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Wondery and Campside Media, the company behind the successful Chameleon franchise, are expanding their relationship with an exclusive audio first-look deal for a multi-project slate. Under the pact, Wondery and Campside will produce Limited Series podcasts, including non-English language titles, to be distributed by Wondery globally, with the first being a German-language series currently in production.

EXCLUSIVE: The first-look deal is a commonplace occurrence in the world of television and film.

EXCLUSIVE: The stories of Girls Gone Wild and NXIVM are to be told in a new podcast series from Campside Media, producers of the Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen podcast, and Sony Music Entertainment.

New York TimesMagazine writer and author Taffy Brodesser-Akner has been tapped by Sister, the production shingle headed byStacey Snider, to penThe Get, a feature based on Matt Shaer’s GQ piece ‘The Orthodox Hit Squad.’ The Get will tell the story of Mendel Epstein,one notorious rabbi in New York and New Jersey's ultra-orthodox communities, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSister is teaming with New York Times bestselling author and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner to develop and produce the feature film The Get, based on Matt Shaer’s GQ article “The Orthodox Hit Squad.” Brodesser-Akner will write the feature.Carolyn Strauss and Kate Fenske are producing for Sister alongside Shaer.The Get follows how communities take care of each other in the name of what’s right, and how “right” can be a moving target.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSister will partner with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on “The Get,” a feature film based on Matt Shaer’s GQ piece “The Orthodox Hit Squad.”Brodesser-Akner, best known for her New York Times Magazine profiles of the likes of Val Kilmer to Bradley Cooper along with her best-seller “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” will write the screenplay. “The Get” unfolds in New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities.