Gone too young. TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died, Us Weekly confirms. He was 19.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaQuiver Distribution got into the business of producing its own movies out of necessity. “Our goal was to go out and acquire all rights to films and exploit them on as many media as possible,” says Barry Meyerowitz, the company’s co-founder. “But we found out that we couldn’t find as many high quality feature films as we needed, so we started making our own.
We had to pivot our model. In order to be in control of our destiny we had to start putting these movies together.”It’s a lesson that other companies have been forced to learn. The rise of streaming services such as Netflix and Apple TV+ and HBO Max has resulted in boom times for content creators, one that’s seen the cost of buying finished movies grow exponentially.
But it’s also left smaller players without the financial resources to land the hottest movies. “There wasn’t enough and when there was good stuff, the competition made the prices stupid,” says Jeff Sackman, the company’s other co-founder.So right before the pandemic hit, Quiver Distribution jumped into developing and creating its own movies. And it’s been able to field an impressive array of films, such as Walter Hill’s western “Dead for a Dollar” with Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, and Rachel Brosnahan; Neil LaBute’s “Out of the Blue” with Diane Kruger, and the recently released “As They Made Us,” which marks the directorial debut of “The Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik and stars Dianna Agron, Simon Helberg and Candice Bergen.
Most of the budgets are under $10 million and the genres lean towards action and thrillers. Most boast stars with international recognition. There’s something else that differentiates Quiver and requires them to ask tough
.Gone too young. TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died, Us Weekly confirms. He was 19.
Gone too soon. Jack Wagner’s youngest child, son Harrison Wagner, died on Monday, June 6. He was 27.
as she often does. "Saying goodbye to my 211,000 Twitter followers… this is for you, trolls," she wrote. "It's like having a toxic boyfriend.
Jeff Sagansky, a media investor and producer and former top entertainment executive, is sounding the alarm on the adverse impact the now prevalent “cost plus” business model has had on profit participation. The setup, originally introduced by Netflix and subsequently adopted by most major streamers and TV studios, reverses a decades-long practice of above-the-line talent on hit series being handsomely rewarded with a cut of the profits that continues to generate income for decades after the show’s creation.
Max George has detailed the physical pain he’s been feeling as a result of him dealing with the loss of his best friend Tom Parker. Tom, who was one fifth of the band The Wanted, tragically passed away aged 33 in March after being diagnosed with a brain tumour 18 months earlier. He’s survived by his wife Kelsey, 32, and their two young kids Aurelia, two, and Bodhi, one.
"Real Housewives of Orange County" alum Kelly Dodd is facing backlash after she compared the Ulvade, Texas school shooting to 9/11 on Saturday. Dodd, 46, shared an image on Twitter that read, "After 9-11 we didn’t ban planes. We secured the cockpits.
Master P and his family are in mourning.
George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
Busy Philipps has been keeping a secret, at least from the public, for over a year.On her "Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best" podcast, the actress revealed that she and her husband, Marc Silverstein, quietly separated in February 2021."It's been a really long time that Marc and I have been separated, and our kids know, our families know, our friends know," she said. "And we really discussed, like, how do I handle it sort of publicly? Because when we first separated, it was, like, February of last year."The "Dawson's Creek" alum and Marc decided against issuing a statement a year ago about the split.
EXCLUSIVE: Film Mode Entertainment has picked up international rights for All My Friends Are Dead, the latest horror from Saw 3D and Saw VI director Kevin Greutert.
Trigger warning: this article discusses sexual assault.As Alison Daddo was writing her book about the life-changing experience of menopause, she knew there was one very personal story that she would have to share for the first time if she was to be “honest about who I was”.But after 35 years and quite a few therapy sessions, Alison felt she was in a place of enough strength and power to finally open up about the traumatic sexual assault she endured as a teenage model.“I’ve never talked about it before,” she shares with WHO. “It was a big decision… but I felt like it played such an integral part of who I was as a young girl that I had to write about it.“I had silenced myself in so many ways from a young girl into my 20s and into my 30s as well, but once I hit 46, 47, 48, I thought, ‘I actually can’t put a stopper in this anymore.’”"I felt like it played such an integral part of who I was as a young girl that I had to write about it."The former Dolly cover girl, who every Australian woman of a certain vintage grew up with, decided to open up about the brutal rape as she penned her first book, Queen Menopause: Finding Your Majesty in the Mayhem.When she was just 17 and working as a model in Japan, she was at a party when she was grabbed, shoved into a closet and groped before a stranger came to her rescue.
family will look a little bit different in season 3! Netflix announced on Thursday that the popular series is recasting the titular family's second-youngest daughter, Francesca Bridgerton, for the upcoming season.The role has been played by Ruby Stokes in first two seasons, however, Francesca had only two brief appearances in season 1 and was featured in just a few episodes of the recently released season 2. star Hannah Dodd is taking over the role moving forward, with production on season 3 set to begin in London this summer. The recasting is due in part to Stokes' starring role in Netflix's upcoming series an adaptation of Jonathan Stroud's supernatural series.Fans of the book series know that even there, Francesca can get a bit lost within her bustling family of eight children. Caught in between her older and younger siblings, Netflix describes the quiet, musically talented character as «a bit of a mystery within her chatty, extroverted family.
EXCLUSIVE: Anne Heche (13 Minutes), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and McKaley Miller (Ma) will topline Full Ride, an upcoming horror-thriller from directors Jerren Lauder (The Inhabitant) and Beth Hanna (The Reappearance), which has wrapped production in Georgia. Quiver Distribution holds worldwide rights and is planning an early 2023 release.
, Blake Goza and Jamie Dooner also executive produce.The eight-episode series stars Condor as Erika Vu; Zoe Colletti as Gia; Mason Versaw as Jake C., Aparna Brielle as Riley; Tenzing Norgay Trainor as Gavin; and Jason Genao as Devon.Check out all the new photos below:
Jordan Moreau U.K. actor Hannah Dodd will take over the role of Francesca Bridgerton from Ruby Stokes in the upcoming Season 3 of Netflix’s hit romantic series “Bridgerton.”Stokes is exiting the role, in which she only appeared in the first two seasons a handful of times, because she’s the lead of another Netflix series, “Lockwood & Co.”The recasting signals that Dodd’s Francesca Bridgerton could enjoy more screen time in the new seasons.