Leading independent fiction podcast company Realm, known for its award-winning fiction titles, original IP generation and global podcast network, is poised to expand into the kids and family sector with the acquisition of Pinna and its slate of 150+ wholly-owned and extensive library of licensed titles, including award-winning kids and family audio series like Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest, Opal Watson: Private Eye, Totally Unauthorized Minecraft Fan Show, Quentin & Alfie (soon to be a four book series with Fsg/MacMillan), and A-z Mysteries produced with Penguin Random House inspired by the bestselling book series by Ron Roy.
In addition to Pinna, Realm will also represent over 375 hours of original, kid-centric content based on two new ad sales alliances with Rebel Girls and GoKidGo.
Realm has also acquired the podcast company Lipstick & Vinyl, founded by Allyson Marino in 2018 and focused on unscripted podcasts from underrepresented voices. Lipstick & Vinyl brings to Realm 50+ ongoing podcasts in categories including entertainment and lifestyle,...
In addition to Pinna, Realm will also represent over 375 hours of original, kid-centric content based on two new ad sales alliances with Rebel Girls and GoKidGo.
Realm has also acquired the podcast company Lipstick & Vinyl, founded by Allyson Marino in 2018 and focused on unscripted podcasts from underrepresented voices. Lipstick & Vinyl brings to Realm 50+ ongoing podcasts in categories including entertainment and lifestyle,...
- 8/3/2023
- Podnews.net
HappyNest has closed an equity investment into GoKidGo, an audio company geared towards making content for kids. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The pact gives HappyNest proprietary development rights to adapt short-form and long-form animated series from GoKidGo original characters, including a new original R.L. Stine franchise.
HappyNest is a production company that focuses on kids and family animated projects. It was launched in 2021 as a joint venture between Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures and UTA. Silverman is a media veteran who previously oversaw production at Warner Bros.
GoKidGo was founded by bestselling children’s author Patrick Carman, entrepreneur Jennifer Clary, and film and television executive and producer Maia Glikman. GoKidGo’s narrative podcasts are freely accessed. The company has released almost 1,000 episodes to date, and is exceeding 500,000 listens per month as of March 2022. Stine is the mega-selling author of more than 300 books, including the popular “Goosebumps” franchise.
HappyNest is a production company that focuses on kids and family animated projects. It was launched in 2021 as a joint venture between Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures and UTA. Silverman is a media veteran who previously oversaw production at Warner Bros.
GoKidGo was founded by bestselling children’s author Patrick Carman, entrepreneur Jennifer Clary, and film and television executive and producer Maia Glikman. GoKidGo’s narrative podcasts are freely accessed. The company has released almost 1,000 episodes to date, and is exceeding 500,000 listens per month as of March 2022. Stine is the mega-selling author of more than 300 books, including the popular “Goosebumps” franchise.
- 6/6/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Hart of Dixie alum Jaime King is set to topline How to Cook Your Daughter, a film adaptation based on a memoir by Jessica Hendra and Blake Morrison. Jennifer Clary is attached to direct, with production scheduled to begin in November. The novel follows Hendra's experience growing up as the daughter of a National Lampoon editor. While a disillusioned generation of Americans reveled in the smart, sometimes brilliant and always raucous humor of the Lampoon…...
- 2/28/2017
- Deadline
The last installment of the Soho Film Festival follows the winners of the special awards given out for their excellence in storytelling. The fourth year of the festival ran smoothly with a unique array of visual quality that was mastered in the art of storytelling, with films coming from all over the world. Of the 70 plus works featured at the festival, the following have won prizes for their works.
En Hemlighet (A Secret): A 9 minute short directed by Dennis Petersen, this Swedish short about love won the Best World Sort award.
El Presidente: Mark Meilly directed this Philippians 160 minute movie, about a general rising to power as American gained territory and power during the last days of the Spanish empire. This won the Best World Showcase award.
Running for Jim: Dan Noyes and Robin Hauser Reynolds directed this 78 minute film about a coach struggling to win. This film won the Best Documentary award.
En Hemlighet (A Secret): A 9 minute short directed by Dennis Petersen, this Swedish short about love won the Best World Sort award.
El Presidente: Mark Meilly directed this Philippians 160 minute movie, about a general rising to power as American gained territory and power during the last days of the Spanish empire. This won the Best World Showcase award.
Running for Jim: Dan Noyes and Robin Hauser Reynolds directed this 78 minute film about a coach struggling to win. This film won the Best Documentary award.
- 5/10/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The 2013 Soho Film Fest took place between April 5th to April 12th at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in Soho, New York. The fourth year in existence, the Soho Film Fest celebrates all types of filmmakers- from pros to amateurs and anything in between- to help promote the arts and the works of filmmakers everywhere. Anything from 2 minute shorts to full length feature films are shown, and it doesn’t matter who made them since all are shown to get the passion of filmmaking out throughout the world.
The following shorts and films were shown:
A Second Thought: Choice Skinner directed the 2 minute silent short, about a man’s encounter with a woman.
King Tigermore in Strawberry Fields: Tunde Reid-Kapo directed the 3 minute short, which is about a eight year who fell asleep during a chest match to find himself in another world.
Dance of the Books: directed by Lorena Fernandez,...
The following shorts and films were shown:
A Second Thought: Choice Skinner directed the 2 minute silent short, about a man’s encounter with a woman.
King Tigermore in Strawberry Fields: Tunde Reid-Kapo directed the 3 minute short, which is about a eight year who fell asleep during a chest match to find himself in another world.
Dance of the Books: directed by Lorena Fernandez,...
- 4/15/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
The 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival has just been voted Best Film Festival Ever!……..maybe……if it hasn’t it should because this year’s fest has provided a breathtaking variety of docs, dramas, foreign flix, comedies, shorts, and….you name it!
Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th
Alter Egos
Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here
In the alternative world of Ârdizes an important mission with he discovers his...
Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th
Alter Egos
Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here
In the alternative world of Ârdizes an important mission with he discovers his...
- 11/16/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Review by Dana Jung.
The .stranger in the house. subgenre of thrillers has a long and storied history, beginning with Hitchcock.s The Lodger and continuing through decades of disturbed roommates & houseguests, bonkers babysitters, and crazy nannies. The new film The Silent Thief adds some new wrinkles to this tried and true formula.
Toby Hemingway (Black Swan, In Time) is the mysterious Brennan, a quiet and well-mannered English bloke who answers a room for rent ad with the Henderson family. At first, everyone seems smitten with Brennan: mom (Frances Fisher) sees the sweet boy as the perfect solution to her partially empty nest with her older son away at college; daughter Elise (Scout Taylor-Compton) is intrigued by the exotic stranger and starts to develop romantic feelings for him; even dad (Kurt Fuller) warms up to the youth, who has all the right answers and plenty of cash. However, things start...
The .stranger in the house. subgenre of thrillers has a long and storied history, beginning with Hitchcock.s The Lodger and continuing through decades of disturbed roommates & houseguests, bonkers babysitters, and crazy nannies. The new film The Silent Thief adds some new wrinkles to this tried and true formula.
Toby Hemingway (Black Swan, In Time) is the mysterious Brennan, a quiet and well-mannered English bloke who answers a room for rent ad with the Henderson family. At first, everyone seems smitten with Brennan: mom (Frances Fisher) sees the sweet boy as the perfect solution to her partially empty nest with her older son away at college; daughter Elise (Scout Taylor-Compton) is intrigued by the exotic stranger and starts to develop romantic feelings for him; even dad (Kurt Fuller) warms up to the youth, who has all the right answers and plenty of cash. However, things start...
- 11/15/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This Week’s Absolute Must Read is an absolute for sad reasons: David Hudson compiles the best tribute to famed film curator Amos Vogel, who passed away last week. Actually, “curator” probably isn’t the best word to summarize all that Vogel did in his life in promoting indie, avant-garde, experimental and underground film, but no word has been invented to how important his contributions to film curation, programming and scholarship have been.After actress Elizabeth Banks dissed the ’90s underground film Surrender Dorothy in which she starred, the movie’s director, Kevin Dinovis, politely chided her for not only insulting him, but the entire indie film scene. We here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film don’t have to be so polite. To quote the late, great Divine, we find Banks guilty of assholism. If you want to see Surrender Dorothy, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 1998 Chicago Underground Film Festival,...
- 4/29/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
While it’s easy and natural to assume that wayward drifter Brennan Marley (Toby Hemingway) is the eponymous criminal of the low-key thriller The Silent Thief, actually all of the characters in the film tend to keep mum about their lives of quiet desperation. The nice and seemingly normal suburban family that Brennan infiltrates are all leading lives of quiet desperation that make them easy prey.
The plot kicks in pretty quickly when Brennan is automatically welcomed with open arms into the Henderson family, who are renting out their son Mike’s (Cody Longo) room while he’s away at college. While there’s the perfunctory glancing at Brennan’s driver’s license, none of the Hendersons ever really bother to verify his identity or, probably more importantly, his sanity before they start treating him as a Mike substitute.
At first, it doesn’t totally seem quite believable that a...
The plot kicks in pretty quickly when Brennan is automatically welcomed with open arms into the Henderson family, who are renting out their son Mike’s (Cody Longo) room while he’s away at college. While there’s the perfunctory glancing at Brennan’s driver’s license, none of the Hendersons ever really bother to verify his identity or, probably more importantly, his sanity before they start treating him as a Mike substitute.
At first, it doesn’t totally seem quite believable that a...
- 4/20/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Yes, the Oscars are being held tonite and despite Bad Lit’s predilection towards underground film, we will be watching, red carpet and all. But, if you want to kill time during the commercials, then consider clicking on some extra links below and boning up on non-Oscar film.
This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see...
This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see...
- 2/26/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Silent Thief is the debut feature film by Jennifer Clary.
Brennan Marley (Toby Hemmingway) is an adolescent grifter who earns the trust and love of a suburban family after moving into their home while their eldest son, Mike (Cody Longo), is away at college. But, when Mike finally returns home, he’s the only one to suspect that the stranger living in his house is up to no good.
The film also stars Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Kurt Fuller (Midnight in Paris) as Mike’s parents and Scout Taylor-Compton (the Halloween remake and Halloween II) as his sister, all of whom are seduced by Brennan’s devious charms.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film previously reviewed Clary’s short film Dirty Girl way back in 2007, calling it an “extremely powerful film.”
For more information on The Silent Thief, please visit the film’s official website.
Browse The Silent Thief...
Brennan Marley (Toby Hemmingway) is an adolescent grifter who earns the trust and love of a suburban family after moving into their home while their eldest son, Mike (Cody Longo), is away at college. But, when Mike finally returns home, he’s the only one to suspect that the stranger living in his house is up to no good.
The film also stars Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Kurt Fuller (Midnight in Paris) as Mike’s parents and Scout Taylor-Compton (the Halloween remake and Halloween II) as his sister, all of whom are seduced by Brennan’s devious charms.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film previously reviewed Clary’s short film Dirty Girl way back in 2007, calling it an “extremely powerful film.”
For more information on The Silent Thief, please visit the film’s official website.
Browse The Silent Thief...
- 2/21/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
For their 5th annual event, which is set to run Sept. 8-11, the Sydney Underground Film Festival is looking a little more demented than ever. And that’s saying a lot for this scrappy, still relatively young fest, which typically offers ample twisted cinematic offerings.
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
- 8/9/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
[1] Derek Cianfrance's been collecting quite a solid cast for his next project, the "Deer Hunter meets The Godfather" crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines. Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes are already on board, with Greta Gerwig circling [2] another part. Now the latest addition to his cast is Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn, who along with Joel Edgerton and Jacki Weaver has been enjoying a nice (and well-deserved) career boost from the success of last year's Animal Kingdom. The Place Beyond the Pines focuses on a multi-generational feud sparked by an encounter between Gosling’s character, a pro motorcycle rider who turns to bank robbing to support his family, and Cooper’s character, a cop. Mendes will co-star as Gosling's love interest, while Gerwig is up for the role of Cooper's wife. Mendelsohn is in negotiations to play Robin Van Der Zee, a mechanic who pulls Gosling into his bank robbery operation.
- 6/21/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Toby Hemingway ("Black Swan," "In Time") has joined and Josh Pence ("The Dark Knight Rises") is in negotiations for one of the lead roles in the indie drama "The Silent Thief" for Jenkev Productions says Variety.
Hemingway plays a drifter who descends upon a family in crisis and suggests an odd solution: he'll take their biological son's place in the family unit. The situation unravels as his ingratiation tactics become pernicious.
Cody Longo will play a closeted athlete, while Pence is in talks to play his best friend and secret boyfriend. Scout Taylor Compton and Reid Ewing also star.
Jennifer Clary directs from a script she co-wrote with Kevin Haberer and Chris Sapp.
Hemingway plays a drifter who descends upon a family in crisis and suggests an odd solution: he'll take their biological son's place in the family unit. The situation unravels as his ingratiation tactics become pernicious.
Cody Longo will play a closeted athlete, while Pence is in talks to play his best friend and secret boyfriend. Scout Taylor Compton and Reid Ewing also star.
Jennifer Clary directs from a script she co-wrote with Kevin Haberer and Chris Sapp.
- 6/19/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Variety lets us know that the upcoming indie film The Silent Thief - directed by Jennifer Clary and written by her, Kevin Haberer, and Chris Sapp - has two young actors in negotiations for roles. One is Toby Hemingway, who recently appeared in Black Swan, and has a role in Andrew Niccol‘s In Time. The other actor is Josh Pence, the unseen Winklevoss in The Social Network and a young Ra’s al Ghul in 2012′s The Dark Knight Rises.
The plot of the movie follows “a drifter who descends upon a family in crisis and suggests an odd solution: he’ll take their biological son’s place in the family unit.” This plan begins to falter, however, when his attempts at fitting in hurt others. Filmofilia has some more information on the movie, saying that the lead character is named Brennan Marley, and that he “rents a room...
The plot of the movie follows “a drifter who descends upon a family in crisis and suggests an odd solution: he’ll take their biological son’s place in the family unit.” This plan begins to falter, however, when his attempts at fitting in hurt others. Filmofilia has some more information on the movie, saying that the lead character is named Brennan Marley, and that he “rents a room...
- 6/18/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
One of the two boys who tease with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Black Swan is starring in the indie drama/thriller The Silent Thief. His name is Toby Hemingway.
Scout Taylor Compton and Cody Longo were also attached and Josh Pence, who’s currently shooting The Dark Knight Rises, is in negotiations as one of the leads, while Modern Family topliner Reid Ewing is set to make a cameo.
The Silent Thief is a scary story of Brennan Marley, an outsider who pressures to destroy a family’s unity by steadily displacing their absent son, Mike Henderson. Starving for acceptance and exceptionally sly, Brennan rents a room from the Henderson family under false fronts. He uses his conciliatory skills to ingratiate himself with each particular family member before Mike returns from college. As Brennan’s tactic becomes progressively destructive, psyches and driven to the breaking point and violence results.
Scout Taylor Compton and Cody Longo were also attached and Josh Pence, who’s currently shooting The Dark Knight Rises, is in negotiations as one of the leads, while Modern Family topliner Reid Ewing is set to make a cameo.
The Silent Thief is a scary story of Brennan Marley, an outsider who pressures to destroy a family’s unity by steadily displacing their absent son, Mike Henderson. Starving for acceptance and exceptionally sly, Brennan rents a room from the Henderson family under false fronts. He uses his conciliatory skills to ingratiate himself with each particular family member before Mike returns from college. As Brennan’s tactic becomes progressively destructive, psyches and driven to the breaking point and violence results.
- 6/18/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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