WE BUILD VERY BIG ENTERTAINMENT WORLDS
Very Big World is an intellectual property development and production company. Our focus is developing stories into global multi-channel entertainment properties that fans love. We partner with media companies to finance, produce, market and distribute our entertainment. We also enjoy collaborating with studios and IP owners to build their IP’s storyworld, expanding and deepening the entertainment potential for their properties.
GIRLS UNDERSTANDING GIRLS
One of our true passions is to secure and develop content that speaks to girls, especially tween and teen girls, in a meaningful way. We are a female founded and led company on a mission to empower and inspire girls to be strong and bold, to chase their dreams and make their own marks on the world.
Our heroines are brave, smart and strong - girls that girls can relate to and be inspired by. We tell stories that validate all that she goes through and feels, especially in her tween and teen years. Our stories encourage her to find her voice, and our beloved characters help her to define who she is and what she might want to do with her amazing life.
We are tapping into our inner girl in order to bring forth a new era of entertainment for girls.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT REINVENTED
We believe that stories should engage audiences across multiple mediums. We build intellectual property ecosystems with a robust storyworld as their foundation. Rooted in authenticity, our story-first strategy maximizes audience engagement and delivers an original world-building fan experience across entertainment, publishing, interactive, experiences, products and much more.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXPANSION
Very Big World Entertainment collaborates with Intellectual Property (IP) owners to unleash the potential of their intellectual properties within entertainment and other story-driven mediums. We partner with IP owners to create new opportunities, and to position them to succeed in today's cross-channel world. Our unique development process and creative services help IP owners find authentic storylines for their brands that can be expressed across many mediums, expanding the ways they can reach and connect with consumers.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Suzie Domnick has collaborated with some of the world’s most talented writers, directors and producers building globally recognized entertainment brands including Harry Potter, Stranger Things and Star Trek. Prior to founding Very Big World Entertainment, Suzie worked in senior executive roles at Netflix, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. Suzie is applying her unparalleled knowledge, experience and passion for entertainment to developing inspiring content for modern, bold girls.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
EMILY WINDSNAP
16-year-old Emily Windsnap just found out that she is half-mermaid - um, like, kinda cool!! But that discovery comes with a big problem - her legs now turn into a tail whenever she gets into the water - and swim class is mandatory at her school! When Emily starts to look for answers, the search for her hidden past leads to undersea adventures beyond her wildest dreams. Based on the New York Times bestselling series by Liz Kessler, this thrilling coming-on-age adventure story has been inspiring readers for a decade and is now being developed as an entertainment franchise.
PHILIPPA FISHER Pilot written by Vicki Lutas & Anna McCleery
Be careful what you wish for! The lives of two teen girls from vastly different worlds beautifully collide in Philippa Fisher. The fates of a nerdy British school girl and a rebellious fairy godsister become entwined in a captivating story that plays out both on earth and in a futuristic high-tech fairy realm. Will they find a way to befriend each other to thwart a growing dark magic force and complete Daisy’s assignment before a life-threatening deadline? A teen focused supernatural adventure series inspired by Liz Kessler’s globally renowned book series, Philippa Fisher.
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY! Written by Morgan Dameron
Fight For Your Right to Party! is a hilarious, whip-smart genre-bending twist on the teen prom film. The script, written by super talented and award-winning Morgan Dameron, is imaginative, funny, and at times wonderfully scary, in the best way. Morgan beautifully captures the emotions and relationships, the rebellion and life struggles of these mid-western teens, especially as the high point of their senior year is threatened.
UNIBROW Written by Diana Aydin
Unibrow is a hilarious comedy adventure series that is full of heart. Cursed with an uncontrollable unibrow, a plucky 10-year-old girl named MeMe must learn to control her uni-powers or risk bringing shame to her family … by being sent to a boarding school for the terribly hairy.
SUZIE HICKS THE CLIMATE CHICK Created by Suzie Hicks
An environmental educator and her lovable puppet demystifies climate change by traveling the world to explore local climate solutions that empower young children to care for the Earth and themselves.
A LENS INTO THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISES
The Franchise Report is a new entertainment industry voice that is the first of its kind to provide a focused look at the world of Entertainment Franchises.
Whether they originated as an entertainment series or film, a published work, a toy or a video game, franchises have become the coveted crown jewels for long-term studio growth and revenue.
Led by an industry executive who has been instrumental in building some of the largest globally recognized intellectual properties of our time, The Franchise Report will be a key source for insights, knowledge, expertise and discussion around past, present and future franchises.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS & NEWS
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TWEEN & TEEN GIRLS SPEND MORE HOURS EVERY DAY WATCHING ENTERTAINMENT THAN ANYONE ELSE - SO WHY ARE THEY UNDERSERVED?
Teens spend an average of nine hours a day in front of a screen, and several of those hours are for entertainment. Yet finding content for teen girls can be challenging. They want relatable yet fascinating storylines, imperfect characters and new worlds within which they can become lost, or at least distracted enough from their digital life to put down their phone for a while. A lot of early teens feel peer pressure to watch the latest buzz-worthy young adult (YA) films and series yet that entertainment is often beyond what is best for kids at that age, emotionally and mentally speaking. As an industry, we aren’t giving kids in their early teens the entertainment they want.
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Double Emmy Award Winning Writers Vicki Lutas and Anna McCleery to Pen the Philippa Fisher Pilot
The Philippa Fisher pilot is being written by the amazing double Emmy winning British writing team, Vicki Lutas and Anna McCleery for Very Big World Entertainment. When I was at Netflix I was fortunate to work with Vicki and Anna on Free Rein, a series they created, wrote and Executive Produced for the streamer.