some of the best and truly boldest storytellers in the world, and to realign Wenvoe for a new era. I continue planning to work with both Sony and Disney with certain partnerships in the near future, but for now, WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS now has all that Wenvoe currently needs."
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   On November 27th, 2019, Wenvoe announced it would be working on a new television channel with WarnerMedia, AMC Networks, and ViacomCBS, and that the channel, later known as Wenvoe, would launch in November 2021, and that it would replace Pop. The channel is owned jointly by Wenvoe, ViacomCBS, and later, WarnerMedia and AMC Networks.

A day later on November 28th, 2019, Wenvoe had announced a new partnership with Discovery to produce content, mainly nonfiction, for their various networks and outlets.

On December 7th, 2019, Taylor announced her intention to turn Wenvoe into a entertainment company, with personal projects and productions moving a new company. On December 27th, 2019, it was announced that while the plans for Wenvoe to become a entertainment company had been reversed, Taylor would launch Myrtlebank Productions as a spiritual successor of Wenvoe on January 1st, 2020.

On March 2nd, 2020, Wenvoe announced the launch of two new divisions, Wenvoe Magazine with Conde Nast, and Wenvoe Radio with Sirius XM.

### 2020-present: Coronavirus struggles and its impact on Wenvoe

In early 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Wenvoe would almost entirely suspend production of content, and began furloughing staff, leaving only essential staff, which would mainly work at home, and if needed, at Wenvoe's offices in Brampton and Miami. Programs such as the branded "@Home" versions of Late Night Tonight, The Rundown, The Breakdown, and digital content, such as Welcome to the Internet, would be some of the programs being made by Wenvoe due to the pandemic. This would affect many plans Wenvoe had set in motion.

Wenvoe would implement new temporary guidelines to provide 14 days of paid sick leave for employees or their loved ones who are affected with COVID-19, and would also look into delaying the production of the Wenvoe channel's original content until late 2021 or early 2022, if the virus worsens.

Wenvoe would also delay the soft and official launch of the Wenvoe Store, a Disney Store like retail outlet which would focus on selling the company's merchandise and would promote Wenvoe's IPs, such as The Traveler, it was set to launch with a test (then to later be launch/flagship) locations in Beverly Hills, CA, in the same building as headquarters of Myrtlebank's content partner MGM, and Myrtle Beach, SC. But due to a lack of a partner, and the coronavirus pandemic, Wenvoe would postpone the project.

Perhaps the most notable delay was plans to unveil a company led project with the Pinewood Group to redevelop the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans park into an 140 acre movie, television, media studio, and company campus, that would serve as a new home for some of Wenvoe's properties and would be managed by both the company's studioworks division and Pinewood, known as the Wenvoe-Pinewood New Orleans Studio Campus, to replace the park that closed in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina, and has been used as a on-and-off filming location since 2011.

Wenvoe and Pinewood would have leased the property from the City of New Orleans and would plan to work with the City and the state's entertainment office, Louisiana Entertainment, to take advantage of the state's film, television, live entertainment, and music programs, similar to Wenvoe's work with Florida's, Illinois', North Carolina's, California's, Canada's and Britain's entertainment programs.

In 2020, Wenvoe would launch both The Kennedy Movement, America United and the America United Fund, founded to stop the reelection of Donald Trump, and to help support those affected by issues such as racial injustice and inequality, The Kennedy Movement was launched with the backing, support, and partnership of The Lincoln Project.

To ensure that Wenvoe would remain afloat during the pandemic, Taylor's partner Oliver Watson would put into plans to fund up to $2.4 billion dollars into Wenvoe during the next 24 months.