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Alex Cooper, host of popular podcast Call Her Daddy, and Matt Kaplan, producer of young-skewing hit properties like XO Kitty, have launched a new media venture aimed at Generation Z.

Netflix has expanded the Season 2 cast for To All The Boys spinoff series XO, Kitty, as production gets underway in Seoul. (You can watch a start of production clip below). Audrey Huynh (ANZBBGRL, Wyrm) has joined as a new series regular, and Sasha Bhasin (Brave the Dark) and Joshua Lee (Gangnam Project) are set to recur in the half-hour dramedy inspired by the popular movie trilogy and Jenny Han’s bestselling book series.

, just shared pictures from her dream wedding, one she wasn't even sure she wanted.After expressing her ambivalence about marriage, Cooper fell head over heels for producer Matt Kaplan over Zoom in 2020, and found herself happily accepting his proposal. For someone who didn't fantasize about marriage growing up, planned one hell of a fairytale wedding.On April 6, the pair tied the knot in Riviera Maya, Mexico, capping off a three-day celebration. The ceremony was officiated by Cooper's brother Grant, and the couple wrote their own vows.“We wanted to choose a destination that was private, romantic, and felt like a vacation for not only us but all of our guests.

Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper is married to Matt Kaplan!

Katcy Stephan Endeavor has hired Matt Kaplan as vice president of government relations to lead government affairs across Endeavor’s businesses, including WME. In the new role, Kaplan will lead Endeavor’s policy, political and civic-related priorities, working closely with each business to determine and execute annual policy priorities. He will support initiatives on behalf of WME and its clients, including AI legislative protections and advising talent with their political engagements such as the presidential campaign.

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Holt (Totally Killer), Connor Swindells (Barbie), Lucy Punch (Motherland) and Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy) are in production in London on Jingle Bell Heist, a new rom-com that Michael Fimognari (To All the Boys franchise) is directing for ACE Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: Trending, the media company launched by Call Your Daddy’s Alex Cooper and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before producer Matt Kaplan, has hired former Meta and MTV exec Mina Lefevre.

Alex Cooper is opening up about her life.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Alex Cooper‘s mega-popular podcast “Call Her Daddy” is already exclusive to Spotify. Now the host and entrepreneur has entered into a new business deal with Spotify covering ad sales and distribution for podcasts under her Unwell Network banner. Under the pact, Spotify will serve as the sales partner for the Unwell Network, aimed at Gen Z audiences.

Anna Tingley Get ready with Alix Earle to start a podcast. The 22-year-old TikTok star will host a podcast called “Hot Mess With Alix Earle,” produced by Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network. In the weekly episodes, Earle will invite her fans to listen in on a detailed recap of her life.

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Cooper, creator and host of breakout podcast smash Call Her Daddy, is continuing to build out her business with the launch of a new talent network.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Popular podcaster and entrepreneur Alex Cooper of “Call Her Daddy” fame announced The Unwell Network, pitched as a production shingle for catering to Gen Z audiences with “unique voices that embrace social challenges and personal insecurities through honest conversation.” The Unwell Network’s initial talent signings include top creators and influencers Alix Earle and Madeline Argy, who will work with Cooper and the Unwell team to “develop a variety of multiplatform concepts and projects.” The Unwell Network will produce content and experiences for talent across categories including pop-culture, beauty, fashion, lifestyle. The Unwell Network is a subsidiary of Tending, the media company Cooper founded this summer with her fiancé, Matt Kaplan of ACE Entertainment.

Sofia Franklyn is sharing her side of the story.

Kitty Song Covey’s adventures in Seoul aren’t over yet. Netflix has renewed XO, Kitty for a second season.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan just got engaged — and now they’re going into business together. Cooper, creator, host and executive producer of Spotify’s hit sex and relationship podcast “Call Her Daddy,” and Kaplan, founder/CEO of ACE Entertainment and producer of Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” and the streamer’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” film franchise, announced the formation of Trending: a Gen Z media venture “committed to elevating today’s voices and crafting tomorrow’s stories for an independent, resourceful and inclusive generation.” Cooper and Kaplan, who met in 2020, got engaged in March 2023. L.A.-based Trending will be the parent company of “Call Her Daddy,” ACE Entertainment, and the couple’s future investments in Gen Z cultural events, commerce and community. Cooper and Kaplan’s new venture will develop scripted and unscripted content, including podcasts and digital media; produce touring events; and launch other projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ on Monday announced their acquisition of the YA romance Love in Taipei (fka Loveboat, Taipei), based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the latter name by Abigail Hing Wen.

“Love in Taipei,” the film adaptation of Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestseller “Loveboat, Taipei,” has been acquired by Paramount+ and will premiere in the U.S. this summer, the streamer announced Monday.

Call him fiancé! “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper is engaged to film producer Matt Kaplan, whom she calls “Mr. Sexy Zoom Man” on the podcast.

Alex Cooper is engaged! The “Call Her Daddy” podcast host confirmed her engagement to Hollywood producer Matt Kaplan to W Magazine this week.

Alex Cooper is officially engaged!

Alex Cooper is engaged! The  podcast host confirmed her engagement to Hollywood producer Matt Kaplan to this week. «We were doing a shoot at my studio in West Hollywood,» Cooper tells of Kaplan's proposal. «I remember the shoot feeling like it had no direction, and I could tell everyone was stalling. Little did I know that this was a fake photoshoot that my publicist and Matt set up to keep me out of the house, out of my sweatpants and in hair, makeup and nails so I’d feel happy with the photos.

Alex Cooper is reportedly engaged!

Alexandra Cooper is getting married!

Anna Cathart’s Kitty Song Covey is ready to head to Korea in the first trailer for Netflix and Awesomeness Studios’ “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” spinoff series, “XO Kitty.”“Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love,” the show’s official logline states. “But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she’ll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.”The 10-episode series, which will premiere globally May 18 on Netflix, is executive produced by creator and co-showrunner Jenny Han, co-showrunner Sascha Rothschild and ACE Entertainment’s Matt Kaplan.

EXCLUSIVE: Riverdale‘s Cole Sprouse is the newest addition to the cast of the ACE Entertainment’s drama I Wish You All the Best, based on Mason Deaver’s 2019 bestseller of the same name. 

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed writer, director, performer and producer Tommy Dorfman for worldwide representation in all areas.

EXCLUSIVE: Corey Fogelmanis (Ma) has been tapped to lead the drama I Wish You All the Best, based on Mason Deaver’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name, which Tommy Dorfman will write, direct and produce for ACE Entertainment. 

Matthew Kaplan is a film producer responsible for plenty of popular young adult films. His teen romance To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before was an immense success that prompted several sequels. This businessman is allegedly dating “Call Her Daddy” podcast star Alexandra “Alex” Cooper — a pairing that has all the makings of a Gen Z power couple.

EXCLUSIVE: Alexandra Diddario is set to star in ACE Entertainment’s I Wish You All The Best with Tommy Dorfman making her directorial debut. The project is based on Mason Deaver’s bestselling novel of the same name which Dorfman optioned in 2019. Dorfman is writing the screenplay and will also produce the feature.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Village Roadshow Television has acquired the rights to Lana Harper’s novel “Payback’s a Witch” with the intention of developing it onto a TV series, Variety has learned exclusively. The book is the first installment in Harper’s “Witches of Thistle Grove” novel series, with the planned show set to take that name as well. Per the official logline, “Witches of Thistle Grove” is “a show about Emmy Harlow, a young woman with big dreams who abandoned her charming but podunk hometown to prove herself in the big city. When she’s suddenly called home nine years later to fulfill a family obligation — which, okay, happens to be arbitrating a centuries-old gauntlet — she’s forced to confront family rifts, broken friendships, and Gareth Blackmoore — a detestable but Hot AF ex who broke her heart and, it turns out, also screwed her friends: Her childhood bestie Linden Thorn, and the sexy, dangerous Talia Avramov, a bad-ass that Emmy always crushed on from afar. Reframing old friendships, reconciling with family, and enacting revenge are things Emmy used to hide from. But if she can face her fears, she can take her power back. And that’s critical. Because Emmy Harlow is a witch.”

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Dorfman is making her directorial debut with the upcoming feature I Wish You All The Best. The project is based on Mason Deaver’s bestselling novel of the same name which Dorfman optioned in 2019. Dorfman is writing the screenplay and will also produce the feature.

EXCLUSIVE: Ace Entertainment has launched production in Yorkshire, England on A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow—a new film based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Laura Taylor Namey, which will star Maia Reficco (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), Kit Connor (Heartstopper) and Kate del Castillo (La Reina del Sur).

Ellise Shafer Netflix’s newest YA rom-com, “Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between,” required stars Jordan Fisher (“To All the Boys 2,” “Work It”) and Talia Ryder (“Never Rarely Sometimes Always”) to dig deep within themselves — and their past relationships — for the film.Based on Jennifer E. Smith’s 2015 novel of the same name, the film follows high school seniors Aidan (Fisher) and Clare (Ryder), who share a whirlwind romance but vow to break up before they go to college.

), Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”), Dexter Fletcher (“Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels”) and Sally Phillips (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”).The film adaptation follows in the footsteps of Netflix’s previous projects with ACE Entertainment, including all three “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” films as well as the upcoming book to screen adaptation “Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between,” also written by Smith and slated for release this summer.Vanessa Caswill (“Little Women” miniseries) directs the adaptation, with the script by screenwriter Katie Lovejoy (“To All the Boys: Always and Forever”) based on Smith’s novel. Matt Kaplan produced the feature through ACE Entertainment.

Angelique Jackson Netflix has acquired global rights to the YA romance “The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight,” starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy.The film adaptation of Jennifer E. Smith’s popular novel by the same name was financed and produced by ACE Entertainment, the producers of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movies.Richardson (“Unpregnant”) and Hardy (“6 Underground”) star in the movie as Hadley and Oliver, two strangers who begin to fall for each other on a flight from New York to London.

Netflix has acquired global rights to ACE Entertainment’s YA romance, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, starring Haley Lu Richardson (Unpregnant), Ben Hardy (6 Underground), Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), Rob Delaney (Catastrophe), Dexter Fletcher (Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels) and Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’s Diary).