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Exclusive: Netflix has acquired the spec Queen B, a college comedy written by Giovanni M. Porta. Cameron Fuller will produce along with Brad Fuller for Fuller Media.

Becca Gleason is rewriting for the script and while no deal is closed the plan is to develop it for her to potentially direct. Netflix had no comment.

The logline is kept under wraps but is said to be a gender swapped pic in the business of Risky Business. This is writer Giovanni M. Porta’s second spec script set up this year.

Gleason is best known for directing The Summer of 03, starring Joey King. She is repped by CAA and Navigation Media Group. Porta is repped by UTA and Range.

Exclusive: Joey Soloway, the Emmy winner best known for creating, producing, directing and writing the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent, has signed with Range Media Partners for management.

Inspired by the 2011 coming out of Soloway’s parent, Transparent charts the lives and personal journeys of the members of a Los Angeles family after they learn that their parent is a trans woman. The show was one of the first powerhouse originals to emerge out of Amazon, premiering to universal acclaim and going on to run for five seasons between 2014 and 2019. It in 2015 became Amazon Studios‘ first series to win major awards, as well as the first show produced by a streaming service to win a Golden Globe for Best Series, also over the course of time claiming eight Emmys from 24 nominations, another Globe, three Critics’ Choice Awards, a Peabody, four GLAAD Media Awards and numerous other accolades. Soloway personally collected two Emmys for directing,...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed actor Jack Kesy, who recently set the internet ablaze with his lead casting in Millennium Media’s Hellboy reboot, The Crooked Man.

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The film to be directed by Crank‘s Brian Taylor, which is currently gearing up for production, will have Kesy take on the demonic comic book character previously inhabited by Ron Perlman and David Harbour. Pic sees Hellboy stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia with a rookie Bprd agent. The pair there discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man.

Kesy’s past film credits include the Lionsgate action-thriller Dark Web: Cicada 3301,...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners has signed social media star Monet McMichael, one of the newest faces exploding on TikTok with beauty, fashion and lifestyle content.

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McMichael boasts 2.9M followers and over 134M likes on TikTok, with a total social reach of 3.6M across that platform and others like Instagram and YouTube. The 23-year-old New Jersey native initially intended to become a registered nurse, having graduated with her nursing degree from Rutgers University in May 2022. She made the decision to pursue social media full time following the rise in popularity of videos like those in her “Get Ready With Me” series, which has her talking to followers about relatable life situations,...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners on Friday announced its signing of Giovanni M. Porta, a writer and producer whose first produced project, At Midnight, premiered on Paramount+ in February.

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The Mexican rom-com directed by Jonah Feingold tells the story of two people who do their best not to fall in love. Pic centers on hotel manager Alejandro (Diego Boneta), who lives a predictable life according to plan, and Sophie (Monica Barbaro), a beautiful rising movie star with an unreliable celebrity boyfriend. During a visit to Mexico’s beach to shoot scenes for her new movie, Super Society, Sophie meets and becomes enamored with Alejandro. Neither of them will be able to...

Stars: Diego Boneta, Monica Barbaro, Casey Thomas Brown, Catherine Cohen, Fernando Carsa | Written by Giovanni Porta, Jonah Feingold, María Hinojos | Directed by Jonah Feingold

Sophie Wilder is in Mexico City filming Super Society 3 and hopes to get her own spinoff. While shooting, she catches her boyfriend and co-star, Adam, cheating on her with a crew member. As Sophie struggles to figure out how she can move forward, she meets Alejandro, a junior manager at a hotel used for the production. A deep friendship develops between Sophie and Alejandro as they try to figure out how things can develop in their limited time together.

Who doesn’t enjoy a good, well-made rom-com? Sadly, that’s not what Jonah Feingold’s At Midnight is. At times it seems like it desperately wishes to be a more modern retelling of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy while also being a millennial-centred comedy about two unexpected people,...

During the mythical Golden Age of Hollywood, the romantic-comedy genre could be relied upon as a consistently entertaining, star-studded, and profitable performer at the box office, year in and year out. We've fallen quite a long way in the years since despite some recent breakthrough hits like "Crazy Rich Asians" or last year's double-whammy of "The Lost City" and "Ticket to Paradise." Instead of studios going out of their way to court genuine movie stars and put their charisma and charm on display for moviegoing audiences to enjoy vicariously, we've ended up in a place where those once-ubiquitous theatrical features instead struggle to justify their existence ... if they even make it to theaters at all.

That brings us to "At Midnight." On the surface, it has all the makings of a much-needed throwback date night at the movies, in the vein of "Roman Holiday" before it (which gets a shout-out...

In the upcoming Paramount+ film "At Midnight," Monica Barbaro ("Top Gun: Maverick") plays Sophie, an actor starring in a superhero film with her boyfriend and fellow actor, Adam. When she finds him cheating on her with a crew member, she has to stay quiet about it because of her career. While in Mexico shooting the end of their movie, she meets ambitious junior hotel manager Alejandro, and finds herself continually meeting up with him at midnight. 

"At Midnight" has a fairytale feel to it, complete with animated opening credits and camera work that pays homage to classic rom-coms of the past. I recently spoke to director Jonah Feingold ("Dating & New York") about his take on the film's style, Martin Scorsese's comments about superhero films, whether there was a plan to have Boneta (who has a musical background) sing, and what films inspired his work on "At Midnight." 

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Paramount Global’s streaming service Paramount+ has released first-look images from upcoming romantic comedy At Midnight, starring Top Gun: Maverick breakout Monica Barbaro, and unveiled that the original film will premiere on the streamer on Friday, Feb. 10 across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America and Italy.

Premiere dates for other Paramount+ international markets will be set at a later date.

Monica Barbaro stars as Sophie in At Midnight.

The film focuses on Alejandro, an ambitious hotel manager portrayed by Diego Boneta (Father of the Bride) and Sophie (Barbaro), a movie star navigating the politics of Hollywood. “He’s focused on opening his own boutique hotel. She’s trying to focus on shooting her new superhero film Super Society 3, in hopes of getting her own spinoff, but catches her co-star (and boyfriend!) Adam (Anders Holm, Workaholics) cheating,” according to a plot description.