Journalist and producer Nile Cappello has signed an overall deal with The Intellectual Property Corporation.
Under the deal, Cappello’s Yes, Like the River company will develop nonfiction programming for the Sony Pictures TV-based Ipc, led by CEO Eli Holzman and president Aaron Saidman. The agreement extends a working relationship between Ipc and Cappello’s company, which previously worked together on Death in the Dorms, a Hulu docuseries produced by Ipc and ABC News Studios.
Cappello is the creator and executive producer of Max’s docuseries The Way Down. She’s producing projects based on two of her long-form stories for The Atavist, “The Girl in the Picture” and “Crushed,” and has worked on iHeart’s podcast Solve and Vespucci’s Paperless. Max is also developing a scripted series based on The Way Down, with Sarah Paulson set to star as its central figure, Gwen Shamblin.
“Over the past years,...
Under the deal, Cappello’s Yes, Like the River company will develop nonfiction programming for the Sony Pictures TV-based Ipc, led by CEO Eli Holzman and president Aaron Saidman. The agreement extends a working relationship between Ipc and Cappello’s company, which previously worked together on Death in the Dorms, a Hulu docuseries produced by Ipc and ABC News Studios.
Cappello is the creator and executive producer of Max’s docuseries The Way Down. She’s producing projects based on two of her long-form stories for The Atavist, “The Girl in the Picture” and “Crushed,” and has worked on iHeart’s podcast Solve and Vespucci’s Paperless. Max is also developing a scripted series based on The Way Down, with Sarah Paulson set to star as its central figure, Gwen Shamblin.
“Over the past years,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With the success of long-format cult-exposé documentaries such as Hulu’s “Stolen Youth,” HBO’s “The Vow” and Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country,” it’s not surprising that both Amazon and Netflix greenlit competing docuseries about Twin Flames Universe – an alleged online love cult run by YouTube influencers Jeff and Shaleia Divine.
Amazon’s “Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe” is being released on Oct. 6, a month before Netflix’s “Escaping Twin Flames.”
“Desperately Seeking Soulmate” is based on journalist Alice Hines’ 2020 Vanity Fair article about the “always online, all-consuming world of Twin Flames Universe.” The article and subsequent docuseries, which Hines leads, takes a deep dive into the alleged online love cult, which is still active. Created by Jeff and Shaleia, Twin Flames Universe sells online classes that guarantee to match each member with their “soulmate.” The three-part Amazon docuseries examines how Jeff and Shaleia met and formed...
Amazon’s “Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe” is being released on Oct. 6, a month before Netflix’s “Escaping Twin Flames.”
“Desperately Seeking Soulmate” is based on journalist Alice Hines’ 2020 Vanity Fair article about the “always online, all-consuming world of Twin Flames Universe.” The article and subsequent docuseries, which Hines leads, takes a deep dive into the alleged online love cult, which is still active. Created by Jeff and Shaleia, Twin Flames Universe sells online classes that guarantee to match each member with their “soulmate.” The three-part Amazon docuseries examines how Jeff and Shaleia met and formed...
- 10/6/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah Paulson confirmed just how far back her friendship with Pedro Pascal goes.
The Emmy winner revealed that after meeting Pascal when he was enrolled in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1993, she would help financially support him.
“He’s talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself,” Paulson told Esquire.
Now, Paulson called the fandom for the “Last of Us” and “The Mandalorian” actor “so psychotic,” adding, “Everybody wants a piece of him.”
“You just want him to succeed,” Paulson said. “And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star. I’m ready for him to take the reins from the guys from romantic comedies past, like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and all these guys. He can be all that.
The Emmy winner revealed that after meeting Pascal when he was enrolled in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1993, she would help financially support him.
“He’s talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself,” Paulson told Esquire.
Now, Paulson called the fandom for the “Last of Us” and “The Mandalorian” actor “so psychotic,” adding, “Everybody wants a piece of him.”
“You just want him to succeed,” Paulson said. “And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star. I’m ready for him to take the reins from the guys from romantic comedies past, like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and all these guys. He can be all that.
- 4/11/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Jamie Lee Curtis and Jennifer Grey are Hollywood icons and good friends. Curtis is best known as a scream queen in the Halloween franchise, while Grey solidified her star status with the beloved romance Dirty Dancing. These days, both actors are going strong, with Curtis riding a new wave of acclaim and Grey appearing in a powerful Lifetime movie. In a recent interview, Grey revealed that Curtis provided guidance in finding the right wig for her latest project, Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation. The True Lies star even lent Grey her wig from Halloween Ends.
Jamie Lee Curtis is famous for her ‘Halloween’ movies
#HalloweenEnds is yours to own Tomorrow on Digital and Blu-ray with Deleted and Extended Scenes https://t.co/hX4RZNuuWx pic.twitter.com/buiCb4mWLB
— #HalloweenEnds (@halloweenmovie) December 26, 2022
Curtis began her involvement with the Halloween franchise in the 1978 slasher film of the same name. As tough teenager Laurie Strode,...
Jamie Lee Curtis is famous for her ‘Halloween’ movies
#HalloweenEnds is yours to own Tomorrow on Digital and Blu-ray with Deleted and Extended Scenes https://t.co/hX4RZNuuWx pic.twitter.com/buiCb4mWLB
— #HalloweenEnds (@halloweenmovie) December 26, 2022
Curtis began her involvement with the Halloween franchise in the 1978 slasher film of the same name. As tough teenager Laurie Strode,...
- 3/2/2023
- by Christina Nunn
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jamie Lee Curtis is a nepo baby, and proud of it!
The actress wasted no time poking fun at herself during the 2023 SAG Awards, as she received major applause during the traditional “I’m an actor” introductions that open the annual awards show.
Curtis told the crowd about getting her SAG card at 19 years old and being hired — and quickly fired — from a short-lived TV series called “Operation Petticoat”, which was based on a film of the same name that starred her father, Tony Curtis. Curtis’ mother, Janet Leigh, was also an actress, best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
“Nepo baby!” she exclaimed, to big laughs from the crowd.
However, getting fired from “Operation Petticoat”, Curtis pointed out, freed her up to appear in a “little no-budget horror film” that ended up kicking off the “Halloween” franchise.
Et caught up with Curtis on the SAG Awards red carpet,...
The actress wasted no time poking fun at herself during the 2023 SAG Awards, as she received major applause during the traditional “I’m an actor” introductions that open the annual awards show.
Curtis told the crowd about getting her SAG card at 19 years old and being hired — and quickly fired — from a short-lived TV series called “Operation Petticoat”, which was based on a film of the same name that starred her father, Tony Curtis. Curtis’ mother, Janet Leigh, was also an actress, best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
“Nepo baby!” she exclaimed, to big laughs from the crowd.
However, getting fired from “Operation Petticoat”, Curtis pointed out, freed her up to appear in a “little no-budget horror film” that ended up kicking off the “Halloween” franchise.
Et caught up with Curtis on the SAG Awards red carpet,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Sarah Curran
- ET Canada
Are you ready to say goodbye to A Million Little Things?
Well, you don't need to worry just yet, but the premiere will be the last you'll ever get, so it's never too early to prepare for the inevitable.
And for You fans, the word on the street is this is a season like no other. Find out what we recommend to watch this week below.
Saturday, February 4
8/7c Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation (Lifetime)
Jennifer Grey transforms herself in the role of Gwen Shamblin, the infamous pseudo-Christian leader who proclaimed herself a prophet and profited off messages that thinliness was close to godliness.
The Ripped from the Headlines story explores how Shamblin rose to fame with her faith-based diet plan that sparked controversy.
It also covers her shocking death in a plane crash that also killed her husband and son-in-law. Tune into this one for the absurdity of this religious leader’s life,...
Well, you don't need to worry just yet, but the premiere will be the last you'll ever get, so it's never too early to prepare for the inevitable.
And for You fans, the word on the street is this is a season like no other. Find out what we recommend to watch this week below.
Saturday, February 4
8/7c Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation (Lifetime)
Jennifer Grey transforms herself in the role of Gwen Shamblin, the infamous pseudo-Christian leader who proclaimed herself a prophet and profited off messages that thinliness was close to godliness.
The Ripped from the Headlines story explores how Shamblin rose to fame with her faith-based diet plan that sparked controversy.
It also covers her shocking death in a plane crash that also killed her husband and son-in-law. Tune into this one for the absurdity of this religious leader’s life,...
- 2/4/2023
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
“You know how they say you couldn’t write this s**t? You couldn’t write this s**t!” Jennifer Grey declares of her latest role, playing controversial Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin in Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation, a compelling new Lifetime docudrama. When the project first came her way, the Dirty Dancing actress had never heard of the woman it depicted, despite HBO’s buzzy 2021–22 docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. “I immediately downloaded it, watched it, was appalled and stunned, and thrilled,” she shares. “I’m always fascinated by charismatic leaders and the power someone can gain from really hooking into a need in the culture.” Who was Gwen Shamblin? pic.twitter.com/VO1fpzjM4U — Lifetime (@lifetimetv) January 31, 2023 The film, premiering Saturday, February 4, spans roughly 20 years of Shamblin’s life, from humble beginnings to a rise fueled by her 1997 bestseller,...
- 2/3/2023
- TV Insider
Michelle Dean, co-creator and co-showrunner of Hulu’s “The Act,” has signed with CAA for representation.
An attorney-turned-journalist, Dean is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in criticism in 2017 for “Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art of Having an Opinion,” which explored the cultural and intellectual impact of female literary trailblazers of the twentieth century. As a journalist, Dean trained as a reporter at The New Yorker before going on to receive bylines in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, The Cut and other publications.
Dean’s 2016 reporting on the Buzzfeed story “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered,” inspired Hulu’s “The Act.” Starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette, the series broke Hulu viewing and subscription records in 2019. Both King and Arquette received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for their leading roles. Arquette won both...
An attorney-turned-journalist, Dean is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in criticism in 2017 for “Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art of Having an Opinion,” which explored the cultural and intellectual impact of female literary trailblazers of the twentieth century. As a journalist, Dean trained as a reporter at The New Yorker before going on to receive bylines in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Elle, The Cut and other publications.
Dean’s 2016 reporting on the Buzzfeed story “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered,” inspired Hulu’s “The Act.” Starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette, the series broke Hulu viewing and subscription records in 2019. Both King and Arquette received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for their leading roles. Arquette won both...
- 12/8/2022
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Lifetime is expanding its slate of ripped-from-the-headlines movies, and the cabler has locked in some big stars for the latest projects.
The new flicks will focus on "notorious women" and will premiere early next year.
First up is How to Murder Your Husband, premiering on January 14 at 8/7c.
The flick is headlined by Cybill Shepherd and Steve Guttenberg.
"Based on a true story, Nancy Crampton-Brophy (Shepherd), seemed to have a knack for writing about murder," Lifetime describes.
"The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous, while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers."
"Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths."
"And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events, Brophy was convicted of killing her own husband."
Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias launches the following week on Saturday,...
The new flicks will focus on "notorious women" and will premiere early next year.
First up is How to Murder Your Husband, premiering on January 14 at 8/7c.
The flick is headlined by Cybill Shepherd and Steve Guttenberg.
"Based on a true story, Nancy Crampton-Brophy (Shepherd), seemed to have a knack for writing about murder," Lifetime describes.
"The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous, while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers."
"Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths."
"And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events, Brophy was convicted of killing her own husband."
Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias launches the following week on Saturday,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Jennifer Grey is the latest actress to don the big hair to play cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin on television.
The Dirty Dancing star will play the controversial religious leader and Christian diet guru in a Lifetime movie – Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation.
It comes after Deadline revealed that Sarah Paulson is also attached to star as Shamblin in a scripted adaptation of docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, which is in the works at HBO Max.
Shamblin, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church. She was a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation will launch on Lifetime on Saturday February 4 2023.
Shamblin, who had a larger-than-life public persona...
The Dirty Dancing star will play the controversial religious leader and Christian diet guru in a Lifetime movie – Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation.
It comes after Deadline revealed that Sarah Paulson is also attached to star as Shamblin in a scripted adaptation of docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, which is in the works at HBO Max.
Shamblin, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church. She was a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation will launch on Lifetime on Saturday February 4 2023.
Shamblin, who had a larger-than-life public persona...
- 11/15/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lifetime has given a green light to How To Murder Your Husband, one of the network’s new Ripped from the Headlines movies announced today, starring Cybill Shepherd (The Client List) and Steve Guttenberg. It’s slated for premiere on Saturday, January 14 at 8 pm/7c.
The project marks Shepherd’s return to Lifetime following her previous starring role in The Client List and a guest-starring role on Drop Dead Diva.
Based on a true story, the movie revolves around Nancy Crampton-Brophy, played by Shepherd, who seemed to have a knack for writing about murder. The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous, while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers. Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths. And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events,...
The project marks Shepherd’s return to Lifetime following her previous starring role in The Client List and a guest-starring role on Drop Dead Diva.
Based on a true story, the movie revolves around Nancy Crampton-Brophy, played by Shepherd, who seemed to have a knack for writing about murder. The Portland-based romance-thriller novelist authored books about relationships that were tumultuous, while using seductive men on the covers to lure in her readers. Often, her books featured women protagonists who fantasized about killing their own husbands or fleeing their husbands and faking their own deaths. And then, in 2022 in a shocking turn of events,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Not only is Harley Quinn already renewed for a fourth season, but fans are getting a holiday special, to boot.
HBO Max announced on Friday that Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special will stream in February 2023.
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In addition to revealing how Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) celebrate their...
HBO Max announced on Friday that Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special will stream in February 2023.
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In addition to revealing how Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) celebrate their...
- 10/7/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson is among the first to be cast in HBO Max’s Dune prequel series.
Ordered to series way, way back in June 2019 — before HBO Max even had a name! — Dune: The Sisterhood, a female-led spinoff of the film franchise, is intended to act as a companion series to the new Dune films as it portrays the events of the Frank Herbert novels through the eyes of the Bene Gesserit, a mysterious order of women.
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- 10/4/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Sarah Paulson will star in and executive produce a movie about Gwen Shamblin, the woman who ran a cult-like diet program and church beginning in the 1980s, Deadline revealed on Sept. 19. The film will be a scripted adaption of the HBO Max docuseries "The Way Down," which chronicles Shamblin's rise and downfall.
Shamblin, who died in 2021, ran a diet program called the Weigh Down Workshop. She quickly amassed a devoted following and went on to found the Remnant Fellowship Church. But she was eventually accused of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse by followers, some of whom said the church advocated abusive discipline and encouraged eating disorders, among many other critiques, per The Guardian. Two of the church's members were also convicted of murdering their own son in 2007, per NBC.
"The Way Down" chronicles Shamblin's rise, as well as the plane crash that led to her death just before the series' completion.
Shamblin, who died in 2021, ran a diet program called the Weigh Down Workshop. She quickly amassed a devoted following and went on to found the Remnant Fellowship Church. But she was eventually accused of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse by followers, some of whom said the church advocated abusive discipline and encouraged eating disorders, among many other critiques, per The Guardian. Two of the church's members were also convicted of murdering their own son in 2007, per NBC.
"The Way Down" chronicles Shamblin's rise, as well as the plane crash that led to her death just before the series' completion.
- 9/21/2022
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
Weigh Down Ministries and its titular method of weight loss and religious worship have been a subject of public fascination for years. Whether it was because of leader Gwen Shamblin's eccentric appearance or the allegations of its Remnant Fellowship Church promoting eating disorders and abuse, it seemed like it was a must-know for anyone even slightly interested in the workings of "unconventional" churches. However, when Shamblin and six other leaders of Weigh Down Ministries died in a 2021 plane crash, public knowledge about the group spread further than it had ever had before, causing their secrets to be unearthed once more.
These secrets and the history of the group were covered in the HBO Max docuseries "The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin," which was set before and after Shamblin's death. Now that the docuseries has proven popular for true crime fans, it will now be...
These secrets and the history of the group were covered in the HBO Max docuseries "The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin," which was set before and after Shamblin's death. Now that the docuseries has proven popular for true crime fans, it will now be...
- 9/19/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Sarah Paulson will soon be rocking a new 'do. The American Horror Story actress has been cast as controversial religious leader Gwen Shamblin in HBO Max's scripted version of their docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, E! News has learned. Paulson will also be executive producing the series. Besides being known for her signature huge hairstyle, Gwen rose to prominence as the founder of the Christian-based diet program the Weigh Down Workshop and Remnant Fellowship Church. In the docuseries, she was accused of abuse and exploitation for her program and church's alleged cult-like practices. According to the...
- 9/19/2022
- E! Online
Emmy winner Sarah Paulson has been cast as the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, the diet-guru turned cult-like figure, in HBO Max‘s scripted adaptation of its own hit docuseries, The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. The original five-part docuseries, which premiered in 2021, explored the Tennessee-based eccentric leader’s legacy and her Remnant Fellowship Church. Shamblin Lara, as well as the church, have been accused of emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, as well as the use of “cult-like” practices. Michelle Dean, co-creator of the 2019 Hulu limited series The Act, will serve as showrunner of the scripted adaptation. This marks another “big wig” real-life portrayal for the American Horror Story star, who previously played Linda Tripp for Impeachment: American Crime Story, which earned her an Emmy nomination. Paulson is also known for her portrayal of prosecutor Marcia Clark in The People v. O.J. Simpson, which cinched...
- 9/19/2022
- TV Insider
Sarah Paulson is wigging out again.
The Emmy winner is set to star as late cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin Lara in HBO Max’s in-the-works scripted adaptation of its hit docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, TVLine has confirmed.
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The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin explores the practices of the controversial,...
The Emmy winner is set to star as late cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin Lara in HBO Max’s in-the-works scripted adaptation of its hit docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, TVLine has confirmed.
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The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin explores the practices of the controversial,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Sarah Paulson is set to star and exec produce the HBO Max scripted adaptation of its docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.
Deadline broke the news in April that the streamer was adapting its documentary about the cult-like figure, who died last year, as a scripted series.
Paulson will play Shamblin, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church. She was a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
Michelle Dean, who recently served as showrunner and exec producer of Hulu’s The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, will serve as showrunner and exec producer of the scripted series, which comes from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire Studios and Chrissy Teigen’s Huntley Productions
The project,...
Deadline broke the news in April that the streamer was adapting its documentary about the cult-like figure, who died last year, as a scripted series.
Paulson will play Shamblin, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church. She was a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological and physical abuse and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
Michelle Dean, who recently served as showrunner and exec producer of Hulu’s The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, will serve as showrunner and exec producer of the scripted series, which comes from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire Studios and Chrissy Teigen’s Huntley Productions
The project,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Paulson is no stranger to playing real people: Among other roles, she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Marcia Clark in 2016’s “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” and was recently nominated for an Emmy for “Impeachment: American Crime Story” for playing Linda Tripp. Now, Paulson is attached to star and executive produce the scripted adaptation of “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin,” which HBO Max is developing from its own five-part docuseries.
Michelle Dean, who was the co-creator of the 2019 Hulu limited series “The Act,” is the showrunner of the scripted adaptation.
HBO Max dropped the first three episodes of Marina Zenovich’s investigative docuseries “The Way Down” on Sept. 30 of last year. It detailed Gwen Shamblin Lara’s rise from being a diet guru with her Weigh Down Workshop (launched in 1986) to the founding of her Tennessee church,...
Michelle Dean, who was the co-creator of the 2019 Hulu limited series “The Act,” is the showrunner of the scripted adaptation.
HBO Max dropped the first three episodes of Marina Zenovich’s investigative docuseries “The Way Down” on Sept. 30 of last year. It detailed Gwen Shamblin Lara’s rise from being a diet guru with her Weigh Down Workshop (launched in 1986) to the founding of her Tennessee church,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
The Aug. 6 address before the assembly at Remnant Fellowship — delivered to an in-person gathering in Brentwood, Tn, and via webcast to anyone who might want to watch — began typically enough, with congregants watching an old video sermon from Gwen Shamblin Lara, the church’s late founder who died in a plane crash on May 29, 2021.
What happened after the video portion ended, though, was unusual. In a portion of the sermon, obtained by Variety, Elizabeth Hannah, Lara’s daughter and a leader at Remnant, called in, as she sometimes does. But instead of her usual teachings for Saturday service, Hannah delivered a homily of schadenfreude aimed directly at HBO Max, the enemy of Remnant and the Shamblin family.
Hannah’s grudge against HBO Max has a specific and pointed history. On Sept. 30 of last year, the streamer dropped the first three episodes of Marina Zenovich’s investigative docuseries “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin...
What happened after the video portion ended, though, was unusual. In a portion of the sermon, obtained by Variety, Elizabeth Hannah, Lara’s daughter and a leader at Remnant, called in, as she sometimes does. But instead of her usual teachings for Saturday service, Hannah delivered a homily of schadenfreude aimed directly at HBO Max, the enemy of Remnant and the Shamblin family.
Hannah’s grudge against HBO Max has a specific and pointed history. On Sept. 30 of last year, the streamer dropped the first three episodes of Marina Zenovich’s investigative docuseries “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin...
- 8/25/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed & The Cult of Gwen Shamblin is set to be adapted as a scripted series.
Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire Studios and Chrissy Teigen’s Huntley Productions, which produced the docuseries about cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin Lara, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church, are working on the drama adaptation.
They have teamed up with Michelle Dean, who recently served as showrunner and exec producer of Hulu’s The Act, which starred Patricia Arquette and Joey King. Dean will serve as showrunner and exec producer on the scripted series.
Deadline understands that the team are also in talks with high-profile actors to play Shamblin Lara, a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire Studios and Chrissy Teigen’s Huntley Productions, which produced the docuseries about cult-like figure Gwen Shamblin Lara, who rose to fame with her Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based diet program, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church, are working on the drama adaptation.
They have teamed up with Michelle Dean, who recently served as showrunner and exec producer of Hulu’s The Act, which starred Patricia Arquette and Joey King. Dean will serve as showrunner and exec producer on the scripted series.
Deadline understands that the team are also in talks with high-profile actors to play Shamblin Lara, a charismatic figure with a carefully curated image who was accused of emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, and exploitation for the church’s alleged cult-like practices.
- 4/28/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The team behind HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed & The Cult of Gwen Shamblin debuted footage from its second part at SXSW.
The docuseries, which is directed by Marina Zenovich and exec produced by Chrissy Teigen, launched in September 2021 with three episodes, becoming the streamer’s most-watched docuseries at time of release.
Deadline moderated a panel session at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with the team behind the series, which will launch its final two episodes on April 28 and you can see a clip above.
The story kicked off when “badass story hunter” Nile Cappello was researching female cult leaders and came across Shamblin. She then went to Campfire, which produced the series with Teigen’s Huntley Productions and sold it to HBO Max, which they had already worked with on Heaven’s Gate.
However, just before finishing the series, Gwen Shamblin Lara and her husband died in a plane...
The docuseries, which is directed by Marina Zenovich and exec produced by Chrissy Teigen, launched in September 2021 with three episodes, becoming the streamer’s most-watched docuseries at time of release.
Deadline moderated a panel session at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with the team behind the series, which will launch its final two episodes on April 28 and you can see a clip above.
The story kicked off when “badass story hunter” Nile Cappello was researching female cult leaders and came across Shamblin. She then went to Campfire, which produced the series with Teigen’s Huntley Productions and sold it to HBO Max, which they had already worked with on Heaven’s Gate.
However, just before finishing the series, Gwen Shamblin Lara and her husband died in a plane...
- 3/12/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Twelve Tribes, a controversial religious group and alleged cult that has been engulfed in allegations of abuse, kidnapping and murder, is set to be the subject of a new docuseries.
ITV America’s Good Caper Content has teamed up with journalist Nile Cappello, an exec producer on HBO Max’s docuseries The Way Down about alleged cult leader and diet program founder Gwen Shamblin Lara, for the series.
They will take the project to buyers soon.
The series will center on an investigation launched in 2017 by journalist Shelton Brown, who was hoping to learn more about the religious group behind The Yellow Deli, a restaurant in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His lighthearted local investigation soon became an obsession to expose what he believes to be a powerful and insidious cult with a long history of predatory recruiting practices. Brown’s years of research and interviews with former...
ITV America’s Good Caper Content has teamed up with journalist Nile Cappello, an exec producer on HBO Max’s docuseries The Way Down about alleged cult leader and diet program founder Gwen Shamblin Lara, for the series.
They will take the project to buyers soon.
The series will center on an investigation launched in 2017 by journalist Shelton Brown, who was hoping to learn more about the religious group behind The Yellow Deli, a restaurant in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His lighthearted local investigation soon became an obsession to expose what he believes to be a powerful and insidious cult with a long history of predatory recruiting practices. Brown’s years of research and interviews with former...
- 2/17/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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