The world’s biggest YouTuber MrBeast is bringing his new Prime Video reality competition series Beast Games, with 1000 contestants and a $5 million prize, to Toronto this summer.
MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, has almost 300 million subscribers on his main channel. The American started posting on YouTube in 2012 at age 13 and went viral in 2017 with a video of him counting to 100,000. His high production videos of ever more elaborate challenges and giveaways as well as his business spinoffs has made him a mogul at age 26 — with an estimated net worth of $500 million.
Beast Games:
Working title: Project Greenlight.
Toronto filming dates: July 15 2024 – August 23 2024.
Producers: Jimmy Donaldson, Amazon MGM Studios.