Overview
- Reports published over the weekend say Wild State will cease operations after four years and its website now displays the word “expired.”
- Staff were reportedly told of the wind-down first by Hemsworth’s CAA agent Ida Ziniti and lawyer Matt Galsor and then by Hemsworth himself, and they were assured payroll through the end of 2026.
- Several projects now face uncertain futures, including an exclusive slate tied to the Tatts Finke Desert Race and other scripted and unscripted developments that had been in early stages.
- Wild State was founded in 2022 with producer Ben Grayson, held a National Geographic first-look deal that produced the series Limitless, and worked on projects linked to Netflix, Amazon and Apple.
- Industry sources describe the closure as a managed wind-down rather than abrupt layoffs, and the next steps to watch are formal statements, rights transfers for in-development projects, and whether partners pick up unfinished work.