Collage

A Beverly Hills management and investment company that represents AI-first production studios and connects them with traditional Hollywood studios, streamers, filmmakers and brands.

Collage was founded in July 2026 by Dante DeSario, a former UTA agent, and Michael Lambert, a media investor who had worked in UTA's independent film group before leaving in March. DeSario says the idea began in February 2024, when he saw an early demo of OpenAI's Sora and met filmmakers experimenting with it. The firm has five full-time employees and roughly a dozen part-time staffers, and has closed an undisclosed seed round backed by Black Bear and Fundamental Films, with Dennis Miller, Blue Deer Media, GOAL Ventures, AGC Studios, Roy Lee, Marty Bowen, Todd Lieberman and others named as investors and advisers.

Its services include helping clients navigate guilds, studio decision-makers and copyright questions, analysing scripts to suggest which scenes suit generative AI, a hybrid approach or traditional methods, back-office and business-development support, and selective investment in companies in its network. Initial clients named by the trades include Asteria (Bryn Mooser's studio), Native Foreign, Obsidian, DEFECT, Matriarch and Jason Zada's Secret Level; the outlets' client lists differ.