Barbenheimer. Barbie, listed in our 2023 spring movie preview, and Oppenheimer, which was not, had yet to assert their primacy over the year’s box office and pop culture conversation.Few conceived those two films would spark a phenomenon that rippled through media, fashion, merchandising, music, and awards show after awards show after awards show.After all the hype and hot takes, red carpet looks, historic victories and milestones, the Barbenheimer convo only really finally abated with the Oscar wins that shuffled Barbie, Ken, and Oppy off the stage in March, ushering cinema into the spring/summer season.Now, new cinematic fascinations await, new soundtracks of the summer, your next new favorite character or performance, some star-making smash that’ll keep the world talking until 2025.
Rob McElhenney Launches New Company More Better Industries
12.03.2024 - 15:39 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Rob McElhenney has launched More Better Industries, a multi-faceted company which encompasses three dynamic entities: More Better Productions, More Better Advisory and More Better Ventures. He has appointed Jackie Cohn as the head of More Better Productions.
She previously ran television at Red Hour where she developed and executive produced Severance for Apple TV+, which earned fourteen Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. Cohn was also an executive producer on Apple TV+’s High Desert starring Patricia Arquette, the CW’s In the Dark, worked on Comedy Central’s hit shows Another Period and Big Time in Hollywood, FL, and executive produced the independent romantic comedy Plus One.
The company is a film, television, and multimedia company that expands upon McElhenney’s unique approach to worldbuilding by creating, developing and producing bold, human stories. More Better Productions has rapidly become a creative hub expanding across numerous genres and media platforms including HBO, Amazon, and Netflix, with over thirty film, television and docuseries in development.
In the wake of Welcome to Wrexham’s success, they are also building a slate of high-end scripted and unscripted sports content centering on the company’s core mission to uplift and enrich people’s lives through humor, heart, and community across the globe. More Better is already in business with some of the most exciting creative forces in the industry including Ryan Reynolds, Larry David, Elliot Page, and Nzingha Stewart, to name a few. More Better Production’s goal is to provide access and support to the next generation of creatives in the same spirit of the generosity McElhenney received in his early days in the industry.
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