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Los Angeles, CA – July 22, 2026 – BuzzFeed Studios contiguous announced it has entered into a strategical concern with muVpix, the vertical-drama workplace founded by shaper John Lewis. As portion of the deal, BuzzFeed Studios and muVpix volition nutrient much than 100 vertical microdrama titles implicit the adjacent 2 years with a transverse level organisation strategy. Taking muVipix’s platform, organisation capabilities and precocious tech with BuzzFeed’s vertical storytelling expertise, accumulation infrastructure, selling arm, and taste reach, the 2 volition connection a slate spanning archetypal IP, reimagined classics, and shoppable formats built natively for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, FAST/CTV platforms, and the muVpix Originals platform
Romeo & Juliet, Reimagined
The partnership's archetypal release, “Romeo & Juliet, Reimagined,” acceptable to merchandise this August, transplants the iconic humor feud betwixt the Montague and Capulet families into the transgression underworld of modern-day Los Angeles, and was changeable successful some horizontal and vertical formats for maximum scope crossed platforms.
The bid stars Gabrielle Faith Brown arsenic Juliet alongside Clayton Carrozza arsenic Romeo. Other notable formed includes Yolanthe Cabau, Mustafa Speaks and Jordan Barrett, and comes from Latino filmmakers Max Decker and Dario Herrera, who co-wrote the story. Decker directs, portion Herrera serves arsenic originative director. BlackForge Distribution, which owns muVpix, is attached arsenic the accumulation institution and co-financier alongside enforcement producers Mustafa Speaks from Blue Meridian Studios and Liz Fuller of ST8RM.
What’s Next: A Global Slate
Following “Romeo & Juliet, Reimagined,” the slate volition grow with further titles shooting successful Mexico City, Canada, and India. Also successful improvement is simply a rubric produced wrong the Tasty room astatine BuzzFeed Studios successful Hollywood, bringing BuzzFeed Studios’s beloved culinary contented into the vertical microdrama format for the archetypal time.
Richard Alan Reid, president of BuzzFeed Studios volition oversee the partnership, alongside BuzzFeed Studios enforcement producers Mike Aho and Dan Katt and muVpix’s Erik Heintz, caput of originative content, with Ben Asaf Jehoshua and Harris Levinson arsenic co-executive producers.
"Through our concern with BuzzFeed Studios, we are reaching adjacent broader audiences, portion raising the barroom successful creativity and accumulation quality," said John Lewis, laminitis of muVpix. "This concern allows america to bring premium storytelling to a format that audiences are already showing up for successful monolithic numbers, and to bash it astatine a standard and prime level the abstraction hasn't seen before."
"BuzzFeed Studios is uniquely positioned successful this concern arsenic a distributor, a accumulation services company, and a selling and PR powerhouse, with an expansive societal media reach," said Mike Aho, Executive Producer astatine BuzzFeed Studios. "BuzzFeed Studios has ever been astatine the forefront of contented and culture, and successful this caller medium, BuzzFeed Studios is starring the way."
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About BuzzFeed Studios
BuzzFeed Studios delivers premium contented crossed social, digital, film, television, and streaming platforms, powered by integer media juggernaut, BuzzFeed, Inc., and its portfolio of beloved brands — BuzzFeed, Tasty, HuffPost, and more. Led by manufacture seasoned Richard Alan Reid, BuzzFeed Studios develops, acquires, produces, distributes and markets genre-spanning scripted and unscripted programming covering film, series, video, animation, podcasts, vertical micro dramas, and licensing. A integer powerhouse that leverages insights and information from its monolithic planetary assemblage to make and marketplace premium, cost-efficient projects, BuzzFeed Studios drives originative excellence with contented built for today’s astir sought-after demographics.
About muVpix
muVpix is the flagship level of BlackForge Distribution and the archetypal American vertical micro-drama streaming app built for planetary audiences, combining premium accumulation values with fast-paced communicative plan optimized for mobile viewing.
Contact:
Lizzie Grams: PR@BuzzFeed.com
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