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Jenny Mollen’s debut novel City of Likes is getting the television treatment even before its hits shelves in 2022. The Nacelle Company, which published the book, will adapt the novel for television under its first look comedy deal with Sony Pictures Television. Set to hit shelves April 26, 2022, City of Likes centers…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company (The Toys That Made Us) has greenlighted a documentary about Beanie Babies, the plush toys that became a cultural and economic phenomenon during the 1990s. The film aims to shed light on how these seemingly simple characters, with little to no backstory, captured the hearts of…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company (The Toys That Made Us) has partnered with Paul Frank via owner Futurity Brands to develop and produce a TV show, centered on its characters. Paul Frank is a beloved SoCal brand founded in Huntington Beach in 1995 by the American cartoonist, artist and fashion designer of the same name…

EXCLUSIVE: Author and actress Jenny Mollen will see her debut novel published by the Nacelle Company, which also has retained the book’s film and television rights. City of Likes  is the first work of fiction for Mollen, who penned a memoir and a book of essays in the 2010s. The novel centers on Maddie, an unemployed…

The Nacelle Company is reviving Silverhawks, a sort of space-themed ThunderCats from the mid-eighties. Silverhawks was a classic animated television show developed by Rankin/Bass Productions and released in 1986. The show consisted of 65 episodes, with a concept that revolved around a team of 29th Century heroes with…

The Nacelle Company has set former Discovery Channel exec Ched Raymundo as SVP Acquisitions & Strategy, tasked with accelerating its content acquisitions and distribution across the dozens of platforms worldwide. She’ll be based at the Burbank headquarters of Nacelle, which is behind such series as Down to Earth with Z…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company is boldly going where no man has gone before. Today it unveiled The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, an eight-episode limited docuseries that it will produce for History Channel. Created and directed by Nacelle founder and CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss, The Center Seat is described as the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company, the company behind series including Netflix's Down To Earth with Zac Efron and Netflix's The Toys That Made Us, is moving into podcasting with the launch of its own studio. The company has finished construction on the studio in Burbank and will kick off the move with a slate of…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Brian Volk-Weiss' the Nacelle Company (Down to Earth with Zac Efron; The Toys That Made Us; Kevin Hart's Guide To Black History; Behind The Attraction; Grant) is diving into books with an eponymous new imprint in partnership with Ingram Publishing. Nacelle will focus on pop history, nostalgia and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has inked a two-year, first-look deal with The Nacelle Company to develop scripted comedy. The Nacelle Company is behind such projects such as Netflix's Down to Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, BET+’s All the Way Black as well as Disney +'s Behind the Attraction. The…

The Nacelle Company is teaming with Breaker’s Blockchain Entertainment Studio on the release of Antarctica, a romantic comedy written and directed by Keith Bearden. Starring Chloë Levine (Trinkets, The OA), Clea Lewis (The Americans, Royal Pains), Damian Young (Ozark, Birdman), and newcomer Kimmie Muroya, the pic will…

Star Trek star Gates McFadden is no stranger to exploring new planets and galaxies as Dr. Beverly Crusher, but set to host the Nacelle Company’s Who Do You Think You Are?, McFadden starts a new venture into the podcast realm. “Pantomime takes too much energy, so I asked if we could use mics," said Gates McFadden. The…