PodcastOne, a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (Nasdaq: Lvo), announced today that it has obtained the exclusive network distribution and advertising sales rights to Some More News and its spinoff podcast Even More News, hosted by Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll.
Hosted and created by writer, comedian, host, and musician Cody Johnston, Some More News, which debuted in 2018, is an always fair, always well-researched, but most importantly, always entertaining take on the topical news of the week. Every Wednesday, Some More News dives into the world's weekly events with a mix of wit, dread, hope and compassion. As the news cycle never stops spinning, Johnston returns on Fridays full of Even More News, this audio-only podcast also launched in 2018 and is co-hosted by actress and producer Katy Stoll. Stoll balances conversations with her own brand of thoughtful, empathetic analysis which listeners have come to know and love.
Hosted and created by writer, comedian, host, and musician Cody Johnston, Some More News, which debuted in 2018, is an always fair, always well-researched, but most importantly, always entertaining take on the topical news of the week. Every Wednesday, Some More News dives into the world's weekly events with a mix of wit, dread, hope and compassion. As the news cycle never stops spinning, Johnston returns on Fridays full of Even More News, this audio-only podcast also launched in 2018 and is co-hosted by actress and producer Katy Stoll. Stoll balances conversations with her own brand of thoughtful, empathetic analysis which listeners have come to know and love.
- 7/13/2023
- Podnews.net
Update, 8:00 p.m. Thursday: Melissa McCarthy has apologized for the donation to Exodus Cry, which she says “stands for everything that we do not.” She said the donation has also been revoked, and in a separate statement HBO Max confirmed this. Read more here.
Original post, 4:27 p.m. Thursday: HBO Max took a drubbing on social media after it was reported that the streaming service gave $20,000 to a group with a history of harsh anti-lgbtq and anti-abortion stances as part of the “20 Days of Kindness” campaign to promote Melissa McCarthy’s film “Superintelligence.”
The group in question is Exodus Cry, a Sacramento-based Christian organization that describes itself as “committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation.”
However, according to The Daily Beast, the group’s CEO Benjamin Nolot, who also wrote and directed the Netflix documentary film “Liberated,” has a history of inflammatory rhetoric towards homosexuals and abortion.
Original post, 4:27 p.m. Thursday: HBO Max took a drubbing on social media after it was reported that the streaming service gave $20,000 to a group with a history of harsh anti-lgbtq and anti-abortion stances as part of the “20 Days of Kindness” campaign to promote Melissa McCarthy’s film “Superintelligence.”
The group in question is Exodus Cry, a Sacramento-based Christian organization that describes itself as “committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation.”
However, according to The Daily Beast, the group’s CEO Benjamin Nolot, who also wrote and directed the Netflix documentary film “Liberated,” has a history of inflammatory rhetoric towards homosexuals and abortion.
- 11/12/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Los Angeles, CA (August 4, 2014) – Cracked, one of the United States’ longest running humor institutions has announced its new web series from Cracked Studios entitled Antiheroes. The new 5 episode web series premieres on today.
Antiheroes follows a hilarious, semi-functional group of slackers at a debt collection agency who are inadvertently blessed (cursed?) with superpowers. The Workoholics meets Heroes comedy focuses on this powered group of coworkers going out of their way to not use their powers to fight crime, because fighting crime looks “just, like, way too hard, man.”
Writer Cody Johnston says, “We saw The Avengers and wondered why no one ever tried to take a little nap or just dick around on their phone to unwind, so we made this. We’re hoping Thor is introduced to the concept of ‘vegging out’ in Avengers 2, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy our fun, action-packed series that was made...
Antiheroes follows a hilarious, semi-functional group of slackers at a debt collection agency who are inadvertently blessed (cursed?) with superpowers. The Workoholics meets Heroes comedy focuses on this powered group of coworkers going out of their way to not use their powers to fight crime, because fighting crime looks “just, like, way too hard, man.”
Writer Cody Johnston says, “We saw The Avengers and wondered why no one ever tried to take a little nap or just dick around on their phone to unwind, so we made this. We’re hoping Thor is introduced to the concept of ‘vegging out’ in Avengers 2, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy our fun, action-packed series that was made...
- 8/5/2014
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
After making a killing in the United States, Indiecan Entertainment is releasing Travis Long’s Kill Me Now (written by Cracked.com’s Michael Swaim) on VOD across Canada, today, April 22nd, 2014. The horror-comedy will be available on iTunes, Rogers, Bell, Mts, and more.
Written by Michael Swaim and directed by Travis Long, Kill Me Now was filmed on location in Effingham, Illinois, and stars Michael Swaim, Brett Fancy, Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Nick Rutherford, Jacob Reed, LisaMarie King, Brentan Schellenbach, Nick Mundy, Kaitlin Large, Dan Rubiano, Noah Byrne, Katy Stoll, Katie Willert, and Daniel O'Brien.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents of Cracked”) and the casts of “Those Aren’t Muskets!
Written by Michael Swaim and directed by Travis Long, Kill Me Now was filmed on location in Effingham, Illinois, and stars Michael Swaim, Brett Fancy, Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Nick Rutherford, Jacob Reed, LisaMarie King, Brentan Schellenbach, Nick Mundy, Kaitlin Large, Dan Rubiano, Noah Byrne, Katy Stoll, Katie Willert, and Daniel O'Brien.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents of Cracked”) and the casts of “Those Aren’t Muskets!
- 4/22/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Filming is currently under way in Los Angeles on Vampire Killers director Phil Claydon's Crawlspace, and on tap for you today is the complete cast listing. Who's going to be stuffed inside? Read on!
In the New Line thriller Michael Vartan stars as a widower with a daughter (Erin Moriarty) who gets remarried and, after going through a rough patch of unemployment, has the opportunity for a new start in a new house in the suburbs.
Trouble is, the house has a very disturbing secret from the past that rears up.
Nadine Velazquez (pictured) will play the second wife of Vartan’s character and the stepmother to Moriarty’s character.
The full cast also includes Blake Jenner, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Misty Upham, Katy Stoll, Dorian Kingi, Steele Stebbins, Thomas R. Baker, Adam Powell, Andrew Fiscella, Terry Myers, Teagan Sirset, and Debbie Zaltman.
Claydon is directing from a script by Gary Dauberman.
In the New Line thriller Michael Vartan stars as a widower with a daughter (Erin Moriarty) who gets remarried and, after going through a rough patch of unemployment, has the opportunity for a new start in a new house in the suburbs.
Trouble is, the house has a very disturbing secret from the past that rears up.
Nadine Velazquez (pictured) will play the second wife of Vartan’s character and the stepmother to Moriarty’s character.
The full cast also includes Blake Jenner, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Misty Upham, Katy Stoll, Dorian Kingi, Steele Stebbins, Thomas R. Baker, Adam Powell, Andrew Fiscella, Terry Myers, Teagan Sirset, and Debbie Zaltman.
Claydon is directing from a script by Gary Dauberman.
- 4/18/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Recently, Fox released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Bones" episode 20 of season 9. The episode is entitled, "The High in the Low," and it sounds like things will get pretty intriguing as the team discovers surprising,new intel on their latest art school death case, and more. In the new,9th episode press release: the use of medical marijuana to treat pain, is going to affect the Jeffersonian team. Press release number 2: The Jeffersonian team will investigate the death of an art school dropout struggling with Lupus, whose remains were found inside a log in a forest. When the team learns about the victim's use of cannabis to treat her pain, it is going lead them to the dispensary where she worked, and they are going to uncover more shocking details that could have contributed to her death. In the meantime, squintern Wendell Bray (guest star Michael Grant Terry...
- 3/31/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s massive feature includes a review for Nobody Can Cool, first details on The Night Crew, Heir, and a Doctor Who documentary called Who’s Changing: An Adventure In Time With Fans, a new clip from Muck, trailers for Blood Shed, NightBeasts, and Virginia Obscura, and much more:
[Editor's Note: We want to give a big thanks to our Indie Spotlight manager, Tamika Jones, for her constant work on this weekly feature and putting together our largest Indie Spotlight to date this weekend!]
Indie Spotlight Review: Nobody Can Cool
by Heather Wixson
Nobody Can Cool is the rather impressive directorial debut from up-and-coming filmmaking duo Dpyx, Marcy Boyle and Rachel Holzman, who crafted a blisteringly taut and thoughtful indie crime thriller with a palpable sense of tension from start to finish. A gritty and engaging tale of deceit, violence and desperation, Nobody Can Cool is anchored by a breakout performance by Nick Principe (best known from his work in the Laid to Rest series, Madison County and...
[Editor's Note: We want to give a big thanks to our Indie Spotlight manager, Tamika Jones, for her constant work on this weekly feature and putting together our largest Indie Spotlight to date this weekend!]
Indie Spotlight Review: Nobody Can Cool
by Heather Wixson
Nobody Can Cool is the rather impressive directorial debut from up-and-coming filmmaking duo Dpyx, Marcy Boyle and Rachel Holzman, who crafted a blisteringly taut and thoughtful indie crime thriller with a palpable sense of tension from start to finish. A gritty and engaging tale of deceit, violence and desperation, Nobody Can Cool is anchored by a breakout performance by Nick Principe (best known from his work in the Laid to Rest series, Madison County and...
- 1/19/2014
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Word has come across our desks that the new horror comedy Kill Me Now is gearing up for a VOD run on March 21st so make a note of it! You're always looking for something to do, right?
Written by Michael Swaim and directed by Travis Long, Kill Me Now was filmed on location in Effingham, Illinois, and stars Michael Swaim, Brett Fancy, Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Nick Rutherford, Jacob Reed, LisaMarie King, Brentan Schellenbach, Nick Mundy, Kaitlin Large, Dan Rubiano, Noah Byrne, Katy Stoll, Katie Willert and Daniel O'Brien.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents of Cracked”) and the casts of “Those Aren’t Muskets!,” “Good Neighbor,...
Written by Michael Swaim and directed by Travis Long, Kill Me Now was filmed on location in Effingham, Illinois, and stars Michael Swaim, Brett Fancy, Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Nick Rutherford, Jacob Reed, LisaMarie King, Brentan Schellenbach, Nick Mundy, Kaitlin Large, Dan Rubiano, Noah Byrne, Katy Stoll, Katie Willert and Daniel O'Brien.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents of Cracked”) and the casts of “Those Aren’t Muskets!,” “Good Neighbor,...
- 3/13/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Next Wednesday, December 5th, horror comedy Kill Me Now begins rolling out in theatres via the Tugg platform, and we have three pairs of tickets to give away for the Pasadena, CA, premiere, which will be attended by the film's writer/co-star Michael Swaim.
The screening begins at 7:30pm at Laemmle Playhouse 7. To enter for your chance to win a pair of tickets, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest and send the winners an email with info on how to get their tickets on Monday, December 3rd.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents...
The screening begins at 7:30pm at Laemmle Playhouse 7. To enter for your chance to win a pair of tickets, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest and send the winners an email with info on how to get their tickets on Monday, December 3rd.
Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant past, with the help of a windowless van and a jar of chloroform, a group of Internet sketch comedians were hauled off to the backwoods of Illinois to shoot their first movie! The horror comedy features Streamy and Webby Award winner Michael Swaim (“Agents...
- 11/29/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
In December horror comedy Kill Me Now will begin rolling out in theatres via the Tugg platform, and we have info on screenings already scheduled as well as how you can bring the film to your own town.
You can join in on the following showings already booked (get more info here):
December 05 - New York City, NY, 7:30pm at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema
Co-star Kaitlin Large ("Agents of Cracked" & "Tyson the Mad Poodle") presents Kill Me Now
December 05 - Pasadena, CA, 7:30pm at Laemmle Playhouse 7
Writer/co-star Michael Swaim ("Agents of Cracked" & "Those Aren't Muskets") presents Kill Me Now
December 06 - Chicago, Il, 7:30pm at AMC River East 21
Director Travis Long presents Kill Me Now
December 06 - San Diego, CA, 7:30pm at Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas
Ike Films, Those Aren't Muskets! and Ketchup Entertainment presents Kill Me Now
December 27 - Houston, TX, 9:00pm at Studio...
You can join in on the following showings already booked (get more info here):
December 05 - New York City, NY, 7:30pm at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema
Co-star Kaitlin Large ("Agents of Cracked" & "Tyson the Mad Poodle") presents Kill Me Now
December 05 - Pasadena, CA, 7:30pm at Laemmle Playhouse 7
Writer/co-star Michael Swaim ("Agents of Cracked" & "Those Aren't Muskets") presents Kill Me Now
December 06 - Chicago, Il, 7:30pm at AMC River East 21
Director Travis Long presents Kill Me Now
December 06 - San Diego, CA, 7:30pm at Landmark Hillcrest Cinemas
Ike Films, Those Aren't Muskets! and Ketchup Entertainment presents Kill Me Now
December 27 - Houston, TX, 9:00pm at Studio...
- 11/20/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
A cocktail party so crazy you have to sign a waiver just to get in? I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to hop on the freeway a few miles up to a dark corner of North Hollywood to find the undisclosed home base of the web’s latest live-streaming reality show. Walking up to the three-story loft building it became clear this wasn’t going to be my run-of-the-mill Saturday night drinks at a friend’s place. Before entering the ControlTV loft, I’m hustled into a back room filled with producers and burly Pa types ushering me through a waiver and some ground rules. “Try to keep this PG-13,” said one of the younger producers on duty that night. “Just basically don’t drop the f-bomb too much.” She mentions the 30-second delay on the live stream they’ve set up just in case we get out of hand. And...
- 11/10/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
For web series creator Brett Register and his newly formed creative team Absolute Disaster, the web is their playground. A mix of actors, writers and talented cinematographer, the 5-person outfit has been busy this summer, conjuring up one bizarre comedy after another. It's a formidable crew (no pun intended) that includes Register, The Crew's Craig Frank, Tim Riese as Dp, and Prom Queen stars Katy Stoll and Haley Mancini. Freed from the self-inflicted pressures of having to launch the pitch-perfect PR strategy, or secure a brand name sponsorship, the Absolute Disaster crew are just having fun. "We are really trying to play with experimenting on every level—length, releasing schedule, format," said Register. The first series, an enigmatic five-parter called Lost & Found, was the first of their creative experiments. Related News:‘The Crew’ Creator Teases ‘Lost & Found’, Absolute Disaster...
- 8/5/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Summer hiatus. To some people these two words mean kicking back, slowing down and catching up on long lost sleep. To others, it means it's time to get busy. For Brett Register, creator-star of sci-fi web series The Crew, we're going to say it's the latter. With one episode left to come in The Crew's 15-episode season, Register teased out the first episode (above) of Lost & Found today, hinting at what is expected to be a busy summer. Featuring fellow Crew star Craig Frank (Private High Musical) along with web series vet Katy Stoll (Prom Queen, Couples, Private High Musical) and Register himself, Lost & Found is the first of a handful of short web series coming out from the newly formed creative team, Absolute Disaster. The five-person ensemble, a mix of actors and technical talent includes Register, Stoll, Frank and actor Haley Mancini (Prom Queen, Weeds, Mad Men) with The...
- 6/8/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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