EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominee Alex Buono (Documentary Now!, Russian Doll) has been tapped as producing director and will direct the pilot of Peacock’s Based on a True Story from Craig Rosenberg.
19.10.2022 - 00:39 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Campside Media, the company behind the popular Chameleon podcast series, which documented the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The story, which is based on reporting from Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, is being lined up as the sixth season of the Chameleon podcast.
However, in a new twist, the company is also simultaneously developing a television adaptation and has teamed up with Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, who have worked on shows such as Ally McBeal and Entourage, to pen the small-screen adaptation.
The Michigan Plot details exactly what happened beyond the initial headlines that told the world the FBI had narrowly thwarted a kidnapping attempt against the governor of Michigan. What the Justice Department called the first step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow the government – turned out to be something very different once Garrison and Bensinger started digging in.
Far from disciplined killers, the men accused of the heinous crime were in fact loudmouth stoner goofballs who spun wild fantasies, focused largely on bodybuilding and drinking beer, and in some cases seemed blissfully unaware that they were even engaged in a plot at all. One lived in the basement of a vacuum cleaner store and had to go to the Mexican restaurant next door every time he wanted to use the bathroom. On top of that, the FBI built its case on a series of confidential informants who themselves could not stop committing crimes and engaging in bizarre behavior. Even some of the FBI agents themselves were caught in uncomfortable situations. It was ugly and embarrassing
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominee Alex Buono (Documentary Now!, Russian Doll) has been tapped as producing director and will direct the pilot of Peacock’s Based on a True Story from Craig Rosenberg.
A missing family of four has been found safe… maybe not so sound?
Since Welcome to Plathville first premiered, the Plath family have dealt with their fair share of ups and downs.
Kim Plath’s wild ride.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Band of Brothers” writer Bruce McKenna is teaming with David Broyles (“Six”) and Nick Jones Jr. (“Yasuke”) to write and produce a limited TV series “Buffalo Rangers” about the 2nd Ranger Company, the only all-Black special operations combat unit in U.S. history. They were notable for their efforts in the Korean War. The series is being produced by South Korea-based Moving Pictures Company, which has a growing English-language slate. No broadcaster or streamer has been announced. Producing alongside Broyles, Jones and McKenna are Thomas Suh (through his production company Système D Entertainment), Paul Merryman (“The Outpost”), Debra Martin Chase (“Harriet,” CBS’s “The Equalizer”) and Jariko Denman (“The Outpost”), a retired master sergeant with 15 combat deployments.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing All Her Little Secrets, a one-hour limited series drama based on Wanda M. Morris’ bestselling novel, starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Uzo Aduba. The project hails from writer Aurin Squire (Evil) who penned the pilot, Deniese Davis’ Reform Media Group and CBS Studios, where both Aduba and Squire are under overall deals.
Amy Winehouse‘s life is in the works.It comes after Halcyon Studio bought the rights to the bestselling book Saving Amy by Daphne Barak, with reports suggesting they plan to turn it into an eight-part show.The series will follow the singer’s relationships, including with her family and father Mitch, as well as her talent and her battle with drug addiction.Writer Mal Young is set to adapt the book, which itself charts six months that Barak and producer Erbil Gunasti spent with Winehouse and her family.“Although her career was cut far too short, Amy was the voice of a generation and we look forward to telling her story in the most poignant way possible,” said Halcyon Studio chief executive David Ellender (via MailOnline).Winehouse died in 2011 aged just 27.
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this weekend in what’s being considered a potential preview for a 2024 or 2028 presidential run. Harris attended several events in Detroit to campaign on behalf of Whitmer and Lt.
A judge dismissed a female juror accused of flirting with one of the defendants charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over COVID-19-era lockdown measures. Jackson County Judge Thomas Wilson announced Friday that the woman has been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys raised concerns the juror was having too much non-verbal communication with defendant Paul Bellar, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported.
A 15-year-old girl in Detroit, Michigan, fatally stabbed her mother during an argument in front of their home, according to police. The two were in an argument wielding knives on Thursday when the victim's father drove up and witnessed the incident, Detroit Police said.The victim, 41, was rushed to the hospital by her father. The mother had suffered stab wounds to the neck and chest and would succumb to her injuries.
Legislators in Michigan are mulling a bill that would classify allowing minors to go through gender transition procedures as child abuse. The legislation, known as House Bill 6454 and introduced by Republicans on Tuesday, states that "a person is guilty of child abuse in the first degree" if a "person knowingly or intentionally consents to, obtains, or assists with a gender transition procedure for a child." In the bill, a "person" is described as the parent or guardian of a child or a licensed medical professional.
A local Fox affiliate reported on the "unexpected alliance" between conservatives and Arab Americans in standing up to public school boards in Michigan that are stocking "explicit" LGBTQ books in school libraries. The report detailed the attendance of concerned conservative and Arab American parents at a Dearborn, Michigan public school board meeting Thursday night to protest "having LGBTQ+ books on the library’s rolls saying they’re sexually explicit." Fox 2 said, "Their presence was a nod to the unexpected alliance of sorts between conservatives and many in the Arab American community as their interests overlap on this issue." Michigan parents protest school board over explicit books in school library. (Fox News) Republican Michigan attorney general candidate Matthew Deperno, in attendance that evening, commented on this united front.
Former President Barack Obama is traveling to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin this month to stump for Democratic candidates weeks before the midterm elections. First, on Oct. 28, he heads to Atlanta, where Stacey Abrams is making another gubernatorial run against incumbent rival Gov.
LANSING, Mich. – Less than a month until November’s gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Tudor Dixon is urging voters to hold the state’s Democratic governor accountable for rising crime rates. "It's a problem.
A Catholic Church in Michigan was vandalized with spray paint by three vandals last weekend. Security footage shows three vandals dressed in black approach the Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan, on foot. "Our hope and our prayer is that those who did this to our parish church are not just brought to justice but are also brought to conversion, brought to an encounter with the love of Jesus, brought to a realization that anger corrodes the soul while life in Christ brings only freedom, peace and healing.That's our hope.That’s our prayer," parish pastor Steve Mattson said Wednesday.
Tensions heated up at a school board meeting in a suburb of Detroit when parents blasted "sexually explicit" books in the school library. Dearborn Public Schools held a meeting on Thursday to address parents’ concerns over books and curriculum. This meeting came after a tumultuous school board meeting on Monday was cut short due to a crowd of rowdy parents taking issue with how the district decides if a book is appropriate for the school library.
A man who made a video describing abortion as genocide has pleaded guilty to arson for a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwestern Michigan, a prosecutor said. Joshua Brereton, 25, of Paw Paw faces a Feb. 6, 2023, sentencing after entering the plea, U.S.
A Michigan teenager allegedly jumped over the retaining wall of a freeway and fell 25 to 30 feet after running out of gas in an allegedly stolen Mustang during a police chase on Wednesday evening, the Brownstown Police Department said. The suspect was transported to a local hospital and did not appear to have any life-threatening injuries. The nearby Woodhaven Police Department originally put out an alert that three Mustang Shelby GT500s had been stolen from the Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant around 7 p.m.