Campside Media, the podcast company behind the hit Chameleon franchise, is launching its first wholly owned original series.
The Sister-backed firm is launching White Devil, the story of the shooting of Henry Jemmott, which made headlines in 2021.
It comes after Campside had previously partnered with a range of podcast distributors and networks on previous shows. It has worked with the likes of Sony, Wondery, iHeart, Audible, Apple and SmartLess on shows and has recently worked with Ballen Studios and At Will Media on its first scripted show, Run, Fool, has a multi-show deal with Tenderfoot TV, which it has also partnered on for Cop City as well as Beckham producer Ventureland as well as worked with Jessica Rhoades’ Pacesetter on Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
“For over 30 shows to date, we have been fortunate to work with great distribution partners across the industry, but we are excited to connect...
The Sister-backed firm is launching White Devil, the story of the shooting of Henry Jemmott, which made headlines in 2021.
It comes after Campside had previously partnered with a range of podcast distributors and networks on previous shows. It has worked with the likes of Sony, Wondery, iHeart, Audible, Apple and SmartLess on shows and has recently worked with Ballen Studios and At Will Media on its first scripted show, Run, Fool, has a multi-show deal with Tenderfoot TV, which it has also partnered on for Cop City as well as Beckham producer Ventureland as well as worked with Jessica Rhoades’ Pacesetter on Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
“For over 30 shows to date, we have been fortunate to work with great distribution partners across the industry, but we are excited to connect...
- 4/22/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media today announced the new season premiere of Cover Up: Body Brokers, an investigative podcast detailing how a small-town funeral homeowner and her elderly mother forged their way into the shadowy world of body dealing. Body Brokers is the third season of the Cover Up series, which tells stories about powerful people who pull off shocking cons. The first episode is available today, and subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes now.
Hosted by investigative reporter Ashley Fantz, Body Brokers brings you inside an economy where bodies are bought and sold for big bucks. This season takes place in tiny Montrose, Colorado, where we meet Megan Hess and her mother Shirley Koch, who run Sunset Mesa Funeral Home. In Body Brokers, host Fantz unveils their depraved shocking scheme: they offered steep discounts on cremation and gave families bogus ashes while they secretly dismembered...
Hosted by investigative reporter Ashley Fantz, Body Brokers brings you inside an economy where bodies are bought and sold for big bucks. This season takes place in tiny Montrose, Colorado, where we meet Megan Hess and her mother Shirley Koch, who run Sunset Mesa Funeral Home. In Body Brokers, host Fantz unveils their depraved shocking scheme: they offered steep discounts on cremation and gave families bogus ashes while they secretly dismembered...
- 1/2/2024
- Podnews.net
Exclusive: Pacesetter Productions, the company established by Station Eleven and Black Mirror exec producer Jessica Rhoades, has teamed up with Campside Media, the company behind the Chameleon podcast franchise, to launch a new audio series.
The two companies are launching Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
The series will explore one of the most controversial cases of the 1980s that saw Kelly Michaels, a 23-year-old college student accused of Satanically abusing dozens of children in 1985 before being exonerated.
The podcast, which will launch on December 7, will feature access to Michaels. It will be hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, one of the co-founders of Campside, and Natalie Robehmed, who wrote the Wondery podcast WeCrashed that was later adapted for an Apple series.
Considered the Monster of Maplewood, Michaels’ case was the longest and most expensive in New Jersey history at the time, and she was convicted and sentenced to 47 years in prison. The accusations,...
The two companies are launching Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
The series will explore one of the most controversial cases of the 1980s that saw Kelly Michaels, a 23-year-old college student accused of Satanically abusing dozens of children in 1985 before being exonerated.
The podcast, which will launch on December 7, will feature access to Michaels. It will be hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, one of the co-founders of Campside, and Natalie Robehmed, who wrote the Wondery podcast WeCrashed that was later adapted for an Apple series.
Considered the Monster of Maplewood, Michaels’ case was the longest and most expensive in New Jersey history at the time, and she was convicted and sentenced to 47 years in prison. The accusations,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ventureland is teaming with podcast companies Campside Media and Tenderfoot TV on a new doc and companion podcast chronicling the fight around Atlanta’s “Cop City.”
The film will explore the politics, activism and turmoil that has surrounded the development of the 85-acre police and fire training center — set to be one of the largest facilities like it in the United States and located in a preserved forest — since it was announced by the city’s then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms back in Spring 2021. Currently in development, the doc will include on-the-ground reporting and key subjects who can shed light on the political flashpoint being constructed within the unofficial capital of the American South.
“The debate over Cop City is a microcosm of what’s happening in cities across the country,” says Campside co-founder Matthew Shaer. “It brings together all these different discussions: About race, about policing, about urban development and environmental resources.
The film will explore the politics, activism and turmoil that has surrounded the development of the 85-acre police and fire training center — set to be one of the largest facilities like it in the United States and located in a preserved forest — since it was announced by the city’s then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms back in Spring 2021. Currently in development, the doc will include on-the-ground reporting and key subjects who can shed light on the political flashpoint being constructed within the unofficial capital of the American South.
“The debate over Cop City is a microcosm of what’s happening in cities across the country,” says Campside co-founder Matthew Shaer. “It brings together all these different discussions: About race, about policing, about urban development and environmental resources.
- 11/10/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: FX is getting back into espionage.
Deadline understands that the network is developing drama series Drug Spies, from Noah Pink, who wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Tetris movie at Apple, author Kirk Wallace Johnson and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier director Kari Skogland.
We hear that the original series, which is inspired by true events, tells the stories of spies who work on behalf of multinational drug companies.
FX is understood to have beaten out a number of rivals to land the project, which is in the early stages of development, in a competitive bidding process.
Sister, the company run by Liz Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, which was behind hit HBO series Chernobyl, is producing in association with Oil & Cattle. Sister is also behind Netflix’s upcoming six-parter Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch playing a puppeteer whose son goes missing in 1980s Manhattan from Abi Morgan,...
Deadline understands that the network is developing drama series Drug Spies, from Noah Pink, who wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Tetris movie at Apple, author Kirk Wallace Johnson and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier director Kari Skogland.
We hear that the original series, which is inspired by true events, tells the stories of spies who work on behalf of multinational drug companies.
FX is understood to have beaten out a number of rivals to land the project, which is in the early stages of development, in a competitive bidding process.
Sister, the company run by Liz Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, which was behind hit HBO series Chernobyl, is producing in association with Oil & Cattle. Sister is also behind Netflix’s upcoming six-parter Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch playing a puppeteer whose son goes missing in 1980s Manhattan from Abi Morgan,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The first-look deal is a commonplace occurrence in the world of television and film.
Such agreements are now coming to the podcasting business as Campside Media, the company behind the successful Chameleon franchise, has struck a trio of deals.
The business has closed deals with Believe Her creator Justine van der Leun, Sam Mullins, who is behind Wild Boys and Dr. Dante, and Sean Flynn, the man behing The Bering.
It marks a shift in direction for the relatively nascent audio medium, giving a podcast studio such as Campside a first look at projects that may have previously been shopped around, and giving creators an element of stability that hasn’t traditionally been present in podcasting.
Campside, which was established by long-form journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadias, Matt Shaer, and screenwriter/producer Adam Hoff in partnership with Chernobyl producer Sister, has produced nearly 30 shows over the last couple of...
Such agreements are now coming to the podcasting business as Campside Media, the company behind the successful Chameleon franchise, has struck a trio of deals.
The business has closed deals with Believe Her creator Justine van der Leun, Sam Mullins, who is behind Wild Boys and Dr. Dante, and Sean Flynn, the man behing The Bering.
It marks a shift in direction for the relatively nascent audio medium, giving a podcast studio such as Campside a first look at projects that may have previously been shopped around, and giving creators an element of stability that hasn’t traditionally been present in podcasting.
Campside, which was established by long-form journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadias, Matt Shaer, and screenwriter/producer Adam Hoff in partnership with Chernobyl producer Sister, has produced nearly 30 shows over the last couple of...
- 2/9/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rodney Barnes, exec producer of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is prepping a horror podcast devoted to legends and myths stemming from black folklore.
The writer/producer of series such as Everybody Hates Chris and The Boondocks has teamed up with Campside Media, the company behind Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, and At Will Media, which is behind Apple’s podcast and docuseries Wild Things for Run, Fool.
Run, Fool will follow an anthology format in the style of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history.
For instance, legend has it that a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn moved his family to a residence just north of a bridge in a Maryland known today as Goatman’s Bridge. It got that name because it was haunted by a half-man,...
The writer/producer of series such as Everybody Hates Chris and The Boondocks has teamed up with Campside Media, the company behind Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, and At Will Media, which is behind Apple’s podcast and docuseries Wild Things for Run, Fool.
Run, Fool will follow an anthology format in the style of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history.
For instance, legend has it that a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn moved his family to a residence just north of a bridge in a Maryland known today as Goatman’s Bridge. It got that name because it was haunted by a half-man,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Infamous’ Podcast Featuring Stories Of Girls Gone Wild & Nxivm Set From Campside Media & Sony Music
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.
Campside co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman, special correspondent to Vanity Fair and author of The Loudest Voice in the Room are hosting Infamous – a series that dives into the most explosive scandals of this century.
The show’s premiere episodes – Boy Gone Wild – explore and expose the incredible story behind Joe Francis’s rise and fall as the creator of Girls Gone Wild and tells the saga of a volatile founder watching his empire crumble while going toe to toe with an old school Florida mayor, a kinky blackmailer, and his own ruinous egomania.
Launching tomorrow via Sony’s The Binge subscriber podcast channel, the series also features never before heard archival compiled during high-profile...
Campside co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman, special correspondent to Vanity Fair and author of The Loudest Voice in the Room are hosting Infamous – a series that dives into the most explosive scandals of this century.
The show’s premiere episodes – Boy Gone Wild – explore and expose the incredible story behind Joe Francis’s rise and fall as the creator of Girls Gone Wild and tells the saga of a volatile founder watching his empire crumble while going toe to toe with an old school Florida mayor, a kinky blackmailer, and his own ruinous egomania.
Launching tomorrow via Sony’s The Binge subscriber podcast channel, the series also features never before heard archival compiled during high-profile...
- 11/9/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Campside Media, the company behind the popular Chameleon podcast series, which documented the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The story, which is based on reporting from Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, is being lined up as the sixth season of the Chameleon podcast.
However, in a new twist, the company is also simultaneously developing a television adaptation and has teamed up with Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, who have worked on shows such as Ally McBeal and Entourage, to pen the small-screen adaptation.
The Michigan Plot details exactly what happened beyond the initial headlines that told the world the FBI had narrowly thwarted a kidnapping attempt against the governor of Michigan. What the Justice Department called the first step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow...
The story, which is based on reporting from Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, is being lined up as the sixth season of the Chameleon podcast.
However, in a new twist, the company is also simultaneously developing a television adaptation and has teamed up with Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, who have worked on shows such as Ally McBeal and Entourage, to pen the small-screen adaptation.
The Michigan Plot details exactly what happened beyond the initial headlines that told the world the FBI had narrowly thwarted a kidnapping attempt against the governor of Michigan. What the Justice Department called the first step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow...
- 10/18/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Event chair and host Barbara Davis and co-chair Dana Davis announced today that Egot-winning, critically acclaimed, and multi-platinum singer-songwriter John Legend will perform at the 36th Carousel of Hope Ball, presented by Dexcom on Saturday, October 8 at The Beverly Hilton hotel.
“I am thrilled John Legend will be joining our celebration on October 8,” said event chair and host Barbara Davis. “John Legend’s musical talent has gone around the world and has brought joy to so many people. This year that excitement and joy will come to us at the 36th annual Carousel of Hope Ball.”
In his career, John Legend has garnered 11 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award. He was the first African-American man to earn an Egot and is one of only fifteen people in the prestigious Egot club. Over almost two decades, Legend has released seven celebrated albums,...
“I am thrilled John Legend will be joining our celebration on October 8,” said event chair and host Barbara Davis. “John Legend’s musical talent has gone around the world and has brought joy to so many people. This year that excitement and joy will come to us at the 36th annual Carousel of Hope Ball.”
In his career, John Legend has garnered 11 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award. He was the first African-American man to earn an Egot and is one of only fifteen people in the prestigious Egot club. Over almost two decades, Legend has released seven celebrated albums,...
- 9/22/2022
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: Campside Media, the company behind Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen podcast, has found another wild story to tell in audio form – this time featuring NASCAR, true crime, and civil rights.
The Sister-backed company has teamed with sports broadcaster Dan Patrick and iHeartRadio on Running Smoke.
The series, which is hosted by journalist Rajiv Golla, follows the colorful saga of Derek White, a native of the Kahnawake reservation, who made his professional racing debut in 2015 as the first indigenous driver to race at NASCAR. Less than a year later, White was banned from the racing after being arrested in one of the largest tobacco smuggling busts in Canadian history when a border sting erupted and ensnared everyone in its path. Now, White is fighting to clear his name in court and stands as a very unlikely native rights warrior — at the center of a sovereignty fight he never really wanted in the first place.
The Sister-backed company has teamed with sports broadcaster Dan Patrick and iHeartRadio on Running Smoke.
The series, which is hosted by journalist Rajiv Golla, follows the colorful saga of Derek White, a native of the Kahnawake reservation, who made his professional racing debut in 2015 as the first indigenous driver to race at NASCAR. Less than a year later, White was banned from the racing after being arrested in one of the largest tobacco smuggling busts in Canadian history when a border sting erupted and ensnared everyone in its path. Now, White is fighting to clear his name in court and stands as a very unlikely native rights warrior — at the center of a sovereignty fight he never really wanted in the first place.
- 2/4/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple is taking a further step into ordering original audio series with a new podcast about opioids and bank robbery.
The tech giant has launched Hooked from Campside Media, the Sister-backed company behind Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen series.
The series explores the true story of Tony Hathaway, whose addiction to legally prescribed opioids led him to spiral from a top engineer to becoming one of the most prolific bank robbers in American history.
It is hosted by journalist and Campside Media co-founder Josh Dean and features three years worth of interviews with Hathaway, his family, law enforcement and others involved in the story. Dean exec produces alongside Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, Matt Shaer, and Mark McAdam.
Hooked is an adaptation of Dean’s story Hooked: America’s Busiest Bank Robber for Bloomberg Businessweek.
A television adaptation was in development by John Ridley for ABC Signature.
It marks only the second...
The tech giant has launched Hooked from Campside Media, the Sister-backed company behind Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen series.
The series explores the true story of Tony Hathaway, whose addiction to legally prescribed opioids led him to spiral from a top engineer to becoming one of the most prolific bank robbers in American history.
It is hosted by journalist and Campside Media co-founder Josh Dean and features three years worth of interviews with Hathaway, his family, law enforcement and others involved in the story. Dean exec produces alongside Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, Matt Shaer, and Mark McAdam.
Hooked is an adaptation of Dean’s story Hooked: America’s Busiest Bank Robber for Bloomberg Businessweek.
A television adaptation was in development by John Ridley for ABC Signature.
It marks only the second...
- 11/3/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A controversial shooting in Belize by the daughter-in-law of British Conservative donor Lord Michael Ashcroft is to be the subject of an interesting new project from Will Gluck and Campside Media, the company behind the hot Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen podcast.
The Peter Rabbit writer/director and the Sister-backed producer are working together on a docuseries podcast and a scripted TV series. However, instead of Campside making the podcast and then optioning the rights down the line, they are working with Gluck from the start.
It marks an interesting new frontier in the audio space and how it is being used to create TV and film adaptations.
It comes after Gluck, via his Olive Bridge Entertainment banner, eOne, Atlas Entertainment, Circle of Confusion and Campside began developing two projects based on the Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen podcast – a scripted series and an unscripted docuseries.
The new story, which is...
The Peter Rabbit writer/director and the Sister-backed producer are working together on a docuseries podcast and a scripted TV series. However, instead of Campside making the podcast and then optioning the rights down the line, they are working with Gluck from the start.
It marks an interesting new frontier in the audio space and how it is being used to create TV and film adaptations.
It comes after Gluck, via his Olive Bridge Entertainment banner, eOne, Atlas Entertainment, Circle of Confusion and Campside began developing two projects based on the Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen podcast – a scripted series and an unscripted docuseries.
The new story, which is...
- 6/14/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The team behind Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen, the breakout podcast series that unmasked the man behind one of the strangest entertainment-related grifts, has set its second season.
Campside Media, the Sister-backed company that produces the show in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, is making Chameleon: High Rollers with new host Trevor Aaronson.
You can listen to the trailer below.
The second season, which has been described as American Hustler-esque, will follow the FBI as they investigate a money laundering conspiracy in Vegas — or track a conspiracy that never existed at all.
The series will investigate the stranger-than-fiction tale using more than 20 hours of FBI recordings, taking listeners into a sordid, neon-lit world of diet clinics, fitness models, high-end restaurants, strip clubs, lascivious men, arms dealers, secret scams, and lawsuits.
Hollywood Con Queen Subject Of eOne Will Gluck-Noah Pink Scripted Series & Unscripted Docuseries Based On ‘Chameleon’ Podcast That Unmasked...
Campside Media, the Sister-backed company that produces the show in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, is making Chameleon: High Rollers with new host Trevor Aaronson.
You can listen to the trailer below.
The second season, which has been described as American Hustler-esque, will follow the FBI as they investigate a money laundering conspiracy in Vegas — or track a conspiracy that never existed at all.
The series will investigate the stranger-than-fiction tale using more than 20 hours of FBI recordings, taking listeners into a sordid, neon-lit world of diet clinics, fitness models, high-end restaurants, strip clubs, lascivious men, arms dealers, secret scams, and lawsuits.
Hollywood Con Queen Subject Of eOne Will Gluck-Noah Pink Scripted Series & Unscripted Docuseries Based On ‘Chameleon’ Podcast That Unmasked...
- 5/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Con Queen has gone from Hollywood horror to series subject. Entertainment One, Olive Bridge Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, Campside Media and Circle of Confusion are developing two series projects based on Campside’s podcast Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen. A scripted television series created and written by Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit) and Noah Pink (Genius: Picasso) is in the works with Gluck directing. There is also an unscripted docuseries by the same group, detailing the investigation.
Executive producers are Pink, Gluck and Richard Schwartz of Olive Bridge; Andy Horwitz, Richard Suckle and Curt Kanemoto of Atlas; Josh Dean, Adam Hoff, Matthew Shaer and Vanessa Grigoriadis of Campside Media; and Charles Mastropietro, Frank Frattaroli and Brad Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion.
eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the projects worldwide.
This is quite a turnabout in one of the oddest sagas to hit Hollywood in years. Deadline was the...
Executive producers are Pink, Gluck and Richard Schwartz of Olive Bridge; Andy Horwitz, Richard Suckle and Curt Kanemoto of Atlas; Josh Dean, Adam Hoff, Matthew Shaer and Vanessa Grigoriadis of Campside Media; and Charles Mastropietro, Frank Frattaroli and Brad Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion.
eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the projects worldwide.
This is quite a turnabout in one of the oddest sagas to hit Hollywood in years. Deadline was the...
- 5/10/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Podcasting is so hot right now. Top tier talent both in front of and behind the camera are rapidly moving into the medium, buoyed by the opportunities to tell different types of stories.
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
- 12/26/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sister 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. In New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities, one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. This help included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles, and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods. The Get asks whether those...
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. In New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities, one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. This help included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles, and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods. The Get asks whether those...
- 9/17/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Sister 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. It follows one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. The help he provided included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles — and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods.
Sister is a new entertainment company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, along with Sister Global CEO and head of Sister LA,...
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. It follows one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages. The help he provided included beatings, open graves and cattle prods to the testicles — and it worked, but it also showed how a noble goal can sometimes only be accomplished by the most unconscionable of methods.
Sister is a new entertainment company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, along with Sister Global CEO and head of Sister LA,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A podcast that documents the Hollywood con queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy, is leading a deal between producer Campside and Sony Music Entertainment.
Campside, which struck an investment deal with Stacey Snider, Lis Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Chernobyl producer Sister earlier this year, has closed a slate deal with the record label for a number of podcasts.
The show, known as Chameleon, will launch in October and will undoubtedly be required listening in Hollywood and is expected to push the explosive case, which has so far not announced any arrests, forward.
The story follows studio executives, actors, makeup artists, photographers and screenwriters who have been tormented by a scammer.
Campside co-founder Josh Dean told Deadline that they are 90% finished with the reporting and 80% through with production. “We are pretty close to the finish line.
Campside, which struck an investment deal with Stacey Snider, Lis Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Chernobyl producer Sister earlier this year, has closed a slate deal with the record label for a number of podcasts.
The show, known as Chameleon, will launch in October and will undoubtedly be required listening in Hollywood and is expected to push the explosive case, which has so far not announced any arrests, forward.
The story follows studio executives, actors, makeup artists, photographers and screenwriters who have been tormented by a scammer.
Campside co-founder Josh Dean told Deadline that they are 90% finished with the reporting and 80% through with production. “We are pretty close to the finish line.
- 9/17/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of leading long-form journalists have launched a podcast studio backed by Sister, the production group run by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone and behind hit HBO/Sky drama Chernobyl.
Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer as well as screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff have formed Campside, which will focus on premium narrative non-fiction storytelling.
Campside has formed with a “significant” start-up investment from Sister. The company has a slate of around 11 non-fiction podcasts in production or development spanning the true crime, scandal, and adventure genres.
Stacey Snider, Global Chief Executive of Sister, and the Campside quartet told Deadline how the deal came about and what they hope to achieve.
Campside’s first podcast will be a 10-part series on the Hollywood Con Queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy.
Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer as well as screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff have formed Campside, which will focus on premium narrative non-fiction storytelling.
Campside has formed with a “significant” start-up investment from Sister. The company has a slate of around 11 non-fiction podcasts in production or development spanning the true crime, scandal, and adventure genres.
Stacey Snider, Global Chief Executive of Sister, and the Campside quartet told Deadline how the deal came about and what they hope to achieve.
Campside’s first podcast will be a 10-part series on the Hollywood Con Queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy.
- 4/28/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sister, the global media company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has invested in newly launched nonfiction podcast studio Campside.
The deal builds on Sister’s growing portfolio of creator-first businesses after its March investment in comic book publisher Awa Studios.
Campside was founded by journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer alongside screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff. The studio will focus on narrative nonfiction storytelling in the fast-growing audio segment, developing projects that span the true crime, scandal and adventure genres. It is also working on global projects in Japan, Brazil and India.
Campside currently ...
The deal builds on Sister’s growing portfolio of creator-first businesses after its March investment in comic book publisher Awa Studios.
Campside was founded by journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer alongside screenwriter and producer Adam Hoff. The studio will focus on narrative nonfiction storytelling in the fast-growing audio segment, developing projects that span the true crime, scandal and adventure genres. It is also working on global projects in Japan, Brazil and India.
Campside currently ...
- 4/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
NBA star Steph Curry and John Legend are teaming up for a sports film set up at Sony Pictures called “Signing Day,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Curry’s Unanimous Media and Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. will produce the film as one of several projects Curry has in development at Sony as part of his multi-year production deal.
The film written by Adam Hoff will feature a female lead and will tell the story of someone described as the Jerry Maguire of our era.
Also Read: Stephen Curry Facebook Watch Series Scores Premiere Date, New Trailer (Video)
The story will follow an extremely driven sports agent who tries desperately to sign an elite prospect as her client, a young, coveted star basketball player. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means in order to sign the client, although she is morally conflicted.
Curry’s Unanimous Media and Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. will produce the film as one of several projects Curry has in development at Sony as part of his multi-year production deal.
The film written by Adam Hoff will feature a female lead and will tell the story of someone described as the Jerry Maguire of our era.
Also Read: Stephen Curry Facebook Watch Series Scores Premiere Date, New Trailer (Video)
The story will follow an extremely driven sports agent who tries desperately to sign an elite prospect as her client, a young, coveted star basketball player. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means in order to sign the client, although she is morally conflicted.
- 11/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media production banner, John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. and Sony Pictures are teaming up for the sports drama “Signing Day.” The project, which has tapped screenwriter Adam Hoff, marks one of the first films to be put into development under the NBA superstar’s first-look deal with the studio, which he signed last year.
The pic — in the vein of “Jerry Maguire” — follows an extremely driven sports agent trying desperately to sign a young, coveted basketball star as her client. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means to book the client.
Curry, Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith will produce through Unanimous Media, along with Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius through Get Lifted.
The movie is one of several projects Unanimous has in development. Sony was among the studios vying for Curry and Unanimous’ first-look deal. They plan...
The pic — in the vein of “Jerry Maguire” — follows an extremely driven sports agent trying desperately to sign a young, coveted basketball star as her client. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means to book the client.
Curry, Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith will produce through Unanimous Media, along with Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius through Get Lifted.
The movie is one of several projects Unanimous has in development. Sony was among the studios vying for Curry and Unanimous’ first-look deal. They plan...
- 11/20/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Paradigm has added Zac Simmons to its roster. The industry veteran has joined the agency's TV Lit department and started work Monday. He'll be based in Paradigm's Beverly Hills office. The literary agent comes from the Kaplan Stahler Agency, where he started in 2007 and worked with a long roster of clients including Adam Hoff and Justin Herber, who were among the 2012 Young and Hungry List, as well as Sons of Anarchy's Liz Sagal, writer-director Rod Holcomb (ER) and Alison McDonald (She Got Problems), the latter of which had her short in development at ABC. Simmons, who started
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- 7/23/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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