Type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 2013 |
Founders | Jay Peterson Todd Lubin |
Headquarters | New York City, U.S. Los Angeles, U.S. |
Parent | Boat Rocker Media |
Website | matadorcontent |
Matador Content (also known as Matador) is an American production company founded in 2013 by Jay Peterson and Todd Lubin. [1] [2] The company produces feature films, unscripted television, scripted television and digital programming. [3] Some of Matador's television series include the Hulu series Drag Me to Dinner , AMC series Geeking Out, the GSN series Hellevator , the A&E series Epic Ink , Cement Heads , and Country Bucks , the Lifetime series Project Runway: Fashion Startup , the History series Great Minds with Dan Harmon , the Syfy series Cosplay Melee , and the Discovery Channel series The Impossible Row . [4] Matador's scripted programming includes the Emmy Award-winning Netflix original series The Who Was? Show , [5] and Viceland's first scripted series What Would Diplo Do? starring James Van Der Beek. [6] [7]
Matador also produces the larger than life talent show Go-Big Show for TBS, The Kids Tonight Show for Peacock, the Apple TV+ series Dear... , the Disney Channel series Disney Fam Jam hosted by Ariel Martin, Trevor Tordjman, and Phil Wright, [8] the ABC series Boy Band hosted by Rita Ora, the Emmy Award-nominated Paramount Network series Lip Sync Battle hosted by LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen, and the kid centric spin-off Lip Sync Battle Shorties on Nickelodeon hosted by Nick Cannon and JoJo Siwa. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
Matador's feature film credits include the Emmy Award-nominated HBO documentary Banksy Does New York , which premiered at Doc NYC in 2014, the Emmy Award-nominated Hulu two-part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields , Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot a behind-the-scenes look at the 2001 cult indie film Wet Hot American Summer , Give Me Future, which documented Major Lazer's groundbreaking 2016 concert in Havana, Cuba, Wig , the HBO documentary that explores the history of Wigstock, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry , the 2021 documentary centered around singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, and the upcoming feature Nonnas starring Vince Vaughn. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
In 2014, Matador Content formed a joint venture with Untitled Entertainment, the management company behind Jared Leto, Penélope Cruz, and Naomi Watts. [22]
In 2017, Matador Content signed a multi-year production and development deal with Little Creatures, the production company founded by R. J. Cutler and Jane Cha. [23] Later that year, Matador inked a multi-project deal with Bold Soul Studios to develop scripted content. [24]
In 2018, Matador Content was acquired by Boat Rocker Media, a Toronto-based global entertainment company that creates, produces, and distributes premium content and brands for all platforms. [25]
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