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EXCLUSIVE: On Valentine’s Day, Dickinson producer wiip has found its next love story.
The company has struck a deal to adapt Naomi Shah’s hit romantic comedy podcast Meet Cute as a television series.
Meet Cute has produced over 400 romantic comedies as original 15-minute scripted audio episodes and has a global network of over 1,000 creators, including Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard, who created Cruise Ship for the company.
Meet Cute has also previously worked with Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough on a series.
Some of Meet Cute’s recent podcasts include Sweatpants Kinda Love, Christmas Time Machine and Camp Firefly. They tell of amusing or charming first encounters between two characters.
Former investment banker Shah launched the company on Valentine’s Day in 2020 and raised millions of dollars from the likes of Union Square Ventures.
The series, which will be exec produced by Shah alongside wiip’s Paul Lee and Mark Roybal, will be based on Meet Cute IP, although it’s not clear which stories will be featured in the project.
It is the latest podcast series to be adapted for the small-screen as Hollywood continues to step up its search for audio stories to reversion for television and film.
“There’s nothing better than a creative meet cute and that’s exactly what the first conversation with Mark and Nate felt like. Since day one, we have loved working with the wiip team, and dreaming up new ways to surprise and delight our audience in the world of rom-coms. Wiip has established themselves as excellent TV producers and we are excited about partnering with them to bring our brand of feel-good stories to screens,” said Shah.
“Meet Cute has become a global destination for smart, creative storytellers who tell timeless
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Dead Zone, the creature feature action movie starring Michael Jai White.
Sam Esmail’s adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 film Metropolis is finally coming to the small screen.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterSam Esmail’s “Metropolis” series has been greenlit at Apple, Variety has learned.The drama series is inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang sci-fi film of the same name. Hailed as one of the greatest and most influential films of the silent film era, the story takes place in the futuristic city of Metropolis.While the city’s wealthy elite enjoy a lavish life of comfort and ease in penthouses and pleasure gardens, scores of workers labor at dangerous machinery in the bowels of the city to keep everything running. Freder Fredersen, the son of the most powerful man in Metropolis, has an awakening after meeting a young worker named Maria and witnessing a number of workers die in an industrial accident.
Lorraine Kelly called Matt Hancock a "pound shop Milk Tray Man" as she took a swipe at his latest podcast.
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EXCLUSIVE: Police officer turned video game writer and technical director Morley Nelson (MIB: Alien Crisis, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct) is currently in production in Minnesota on Uncontained, a horror-thriller that he is directing from his original screenplay.
here is the link to get “CODA” tickets.Atlanta: Tinseltown 17 + XDAustin: Tinseltown 20 + XDBoston: Coolidge CornerChicago: Deer Park 16Cleveland: Valley View 24 + XDDallas: Cinemark West Plano 20Houston: Memorial City 16Las Vegas: Las Vegas Suncoast 16 + XDLos Angeles: Playa Vista 9 + XDMiami: Paradise 24 + XDNew York City: Alamo Drafthouse LibertyOrlando: Cinemark Orlando + XDPalm Springs: Rancho Mirage River 15 + XDPhoenix: Cinemark 16Sacramento: Cinemark Roseville Galleria Mall and XDSan Francisco: San Francisco Centre 9 + XDSeattle: Lincoln Square Cinema Bistro 22 with IMAXWashington, DC: Fairfax Corner 14 + XDUKLondon: Barbican CinemaThe film’s director Siân Heder will also be present at a live Q&A for the film for one of its screenings in Los Angeles, which will also have an interpreter present to translate into ASL.“CODA” first premiered at Sundance in 2021 and won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition, and over a year later on its road to a chance at a Best Picture win, the film has been nominated for three Oscars, including for Best Supporting Actor Troy Kotsur, who is the first Deaf male actor to ever be nominated for an Oscar. The only other Deaf actor to ever be nominated and subsequently win is Marlee Matlin, Kotsur’s co-star in “CODA.” “Every so often, a film comes along that strikes a deep emotional chord for audiences who celebrate its win for humanity.
Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up) has been named as the latest recipient of Film At Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPhil Rosenthal, creator of CBS’s “Everybody Loves Raymond” and host of Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil,” is about to get naked — metaphorically — for his first podcast.Rosenthal is teaming with SiriusXM’s Stitcher podcast division to launch “Naked Lunch,” a weekly talk-show podcast co-hosted with his friend and longtime Rolling Stone journalist David Wild. The show is slated to premiere this spring, available on all major podcast platforms.On the show, Rosenthal and Wild will be joined by a special guest to talk about what is going on in their lives — not just their most recent movie roles, books or special projects.
Kanye West has found himself in another online dispute, this time with rapper Kid Cudi.
Super Bowl LVI weekend.The former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and fiancée, star, Sharelle Rosado sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier on Friday to talk football, wedding planning, and their6-week-old daughter, Serenity."[I'm] very excited! For me, it's so funny, I’m more excited for the fans than anything. Thirty-one years," he says. «You know how long 31 years is? And I think about my decade during Cincinnati and having to deal with losing the seasons except maybe one or two, and I knew what it's like to always be losing.
A masterplan for a Tameside neighbourhood which could create nearly 2,000 new jobs has been unveiled.
Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith has opened up about his “unbelievable” experience meeting legendary late Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts.Speaking to NME for the latest Big Read, the Chili’s drummer also discussed his respect for the Stones’ staying power.“They’re still going man, still wheeling around,” said Smith. “I think because they were there in the very beginning of rock and roll or modern rock and roll anyway.
EXCLUSIVE: Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment (FME) has bolstered its slate for the virtual European Film Market (EFM) with several fresh titles.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn today’s podcast roundup, Cate Blanchett is launching a podcast about the climate-change crisis with Audible; Marvel and SiriusXM explore the origins of “Black Panther’s” T’Challa; Julie Bowen and Chad Sanders team up for “Quitters”; Snoop Dogg joins Shondaland Audio’s drama “#Matter”; and more.Audible, Amazon’s premium audio storytelling arm, has commissioned two seasons of original podcast “Climate of Change With Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy” from Blanchett’s Dirty Films production shingle (in association with StoryHunter). The show is co-created and co-hosted by Blanchett (“Don’t Look Up,” “Nightmare Alley”) and climate entrepreneur and activist Kennedy, CEO of nonprofit New Energy Nexus and managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund.
freelance cinematographer who’s worked on TV shows such as “Badland Wives” and “Every Other Weekend” and the upcoming documentary “1946.” But Landry said that while he doesn’t let what happened on that night in 1989 define him completely, it will always play a huge role in his psyche.Up until that night, he enjoyed a comfortable life, attending a private school with 12 students to a class and having adventures with the mother he adored.Noreen Schmid Boyle came from a working-class background in Philadelphia and worked as a dental hygienist while supporting her husband in medical school.In the few years before her death, she had a chance to enjoy the wealth that sprang from Jack Boyle’s burgeoning osteopath career. About one in every 13 Richland County residents was a patient at his medical practice, according to Landry.“My mother always took me shopping — I think that was her hobby,” Landry said.