Exclusive: Amazon Studios is developing a TV series adaptation of Reeves Wiedeman’s New York Magazine article “Who Killed Tulum?“. Written and executive produced by Mehar Sethi, the project hails from Annapurna, New York Magazine, and Vox Media Studios.
Who Killed Tulum? is about a spoiled Mexican party-boy and a high-strung American woman who each seek a new life in the burgeoning resort town of Tulum circa 2007, a paradoxical paradise where extravagance has an ethos and glamour has a dark side. It tracks the rise and fall of a city, a generation and an era.
New York Magazine’s Scoop Wasserstein and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle will executive produce the series. Wiedeman will serve as a co-executive producer with Chad Mumm, SVP, Head of Entertainment for Vox Media Studios. Annapurna’s Patrick Chu, Susan Goldberg and Zelda Wengrod will oversee...
Who Killed Tulum? is about a spoiled Mexican party-boy and a high-strung American woman who each seek a new life in the burgeoning resort town of Tulum circa 2007, a paradoxical paradise where extravagance has an ethos and glamour has a dark side. It tracks the rise and fall of a city, a generation and an era.
New York Magazine’s Scoop Wasserstein and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle will executive produce the series. Wiedeman will serve as a co-executive producer with Chad Mumm, SVP, Head of Entertainment for Vox Media Studios. Annapurna’s Patrick Chu, Susan Goldberg and Zelda Wengrod will oversee...
- 2/2/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon is developing a limited series based on the New York Magazine story “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, Reed Morano is attached to direct.
The New York Magazine story, written by Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh, told the true story of a group of students at Sarah Lawrence College who fell under the sway of Larry Ray, an ex-con and their classmate’s father, beginning in 2010. In February, Ray was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy, forced labor, and more. Authorities began their investigation after the story first published.
Blumhouse Television acquired the rights to the project last year. Jason Blum, Marci Wiseman, and Jeremy Gold will executive produce for Blumhouse Television along with Scoop Wasserstein for New York Magazine and Vox Media Studios. No writer is currently attached.
Morano signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios...
The New York Magazine story, written by Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh, told the true story of a group of students at Sarah Lawrence College who fell under the sway of Larry Ray, an ex-con and their classmate’s father, beginning in 2010. In February, Ray was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy, forced labor, and more. Authorities began their investigation after the story first published.
Blumhouse Television acquired the rights to the project last year. Jason Blum, Marci Wiseman, and Jeremy Gold will executive produce for Blumhouse Television along with Scoop Wasserstein for New York Magazine and Vox Media Studios. No writer is currently attached.
Morano signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios...
- 3/19/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly a year after acquiring the rights to "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence," a buzzy New York magazine cover story by writer Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh, Blumhouse has found a home for the adaptation.
The hot project is now in development at Amazon as a limited series that Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale) will direct. Though no writer is currently attached, Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Television co-presidents Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold will executive produce, as will Scoop Wasserstein on behalf of New York magazine and Vox Media Studios.
The article, which was published ...
The hot project is now in development at Amazon as a limited series that Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale) will direct. Though no writer is currently attached, Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Television co-presidents Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold will executive produce, as will Scoop Wasserstein on behalf of New York magazine and Vox Media Studios.
The article, which was published ...
- 3/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The rise and crash of WeWork and its founder Adam Neumann is getting the big-screen treatment from Blumhouse and Universal.
Screenwriter Charles Randolph, who won an adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short,” is on board to write the film.
The troubled shared-workplace startup pulled the plug on an initial public offering in September after investors raised questions against its mounting losses. It accepted a bailout from SoftBank in October.
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the movie from Katrina Brooker’s reporting and upcoming book, to be published by W. W. Norton, on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Neumann and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Brooker is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company. She has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork, and written stories on the fallout of WeWork’s Ipo.
Randolph will also produce. He penned the script for Jay Roach’s upcoming “Bombshell,...
Screenwriter Charles Randolph, who won an adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short,” is on board to write the film.
The troubled shared-workplace startup pulled the plug on an initial public offering in September after investors raised questions against its mounting losses. It accepted a bailout from SoftBank in October.
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the movie from Katrina Brooker’s reporting and upcoming book, to be published by W. W. Norton, on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Neumann and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Brooker is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company. She has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork, and written stories on the fallout of WeWork’s Ipo.
Randolph will also produce. He penned the script for Jay Roach’s upcoming “Bombshell,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Big Short Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Charles Randolph is adapting Katrina’s Brooker’s upcoming W.W. Norton book about controversial real estate corp WeWork for both Blumhouse and Universal. Book focuses on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, and Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, the latter which has been mired in scandal since its failed Ipo. Brooker is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company whose reporting in the tech sphere has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Fortune and Bloomberg. She conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork, and wrote landmark feature stories on the crisis around SoftBank’s $100b Vision Fund and the fallout of WeWork’s Ipo.
Upcoming for Randolph is Lionsgate/Bron Studios’ Bombshell about the women who took down Fox News boss Roger Ailes. Pic opens on Dec. 20. Randolph’s Big Short,...
Upcoming for Randolph is Lionsgate/Bron Studios’ Bombshell about the women who took down Fox News boss Roger Ailes. Pic opens on Dec. 20. Randolph’s Big Short,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Bombshell” writer Charles Randolph is set to write a feature film based on the rise and fall of WeWork and its CEO and founder Adam Neumann that is being fast tracked at Blumhouse Productions and Universal, TheWrap has learned.
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the film based on the reporting and an upcoming book by journalist Katrina Brooker. The film will chart the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank, and Neumann, who from 2010 to 2019 was the CEO of the commercial real estate company WeWork that has been the subject of scrutiny following a failed Ipo. Randolph will also produce.
Brooker, who is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company and the author of an upcoming book on WeWork to be published by W.W. Norton, has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork that have delved into Neumann’s eccentric behavior,...
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the film based on the reporting and an upcoming book by journalist Katrina Brooker. The film will chart the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank, and Neumann, who from 2010 to 2019 was the CEO of the commercial real estate company WeWork that has been the subject of scrutiny following a failed Ipo. Randolph will also produce.
Brooker, who is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company and the author of an upcoming book on WeWork to be published by W.W. Norton, has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork that have delved into Neumann’s eccentric behavior,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
New York Magazine has signed with Wme, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
In addition to enlisting the agency's help in developing opportunities to adapt its content across all mediums, including film, scripted and non-scripted television, podcasts and live events, parent company New York Media has launched a TV/film production initiative led by consulting producer Scoop Wasserstein, brother of New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein. The initiative already is adapting Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh's "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence" with Blumhouse and Mark Wahlberg, and Reeves Wiedeman's "Who Killed Tulum?" with Annapurna.
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In addition to enlisting the agency's help in developing opportunities to adapt its content across all mediums, including film, scripted and non-scripted television, podcasts and live events, parent company New York Media has launched a TV/film production initiative led by consulting producer Scoop Wasserstein, brother of New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein. The initiative already is adapting Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh's "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence" with Blumhouse and Mark Wahlberg, and Reeves Wiedeman's "Who Killed Tulum?" with Annapurna.
Led by ...
- 9/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York Magazine has signed with Wme, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
In addition to enlisting the agency's help in developing opportunities to adapt its content across all mediums, including film, scripted and non-scripted television, podcasts and live events, parent company New York Media has launched a TV/film production initiative led by consulting producer Scoop Wasserstein, brother of New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein. The initiative already is adapting Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh's "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence" with Blumhouse and Mark Wahlberg, and Reeves Wiedeman's "Who Killed Tulum?" with Annapurna.
Led by ...
In addition to enlisting the agency's help in developing opportunities to adapt its content across all mediums, including film, scripted and non-scripted television, podcasts and live events, parent company New York Media has launched a TV/film production initiative led by consulting producer Scoop Wasserstein, brother of New York Media CEO Pam Wasserstein. The initiative already is adapting Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh's "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence" with Blumhouse and Mark Wahlberg, and Reeves Wiedeman's "Who Killed Tulum?" with Annapurna.
Led by ...
- 9/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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