Clubhouse Media Group runs a string of TikTok influencer houses in locations including Los Angeles. Marianne
Clubhouse Media Group has built a business running a chain of TikTok influencer mansions.
Some talent, who lived rent-free, said CMG s CEO often yelled and would try to set them up on unwanted dates.
One former house member said CMG management treated their lives like a game.
Dan Whateley, Sydney Bradley, and I reported on how living rent-free at content mansions wasn t the Hollywood dream some TikTok influencers anticipated.
CMG mansions like Clubhouse Beverly Hills are home to a rotating cast of Gen-Z TikTok stars who live there rent-free.
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Millarworld s president Mark Millar talked with Insider about the Netflix deal and the series. Jupiter s Legacy is part of Netflix s grander ambitions to develop franchises and event shows.
Comics writer Mark Millar is known for some of Marvel s most talked-about stories of the 2000s. But he credits a 2003 conversation with Stan Lee, the cocreator of some of Marvel s biggest characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men, with inspiring his trek away from Marvel and into a comics universe of his own. Growing up I always wanted to work at Marvel and DC, Millar told Insider during a phone interview last week. But Stan said that every generation needs new characters.
Hulu is making a big push into unscripted originals, several Hollywood sources told Insider.
It comes after parent Disney announced a big deal with reality-TV family the Kardashians.
A Disney TV exec is leading the effort along with a Hulu content VP.
Hulu is preparing a big push into original unscripted programming, several industry sources familiar with the effort told Insider.
After building an unscripted audience primarily through licensed shows from networks like Discovery and NBCUniversal, Hulu is making a new effort to buy a greater volume of originals in the genre.
Entertainment-industry sources said the streaming service has been hearing pitches for all types of unscripted content, including reality, lifestyle, dating and social experiment, competition, cooking, documentary, and true-crime projects. Those sources included three production execs and one talent-agency exec who had all recently pitched or sold projects to Hulu.