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Released in 2025 in partnership with iHeart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV. It quickly became the #1 true-crime podcast and the #2 podcast in the world for several weeks. Season 2 will be released in 2027.

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  1. Mudbound still

    Two families, one white and one Black, work the same Mississippi Delta farm after World War II. When a son from each comes home from the war, they become friends, and the town won't allow it.

    Director
    Dee Rees
    Written by
    Virgil Williams & Dee Rees, from the novel by Hillary Jordan
    Starring
    Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, Jonathan Banks
    Released
    Premiered at Sundance, January 21, 2017 · Netflix, November 17, 2017 · 134 min
    Kyle
    Executive Producer
    • 4Academy Award nominations: Supporting Actress (Mary J. Blige), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography (Rachel Morrison), Original Song
    • 2Golden Globe nominations
    • 2SAG Award nominations, including Outstanding Cast
    • WonGotham Awards: Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance
    • WonIndependent Spirit Awards: Robert Altman Award
    • NamedBest Film of 2017 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post
  2. Cut Throat City still

    After Hurricane Katrina, four friends from New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward plan a casino heist to rebuild their lives. It puts them between a drug lord, a crime boss and a detective.

    Director
    RZA
    Written by
    Paul Cuschieri
    Starring
    Shameik Moore, Demetrius Shipp Jr., T.I., Kat Graham, Eiza González, Terrence Howard, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke
    Released
    August 21, 2020 · Well Go USA · 123 min
    Kyle
    Producer
    • SXSWOfficial selection, 2020. The festival was canceled because of COVID-19.
  3. Johnny Knoxville in We Summon the Darkness

    Indiana, 1988. Three friends meet three guys at a heavy metal show and invite them back to a country house for an afterparty, at a time when satanic murders are all over the news. Nobody is who they seem.

    Director
    Marc Meyers
    Written by
    Alan Trezza
    Starring
    Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth, Logan Miller, Austin Swift, Johnny Knoxville
    Released
    April 10, 2020 · Saban Films · 91 min
    Kyle
    Producer · a Common Enemy production
    • PremiereMammoth Film Festival, February 28, 2019
  4. Alexandra Daddario and Anton Yelchin in Burying the Ex

    Max finally works up the nerve to leave his controlling girlfriend, and then she dies in an accident. A wish he made comes true, and she comes back from the grave just as he's falling for someone new.

    Director
    Joe Dante
    Written by
    Alan Trezza
    Starring
    Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario, Oliver Cooper
    Released
    June 19, 2015 · Image Entertainment · 90 min
    Kyle
    Producer
    • Venice71st Venice International Film Festival, out of competition, September 2014
  5. Gabrielle Haugh in The Midnight Man

    Two friends find an old game in her grandmother's attic. Play it, and something called the Midnight Man comes for you. Once it starts, you have to survive until 3:33 a.m.

    Director
    Travis Zariwny
    Written by
    Travis Zariwny, from a story by Zariwny & Jimmy Loweree
    Starring
    Lin Shaye, Robert Englund, Gabrielle Haugh, Grayson Gabriel
    Released
    Canada, September 30, 2016 · US, January 2018 · IFC Midnight · 92 min
    Kyle
    Co-Producer · Editor
    • RemakeBased on Midnight Man (2013), from Irish director Rob Kennedy
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Cut Throat CityTrailer · 1:30
Cabin FeverTrailer · 1:46
Rolling LoudPromo · 0:38
PGA 2020Brand film · 0:36
Pac-12 NetworkSizzle · 1:05
JetlagMusic video · 3:56
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Kyle Tekiela on stage at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance 2017 · Mudbound premiere

Kyle
Tekiela

5× Emmy winnerSundanceNetflixiHeart

Kyle is a five-time Emmy Award winner and founder of Common Enemy, a film and podcast production company. His most notable film, Mudbound, directed by Dee Rees and starring Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival where it received rapturous reviews, and was purchased by Netflix, becoming the largest acquisition at the fest and the second largest in Sundance history. Mudbound was nominated for two Golden Globes, four Academy Awards, won Best Ensemble at the Gotham Awards and was named Best Film of 2017 by both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

Kyle's latest producing efforts include the horror comedy Burying the Ex, directed by genre legend Joe Dante and starring Alexandra Daddario, Ashley Greene, and the late Anton Yelchin; the heist thriller Cut Throat City, directed by Wu-Tang Clan founder and visionary RZA, starring Ethan Hawke, Eiza González, and Wesley Snipes; We Summon the Darkness, starring Alexandra Daddario and Johnny Knoxville; and the thriller The Midnight Man, starring Lin Shaye and Robert Englund.

In 2025, Kyle released his true crime podcast Crook County, in partnership with iHeart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV, which quickly became the #1 true-crime podcast and #2 podcast in the world for several weeks. Season 2 will be released in 2027.

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