<\/p>\n
\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>John Lewis<\/a> is launching muVpix<\/a>, a new U.S. made vertical entertainment app, with two original series, the animated drama Whispervale, <\/em>and the live-action thriller Swipe Left. <\/em><\/p>\n \n\tmuVpix will debut in March as the flagship platform of\u00a0BlackForge Distribution, with original content produced through\u00a0BlackForge Partners, both companies operating under Lewis\u2019 long-running banner\u00a0JLE Cinema Group.<\/p>\n \n\tWhispervale<\/em> is billed as blending handcrafted stop-motion\u2013inspired aesthetics with serialized mythic storytelling. Swipe Left <\/em>follows a sharp, ambitious young professional escaping a toxic relationship with her tech-CEO ex \u2013 only to download a dating app called LOVEZAP, which promises perfect AI-driven matches. When every man she connects with begins dying in increasingly brutal \u201caccidents,\u201d the line between algorithmic perfection and predatory design begins to blur. The series is directed by\u00a0Casey Jackson\u00a0and stars\u00a0Sarah Moliski,\u00a0Tyler Scherer, and\u00a0Felix Merback, with production beginning this week.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cmuVpix isn\u2019t chasing trends \u2013 it\u2019s correcting the assumption that vertical storytelling has to be disposable,\u201d said Lewis. \u201cWe\u2019re launching with stories that are bold, authored, and cinematic.\u00a0Whispervale<\/em>\u00a0is unlike anything that\u2019s existed in this space, and\u00a0Swipe Left<\/em>\u00a0proves that you can deliver real suspense, real performances, and real danger in a format designed for how people actually watch today.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tmuVpix is the latest expansion of\u00a0JLE Cinema Group, Lewis\u2019 independent production company, currently producing four films per year. Among the company\u2019s most recent projects is the upcoming thriller\u00a0Cipher<\/em>, now in post-production, starring\u00a0Terrence Howard,\u00a0Paula Patton,\u00a0Joel David Moore,\u00a0Britt Robertson,\u00a0Christopher Lloyd, and Lewis himself. The film was written and directed by\u00a0Tony Giglio and\u00a0<\/strong>produced in collaboration with Drama Free Films.<\/p>\n \n\tLewis is represented by Innovative Artists and Entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: John Lewis is launching muVpix, a new U.S. made vertical entertainment app, with two original series, the animated drama Whispervale, and the live-action thriller Swipe Left. muVpix will debut in March as the flagship platform of\u00a0BlackForge Distribution, with original content produced through\u00a0BlackForge Partners, both companies operating under Lewis\u2019 long-running banner\u00a0JLE Cinema Group. Whispervale is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[400095,441557],"class_list":["post-2280069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-john-lewis","tag-muvpix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Den-Of-Thieves-Actor-John-Lewis-Launches-Vertical-Entertainment-App.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280071,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280069\/revisions\/2280071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}