Wonder Studios Relocates to Converted East London Church After $15M Funding Round

Wonder Studios has moved into new offices inside a converted neo-Gothic church in East London. The relocation comes one year after Xavier Collins and Justin Hackney founded the company with a mission to become the A24 of AI production. The company raised $15 million in funding to reach a $50 million valuation.

Investors include Atomico and ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski, Xavier Collins said. Collins came up through the tech world via spells at firms including Deliveroo. Hackney has mixed filmmaking with new tech during a career that included a spell at ElevenLabs.

The pair met when Collins collaborated with ElevenLabs to re-create the voice of French actor Alain Dorval, who dubbed for Sylvester Stallone. They decided to launch Wonder Studios over rosé in Cannes. Wonder Studios collaborated with Lewis Capaldi on the music video “Something in the Heavens,” which was produced using Google tools.

6 million views and received 26,000 likes. Fifteen artists worked on the Lewis Capaldi “Something in the Heavens” music video. Justin Hackney said that not a single shot in the video could have been filmed traditionally within the video’s budget.

The company ran an AI filmmaking scheme mentored by Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle also mentored the Black Mirror-style YouTube anthology series Beyond the Loop, whose Season 2 is coming in 2026. Wonder Studios developed production workflow technology.

It produced re-creation scenes for the upcoming documentary The Real Wolf of Wall Street about Jordan Belfort. ” Hackney added that the demand for AI content is only going to grow. ” Deadline reported that though the church is home, it is not a place of worship in the traditional sense, but Wonder does believe in the higher power of artificial intelligence.