One of Westwood’s historic movie theaters will soon have new ownership.
Filmmaker Jason Reitman is leading an unnamed group of investors in purchasing the art deco Fox Village Theater, located at 945 Broxton Ave. The news, first reported by The Ankler’s Peter Kiefer, was confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. Per the initial report, Reitman and crew are “weeks away” from taking over the property in a deal that is currently in escrow.
Last summer, reports surfaced that the landmarked Fox Village was up for grabs for a $12 million sum, listed by Newmark’s Capital Markets group, which promoted the theater as an “iconic property” and “one of the most identifiable, landmark properties in Los Angeles.” The listing also stated that the 24,099-square-foot building, which houses 1,375 seats inside the theater, had not previously been up for sale.
Westwood was once home to a lively theatrical scene, thanks to the Fox Village,...
Filmmaker Jason Reitman is leading an unnamed group of investors in purchasing the art deco Fox Village Theater, located at 945 Broxton Ave. The news, first reported by The Ankler’s Peter Kiefer, was confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. Per the initial report, Reitman and crew are “weeks away” from taking over the property in a deal that is currently in escrow.
Last summer, reports surfaced that the landmarked Fox Village was up for grabs for a $12 million sum, listed by Newmark’s Capital Markets group, which promoted the theater as an “iconic property” and “one of the most identifiable, landmark properties in Los Angeles.” The listing also stated that the 24,099-square-foot building, which houses 1,375 seats inside the theater, had not previously been up for sale.
Westwood was once home to a lively theatrical scene, thanks to the Fox Village,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maer Roshan is out at Los Angeles magazine.
The editor-in-chief has been ousted after more than four years in the job, during which time he steered a major rebrand of the publication through buzzy, high-impact cover stories and features while expanding the title’s social media footprint.
Roshan’s exit comes directly on the heels of massive shifts on the business side. In December, Los Angeles was acquired by power lawyers and business leaders Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas through their newly launched Engine Vision Media in a deal that also covered Pasadena and Orange Coast magazines. At the time, the pair said they planned to invest in the titles and “provide the resources needed to take them to the next level,” per Geragos.
The deal was welcomed as a shot in the arm by Los Angeles staff, which had been decimated in recent years amid challenges to the media industry.
The editor-in-chief has been ousted after more than four years in the job, during which time he steered a major rebrand of the publication through buzzy, high-impact cover stories and features while expanding the title’s social media footprint.
Roshan’s exit comes directly on the heels of massive shifts on the business side. In December, Los Angeles was acquired by power lawyers and business leaders Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas through their newly launched Engine Vision Media in a deal that also covered Pasadena and Orange Coast magazines. At the time, the pair said they planned to invest in the titles and “provide the resources needed to take them to the next level,” per Geragos.
The deal was welcomed as a shot in the arm by Los Angeles staff, which had been decimated in recent years amid challenges to the media industry.
- 4/4/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell of Stone Village Television are developing a multi-part TV series based on Brian Muraresku’s book, “The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name.” Stone Village’s plans come after a competitive bidding war for the rights to the New York Times bestseller.
Published in 2020, “The Immortality Key” organizes a decade of research into the history of psychedelics and how substances may connect to humanity’s discovery of God, chronicling practices such as psychedelic beer that dates back to sixth century B.C. to psychedelic wine consumed in ancient Greece.
Stone Village bills the upcoming production as “‘Game of Thrones’ but with psychedelics,” teasing an “epic” scale for the project.
Steindorff, a founder of Stone Village, served as an executive producer on HBO’s “Station Eleven” and the 2005 miniseries “Empire Falls.” He is currently working on a project exploring doctors who prescribe psychedelic therapy.
Published in 2020, “The Immortality Key” organizes a decade of research into the history of psychedelics and how substances may connect to humanity’s discovery of God, chronicling practices such as psychedelic beer that dates back to sixth century B.C. to psychedelic wine consumed in ancient Greece.
Stone Village bills the upcoming production as “‘Game of Thrones’ but with psychedelics,” teasing an “epic” scale for the project.
Steindorff, a founder of Stone Village, served as an executive producer on HBO’s “Station Eleven” and the 2005 miniseries “Empire Falls.” He is currently working on a project exploring doctors who prescribe psychedelic therapy.
- 3/22/2023
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Elisabeth Finch, a writer and consulting producer on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, has admitted she "lied" about various aspects of her life while working on the show.
The admission comes several months after Finch resigned from the show after being placed on administrative leave as Disney investigated the claims.
“I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life,” the 44-year-old revealed in an exclusive interview with The Ankler.
“It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me … I’ve never had any form of cancer," Finch said in the interview.
She previously claimed she had a rare form of bone cancer called chondrosarcoma.
“We worked with someone who not only said she was sick with cancer but looked sick with cancer,” one of her colleagues told The Ankler's Peter Kiefer.
Additionally, it has been reported...
The admission comes several months after Finch resigned from the show after being placed on administrative leave as Disney investigated the claims.
“I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life,” the 44-year-old revealed in an exclusive interview with The Ankler.
“It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me … I’ve never had any form of cancer," Finch said in the interview.
She previously claimed she had a rare form of bone cancer called chondrosarcoma.
“We worked with someone who not only said she was sick with cancer but looked sick with cancer,” one of her colleagues told The Ankler's Peter Kiefer.
Additionally, it has been reported...
- 12/8/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Elisabeth Finch — the former Grey’s Anatomy writer accused of lying about her battle with cancer — admitted that she never had “any form of cancer.”
In an interview with The Ankler, Finch tells writer Peter Kiefer (who first broke the story in March), that what she did “was wrong” and not Ok. The former producer said that her stories about her medical history, abortion, and family suicide were fabricated as a way to cope with past trauma.
“I know it’s absolutely wrong what I did,” she said. “I lied and...
In an interview with The Ankler, Finch tells writer Peter Kiefer (who first broke the story in March), that what she did “was wrong” and not Ok. The former producer said that her stories about her medical history, abortion, and family suicide were fabricated as a way to cope with past trauma.
“I know it’s absolutely wrong what I did,” she said. “I lied and...
- 12/8/2022
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch has come clean after lying about having cancer, losing her brother to suicide, and more.
The Ankler published an expose earlier this year revealing Finch’s lies. The writer then sat down with the publication in an attempt to explain herself.
She told journalist Peter Kiefer, “When you get wrapped up in a lie you forget who you told — what you said to this person and whether this person knows that thing — and that’s the world where you can get caught. I don’t have to worry about that now.”
Finch said, “What I did was wrong. Not okay. F**ked up. All the words.”
In the shocking interview, Finch revealed how the spiral of lies started after she became used to the care and support she received after she injured her knee hiking in Temescal Canyon back in 2007. According to the publication,...
The Ankler published an expose earlier this year revealing Finch’s lies. The writer then sat down with the publication in an attempt to explain herself.
She told journalist Peter Kiefer, “When you get wrapped up in a lie you forget who you told — what you said to this person and whether this person knows that thing — and that’s the world where you can get caught. I don’t have to worry about that now.”
Finch said, “What I did was wrong. Not okay. F**ked up. All the words.”
In the shocking interview, Finch revealed how the spiral of lies started after she became used to the care and support she received after she injured her knee hiking in Temescal Canyon back in 2007. According to the publication,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
‘Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out is the headline atop a Los Angeles Magazine cover story written by journalist Peter Kiefer based on his investigation of the city’s current craze in all things mind-altering.
“Los Angeles is currently in the grip of a psychedelics fervor not seen since Jim Morrison ambled his way down the Venice Beach boardwalk in the 1960s. Every weekend, dozens, possibly hundreds, of ayahuasca ceremonies take place in the hills, valleys, and strip malls of Southern California,” Kiefer writes in the piece that features interviews with trend insiders while also detailing drug history,...
“Los Angeles is currently in the grip of a psychedelics fervor not seen since Jim Morrison ambled his way down the Venice Beach boardwalk in the 1960s. Every weekend, dozens, possibly hundreds, of ayahuasca ceremonies take place in the hills, valleys, and strip malls of Southern California,” Kiefer writes in the piece that features interviews with trend insiders while also detailing drug history,...
- 11/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out is the headline atop a Los Angeles Magazine cover story written by journalist Peter Kiefer based on his investigation of the city’s current craze in all things mind-altering.
“Los Angeles is currently in the grip of a psychedelics fervor not seen since Jim Morrison ambled his way down the Venice Beach boardwalk in the 1960s. Every weekend, dozens, possibly hundreds, of ayahuasca ceremonies take place in the hills, valleys, and strip malls of Southern California,” Kiefer writes in the piece that features interviews with trend insiders while also detailing drug history,...
“Los Angeles is currently in the grip of a psychedelics fervor not seen since Jim Morrison ambled his way down the Venice Beach boardwalk in the 1960s. Every weekend, dozens, possibly hundreds, of ayahuasca ceremonies take place in the hills, valleys, and strip malls of Southern California,” Kiefer writes in the piece that features interviews with trend insiders while also detailing drug history,...
- 11/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
One day after Valence Media purged staffers at The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Vibe, Dick Clark Productions and Knives Out producers Media Rights Capital, the axe came down hard this afternoon on some top editorial employees at the Tinseltown trade.
As well as now former chief film critic Todd McCarthy (who penned a guest column about his departure for Deadline on Thursday), THR will be losing senior reporter Rebecca Sun, and Senior Film Editor Piya Sinha-Roy, who joined just last September. Additionally, Real Estate and City Editor Peter Kiefer, senior events editor Ramona Saviss, art production manager Michelle Mondragon, senior production manager Maya Eslam, photo editor Lisa Dragani, video producers Marya Gullo and Natalie Heltzel have also been handed their pink slips today by the Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu run Valence.
We hear that the core THR film team of Borys Kitt, Pam McClintock, Chris Gardner, Executive Film Editor Tatiana Siegel and Editor at Large Kim Masters are among those who are safe, for now. But sources tell us the internal expectation is more cuts are coming soon as ad revenue dries up for the trade.
Already in choppy financial waters before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Hollywood and most of the world, THR saw editorial director Matt Belloni suddenly exit the publication on April 6. In a goodbye memo to his team, the successor to Janice Min played the diplomatic card and said “well-meaning, diligent, ambitious people can disagree about fundamental priorities and strategies.”
The fact is things were so bad that right in the middle of an economic downturn, once legal beagle Belloni took a walk after refusing to submit to repeated pressure from above to play nice with parties that Valence considered pals or business associates.
Valence did not respond to request for comment on Thursday’s layoffs. If they do, we will update with their statement.
As well as now former chief film critic Todd McCarthy (who penned a guest column about his departure for Deadline on Thursday), THR will be losing senior reporter Rebecca Sun, and Senior Film Editor Piya Sinha-Roy, who joined just last September. Additionally, Real Estate and City Editor Peter Kiefer, senior events editor Ramona Saviss, art production manager Michelle Mondragon, senior production manager Maya Eslam, photo editor Lisa Dragani, video producers Marya Gullo and Natalie Heltzel have also been handed their pink slips today by the Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu run Valence.
We hear that the core THR film team of Borys Kitt, Pam McClintock, Chris Gardner, Executive Film Editor Tatiana Siegel and Editor at Large Kim Masters are among those who are safe, for now. But sources tell us the internal expectation is more cuts are coming soon as ad revenue dries up for the trade.
Already in choppy financial waters before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Hollywood and most of the world, THR saw editorial director Matt Belloni suddenly exit the publication on April 6. In a goodbye memo to his team, the successor to Janice Min played the diplomatic card and said “well-meaning, diligent, ambitious people can disagree about fundamental priorities and strategies.”
The fact is things were so bad that right in the middle of an economic downturn, once legal beagle Belloni took a walk after refusing to submit to repeated pressure from above to play nice with parties that Valence considered pals or business associates.
Valence did not respond to request for comment on Thursday’s layoffs. If they do, we will update with their statement.
- 4/16/2020
- by Dominic Patten and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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