New Wave Entertainment

New Wave Entertainment (NWE) is an employee-owned entertainment marketing and post-production company based in Burbank, California. Founded in 1986, it develops promotional campaigns and finishes audiovisual materials for motion picture studios, television networks and streaming platforms. Its work spans theatrical trailers, television spots, streaming launch promotions and digital campaigns.

The company began as a boutique post-production and creative marketing agency, developing an on-demand approach to television spot finishing for clients requiring rapid turnaround. It subsequently expanded into trailer creative, sound mixing, online editorial and digital marketing. Its principal operations bring creative campaign development and technical finishing together within the same business.

Creative campaigns and finishing

NWE Finishing provides 4K, UHD and HD online editorial, conforming, color grading and audio post-production. Its services include sound design, stereo and 5.1 mixing, quality control, transcoding, mastering and frame-rate or broadcast standards conversions. These capabilities support promotional materials prepared for theatrical, broadcast and streaming distribution, including Interoperable Master Format delivery.

X|AV, also known as Project X A/V, is NWE's in-house trailer and teaser brand. It creates theatrical trailers, broadcast spots and launch promotions for film, streaming and gaming releases. The company's broader marketing capabilities include digital one-sheets, social media activations and interactive strategy, with digital, social and mobile work also represented by its hi5.agency sub-brand.

NWE serves entertainment clients including Disney, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Netflix and Hulu. Its reported project work includes marketing or finishing for films such as Toy Story 4, Frozen II, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Venom, alongside television and streaming promotions. These credits concern promotional and post-production work rather than production of the underlying films or programmes.

In 2019, the company transitioned from private partner ownership to a 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan. It continues to operate as an independent enterprise owned collectively through that employee ownership structure.