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Ryan Kavanaugh’s media company Gentv.Com will kick off a slate of influencer-driven movies with a streaming component this fall when “Skillhouse” hits theaters, and the introduction of this new model is already making waves online.

A 10-minute clip from “Skillhouse,” a horror movie written and directed by Josh Stolberg (“Saw X”) and starring influencers Bryce Hall and Hannah Stocking and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, generated over 1 million views in just one hour of being online and climbed to 3 million views in less than 24 hours. The average watchtime, according to Gentv, was 10 minutes and 54 seconds, meaning the majority of those who checked out the clip watched the entire thing.

While “Skillhouse” already has wide theatrical distribution itself, the virality of the clip has led to several studios wanting to partner on it for distribution, and it is likely they will end up partnering with one of the traditional distributors, according...

Welcome to Millionaires, where we profile creators who have recently crossed the one million follower mark on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. There are creators crossing this threshold every week, and each of them has a story to tell about their success. Read previous installments here.

After a decade of making content on Vine, then YouTube, then TikTok, Hannah Stocking is embracing a new platform: OnlyFans.

Welcome to a special edition of our Millionaires column, where we’re chatting with Stocking both because she recently hit 10 million subscribers on YouTube, and because she just launched her OnlyFans account, with plans to take more control of her content and monetization, and get rockin’ on Oftv.

Stocking is 32 and started posting on Vine in 2013, then swapped over to posting comedic content on YouTube after Vine’s demise (Rip). She’s built a following of nearly 50 million across platforms, including almost 30 million on TikTok alone,...

Exclusive: 32 Flavors, the production company behind series including Vanderpump Rules, has a new President.

The company, which was founded by Alex Baskin last year, has hired former Netflix reality exec Jenn Levy, one of the team responsible for smash hit dating show Love Is Blind.

Levy, who left Netflix earlier this year, will report to Baskin. The pair previously worked together at Bravo, where they developed the concept for Vanderpump Rules.

She was most recently VP, Unscripted at Netflix, where she was also responsible for shows such as Queer Eye, Nailed It!, and The Ultimatum. She was with Netflix since 2017, having joined as Director of Unscripted Originals from NBCUniversal’s Bravo, where she had spent nine years. She was the company’s unscripted chief Brandon Riegg’s first hire after he joined the company at the end of 2016.

At Bravo, she was SVP, Current Production, where she worked on series such as Shahs of Sunset,...

“Vanderpump Rules” producer Alex Baskin has tapped Joe Kingsley and Jeff Festa to join the creative executive team of his new company, 32 Flavors. He recruited both Kingsley and Festa from Evolution Media, his former company, where they all previously worked on unscripted projects together.

At 32 Flavors, Kingsley has been appointed executive vice president of production and operations while Festa has been named senior vice president of development and programming. Both Kingsley and Festa will report to Baskin, who serves as CEO for the production company he founded last summer.

Kingsley spent more than ten years working under Baskin at Evolution Media. He was promoted several times, starting out as line producer and eventually moving up to senior vice president of production and operations. He served as executive producer on a myriad of shows including the long running Bravo hit “Vanderpump Rules,” “Botched,” “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and...

Ryan Kavanaugh has a new podcast about failure. By his own admission, he’s got “plenty of failure stories to tell.” The once high-flying thirtysomething mogul quickly turned into a Hollywood pariah when his Relativity Media sputtered into bankruptcy in 2015. Though he co-financed more than 200 films including “The Social Network,” “Mama Mia!” and “The Fighter,” he is best remembered for his foibles. Now 49, he’s quietly staging a comeback, producing influencer-led films like the upcoming Bryce Hall-50 Cent satire “Skill House.” And he boasts a majority stake in the video platform Triller, a TikTok rival that was poised to go public in 2021, never did, but may still.

With the podcast “Failure,” which bows today from Manifest Media, Kavanaugh sits down with a range of guests — from Hollywood rabbis to influencers with mega-followings to, yup, Nigel Lythgoe — to explore the dynamic of why public failures can lead to redemptive triumphs over 24 episodes.

Exclusive: Wavelength, the NYC and London-based film production and branded content studio has promoted two and hired one.

The studio’s UK Managing Director, Dan Bowen, will now take on the role of Senior Vice President of Branded Content while former Head of Studios, Mike Prall, now serves as Vice President of Productions. Wavelength is also bringing PR efforts in-house and has tapped film and entertainment publicist Lynsey Gray as Head of PR.

As part of the leadership team, the trio works closely with Wavelength’s Emmy-winning duo, Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer, Jenifer Westphal and President and Executive Producer, Joe Plummer to build on the company’s success and global strategy, which is driven by its mantra: We tell great f**king stories.

“We are thrilled to announce these strategic changes as we continue to evolve and expand our global footprint,” explains Jenifer Westphal. “Dan and Mike have been instrumental in shaping our success,...

Ryan Kavanaugh has acquired a large stake in the movie streaming service Row8 through his production outfit Proxima Media, TheWrap has learned; as part of the deal, the companies have collaborated on a new joint venture, Proxima 8.

The terms of the deal are not known but the deal aims to give Proxima big savings on marketing and distribution of its films.

Proxima 8 plans to create interactive movies experiences that among other things will offer behind-the-scenes looks at productions, chances to participate in productions or premieres, and virtual interactions with stars and directors.

Subscription-free Row8 offers rentals of new and back catalog films via distribution deals with the major studios. The service allows customers to cancel rentals within the first 30 minutes of watching and exchange for another title, and offers “scene alert,” which alerts parents to potentially inappropriate scenes before they display.

Kavanaugh has produced or financed more than 200 feature films...

Genre regular Josh Stolberg has co-written Jigsaw, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, and the upcoming Saw X, among other credits, and there is definitely some Saw influence on display in the trailer for his TikTok-inspired horror film Skill House, which you can see in the embed above.

Written and directed by Stolberg, Skill House is

a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, exploring how far people will go for online fame.

The movie was filmed at Sway House, a Bel Air mansion made famous by TikTok creators.

Skill House stars Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power Book II: Ghost), Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), McCarrie McCausland (Army Wives), Ivan Leung (The Tender Bar), Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), John DeLuca (Spree), Caitlin Carmichael (Midnight in the Switchgrass), Dani Oliveros (Roar), Emily Mei (The Download), Jacob Skidmore (Trinkets), TikTok star Hannah Stocking, Mma star Paige VanZant, and TikTok celebrity Bryce Hall.

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A Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson-hosted and produced show about former Mexican drug lord “El Chapo” is among the first projects set for the launch of Lionsgate’s new podcast division, Lionsgate Sound.

Jackson’s show has the working title “Cuate/twin/: the downfall of El Chapo” and is part of his newly established G-Unit Audio, exclusively distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network.

In “Cuate/twin/: the downfall of El Chapo,” speaking publicly for the first time ever, Chicago-born identical twins Peter and Jay Flores will explore how they became two of the biggest drug traffickers in America, peddling tons of cocaine across the country and eventually become seated at the right hand of El Chapo himself, only to eventually betray him in a desperate attempt to escape.

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Exclusive: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power Book II: Ghost) has signed on to star in the horror film Skill House from Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media—and will also produce the pic under his G-Unit Film & Television banner. He joins an ensemble led by TikTok star Bryce Hall, which also includes UFC veteran Paige VanZant, as previously announced. Other new additions to the ensemble include Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), McCarrie McCausland (Army Wives), Ivan Leung (The Tender Bar), Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), John DeLuca (Spree), Caitlin Carmichael (Midnight in the Switchgrass), Dani Oliveros (Roar), Emily Mei (The Download) and Jacob Skidmore (Trinkets).

The film from writer-director Josh Stolberg (Spiral) is billed as a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, and what those new to the sphere are willing to do to attain fame. Conceived as the first in a franchise, it’s currently in production in Los Angeles at...

Charli D'Amelio is flexing her acting chops.

A few days shy of her 18th birthday, the TikTok star has been announced as the lead for Home School, a film that will be produced by Ryan Kavanaugh's Proxima Media and financed through the film exec's Entertainment Stock Exchange.

Home School is a thriller that stars the younger D'Amelio sister as a teenager who encounters supernatural happenings after moving to a new town. Kavanaugh told Deadline that the film is trying to be "The Sixth Sense meets Get Out." Should Home School succeed in that goal, it could be developed into a franchise with up to eight distinct thrillers starring D'Amelio.

D'Amelio's foray into acting has a lot in common with Skill House, which features Sway LA co-founder Bryce Hall. Both movies are led by TikTok stars, both are produced by Kavanaugh, and both feature directors who have experience with popular horror franchises.