Crazy Legs Productions, a producer of reality, true crime, sports programming, and branded entertainment, has launched a narrative feature film division, Crazy Legs Features. The company has plans to release between four and six films for theatrical and digital distribution per year.
Crazy Legs Features is already in pre-production on several projects, with its first film, Front Row Killer, having just begun principal photography. The female-driven thriller will star Brooke Butler (Ozark), Teressa Liane (Vampire Diaries and Into the Badlands), and Ryan Cooper (Eye Candy). Front Row Killer also marks the feature directorial debut of Marguerite Henry (EP on Her Dark Past and Seduced), who serves as a writer on the project.
“We’ve proven ourselves as innovators and creative storytellers in the non-fiction and branded entertainment spaces,” said Scott Thigpen, Crazy Legs Productions COO and producer of Front Row Killer. “Now, we’re excited to bring our cinematic sensibilities to the big screen and to new audiences around the globe.”
Marie Halliday, Crazy Legs Productions’ director of feature development, will oversee the creation of original content and acquisitions of unique creative properties.
Front Row Killer puts the audience front row center in a tortuous tale of friendship, obsession, and fanaticism. The movie is Swimfan meets A Star is Born and asks the question, “When a friend stands in between you and your ambitions, how far are you willing to go to make your dreams come true?” Being shot in and around Atlanta, Front Row Killer is part of a Crazy Legs slate of films that according to Halliday includes such genres as thriller, romance, horror, and documentaries.
On the TV and streaming services front, Crazy Legs Productions has turned out such shows as A Season With for Showtime, Family By the Ton for TLC, Inside the Madness for Facebook, The Prancing Elites Project for Oxygen, Swamp Murders, Dead Silent and Your Worst Nightmare for Investigation Discovery, and Hidden City for Travel Channel.
Civil rights groups call on major corporations to stick with DEI programs
A broad group of civil rights organizations called on the CEOs and board members of major companies Thursday to maintain their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack online and in lawsuits.
An open letter signed by 19 organizations and directed at the leaders of Fortune 1000 companies said companies that abandon their DEI programs are shirking their fiduciary responsibility to employees, consumers and shareholders.
The civil rights groups included the NAACP, the National Organization for Women, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
"Diversity, equity and inclusion programs, policies, and practices make business-sense and they're broadly popular among the public, consumers, and employees," their statement read. "But a small, well-funded, and extreme group of right-wing activists is attempting to pressure companies into abandoning their DEI programs."
Companies such as Ford, Lowes, John Deere, Molson Coors and Harley-Davidson recently announced they would pull back on their diversity, equity and inclusion policies after facing pressure from conservative activists who were emboldened by recent victories in the courtroom.
Many major corporations have been examining their diversity programs in the wake of a Supreme Court decision last year that declared race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions unconstitutional. Dozens of cases have been filed making similar arguments about employers. Critics of DEI programs say the initiatives provide benefits to people of one race or sexual orientation while excluding others.
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