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Cisco Kills Flip Cam: Boo!
I am heartbroken that Cisco has decided to kill the Flip Camera, due to restructuring (see release below).
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YouTube's Figglehorn Goes 3-D as Lionsgate's Night of the Living Fred
Lucas Cruikshank's YouTube creation and sensation "Fred Figglehorn" is getting a 3-D movie. Lionsgate, Varsity Pictures and The Collective are producing Night of the Living Fred, which is a follow-up to 2010's Fred: The Movie (which debuted on Nickelodeon). While Lionsgate has North American distribution rights, they are selling international rights to the film. Family Guy's David A. Goodman wrote the script and John Fortenberry (Blue Mountain State) is directing. Lionsgate production/development president Michael Paseornek says:“We're always excited to partner with talent who has a direct relationship with a broad online fan base, because th...
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Let's Talk About Sex: A Call to Action for the Sake of American Teens' Health
New York beauty photographer and commercial director James Houston's expose about sex attitudes, Let's Talk About Sex, launches with a national broadcast on April 9 on cable network The Learning Channel, with New Video's digital/DVD release set for April 12. The documentary aims to raise awareness a...
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Web Series: Gender-Twisting Girls on Film, Michael Cera's Bad Dads, Hulu's Trailer Trash
There's a rash of new content heading toward the Web. Two new episodes of Lionsgate's first web series from producer Hud:sun Media’s Max Benator and creator Todd Goldman, the raunchy animated Trailer Trash, debuted exclusively on Hulu this week (clips below). The hope, always, in this transmedia ag...
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Unstaged's 2011 Music Series Kicks off with David Lynch directing Duran, Duran
Unstaged, the music series in its second year, announces the iconic pairing of director David Lynch and Duran Duran. The first installment of Unstaged 2011 will feature a Duran Duran performance in conjunction with the release of their 13th studio album and first official tour since 2008. On March 2...
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Old Spice's Isaiah Mustafa: "Where You Can Go When Your Man Smells Like Me"
Since Old Spice star Isaiah Mustafa broke out last summer, the hunky actor has landed roles in Horrible Bosses and Tyler Perry's upcoming Madea's Big Happy Family (April 22).
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2010: At the Movies
The year-end movies of 2010 mash-ups are upon us. I like this one by Zack Young:
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Video Watch: Johnny Depp Visits London School as Jack Sparrow
During filming of Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in London, Johnny Depp recently left the set in order to help out a kid seeking info from Jack Sparrow, reports Lindsay Reiser:Beatrice Delap, 9, a student from the southeast London area, wrote to actor Johnny Depp asking f...
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Video Watch: Halloween Big Cats
For your amusement, here's one of those ubiquitous YouTube cat videos (tune out if you hate them): it's lions and tigers and panthers playing with pumpkins (for charity, natch):
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TIFF Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Review, and Alex Gibney Talks
Alex Gibney's hugely entertaining Eliot Spitzer doc, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, is a leading contender for this year's doc Oscar. The movie is full of surprises. In my flip cam interview with Gibney (below) he explains how the story he tells turned out far different from what he ...
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