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WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who steered his real estate office company through some disastrous decisions, only to walk away from it with $1.7 billion, was a tell-tale ripe for a binge-viewing era. What was the way into this Icarus story? For co-creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, it was through…

Bob Chapek, the Disney CEO who is under siege, hopefully does not watch much TV. If he does, he'll see a succession of fellow CEOs who seem prone to self-destruction — Adam Neumann of WeWork, Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, etc. — portrayed on buzzy TV series. Viewing these shows back to back…

Apple TV+ limited series WeCrashed, has dropped a teaser trailer for the limited series WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork starring Oscar winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, with Crazy Stupid Love helmers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra directing. The limited series is created and written by showrunners Lee…

WeWork co-founder and fallen CEO Adam Neumann said Jared Leto advised him not to watch the upcoming Apple TV+ miniseries WeCrashed where the actor plays the former high-flying executive whose company crashed in 2019 before being resurrected in a SPAC-led IPO last month. (Separately, lawyers for the much-dramatized…

EXCLUSIVE: With a revamped WeWork poised to hit Wall Street with a multi-billion dollar IPO in just over a week, the former CEO of the once highly hyped startups workspace company has already made a killing of at HBO Max. Booted from his top gig in September 2019 with a $1.7 billion parachute just before the company…

EXCLUSIVE: The WeWork documentary from Ross Dinerstein's Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media has landed at Hulu. The feature-length film, directed by Jed Rothstein, becomes the latest doc project for the streamer, which is building up its library of original non-fiction titles including Fyre Fraud and H…

Decision time has arrived: Keep working at home or go back to the office? That choice now confronts millions of employees (and their bosses) around the world. The impact could be profound on business activity, real estate values and the future of city centers. Not to mention marriages. Here are the early results of…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of WeWork and its controversial founder and former CEO Adam Neumann is to be the subject of a feature documentary from Ross Dinerstein's Campfire, Forbes Entertainment and Olive Hill Media. Jed Rothstein, who directed the Oscar-nominated short Killing In The Name, as well as an episode of…

Apple is developing the hit Wondery podcast WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork, with an eye toward a limited series order. The project will be executive produced and co-written by Little America co-creator Lee Eisenberg and former studio executive Drew Crevello and produced by podcast company Wondery. Co-written…

Stephen Falk, creator and executive producer/showrunner of the FX comedy series You’re the Worst, has come on board as creator and showrunner of Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content's upcoming limited series about the explosive rise and fall of WeWork. The project, starring Succession's Nicholas Braun as WeWork…

Big Short Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Charles Randolph is adapting Katrina's Brooker's upcoming W.W. Norton book about controversial real estate corp WeWork for both Blumhouse and Universal. Book focuses on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, and Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, the…