NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence13, an
industry-leading premium podcast company, unveiled the first three
audio movies under its groundbreaking new scripted studio,
C13Features. C13Features is focused on creating and owning
compelling fictionalized feature-length audio stories of all genres
that appeal to a wide audience. Cadence13 is part of Entercom
(NYSE: ETM), who will be supporting each C13Feature with a
strategic marketing plan which will make use of its portfolio of
radio stations and digital assets that engage 170 million consumers
each month.
C13Features marks Cadence13's initial entry into the scripted
podcast space, with the objective of a launching an entirely new
creative model to give podcast listeners and sponsors, along with
buyers in the entertainment business, a brand-new movie-like
listening experience. While the podcast space has traditionally
used the serialized multi-episode approach, C13Features aims to
tighten the storytelling experience with compelling and dramatic
creative arcs, and not force listeners to have to wait for more
episodes to find out what happens next. C13Features aspires to give
listeners gripping stories with a beginning, a middle and an end,
all in one feature-length 90-minute episode, for listeners to
experience however and whenever they'd like.
From psychological thrillers to horrors to fascinating stories
of all genres, C13Features looks to imagine and define
what the movie experience can be for the podcast space, while also
creating an incubator for a new kind of IP attractive for film and
television. These one-episode original scripted features
will be helmed by Hollywood writers, directors, actors, and
composers, and feature cinematic sound design and high-end
production.
Chris Corcoran, Chief Content
Officer and founding partner of Cadence13, created and developed
the concept for C13Features, and will serve as Executive Producer
for all features, and leads the new studio.
C13Features will release the following audio movies this
year:
- Treat: When a small, seemingly perfect, town reels
from the social turmoil defining modern America, its locals are
driven to desperation. Hope presents itself in the form of a
mysterious mystical Piper, who uses his powers to transform and
protect the town's prosperity for the next decade. But there's a
price to pay. Every ten years, on Halloween, the Piper and his
spooky servants return to collect his payment from the townspeople.
On this chilly picturesque Halloween, when the town falls behind on
their payment, the Piper comes calling. When a teenage trio find
themselves the focus of his wrath, chase ensues into the evening
and they must unlock the secret of the Piper's powers – even if it
lies within one of them. Written by Nathan
Ballingrud, with Babak Anvari
and Lucan Toh of Two & Two
Pictures.
- Ghostwriter: When Kate Michaels is offered a new
project – to ghostwrite an intricate, violent novel about a
mysterious killer — she knows it's the last thing she needs to
overcome her crippling anxiety. But she has no choice: she's broke,
isolated, nearly unemployable and the client, an idiosyncratic
billionaire, insists she's the only person he'll work with. As they
collaborate on the book, Kate finds herself growing dependent on
her new client and increasingly sure that something is not quite
right. As the novel's plot comes to life, Kate comes to suspect
that what they're writing together isn't fiction at all — it's a
memoir. When the murderous story she's ghostwriting begins to blend
with her reality, will anyone believe her? Ghostwriter is a cross
between Silence of the Lambs and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Written by Alix Sobler, with Best
Case Studios.
- The Followers: A newly married pair of 20-something
social-media influencers are traveling the world on their honeymoon
- posing for aspirational photos - when their dream adventure gets
interrupted by a pair of strangers following them. Days earlier,
the couple had reluctantly, but naively, agreed to promote an
online church; their lives are turned upside down from that point
on. As they honeymoon through Europe, they are followed by a sinister force
that is imitating their photos and framing them for murder. Fearing
for their lives and reputations, the couple is forced to conduct
their own manic investigation. The Followers tells the story of one
couple—stand-ins for an entire generation—who live and die online.
A fast-paced thriller that is part Hitchcock, part travelogue, The Followers is a
cautionary tale about social media, and the reverse effect of
influence. Written by Brett
Neichin.
Endeavor Content is working with Cadence13, bringing their
experience and relationships to the new slate, as well as
maximizing derivative opportunities for the IP across film and
television.
"We've been disciplined and strategic, finding the right
stories, writing, and characters that we feel meet our ambitious
creative expectations," said Chris
Corcoran, Chief Content Officer, Cadence13 and Executive
Producer, C13Features. "This is an opportunity to bring
storytelling to the world in a brand-new, easily digestible
experience, to create 'movies for your ears.' I can't wait to bring
these first three original audio features to life in this
fashion."
"We are thrilled to be working with world class creative talent
to explore a new and exciting way to launch film franchises,
together with our partners at Cadence13, bringing premium movies to
podcast listeners, and then expanding these worlds across film and
television," said Lorenzo De Maio,
Executive Vice President, TV Advisory and Audio, Endeavor Content.
"In today's growing content landscape, this is yet another unique
opportunity to bring compelling storytelling to audiences
worldwide."
Download the C13Features art (credit: Curt Courtenay/Cadence13) and photo of Cadence13
Chief Content Officer Chris Corcoran
(courtesy: Cadence13) here: https://we.tl/t-AD0qBiMTtE.
About Cadence13:
Cadence13, a leading premium podcast
company, is part of Entercom's Podcast Network and was named one of
Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies for 2019." Our
roster of critically-acclaimed shows and personalities reflects the
diverse conversations and interests happening in the world, led by
a collection of voices that include Sophia
Amoruso, Lili Anolik,
David Axelrod, Rachel Brathen, Dean
Budnick, Alejandra Campoverdi, Emma
Chamberlain, Deepak Chopra,
Gotham Chopra, Lauren Conrad, Remi
Cruz, Charli D'Amelio, Dixie D'Amelio, David Dobrik, Ethan
Dolan, Grayson Dolan,
Kevin Durant, Elle Fanning, Jon
Favreau, Emily Jane Fox,
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joe Hagan, Andrew
Jenks, Sarah Knight,
Tony Kornheiser, Payne Lindsey, Michael
Lombardi, Karina Longworth,
Jon Lovett, Alisha Marie, Johanna
Maska, CJ McCollum, Jon
Meacham, James Andrew Miller,
Mike Murphy, Leon Neyfakh, Michaela
Okland, Darienne Page,
Anna Palmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, David
Plouffe, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Pratt, JJ Redick, Davis Reid,
Ben Reiter, Duncan Robinson, Rhett and Link, Jake Sherman, Tommy
Vietor, Adnan Virk,
Jessica Wapner, Tim Weiner, Ashley
West, iO Tillett Wright,
Andrew Yang, and many more. These
storytellers represent both established and emerging personalities
across sports, business, tech, politics, entertainment and news.
Cadence13 is the home of C13Features and the Peabody
Award-nominated C13Originals documentary studio, and has a broad
range of programming partners including Comments by Celebs, Crooked
Media, Entertainment Weekly, Girlboss Media, goop, Granity Studios,
Headspace, HISTORY, Meredith, Mythical Entertainment, Punchbowl
News, Ramble, Seven Bucks Productions, Smosh, Sports Illustrated,
Tenderfoot TV, theSkimm, The Try Guys, ThreeFourTwo Productions,
TNT, Up and Vanished, Vanity Fair, Who? Weekly and Yoga Girl, among
others. Cadence13 is headquartered in New
York, with offices in Los
Angeles and San
Francisco.
ABOUT ENDEAVOR CONTENT:
Endeavor Content is a global
leader in the development, financing and sales of premium film,
television, theater and audio content. Endeavor Content seeks to
facilitate more ownership and creative freedom for artists,
creators and production companies in an ever-evolving media
landscape. Endeavor Content is a division of Endeavor, a global
entertainment, sports and content company.
ALIX SOBLER is a writer and performer
who lives in New York. She has
worked in theater and radio as a playwright, actor, and
contributing writer to CBC, and Voice of America. Recently, the
solo show she wrote for Margaret Trudeau, Certain Woman of an
Age, was recorded for Audible at the Minetta Lane Theater in NYC,
after successful runs at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival in July of
2019, and Second City in Chicago
in the spring. Her plays have won or been finalists for multiple
awards including the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting
Competition, the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, the
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the Jane Chambers Award, among others.
NATHAN BALLINGRUD is the award-winning
author of North American Lake Monsters: Stories, and Wounds: Six
Stories from the Border of Hell. His short stories were adapted
into the TV series, Monsterland, on Hulu and the feature film,
Wounds. His first novel. The Strange, will be published in
2022.
About Entercom Communications Corp.
Entercom
Communications Corp. (NYSE: ETM) is the #1 creator of live,
original local audio content in the U.S and the unrivaled leader in
local radio sports and news. Home to the nation's most influential
collection of podcasts, digital and broadcast content, and premium
live experiences, Entercom engages 170 million consumers each
month. Available on every device in every major U.S. market, the
company delivers the industry's most compelling live and on-demand
content and experiences from voices and influencers its communities
trust and love. Entercom's robust portfolio of assets and
integrated solutions offer advertisers today's most engaged
audiences through targeted reach, brand amplification and local
activation—all at national scale. Learn more
at www.entercom.com, Facebook and Twitter
(@Entercom).
CONTACT:
Hillary Schupf
VP, Publicity, Cadence13
917.828.4280
hillary@cadence13.com
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