Breaking Baz: Rebel Wilson Scores Record Label Deal With Warner Music; First Album Will Be Soundtrack From Her Directorial Debut
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Rebel Wilson has signed with Warner Music and will have her own highly personalized label: Rebellionaire. “Take the ‘b’ out of billionaire and replace it with an ‘r’ for Rebel,” she quipped.
The recording group partnered with Wilson after hearing songs from her feature directorial debut The Deb, a musical set in Australia that is set to begin shooting Down Under in October.
Rebellionaire’s first release will be The Deb’s soundtrack, due out later next year with the film’s launch. Wilson was introduced to The Deb 3½ years ago through a scholarship program that she supports at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). “Basically, one young person wins it and then I mentor them for a year,” she explained. “And as part of it, they have to pitch a show and write the show and hopefully finish it by the end of the year.” The very first one was an Australian musical called Fan Girls, which, according to Wilson and others, went gangbusters.
It was lightbulb moment for Wilson. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, hang on, I think I’ve got something here…’” New contracts were set up with ATYP allowing Wilson to investigate productions that came via her scholarship that were worthy of further development for stage, TV or movies.
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