The H Collective


The H Collective is a United States-based film finance, production, marketing and distribution company. The company has Chinese and American backers. The H Collective is based in Los Angeles, California.

History

The company was launched during the 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival with the goal of financing and/or producing four films a year in its first four years. In the following September, the company hired as CEO Nic Crawley, who was the president of international marketing and distribution for Paramount Pictures. The company subsequently hired Jenna Sanz-Ageroas as EVP Business Affairs and Operations and Ivy Sun as CFO. The company is financially backed by Chinese brothers Kenneth Huang and Kent Huang as well as other Chinese and American backers.
The H Collective acquired in April 2018 the rights to the XXX film series from Revolution Studios with plans to finance and produce a fourth installment. Later in April, the company partnered with Sony Pictures to market and distribute H Collective's films. In the same month, Sherryl Clark was hired as H Collective's President of Production. Sanz-Agero was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, and Sun was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer. Del Mayberry replaced Sun as the CFO. In the following May, H Collective partnered with the online video platform company iQiyi to co-produce three films.
In May 2019, The H Collective secured investment funding from the Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company Rakuten. By the following August, The H Collective partnered with Rakuten to establish two new entities: the joint venture film production entity Rakuten H Collective Studio and the distribution company Rakuten Distribution. The first film to be produced under the partnership is The Beast, based on a Black List script by Aaron W. Sala, which was acquired in March 2018 by The H Collective in a mid-six figure deal. Morena Baccarin was cast in the starring role, and Espen Sandberg was hired to direct the film. Filming was planned to start in New Zealand in late March 2020, but due to concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic there, production was temporarily halted.

Filmography