Vice Studios hires Fremantle, Bad Wolf alum

Amy Powell’s Vice Studios has hired former Fremantle and Bad Wolf exec Jeff Boone to work across its scripted slate.

Boone is taking on the role of vice president of global scripted film & TV at the company, having worked for two years across Fremantle US’s scripted slate, departing in May.

He had previously spent more than five years at Bad Wolf, latterly as vice president of development, and before that had a similar stint at Entertainment One.

The appointment, revealed by Boone on LinkedIn, is the latest expansion for Vice Studios, which named former Paramount and Amazon exec Powell to oversee operations in summer 2025.

Since then, Powell has reshuffled its UK arm and brought the scripted operations of Gangs of London label Pulse Films into Vice Studios.

Former SunnyMarch TV development chief Claire Marshall was upped to head of international scripted, having joined Pulse in 2024, and is also behind Guy Ritchie’s crime drama Capital for Amazon MGM Studios UK.

At the same time as the UK reshuffle, film producer Adam Kassan was hired to lead global scripted development and two vice-presidents of scripted were appointed, with Eben Davidson based out of LA and Dakota DeBellis located in New York.

The company has also expanded its unscripted ranks, hiring former Remarkable co-MD Cat Lawson earlier this year and promoting Joe Ingham to creative director for the genre.

The reorganisation, which now sees much of the team based out of the UK, came three years after parent company Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy.

It was sold to a debtholder consortium in a £275m deal, before restructuring its global operations, resulting in redundancies and being wholly owned by Fortress Investment Group, Soros Capital Management and Monroe Capital.

Vice Studios revealed last year that it would invest up to £374m ($500m) in original content across scripted, unscripted and branded content over the next three to five years.