Exclusive: Labid Aziz’s People of Culture Studios has entered into a joint venture with Adel Nur’s management and production company Atomik Content to co-manage talent and develop, produce and distribute features, TV series and hybrid projects with a focus on elevated action films.
The first talent signed through the Jv is Professional Fighters League Founder & President Ray Sefo, who will work with other Mma fighters and Hollywood talent to create and develop ensemble and elevated action-thrillers in the sub-15M budget range.
Ray Sefo
Sefo is a semi-retired New Zealand kickboxer, boxer, mixed martial artist, fight promoter and actor who founded the mixed martial arts league Pfl in 2018. The six-time Muay Thai World Champion and eight-time K-1 World Grand Prix Finals tournament participant has been acting since 1995 and made his professional wrestling debut at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2012 in Japan, where he and his tag team partner Hiromi Amada were...
The first talent signed through the Jv is Professional Fighters League Founder & President Ray Sefo, who will work with other Mma fighters and Hollywood talent to create and develop ensemble and elevated action-thrillers in the sub-15M budget range.
Ray Sefo
Sefo is a semi-retired New Zealand kickboxer, boxer, mixed martial artist, fight promoter and actor who founded the mixed martial arts league Pfl in 2018. The six-time Muay Thai World Champion and eight-time K-1 World Grand Prix Finals tournament participant has been acting since 1995 and made his professional wrestling debut at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2012 in Japan, where he and his tag team partner Hiromi Amada were...
- 11/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Wayfarer COO/CFO Labid Aziz is launching LA-based film and TV company PoC Studios with a slate of projects including Tokyo-set TV series Tokyo Undernight, written by Oscar-winner Ron Bass (Rain Man)
Aziz, who is in Cannes this week to help launch the company, has founded the firm with sovereign wealth fund advisor and college basketball player V. Marbue Dennis II. Both men will serve as Co-Chief Executive Officers with comic book creator, writer and producer Andrew Cosby, known for co-creating TV series Eureka and producing action movie Two Guns, joining as Chief Creative Officer.
The new company says it will provide support from development through production and distribution. It is aiming to work on projects with a diverse bent and commercial and global appeal.
PoC has already agreed to collaborate with companies including Rogue Wave Entertainment, 62 Brands, Northstar Thailand Studio and Jeff Gomez’s Starlight Runner Entertainment...
Aziz, who is in Cannes this week to help launch the company, has founded the firm with sovereign wealth fund advisor and college basketball player V. Marbue Dennis II. Both men will serve as Co-Chief Executive Officers with comic book creator, writer and producer Andrew Cosby, known for co-creating TV series Eureka and producing action movie Two Guns, joining as Chief Creative Officer.
The new company says it will provide support from development through production and distribution. It is aiming to work on projects with a diverse bent and commercial and global appeal.
PoC has already agreed to collaborate with companies including Rogue Wave Entertainment, 62 Brands, Northstar Thailand Studio and Jeff Gomez’s Starlight Runner Entertainment...
- 7/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wsof has had a string of successes of late, including a deal with NBC TV that will get a couple of their shows on network television. There’s big things ahead for the company, who now have arguably as many notable names on their roster as Bellator, thanks to picking up former Ufc fighters including Jon Fitch, Yushin Okami, Jake Shields, Melvin Guillard, Rousmir Palhares and others.
They’re the number three Mma promotion in the world at the moment, and have branched out into other countries (there’s Wsof Canada, Central America, and Japan), setting the stage for an eventual true world series of Mma. The Ufc and the Wsof have maintained a pretty civil relationship thus far, in comparison to the Ufc’s tumultuous public relations with number two Mma promotion Bellator, and to date the Ufc has brought back a couple of big names that had...
They’re the number three Mma promotion in the world at the moment, and have branched out into other countries (there’s Wsof Canada, Central America, and Japan), setting the stage for an eventual true world series of Mma. The Ufc and the Wsof have maintained a pretty civil relationship thus far, in comparison to the Ufc’s tumultuous public relations with number two Mma promotion Bellator, and to date the Ufc has brought back a couple of big names that had...
- 6/27/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
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