Exclusive: For his next act, Ryan Kavanaugh, in tandem with Proxima Media and Lifeboat Productions’ Amy Kim and Jaime Burke, is launching production label The Quad, which will focus on 3-5 genre films per year in the 3 million-12 million range.
Matt Weaver and Triller’s Jason Barhydt will also serve as producers with the company, whose focus will be on horror, thriller, American comedies and love stories.
Among the slate are projects with top social media influencers Charli D’Amelio and Bryce Hall, and a previously unannounced movie starring Andrew Byron Bachelor (The Babysitter), aka “King Bach.” That project, described to us as a thriller with action and fantasy elements, is called Miles Ryder and is slated to begin production later this year.
Actor and influencer King Bach has parlayed his early Vine success into major followings on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with nearly 23M followers on the latter alone.
Matt Weaver and Triller’s Jason Barhydt will also serve as producers with the company, whose focus will be on horror, thriller, American comedies and love stories.
Among the slate are projects with top social media influencers Charli D’Amelio and Bryce Hall, and a previously unannounced movie starring Andrew Byron Bachelor (The Babysitter), aka “King Bach.” That project, described to us as a thriller with action and fantasy elements, is called Miles Ryder and is slated to begin production later this year.
Actor and influencer King Bach has parlayed his early Vine success into major followings on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with nearly 23M followers on the latter alone.
- 10/4/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
TikTok star Hannah Stocking is set to star alongside Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in horror movie “Skill House” for Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
Stocking joins a cast that includes TikTok star Bryce Hall, Mma star Paige VanZant and Neal McDonough. Josh Stolberg (“Spiral”) wrote the script and is set to direct.
“Skill House” is being described as a “Saw”-like take that breaks into the phenomenon of social media fame and culture, offers an unflinching depiction of “clout” and explores the new phenomenon of “influencers”, their fame and what they are willing to do to attain it.
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Stocking joins a cast that includes TikTok star Bryce Hall, Mma star Paige VanZant and Neal McDonough. Josh Stolberg (“Spiral”) wrote the script and is set to direct.
“Skill House” is being described as a “Saw”-like take that breaks into the phenomenon of social media fame and culture, offers an unflinching depiction of “clout” and explores the new phenomenon of “influencers”, their fame and what they are willing to do to attain it.
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Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media Invests 28 Million in TikTok Rival Triller (Exclusive)
The Los Angeles-based film, which is being primarily shot in the original “Sway House” TikTok collective, looks at the world of social media and pushes the limits when “clicks” and “clout” become life or death,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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...
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...
- 7/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Social media phenom Charli D’Amelio (The D’Amelio Show) has signed on to star in the supernatural thriller Home School, which F. Javier Gutiérrez (Rings) is directing for Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media.
In Home School, D’Amelio will play Mira, a 17-year-old who moves to a different town to live with her aunt after her mother passes away. After arriving in what seems like the all-too-perfect town, Mira soon discovers that her mother’s death and her own future are intertwined supernaturally. The project marking D’Amelio’s live-acton feature film debut is being eyed as the first in an eight-film franchise of thrillers starring the two-time Kids Choice Award winner.
“As soon as I read Home School, I knew it was for me. I connected with the character, Mira, the story, the script, and the team. I knew if I was going to do a movie, it needed to be something fun,...
In Home School, D’Amelio will play Mira, a 17-year-old who moves to a different town to live with her aunt after her mother passes away. After arriving in what seems like the all-too-perfect town, Mira soon discovers that her mother’s death and her own future are intertwined supernaturally. The project marking D’Amelio’s live-acton feature film debut is being eyed as the first in an eight-film franchise of thrillers starring the two-time Kids Choice Award winner.
“As soon as I read Home School, I knew it was for me. I connected with the character, Mira, the story, the script, and the team. I knew if I was going to do a movie, it needed to be something fun,...
- 4/26/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Studios Building ‘Skill House’ Starring Bryce Hall; Josh Stolberg To Direct
Exclusive: Based on an original idea by producer Ryan Kavanaugh, Skill House is slated to start principal production in June with an expected early 2023 release date. The pic is slated to be the first film to be “listed” on the entertainment stock exchange Esx, a first-of-its-kind platform allowing users to invest in the film and trade in or out of the film and its upside.
The pic is financed and controlled by Proxima Studios and written and directed by Josh Stolberg, co-writer of horror films such as Spiral: From the Book of Saw (starring Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson), Jigsaw, Piranha 3D, Sorority Row, as well as the next Saw film (tentatively titled Saw X). The film stars social media influencer Bryce Hall, one of the world’s most-followed people on social media with more than 50 million followers across his channels.
Skill House takes a stab at social media...
The pic is financed and controlled by Proxima Studios and written and directed by Josh Stolberg, co-writer of horror films such as Spiral: From the Book of Saw (starring Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson), Jigsaw, Piranha 3D, Sorority Row, as well as the next Saw film (tentatively titled Saw X). The film stars social media influencer Bryce Hall, one of the world’s most-followed people on social media with more than 50 million followers across his channels.
Skill House takes a stab at social media...
- 4/13/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix breakout Noah Centineo will star in “Valet” from “Fauda” director Assaf Bernstein, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“Valet” will follow a young valet driver (Centineo) who gets involved in a government mission to take down an international arms dealer.
“American Sniper” writer Jason Hall is writing the script. Mark Burg, Daniel Herther, Brad Kaplan and Brent Baum are producing.
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“Valet” is also the first film for Ryan Kavanaugh’s new venture Promixa Media, a production company he launched after the bankruptcy of Relativity, for which he served as the head. Proxima is looking for a studio distributor for “Valet.”
Centineo’s role in Netflix’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” has allowed him more name recognition. In it he played the lovable Peter Kavinsky.
“Valet” will follow a young valet driver (Centineo) who gets involved in a government mission to take down an international arms dealer.
“American Sniper” writer Jason Hall is writing the script. Mark Burg, Daniel Herther, Brad Kaplan and Brent Baum are producing.
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“Valet” is also the first film for Ryan Kavanaugh’s new venture Promixa Media, a production company he launched after the bankruptcy of Relativity, for which he served as the head. Proxima is looking for a studio distributor for “Valet.”
Centineo’s role in Netflix’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” has allowed him more name recognition. In it he played the lovable Peter Kavinsky.
- 11/5/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Oscar winners Nicolas Cage and Faye Dunaway have signed on to star in Inconceivable, with Nicky Whelan co-starring in the Jonathan Baker-directed thriller. Chloe King wrote the script, and Randall Emmett and George Furla of Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films are producing with Baker and Daniel Herther of Baker Entertainment. Wayne Marc Godfrey of the Fyzz Facility and Arnaud Lannic and Barry Brooker are exec producing. The picture shoots next month, and it’s part of the E…...
- 9/8/2016
- Deadline
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