Kevin Mayer & Tom Staggs’ Candle Media Hires UK Development Boss For True Stories Label

which stars Paul Dano as Gill, and Pete Davidson as his brother, Kevin. The upcoming comedy-drama, directed by 's Craig Gillespie, was adapted from the book by Ben Mezrich.Shailene Woodley co-stars as Keith's wife, Caroline, while America Ferrera plays Jennifer Campbell, a viewer of Keith's YouTube channel and follower of his stock tips, and Anthony Ramos stars as a GameStop clerk who also gets in on the action.On the other side of things, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nick Offerman and Seth Rogen play the hedge fund managers who are blindsided by the short squeeze, while Sebastian Stan stars as Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of trading site Robinhood.«You got rich dudes pissing in their pants right now,» Kevin warns Keith in the trailer. «They're coming after you.»Watch the full red band trailer and read the synopsis below:Dumb Moneyis in theaters Sept.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “The Flash,” now playing in theaters. “I finally got to see Nic Cage be Superman. It has been an absolute delight for me,” Kevin Smith recently told Rolling Stone about watching “The Flash.” The film and that Cage-as-Superman cameo near the end is a full circle moment for Smith, who was the screenwriter of the studio’s infamous “Superman Lives.” After launching the Batman movie franchise for Warner Bros. to great success, Tim Burton turned his attention towards Superman in 1998 with the development of “Superman Lives.” Smith penned the script, which focused on Superman’s fight against Doomsday. Despite spending over $30 million on the film’s casting and pre-production, Warner Bros. pulled the plug on “Superman Lives” due to creative differences.

Automatik, the production company behind “La La Land,” is merging with Range Media Players, TheWrap has confirmed. As part of the merger, Automatik executives Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named partners and co-presidents of film and production at Range.

EXCLUSIVE: The prolific film/TV production company Automatik has completed a merger with Range Media Partners, a deal that will further expand Range’s production capabilities and slate ambitions.

TikTok and Candle Media have entered a strategic partnership wherein Candle Media’s business units will create custom creator-focused opportunities for the TikTok platform’s users.Chiefly, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine (which Candle Media acquired in 2021) will help elevate underrepresented indie authors of the #BookTok community. Authors will be able to support the development of film, TV, and audio projects.“TikTok continues to experience explosive growth and has become a critical platform for storytelling and marketing,” said Kevin Mayer & Tom Staggs, Candle Media’s co-founders and co-CEOs.

Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media has struck a partnership with TikTok, with an initial focus on Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to uncover underrepresented independent authors and literary material from the #BookTok community.

Kevin Spacey is feeling optimistic about making a career comeback if he’s cleared of the sexual assault allegations brought against him in London.

Talks have already begun for a fourth MCU “Spider-Man” movie.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Film & Media Institute has today named the student filmmakers selected to participate this summer in the fifth cycle of its Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program, a six-week initiative helping to launch students into the media workforce.

While there’s no argument that Tom Holland is best known for playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and its sequels, there’s another performance that continues to resonate with viewers: his 2017 appearance on “Lip Sync Battle”.

Spoilers for season 1 of . Now that most audiences have gotten through all eight episodes of, it begs the question: Will there be a season 2? While nothing is officially confirmed, Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman and other stars of the comedic crime thriller are certainly down for more. And given all the cliffhangers in the finale, it would be more shocking if creator Craig Rosenberg's true-crime satire didn't get renewed for another season. Before we get into what the cast has to say about returning for more episodes and how some of those cliffhangers could be addressed in season 2 as well as Cuoco's one condition for her character, Ava, who was expecting her first child with husband, Nathan (Messina), in season 1, here's a brief recap of what went down in season 1.  Over the course of the first eight episodes, the true-crime obsessed Ava and Nathan Bartlett tried to turn personal and financial problems around by blackmailing the Westside Ripper into doing a true-crime podcast about his murders after discovering his true identity. It turns out, their local plumber, Matt Pierce (Bateman), was the Los Angeles-based serial killer.

Spoilers for, including the serial killer's identity and other key moments from season 1. Now streaming on Peacock, season 1 of mixes humor with sex and thrills to deliver a witty satire of the true-crime genre. At the center of creator Craig Rosenberg's series are Ava (Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan (Chris Messina) Bartlett, a married couple struggling to keep it together who decide to blackmail a serial killer in order to launch a podcast in hopes of solving their personal and financial problems. Known as the Westside Ripper, it's quickly revealed that the murderer terrorizing Los Angeles is a brooding yet smoldering local plumber named Matt Pierce (Tom Bateman), who was hired to do some handiwork at the Bartlett's home while also befriending the couple.

The European Commission has given the greenlight for French conglom Vivendi’s acquisition of the Lagardère Group.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, Features Documentarian Emily Wachtel met Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward when she was two years old. They were neighbors in Westport. Conn, the dearest of family friends. “I knew them my whole life,” says Wachtel. “They are the reason I am in film.”  Wachtel, producer of CNN’s six-part docuseries “The Last Movie Stars,” which paints a sweeping, intimate, romantic portrait of the life, love and careers of Newman and Woodward, describes her childhood with the famed couple as if something out of a suburban New England dream.  “They were incredible people,” says Wachtel. “I was so young when I met them, and I didn’t understand what a movie star was at the time. But part of that is because they were so real. They’d pick you up to go to birthday parties, Joanne made sweaters. They had this big, beautiful barn on the property and they would entertain almost every weekend. Not in a formal way, but with everyone. Not necessarily actors. It was neighbors and friends from all walks of life. They would have everybody over and make hamburgers. They screened movies. I saw a lot of old movies with them, from ‘Lady in the Tramp’ to ‘The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.’ It was just part of the fabric of that household. And it was a gift.” 

Peacock’s true-crime spoof “Based On a True Story” strikes a personal chord with the actress/comedian.“I was fascinated with true crime when I was a teenager,” Alfa, 43, told The Post. “I’m interested in people and the way they live their lives, so when something is outside of the norm it’s fascinating to me.“I’ve watched documentaries on different serial killers and now I have two young kids and as soon as I got pregnant it was like I was allergic to it,” she said.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Forest,” an Italian eco-themed animation film about deforestation, has scored some strong pre-sales for Rome-based True Colours at the Cannes Marché du film. The still-in-production 3-D animation feature – the protagonist of which is a young mushroom named Fey – has been picked up for roughly 20 territories by Top Film Distribution which will distribute “Forest” in Ukraine, CIS, the Baltics, and Eastern European countries including former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, and Hungary.  Helmed by Luca Della Grotta and Francesco Dafano, the film is produced by Italy’s AI One, the same team that previously spawned 2020 similarly themed animation feature “Trash” that sold in more than 30 countries. 

from playing the lovable girl next door as Penny in to her more gritty character in, it seems everything the incredibly talented actress Kaley Cuoco touches turns to gold. Her latest role in Peacock's  looks as if it will be no different. Created by the executive producer of Prime Video's hit series  Craig Rosenberg and  and  star Jason Bateman,  is a new binge-worthy comedy — starring  and s Chris Messina alongside Cuoco — inspired by real events.

, which ran for two seasons on Max, Kaley Cuoco is returning to the world of crime in the new Peacock original series,. Created by showrunner Craig Rosenberg, the comedic thriller follows a down-on-their-luck married couple who find themselves crossing paths with an infamous serial killer and attempt to turn their fortune around by trying to convince the murderer into doing a true-crime podcast with them.

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It’s hard to watch characters as aggressively inconsistent and generally stupid as Ava and Nathan Bartlett for a whole season. The two leads of Craig Rosenberg’s new Peacock thriller/comedy make dumb decision after dumb decision, and most of them, well, don’t ring true.