Author: Michael

A24 and the New York Times are the latest players to emerge that are looking to acquire Letterboxd for over $300 million, according to a report in the New York Times. A rep for A24 declined to comment. “The Company regularly reviews potential investments, and it’s our policy not to comment on speculation about potential acquisitions or divestitures,” Katie Hill, NYT SVP, Global Head of Communications and External Affairs, told The Wrap in a statement. Others that have participated in the early talks include Sony, Netflix and Paramount, private equity firms RedBird and TPG and Reddit co-creator and Seven Seven…

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Mekki Leeper will make the jump from actor to star, EP, writer and showrunner with his new comedy, “New Money” at Prime Video. Leeper (“Jury Duty,” “St. Denis Medical”) will star in the half-hour comedy he created and wrote, while he shares showrunning responsibilities with Joe Mande (“Hacks,” “The Running Point”), who also serves as an executive producer. “New Money” is described as an ensemble workplace comedy set in the fast-paced and morally dubious world of private equity, following a trustfund-baby-turned-(self-proclaimed)-mogul and his staff of misguided wannabes at New Money Worldwide, Southern California’s least successful venture capital firm, per the…

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“And then I cast Tom Cruise and everything went insane.” That’s how Neil Jordan describes “Interview With the Vampire,” his decadent 1994 horror epic based on the 1976 novel by Anne Rice, which is now available as a deluxe 4K Blu-ray festooned with delicious new special features and a handful of previously unseen deleted scenes. (And just in time for Halloween!) But Jordan’s version of events isn’t exactly true. At the time, Jordan was coming off the phenomenal global success of “The Crying Game,” which won him the Best Original Screenplay Oscar and made more than $70 million internationally on…

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