Maude Apatow's Critically-Acclaimed Directorial Debut 'Poetic License' Pushed from May Release Date to October Amidst Financial Trouble at Distribution Company (Row K) - The film premiered at TIFF and stars Cooper Hoffman, Leslie Mann, Nico Parker, Method Man, Andrew Barth Feldman & Jake Bongiovi.

that’s a lot of famous kids, but I still suspect Parker is just a clone of Thandiwe Newton

This is the Avengers of nepo babies

Super impressive this unknown artist was able to get a known talent like Leslie Mann

"The money is coming" is a comment that I heard many times as someone who spent several years working under Raj Singh at National Lampoon. Sadly for everyone who is owed money from Row K, I am fairly confident that the money is not coming. I'm owed thousands of dollars from my time at National Lampoon that I know I'm never going to get. Not paying employees and vendors was a very common theme there and it looks like it's carried over to Row K. The guys at National Lampoon burned through tens of millions of dollars of investor money and didn't produce a single movie. If you'd like to see for yourself, it's all public information. They bought National Lampoon for $12M+ (of investor money, as reported by Deadline) and didn't make a single movie. It looks like they did the same thing at Row K (though Row K did at least release one film). I'm not posting this comment to add fuel to the fire. I'm posting it in hopes that people see it and these guys can finally be stopped. They have been up to no good for years and they continue to get opportunities to run companies and produce movies. I don't know Chris Woodrow but from the articles that come up when you Google him, he seems to be just as bad. It baffles me how they even got funding for this new venture. Working at National Lampoon was a nightmare and I genuinely feel sorry for the employees and vendors of Row K who are most likely never going to see a penny. I tried commenting this on the Variety article but it didn't get approved for whatever reason, so I had to turn to Reddit. \- Brandon Tamburri

Is the studio about to go bankrupt?

Bummer all around. I'm thinking Row K will have to drop it and it'll be shopped around. > Two inseparable best friends, Sam and Ari, start to unravel as they compete for the affection of Liz, the middle-aged mum auditing their college poetry workshop.

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Wow how'd she get Leslie Mann to be in her movie, impressive pull

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Jake Bovin Goni

Movie is already made, it's the putting it on the screen part that is the problem, right?

Nepotism is not specific to Hollywood. It dominates in wrestling, its prevalent in politics, agriculture, etc. I still think the bigger story here is how little output the production company had and how quickly they're struggling. Maybe they were hoping to be bought out, idk. Bummer if people are gonna lose their jobs.

Does anyone know if Kevin Frakes is involved with Row K? I did a quick Google search on Row K which led me to an Instagram post by filmmaker Nick Leisure which I've tagged below. He shows a photo with Frakes, Raj Singh, and Chris Woodrow while specifically mentioning Frakes as a member of the team. If you dig deeper into Frakes, there are countless articles about him bullying employees, harassing Ari Aster while financing Hereditary, being in lawsuits with major celebrities and agencies, and even eviction notices. I wouldn't be surprised if Frakes was pulling the strings here behind closed doors. Frakes is also listed as an EP on Ice Cream Man which is a movie Singh and Woodrow are producing, so he's clearly in their circle. The IG post is linked below. [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ-3t4UEXQM/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ-3t4UEXQM/)

Leslie Mann, when do we start saying ‘her mom’?

Critically acclaimed by who?

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Saw it at TIFF and although the plot was very frustrating imo.….guys Cooper Hoffman was really good in it. Like eerily good that I’m afraid to be invested in how his career will turn out. Cause yk some nepo babies just don’t pan out and considering who his father is, the expectation to be good must be a giant brick on his shoulders. That being said, I haven’t seen the other films he has been in but he’s definitely got potential. 

i’ve been waiting for this one…….bummed it’s gunna be longer

Nice, I wonder how she pulled Leslie Mann into her project!

That’s disappointing. I know nepo babies take a lot of shit in Hollywood but Cooper Hoffman and Nico Parker are actually really talented actors. 

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I don’t inherently hate nepo babies. I think no matter how much privilege you’re born with, life and its obstacles are still challenging and everyone is still human with a human desire to chase something difficult in life and achieve it. And I believe they deserve the opportunity to do that. But do they deserve to “cut the line” and not have to build the same level of career as their peers to survive in the industry? Well honestly probably not, but I’m not gonna sit over here and complain about it. A lot of non nepo babies probably break into the industry in similar “short cut” ways. Now the issue I have is as a consumer who doesn’t specifically dislike nepo babies and wants to see the best product possible, I’m struggling to unlock the interest in seeing a nepo baby’s project over a creator who has infinitely more experience and depth in the field, you know? I’m not hating. Just from a marketing perspective, I don’t want to see this movie over one made by a more established director. I guess Hollywood doesn’t care about changing my opinion on that, they’re just happy to sell the movie to those who want to see it, Maude and her dad’s Instagram followers, probably.

Leslie Mann, total nepo hire smdh

The head of the studio just quit.

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