Collage, a New Management and Investment Company, Launches as a Bridge Between AI-First Studios and Hollywood (EXCLUSIVE)

Collage has launched as a management and investment company to help AI-focused production studios work with Hollywood. It aims to connect filmmakers with studios and guide them through industry rules and concerns, at a time when debate continues over AI’s effects on creative work, jobs and audiences.

Founded in July by former UTA agent Dante DeSario and media investor Michael Lambert, Collage has raised seed funding, though the amount and its portfolio investments were not disclosed. Its backers include production companies, investors and filmmakers such as Black Bear, AGC Studios and Roy Lee. The Beverly Hills firm has five full-time employees and about a dozen part-time staff, and works with AI studios including Asteria, Native Foreign, Obsidian and Secret Level.