Hometeam Global Content has secured Anna Rotholz Management for representation on the East Coast. Anna Rotholz brings over a decade of expertise working in the East Coast market, having spent the majority of her career as an agent and independent rep working at numerous repping firms. She currently represents a diverse roster of production companies including Chromista, tinygiant, Hey Baby and PF100. During the global pandemic that put a halt to the production industry, Hometeam saw an opportunity to reimagine its approach in executing and crafting projects from a more local level. Hometeam’s founding partners–Harrison Winter, Lagan Sebert and Brandon Bloch–brought together two production companies with more than a decade of experience each – Magic Seed Productions and Co.MISSION Content Group – combining their talent networks and remote production experience to build an improved and more efficient method to production on a global scale. Hometeam has hit the ground running this year with NBC’s American Song Contest, filming show contestants in all 50 states and 6 U.S. territories completely remote while advocating for sustainability in AICP’s panel as active members of Green The Bid. The company co-produced the new Discovery+ show Conjuring Kesha, which will premiere on the Travel Channel this October. Off a fresh Emmy nomination for last year’s work on The Voice, they shot internationally on the Apple TV show My Kind of Country in collaboration with Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine. “We’ve created an innovative model built on a hand-picked global network of the best filmmakers in every U.S. state and 150 countries that aid us in telling more expansive stories without boundaries,” shared Bloch. “Anna understands where the industry is headed and it aligns with our forward-looking vision on how we can help her clients answer today’s content needs. She recognizes there’s a lot of space in the market for a company like Hometeam and we’re excited to continue our growth together”…
Review: Director Tyler Spindel’s “Kinda Pregnant”
We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it's still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in "Kinda Pregnant," is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves a roast turkey up her dress.
You might be thinking: This is too ridiculous. The stuffing, alone. But if we bought "Some Like it Hot" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," I see no reason to quibble with the set-up of "Kinda Pregnant," a funny and often perceptive satire on motherhood, both real and pretend.
"Kinda Pregnant," which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a kinda throwback comedy. Like "40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Wedding Crashers," you can basically get the movie just from its title.
But like any good high-concept comedy, "Kinda Pregnant" is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic. Here, that's the wide gamut of pregnancy experience — the body changes, the gender reveal parties, the personal jealousies — all while mixing in a healthy amount of pseudo-pregnant pratfalls.
It's been a decade since Schumer was essentially launched as a movie star in the 2015 Judd Apatow-directed "Trainwreck." But "Kinda Pregnant," which Schumer wrote with Julie Paiva, almost as adeptly channels Schumer's comic voice — the one that made the sketch series "Inside Amy Schumer" so great.
The movie's opening flashes back to Lainey (Schumer) as a child playing with dolls and imagining herself a mother-to-be. So committed is she to the role that Lainey, in mock-labor, screams at her friend and then politely apologies: "Sorry, but the expectant mother often lashes out at her support system."
But as... Read More