GammaTime, the microdrama platform founded by former Miramax CEO Bill Block, has entered a co-financing and co-production partnership with COL Group International and its streaming platform FlareFlow to develop four microseries.
The companies said the collaboration is intended to combine Hollywood-style genre storytelling with mobile-first short-form production and audience analytics as the microdrama sector continues to expand globally.
“As part of this collaboration, GammaTime has licensed FlareFlow’s hit She Means Justice and co-produced a sequel, with three more co-productions on the way,” the companies said in a statement. The original She Means Justice is currently streaming on GammaTime, while She Means Justice 2 is slated to debut May 29.
According to the official logline, She Means Justice follows “legendary undefeated attorney Samantha Maddock” as she confronts a powerful client after her pregnant daughter is threatened. The sequel centres on “a mother – once the architect who designed the prison holding her wrongfully condemned daughter – [who] gets herself incarcerated and uses her knowledge of the building’s hidden flaws to engineer an impossible breakout before the execution clock runs out.”
“Microdrama is moving beyond format innovation into a phase of creative standardisation and global scalability,” said Fiona Li, studio head and general manager of COL Media US. “What’s been missing is a development model that integrates Hollywood storytelling discipline with real-time audience data at scale. This partnership is designed to close that gap – not just to produce content, but to define what globally viable microdrama looks like.”
Launched in April 2025, FlareFlow said it has grown to more than 33 million subscribers across 170 countries, with programming focused on romance, family conflict and revenge-driven narratives tailored for mobile viewing.
James Wang, CEO of FlareFlow, said the new partnership is focused on expanding the scope of the format. “This is about expanding creative ambition. Working with GammaTime allows us to combine Hollywood’s genre craftsmanship with FlareFlow’s global distribution engine and data intelligence. We believe the next evolution of microdrama lies in genre expansion – thrillers, crime and elevated romance – developed from day one with global audiences in mind.”
“Microdrama has proven its speed and scalability,” said Slava Mudrykh, co-founder and CRO of GammaTime. “What excites us about partnering with FlareFlow is the opportunity to bring elevated genre storytelling into a platform that already operates at global scale. Together, we can test how far the format can go creatively and build something that didn’t exist before.”
