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Exclusive: Wise Child Studios, the recently launched production company of Jason Beekman and Ryan Miller, has announced the formation of the Wise Child Collective, a group of creatives from across the country that will aim to help both individual artists and small companies overcome obstacles in getting projects off the ground.

Creatives participating in the inaugural 2025-27 Collective include director and showrunner Lisa Bryant (Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich); Emmy-winning producer and director Paul Burger (Nat Geo’s Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller); and Emmy-winning director and showrunner Amy Bucher.

Intended to support both up-and-coming and established talent, Wise Child Collective will be a mix of producers, directors, writers, and journalists representing diverse backgrounds and experiences, who in collaborating with Wise Child Studios, will...

Exclusive: Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold are set to direct Mulligans, a dark golf comedy for recently launched production company Objectively Good Media.

The project reunites the duo with Ogm on the heels of their directorial debut, Damned If You Do, which has wrapped production. A dark comedy following a group of teenage friends who have sold their souls to the devil, that film stars Kate Siegel, Harvey Guillén, Ed Weeks and more.

Scripted by Rubin, Mulligans tells the story of a wealthy Florida family who rip each other apart while competing in a golf tournament to win the family golf course and inheritance. Situated in the swampy folklore of Florida, the dark comedy takes place on the golf course and the surrounding swamps of the prestigious (and fictional) Winston Hills Country Club.

“Similar to Damned if You Do,” said the filmmakers, “Mulligans is another big ensemble comedy where we...

Exclusive: Objectively Good Media has secured exclusive film rights to Carlos Vieira’s memoir Knockin’ Doorz Down, enlisting Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair (Before We Go) to mount an adaptation, titled The 9,009 Lives of a Cocaine God, from their own script.

Based on a true story, The 9,009 Lives examines the devastating impact of addiction on families. Delving deep into the complexity of addiction, recovery, and redemption, the film will offer a raw exploration from the perspective of Vieira’s journey torn between his love for his family and the relentless pull of his addiction. The writer is depicted living out different versions of his life, each more harrowing than the last, until he begins to understand that the only way to break the cycle is to find the strength to love himself.

Vieira is the founder of The Carlos Vieira Foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on the following three campaigns: Race for Autism,...

Exclusive: Objectively Good Media is in early development on Seventy-Two, an authorized biopic on actor, comedian and TV presenter Steve Harvey, Deadline has learned.

Producers will include Mohamed Kheir and Matthew R. Cooper for Ogm, as well as East 112, which is headed by Harvey and Thabiti Stephens, the Chief Strategy Officer of Steve Harvey Global. A writer is not yet attached to the project.

Seventy-Two centers on a transformative 72-hour period, ahead of a career-defining performance for Harvey at the legendary Apollo Theatre in 1993. The film will provide audiences an intimate look at the perseverance and challenges that defined Harvey’s career. At age 26, Harvey left a secure sales job to pursue a career in comedy, facing numerous obstacles along the way. However, by 36, he was confronting a period of self-doubt and personal struggles as he prepared for the performance that would alter his career trajectory. Ogm conceptualized and brought...

With “What We Do in the Shadows” coming to an end this year with the show’s final season, star Harvey Guillén has set up a brand new project to both star in and executive produce.

Harvey Guillén will star alongside Kate Siegel in the dark comedy Damned If You Do.

First reported by Deadline, the cast will also include Ginger Gonzaga (She-Hulk), Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains), Beth Dover (Orange Is the New Black), Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project), Molly Bernard (Hit Man), Jillian Gottlieb (Soon By You), Matthew Stephen Smith (Too Hot to Handle), Liza Treyger (Survival of the Thickest) and Ashley Austin Morris (Inventing Anna).

Written by Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde, Damned If You Do marks the directorial debut of Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold. Here’s the official plot synopsis for the film:

“A group of teenage friends sold their souls to the devil. Naturally, life...

Last month, it was announced that Kate Siegel – who is best known for her collaborations with husband Mike Flanagan, like Hush and The Haunting of Hill House – is set to star in and executive produce the dark comedy Damned If You Do. Now Deadline has broken the news that Siegel is being joined in the cast by Harvey Guillen (What We Do in the Shadows), Ginger Gonzaga (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains), Beth Dover (Orange Is the New Black), Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project), Molly Bernard (Hit Man), Jillian Gottlieb (Soon By You), Matthew Stephen Smith (Too Hot to Handle), Liza Treyger (Survival of the Thickest), and Ashley Austin Morris (Inventing Anna). Details on the characters they’ll be playing have not been revealed.

The feature directorial debut of the filmmaking duo of Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold, who are working from a screenplay written by Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde,...

Damned If You Do will be the title of an upcoming comedy that will feature Harvey Guilln as an actor and executive producer, according to Deadline. The project will be directed by Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold, who will continue to define their style with the unpredictable story. The premise of the movie will follow a group of teenage friends who have sold their souls to the devil. After everyone grows up to lead very different lives, the group must be reunited once again, as the contract's deadline comes closer. Damned If You Do is this team's quest to get their lives back.

Exclusive: Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) is set to exec produce and star opposite Kate Siegel in Damned If You Do, the dark comedy from first-time feature filmmakers Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold, on which we were first to report.

Among the other newcomers to the cast are Ginger Gonzaga (She-Hulk), Paulo Costanzo (Royal Pains), Beth Dover (Orange Is the New Black) and Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project).

Damned If You Do follows a group of teenage friends who have sold their souls to the devil. Subsequently, life takes them down different paths, as a rock star, a tech mogul, and a high-profile activist. Years later, they must rely on an old classmate to try and escape Hell’s grasp before the contract’s deadline of their 25th high school reunion.

Objectively Good Media’s Matthew R. Cooper and Uwakokunre (Kokie) Imasogie are producing alongside Lior Haas,...

Kate Siegel has faced plenty of threats – supernatural and otherwise – in her collaborations with husband Mike Flanagan, which include Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Now Deadline reports that she’s set to face the biggest bad of all, as she’ll be taking on the devil himself in the dark comedy Damned If You Do!

The feature directorial debut of the filmmaking duo of Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold, who are working from a screenplay written by Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde, Damned If You Do will follow a group of teenage friends who sold their souls to the devil. Naturally, life grants them different paths: a rock star, a tech mogul, and a high-profile activist. Years later, they must rely on an old classmate to try...

One of our favorite scream queens has set her next project. We're talking about The Fall of the House of Usher star Kate Siegel. She's set to star in and executive produce an upcoming dark comedy called Damned If You Do. More on this project below.

Siegel is known for starring in many horror-based films and shows. Besides The Fall of the House of Usher, most people will recognize her from her roles in other Netflix horror shows such as The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass. She's also known for starring in the horror flicks Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Gerald's Game.

While we have enjoyed Siegel's performance in every horror project she's been a part of so far, we're really looking forward to seeing her take on a different genre. She's an incredible actress, so we're sure she'll knock her...

Hush and “The Fall of the House of Usher” star Kate Siegel is starring and executive producing the new Hellish dark comedy Damned If You Do, and production is underway, according to Deadline.

The film follows “a group of teenage friends who sold their souls to the devil. Naturally, life grants them different paths: a rock star, a tech mogul, and a high-profile activist. Years later, they must rely on an old classmate to try and escape Hell’s grasp before the contract’s deadline of their 25th high school reunion.”

Written by Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde, Damned If You Do marks the directorial debut of Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold.

It’s not yet clear which role Siegel will play, but expect the film to have a lot of fun with its soul-selling premise. Rubin and Metzold told Deadline, “We feel very lucky to be working with such a talented and hilarious cast.