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LiSTNR is Australia’s no. 1 sales representation podcast network nationally for the 22nd time, reaching more monthly listeners than its competitors in June as per the Australian Podcast Ranker, with Hamish & Andy remaining in first place as Australia’s favourite podcast.

One of Australia’s most prominent podcasters, Abbie Chatfield celebrated the largest monthly audience since launching It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield in 2019, with 315,587 monthly listeners.

Alongside Abbie Chatfield, LiSTNR’s sport focused podcasts led the charge with strong audience growth, including Triple M Footy Afl, The Rush Hour with Jb & Billy and Triple M Rocks Footy Nrl, which was up seven places with 75,762 monthly listeners, with Ben and Harry making their debut on the All Australian Podcast Ranker.

For the money-minded audience, Motley Fool Money jumped eight places to 54,166 monthly listeners in June.

Popular podcasts in the top 20 included Hamish & Andy, which again claimed the number one comedy podcast,...

Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q1 2024 among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.

The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics.

Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on listening over the full period. All respondents reported listening to podcasts in the last week.

Podnews has added links and detail to this list from each podcast’s RSS feed; the bottom of this article includes a link to an Opml feed to import all 50 into your podcast player.

Podcasts Detail 1 (1) The Joe Rogan Experience 2 (2) Crime Junkie 3 (3) The Daily 4 (New) New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce 5 (5) Dateline NBC 6 (7) This American Life 7 (12) Call Her Daddy 8 (10) SmartLess 9 (11) Morbid 10 (4)Stuff You Should Know 11 Club Shay Shay 12 This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von 13 The Ben Shapiro Show 14 MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories 15 Bad Friends...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Greenstein’s new sales and production company A Higher Standard has hired Thayer Juergens as Head of Development for Film & Television. Juergens will report to Greenstein.

Juergens will focus on sourcing, vetting and developing projects and will also be involved in production and sales.

Before joining A Higher Standard, Juergens served as Director of Development at Maniac Productions, where he managed the studio deal with Blumhouse Television. Prior to his time at Maniac, he worked in an assistant capacity at Millennium Media, contributing to films including The Protégé, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, Jolt, Till Death, and The Outpost.

He recently co-produced the independent feature film Junkie, which was shot in Atlanta and Los Angeles last year, and before that assisted on marketing campaigns for NBCUniversal, A&e, and HBO, working on projects including Silicon Valley, Westworld, and Game of Thrones.

Former Millennium exec Greenstein set up A Higher Standard...

Zack Snyder was quite impressed by Gal Gadot during her audition for the role of Wonder Woman. The actress played Diana Prince in her debut appearance in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. She later on reprised the role in Wonder Woman and Justice League.

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman

Apart from her beauty and acting skills, Gadot used her intimidating presence to amaze both Snyder and her co-star, Ben Affleck. In the end, she got the coveted role.

Zack Snyder On Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Audition

During his interview via The Film Junkie, director Zack Snyder recalled the time Gal Gadot tried out for the part of Wonder Woman and did a screen test with Ben Affleck.

“When we did the casting of Gal… They were doing a scene that’s not in the movie, we had just written it for the audition, and she was just confronting him about his drinking,...

Start with Morbid for prime true crime storytelling; hosts dive into famous cases, dissecting them with ease and compassion. Explore chilling unsolved mysteries like "The Irish Vanishing Triangle" for spine-tingling tales. Witness stories of resilience in episodes like the survival of Mary Vincent.

The following article contains discussions of assault, rape, murder, and other disturbing acts.

Morbid: A True Crime Podcast stands out among similar true crime podcasts for its attention to detail and engaging story style, and the best Morbid podcast episodes offer intriguing new insights about well-known crimes or illustrate a previously unremarked upon story. True crime has been a major popular genre since before film, TV, and podcasts took an interest in them with dozens of true crime books lining shelves in every bookstore. It's an immensely engrossing kind of storytelling and podcasts, in particular, have made excellent use of the phenomenon using a medium best for this procedural storytelling.

Despite all its thrills and stunning visuals, Zack Snyder's Justice League aka The Snyder Cut had its fair share of emotional moments. Allison Crowe's emotional rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah during the end credits similarly made for a tearjerking sequence. The song has been covered time and again in various films and yet it doesn't seem to have gotten oversaturated.

Related: Justice League Snyder Cut: 10 Biggest Differences From The Original

Even though the film didn't feature any other song in particular and mostly relied on Junkie Xl's score, the DC Extended Universe has relied on a few original singles along with reused tracks that have become synonymous with the franchise's films.

For over half a century, Scooby Doo and his friends have been a staple of cartoons, as well as, for a time, in live action adventures on the big screen. Now, the talking dog and pals are back in Scoob!, which is part origin story, part adventure tale (no pun intended). How does the animated canine function in CGI? Well, pretty good, actually. This is a fun, sometimes strange, and even emotionally satisfying movie. What could have been stale and recycled never comes off as such. The film just offers up some good family friendly fun. Especially these days, and at this specific moment, what more can you ask for? The film is a new Scooby Doo adventure, while also functioning as an origin story for the Mystery Inc. group that children of all ages have adored. As a boy, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers (voice of Will Forte) is a lonely kid,...

After fronting the Melvins for more than 30 years and helping create grunge (despite his conflicted feelings on the genre), singer-guitarist Buzz Osborne released his first solo album in 2014. King Buzzo’s This Machine Kills Artists featured heavy acoustic riffs and droney grooves and proved the musical pioneer is still hungry to find new sounds. More than five years later, Osborne has announced his second solo LP.

King Buzzo’s Gift of Sacrifice is out May 15, with an extensive tour behind it. The nine-song album sees Osborne joined by Mr. Bungle bass player Trevor Dunn.

Kristen Stewart, Ben Foster and Tom Glynn-Carney have signed on to star in an untitled drama about Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs with Foster making his directorial debut on the project.

The film explores an unusual love triangle between Burroughs, portrayed by Foster; his charismatic, common-law muse, Joan Vollmer, played by Stewart; and a straight-laced American expatriate portrayed Glynn-Carney, who upends their lives to the extreme. Foster will direct from a script he’s co-written with Oren Moverman, based on Burroughs’ early works.

Burroughs, a heroin addict, killed Vollmer in a 1951 shooting accident in Mexico City. He achieved success two years later with his first novel, “Junkie.” He’s best known for his 1959 novel “Naked Lunch.”

Celluloid Dreams has acquired the international sales rights to the project and will be selling it at the Cannes Film Festival, which opens May 14. UTA Independent Film Group will handle sales for the United States and Canada.

Kristen Stewart, Hell Or High Water star Ben Foster and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney are to lead cast in a movie inspired by the early works and letters of iconic U.S. writer William Burroughs. This will be a hot one at the Cannes Film market next week.

Foster will make his directorial debut on the film and has also penned the script with Oren Moverman (Time Out Of Mind). The project explores the unusual love triangle between Burroughs (Foster), his unsung, brilliant, charismatic, common-law muse, Joan Vollmer (Stewart), and a young, straight-laced American ex-pat named Allerton (Glynn-Carney) who upends their lives to the extreme.

Tony Sokol Mar 8, 2019

New science fiction thriller Black Antenna is set against Alice in Chains' Rainier Fog album and goes straight for the teeth.

Black Antenna has come raining down as Alice in Chains reminds us why we even care anymore. With an insistent beat, the Seattle sound pioneers are going where no grunge band has gone before. Alice In Chains released the first two episodes of Black Antenna, a 90 minute science fiction thriller which will be released in 10 segments before coming out as a full movie.

Directed by Adam Mason, written by Paul Sloan and Adam Mason and produced by Elizabeth Mason and Nick Vallelonga, who is coming off Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars for Green Book, Black Antenna is set against songs from Alice in Chains' sixth studio album Rainier Fog.

Alice in Chains dropped Rainier Fog on August 24, 2018. It is named after Seattle's volcano Mount Rainier.

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...