Tamra Judge may be most well known as one of the "Real Housewives of Orange County," but the 48-year-old grandmother is tackling a new role — bodybuilder!
Judge has been training for the past five months to get herself in shape for a Muscle Mania competition on May 28th and documenting her transformation on Instagram.
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When you want something in business, sometimes you just have to keep gunning for it.
That’s one takeaway from the launch of Chelsea Handler’s new talk show on Netflix, which represents a move into an entirely new style of programming for the streaming giant.
When Handler first approached Netflix, the company wasn’t necessarily in the market for a talk show. “I hit on them until they committed,” Handler told Wired.
Netflix’s head of content, Ted Sarandos, says Handler came up to him at a post-Oscar’s party in 2014: “Are you the Netflix guy?” she asked. The contract for Handler’s show on E!, "Chelsea Lately," was winding down. She wanted to explore doing something with Netflix, and eventually Netflix did too.
“The late night show that didn’t have to be late night became really intriguing for us,” Sarandos told Wired.
Netflix's first project with Handler was a four-part documentary series on topics like Silicon Valley and drugs called “Chelsea Does,” which Wired describes as a “test run” for “Chelsea,” the new show. Given the launch, the test run seems to have gone well, though Netflix famously doesn’t release data on its shows.
"Chelsea" will be a test of a different type for Netflix: whether “near-live” programming, which sits somewhere between fast-decaying news and the infinite replayability of Netflix’s usual shows, will be a hit. “Chelsea” will have new shows every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and analyst Richard Greenfield notes that it could prove to be a way for Netflix to introduce a recurring (and low-cost) relationship with subscribers — to keep them from canceling. Gaining and keeping subscribers is, after all, Netflix's main business.
Sarandos says the tone of “Chelsea” will not be as vulgar as Handler’s E! show, but not as serious as “Chelsea Does.” The show will have a travel component and interviews with "respected public figures," according to Handler. But a big question will be if Handler’s irreverent personality will translate to Netflix’s international audiences.
Netflix, for its part, doesn’t want her to change. “I wouldn’t want to give up anything about Chelsea’s voice to be global,” Sarandos told Wired.
In a cheeky note (addressed to herself) that Handler posted on Instagram, she gave herself the following advice:
So, remember to keep a deeper, more culturally sensitive perspective, especially toward the Germans. They're still touchy about everything they did.
Additional reporting by Jethro Nededog.
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Apple is reportedly considering killing off iTunes music downloads entirely, with two different possible timetables: one that would end song sales within two years, and another less aggressive strategy that would see Apple ride out iTunes sales for the next three to four years.
It's not a question of if but when Apple will phase out its online music store in favor of Apple Music, the company's year-old streaming-music service, Paul Resnikoff for Digital Music News reports, citing sources with active business relationships with Apple.
Apple subsequently told Recode that the Digital Music News report was "not true," but would not eleaborate.
Still, with the music download business in decline, many industry insiders are wondering how Apple will deal with the shift.
One possibility is that Apple would phase out iTunes sales in streaming-friendly countries like the US and UK first before phasing the online store out in "tier 2 and tier 3" countries later.
But some within Apple are determined not to let Apple Music undermine its profitable download store, Bloomberg reported earlier this month. The iTunes store reportedly generates nearly as much as three times the revenue as Apple Music.
It seems as if there's an internal conflict brewing in Apple's music division, and all signs point to veteran record executive and Beats cofounder Jimmy Iovine, a rising power within Apple whose title is simply "Jimmy." iTunes and other online services are overseen by Eddy Cue, a senior vice president.
According to Bloomberg, Iovine and other executives from Beats have pushed for Apple to "deemphasize iTunes and plow money into the on-demand streaming service that Beats built."
And when Apple goes to music labels asking to renegotiate its deals, it sounds likely Iovine will lead that effort. Resnikoff writes:
On that front, top Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine, a longtime fixture [at] Universal Music Group before migrating to Apple Music, could play a key diplomatic role in the termination and transition.
Apple is expected to unveil a big update to Apple Music at its annual developers conference in June.
The whole report is worth a read at Digital Music News.
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As the film has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, the trailer for Woody Allen's latest movie "Cafe Society," his first in a production deal with Amazon, is now online.
As usual, the legendary writer/director has cast the film with a who's who of Hollywood stars, including Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Blake Lively, to name a few.
The movie is set in 1930s Hollywood, where Brooklyn native Bobby Dorfman (Eisenberg) is thrust into high society and finds love and many interesting characters.
It should be noted that, amid press for Allen and the film, his son Ronan Farrow has called out the media for not raising the sexual assault allegations against Allen enough.
Watch the trailer below. The movie opens in the summer.
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Johnny Depp has not been shy in talking about Donald Trump's run for the presidency.
At the red-carpet premiere of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" in London, he told the Daily Mail what he thinks would happen if Trump took the White House.
"If Donald Trump is elected president of the United States in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States," Depp said. "It just won't work after that."
Earlier this year, he played Trump in a 50-minute "movie of the week" spoof for Funny or Die, riffing on the businessman's book, "The Art of the Deal."
It's safe to say that Depp isn't a Trump supporter.
Watch Depp discuss Trump in the video below:
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Though the Cannes Film Festival is known for being the most glamorous festival in the world, it’s also known for its shocking moments, especially in the relatively polite world of cinema.
The latest was at its opening ceremony on Wednesday when Laurent Lafitte, a French comedian and the master of ceremonies of the festival, joked about Woody Allen’s rape allegations.
Lafitte addressed Allen, whose latest film “Cafe Society” kicked off the festival, and said to his face, "You've shot so many of your films here in Europe and yet in the U.S. you haven't even been convicted of rape."
A staffer at The Hollywood Reporter captured the remark in a picture he tweeted:
Shocking opening joke: Woody Allen thanked for shooting films in Europe, but in US he's not been convicted of rape. pic.twitter.com/qujgnRMrKO
— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) May 11, 2016The comment is likely also a reference to another Cannes regular, director Roman Polanski, who lives in Europe and hasn’t been back to the US since the 1970s, when he was convicted of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old.
Earlier in the day on Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter ran an opinion piece by Ronan Farrow, son of Allen and Mia Farrow, calling out the media for not asking Allen for years about the allegations by his sister, Dylan Farrow, that Allen sexually assaulted her when she was seven years old.
At the press conference the same day for Woody Allen's new film that he attended, no reporters brought up the sex abuse allegations.
Lafitte’s remarks drew gasps from the audience, according to THR.
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If you are between 18 and 28, famous billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper has a plan to turn you into the "next Steve Jobs."
That's why he launched a school for young, would-be entrepreneurs called Draper University of Heroes, he tells Business Insider, which he turned into a reality TV show last year.
The show, "Startup U," failed to attract an audience, was dropped from prime time, and there's no word yet if ABC will renew it or not.
But even if students won't appear on TV, Draper has a new plan for the school. He just added a new nine-month program to the curriculum, starting in the fall, which he views as an alternative to a master's degree.
This is in addition to the school's classic two months of "hero training" offered since it launched three years ago.
There's a reason he calls it hero training. Before you can become the next Steve Jobs, you have to learn to be tough. Navy SEAL tough.
Hero training includes "four days of survival training with military teams. We have Navy SEAL special forces and Army Rangers that take them to real survival training," Draper says.
Once students have spent those days foraging for food and shelter in the wilderness, the next step is city survival training, challenges that sound like what Donald Trump gave to contestants on his reality show, "The Apprentice."
"There's another couple of days in the two months of hero training that's Urban Survival training," Draper says. Students have to go out and "sell something embarrassing, or go to San Francisco and come back with a job offer, on paper, in 24 hours."
That job offer gives them the confidence that they can always quickly get a position, he says.
As Draper says, "How to create a Steve Jobs? It's a way of thinking." The school admits people "that have that spark and we create an environment that ignites that spark."
Once the students have learned how to survive, they are ready to learn about the tech industry — Draper U-style. The nine-month program will include learning about the newest, buzziest technologies.
Although every class has a different curriculum, Draper says, students might explore Bitcoin — which Draper loves — learn design, and use the newest programming languages to build an app, or maybe a robot.
They'll also draft a business plan, turn that plan into a pitch deck, and turn the pitch deck into a two-minute presentation and pitch it to "between 30 and 50 VCs," including himself, he says.
He's dedicated a $1 million fund to invest seed money in startup ideas from the class, too, he says.
But it's not a scholarship program. The two-month hero training costs $12,000. The full nine-month program costs $40,000, Draper tells us.
Draper calls it an alternative to traditional school. That's important: This is not an accredited school. Students who finish the program do not earn an accredited degree.
Just to compare, many accredited universities charge about $40,000 to earn a bona fide master's degree.
Draper U has been controversial in its three years. While some students have posted glowing reviews of it on Yelp, some have given it bad reviews.
Draper says, "We definitely get mixed reviews. Our training is not for everybody."
And The Verge's Russell Brandom once called the school a BA in BS.
But Draper points to the alumni success stories as proof of the school's value. Draper U has had over 500 alumni from 53 countries who have created 200 startups and landed a total of $22 million in funding, he says.
He points to businesses like biomedical startup nVision and conference-tech firm Loopd as examples of alumni startups that got funding.
Not that Draper is worried about controversy.
He has come up with a plan to turn California into six states, offered to make a large charitable donation if people watched his reality TV show, and bought a huge stash of Bitcoin auctioned by the government after seizing black-market site Silk Road and is fond of making large public bets.
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After he played the lead in the beloved 2007 comedy "Knocked Up" and cowrote the equally popular "Superbad" with his childhood friend, Evan Goldberg, in the same year, Seth Rogen was suddenly one of Hollywood's newest young stars.
And like any comic-book-obsessed 20-something, he did the next logical thing: attach himself to a character that he could turn into a franchise.
"The Green Hornet" opened in 2011 with Rogen in the lead, visionary director Michel Gondry behind the camera, and Rogen cowriting the script with Goldberg.
Sounds like a franchise in the making.
Sadly, that didn't happen. With lousy reviews and a lifetime gross of only $228 million worldwide — on a $120 million budget — the movie killed any hopes of Rogen being the next big superhero star.
And it was the best thing to happen to him.
"I don't think it's a coincidence that after 'The Green Hornet' is when we started producing, writing, and directing way more movies that, to some degree, have a larger rate of success," Rogen told Business Insider in an interview alongside Goldberg.
"'The Green Hornet' was just the greatest education possible," Goldberg said.
After "Green Hornet" went belly-up, the two formed the production company Point Grey Pictures, named after the school they attended as kids in Vancouver, and began making comedies within the $10 million to $40 million budget range, which gave them little worry of studio interference.
Rogen said:
We just never want to be their biggest problem. When we were making "The Green Hornet," we were the studio's biggest problem, and so all they could do was focus on us. And as they were focusing on us, we realized a lot of other people were probably getting away with a lot of really cool stuff because they were focusing on us.
Since 2011, the duo has written and produced some of the funniest and most profitable comedies put out by the major studios, including "This Is the End" — which Rogen and Goldberg also directed — "The Interview," and "Neighbors," which took in a worldwide gross of $270.6 million on a budget of only $18 million.
Rogen and Goldberg say that they're happy to take notes from the studios, but now they can also get away with not taking the notes, and that's a relief.
"Be[ing] the thing that they aren't paying attention to while they are focusing on their biggest problem," Rogen said is the biggest lesson they've learned.
He continued:
And then be the thing that turns out really well and can maybe be their most profitable movie, which we've been several years for several studios. I'm sure it was the last thing they expected, but it's always a possibility, which is one of the reasons people make our movies.
The two hope that winning streak continues for their next movie, "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," when it opens in theaters on May 20.
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Fox has finally unveiled the first trailer for its adaptation of popular video game "Assassin's Creed" starring Michael Fassbender.
The world premiere for the trailer debuted on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" teasing the game's iconic Leap of Faith in which a character can dive off of a high building and land unharmed into an area that will break their fall.
Though based on the game, the film is supposed to be an original story expanding the series. Fassbender will be playing two original characters created for the movie outside of the game called Callum Lynch/Aguilar. That seems a little risky instead of adapting one of the characters game lovers are already familiar with. Also starring are Marion Cotillard ("The Dark Knight Rises"), Jeremy Irons, and Brendan Gleeson.
"Assassin's Creed" will be in theaters December 21.
Check out the trailer below:
The trailer is set to Kanye West's "I am a God." Many people aren't fans of the decision.
Using that Kanye song in the #AssassinsCreed trailer was an awful decision. Doesn't fit the movie at all. Cool trailer otherwise, though.
— Remy (@TheLegendOfRemy) May 12, 2016
I wish they didn't use that Kanye song. Movie still looks cool.#AssassinsCreedhttps://t.co/MtUKWs2nigpic.twitter.com/xu966Q0S9N
— BATMAN (@Batmancanseeyou) May 12, 2016
Just saw the new Assassins Creed trailer. I was hooked until the started playing Kanye West music...
Seriously,
What a way to kill hype.
— N E O (@NeoGameSpark) May 12, 2016#AssassinsCreed looks so damn amazing that I grow more and more annoyed with the Kanye taking me out of it every rewatch.
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Hulu's main value, since the start of the company, has been getting you "next-day" episodes of blockbuster TV shows.
But lately Hulu has also made a significant investment in original shows. The company has brought high-profile dramas like Aaron Paul's "The Path" into its catalog this year to balance out its selection of well-received comedies. And late last year, Hulu scored its first Golden Globe nomination for "Casual," an edgy family comedy.
Even so, Hulu's shows haven't garnered the hype of Netflix's hits, and you might not know which ones are worth your time. To get a sense of how Hulu's shows stacked up against each other, we turned to reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which pulls in critic (and audience) reviews from all over the world. We excluded Hulu originals that had less than four critic reviews.
We found that while Hulu's new dramas outperformed some of its more wacky fare, comedies still dominated.
Here are Hulu's 9 original shows, ordered from worst to best:
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Critics score: 63
Audience score: 50
Hulu description: THE AWESOMES is an animated show for adults that combines the thrills of comic book storytelling with the hallmark irreverent and inspired comedy of co-creators Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker (Late Night with Seth Meyers). Showcasing the voice talents of current and past SNL stars, THE AWESOMES introduces a group of not-so-super heroes who just might find a way to save the world.
Critics score: 75
Audience score: 74
Hulu description: Kevin Pacalioglu (series star Tyler Labine) may have no money and no clue, but he can see dead people, so that’s pretty cool. Faced with a constant stream of stubborn spirits, Pac goes to whatever lengths require the least amount of effort to help New York City’s most frivolous ghosts finish their unfinished business.
Critics score: 78
Audience score: 100
Hulu description: A parody of one of the most popular franchises in reality television, “The Hotwives of Orlando,” takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six hot housewives livin’ large in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando. The show follows a cast of ladies as they fight over pretty much everything except for their love of shoes, plastic surgery, and the pursuit of spending all of their husbands’ money.
Stephen Colbert recognized that Donald Trump's talent for creating nicknames for his opponents has actually been pretty helpful to his campaign, so he invited a real-life schoolyard bully to explain the strategy.
"These nicknames have destroyed all of Trump's opponents," the host said on Wednesday's "The Late Show."
He points out the following examples: "'Low Energy Jeb,' gone. 'Little Marco,' vaya con dios. 'Lyin' Ted,' see you, wouldn't want to be you. Seriously, would not want to be you."
In order to learn the strategy behind the "effective" nicknames, Colbert had on Trump's "chief nickname strategist" — in reality, a young schoolyard bully named Timmy Jenkins. What are Jenkins' qualifications?
"I've had over five years of playground experience making nerds cry, and that's really fun," the boy explained. "Also, I once made Andy Sansun change schools."
As to why Trump's nicknames work so well, Jenkins said they're definitely not random. In fact, they're a product of extensive focus group testing.
"We don't pull this out of our hat," he said. "You know, our first choice wasn't 'Little Marco.' First, we started with 'Sweaty Marco,' and then we went to 'Diarrubio.' It's true, then we tried 'Marco Boobio.' And off the charts for a little bit, we actually called in 'Marco Pubio.'"
He also said the campaign had several nicknames prepared for others, such as “Jeb Tush,” “Ted Poos," and “A-- Kisstie.” The last one was for New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who actually endorsed Trump. Asked whether Christie knew of his nickname, Jenkins answered, "He does now."
But Colbert was asking for it when he wondered if these "juvenile" nicknames are good for our democracy.
"That’s an interesting question, Stephen Col-butt," Jenkins said. "I can smell you from over here, the host of 'The Lame Show with Steaming Colfart.'"
Things just got out of control from there when Jenkins grabbed Colbert's hand and made him hit himself in the face.
"I hate politics," Colbert yelled.
Watch the whole sketch below:
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On Wednesday, Woody Allen’s son, Ronan Farrow, published a forceful opinion piece in The Hollywood Reporter in which he called out the media for its “silence” about allegations his sister Dylan Farrow made two years ago that Allen sexually assaulted her when she was seven years old.
That was not the case on Thursday when reporters at the Cannes Film Festival were invited to a press luncheon for Allen’s new film “Cafe Society,” which kicked off the festival Wednesday night.
Vulture reports that journalists at a table brought up the Farrow story to Allen, who said he has not read the new Ronan Farrow article.
"I never read anything about me," the 80-year-old filmmaker said. "Any of these interviews I do, anything. I said everything I had to say about that whole issue in the New York Times, I don’t know if you read it, some time ago. I have moved so far past that. You know, I never think about it. I work, and that’s the end of it for me. I said I was never gonna comment on it again because I could just go on endlessly."
Allen wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in 2014, reacting to Dylan Farrow’s molestation allegations. Dylan is the adopted child of Allen and Mia Farrow, who had a relationship for over a decade.
Allen said then:
"Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn’t give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer."
Allen also accused Mia Farrow of coaching their daughter:
"Mia insisted that I had abused Dylan and took her immediately to a doctor to be examined. Dylan told the doctor she had not been molested. Mia then took Dylan out for ice cream, and when she came back with her the child had changed her story."
According to Ronan Farrow’s opinion piece, the reason why the molestation case against Allen didn’t go to court was “the fragility of the child victim.”
"I never read what you say about me, or the reviews of my films,” Allen told journalists at the Cannes luncheon. “I made the decision 35 years ago to never read a review of my movies, never read an interview, never read anything. Because you could easily become obsessed with yourself.”
A reporter pressed Allen by saying, “But this isn’t a critic, it’s your son.”
Allen shrugged, "I’ve said all I have to say about it."
The director was apparently also unfazed by a joke made at his expense by a comedian during the Cannes ceremonies. The MC said, with Allen in the room, "You've shot so many of your films here in Europe and yet in the U.S. you haven't even been convicted of rape."
Allen told the journalists he was not offended by the slight referring to allegations of rape.
"I'm completely in favor of comedians making any jokes they want," Allen said. "I am a nonjudgmental, non-censorship person on jokes. I'm a comic myself, and I feel they should be free to make whatever jokes they want."
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Yes, there isn't a moment to breathe between the ending of the spring television season and the beginning of the summer one. Welcome to year-round programming!
Summer used to be a time when fans could catch up on shows they missed via reruns, but we have streaming-TV services for that.
It also used to be a time when networks aired shows that wouldn't have a chance during the proper fall/spring schedules, but now summer shows like USA's "Mr. Robot" are getting Emmys.
From the premiere of "BrainDead" to the return of "Wayward Pines," these are the coolest picks for those hot months.
Here are the 22 new and returning summer shows we're most excited about:
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Netflix has said that these 30-minute episodes will mirror the documentary series Chelsea Handler did last year. We loved those documentaries and Handler always surprises us with her hilarious, pointed takes on the world.
From executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin, "Preacher" sounds like a hell of a good time. It's creating word of mouth with positive early reviews. Going from serious to campy at any moment, the show follows a deeply troubled preacher who finds himself taken over by something really powerful and ends up surrounded by some truly heavenly, hellish, and everywhere-in-between characters.
M. Night Shyamalan has burned us enough with his movies, so we prepared ourselves for ultimate annoyance with "Wayward Pines" during its first season. To our surprise, the series was a fun ride through a social experiment that didn't make you feel ridiculous for watching. We're absolutely looking forward to its continuation, this time with Jason Patric in the lead role.
Trevor Noah thinks that Americans threatening to move to Canada or other international countries if Donald Trump gets elected president should know that those countries have their own Trumps.
"The notion of escaping a Trump-pocalypse by leaving America is dumb," "The Daily Show" host said on Wednesday's show. "Many of the forces that gave rise to Donald Trump are being felt all over the world: Immigration pressures, terrorism, a struggling middle class. These are all the ingredients necessary for a Trump outbreak."
Noah began by pointing out Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who has endorsed Trump. Wilders is known for being very anti-Muslim, having compared Islam to Nazism. He is also vehemently opposed to Turkey being included in the European Union, having once delivered a stern televised statement to the country saying "You are no Europeans, and you will never be... So, Turkey, stay away from us. You are not welcome here."
"Geert doesn't just look like Trump and talk like Trump, he even tweets like Donald Trump," Noah said, showing an actual tweet from the Dutch leader stating, "Make the Netherlands great again!"
"At what point are we going to acknowledge that 'great' actually means racist?" Noah then asked. "It's like coded language."
Noah also warned that we shouldn't underestimate the Dutch.
"After all, they were big time colonizers, and they invented Apartheid, and clogs," he explained. "Yeah, I should've probably ended on Apartheid. Actually, you know, Apartheid is over, but clogs still live on."
Noah then turned his attention to the newly elected president of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, who had earned the moniker, "The Donald Trump of Philippines." Like Trump, he's seen as the alternative to traditional politicians. He's known for saying outrageous things, such as the time he offered himself up to the brides at a mass wedding, or when he discussed his two girlfriends and his waning sexual appetite in his old age.
"I never thought I'd say this, but thank you, Donald Trump, for only talking about your penis in the abstract," Noah said.
But those statements are really harmless when compared to Duterte's brutal law and order stance. He intends to bring back capital punishment and introduce public executions to the country. He also said he would protect police and soldiers who follow his "shoot to kill" orders.
In the end, Noah argued, "Although America has its own set of problems right now, don't forget a lot of those problems exist everywhere in the world. So, rather than try and flee, maybe you do need to 'make America great again.'"
Watch the segment below:
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The buzz around Sean Parker’s startup Screening Room, in which customers pay $50 to stream movies still available in theaters, has died down of late, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t going on behind closed doors.
In a piece in Deadline celebrating the “disruptive” career of filmmaker and Oscar winner Peter Jackson — one of the backers behind Screening Room along with fellow directors Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, and Martin Scorsese — the director unveiled for the first time details about the streaming startup's security and what its backers hope to achieve for a movie industry that Jackson believes is “dying slowly.”
“We want to inject health into it, to give the cinemas money they can use to improve the experience, and to give the studios money to get more films made,” Jackson told Deadline.
A big problem with the movie industry currently is that while it’s hitting box office records for grosses (thanks to the expensive cost to go to the movies), fewer people are going to theaters. Jackson points out that there was a 10 percent drop in attendance from 2014 to 2015.
“Screening Room is designed to sell movie tickets to people that want to buy them but can’t,” said Jackson.
The filmmaker said what sold him on Screening Room was a non-target audience survey the company did asking those who took it if they’d pay $50 to see a film at home:
83% of that non-target audience said no. That’s what we want, for those people to continue seeing movies in cinemas. We asked the same question to our target audience; the people stuck at home, the 25-39 year olds. And 70% said yes they would spend $50. This is what persuaded me.
The article did not indicate how many people were surveyed.
The business model of Screening Room is not to shut out movie chains. According to previous reports, the company has proposed giving theater chains a slice of the revenue, as much as $20 of the fee. Distributors who participate would take 20% of the $50 rental fee, and Screening Room would take 10% of the fee. The $50 rental (you also have to pay $150 for a set-top box) also gets you two tickets to see the movie in theaters.
Jackson told Deadline that this can help the movie industry’s theatergoing problem.
“If we can get Screening Room into 20 million households, and they rent 12 movies a year, then the exhibitors and the studios will get over $8.5 billion dollars a year,” he told Deadline.
Jackson also went into some of the security Screening Room is developing, which will help with the industry’s constant combat against piracy:
Screening Room is only going to be sold as a membership from a Screening Room website, and there will be thorough security checks done where you’ll provide all your information, including social networks. Screening Room is being sold to an individual person, not to anonymous people who walk into Walmart and walk out with a box.
The movies will also be watermarked so Screening Room will know not only if a member pirated a movie but which member did it.
However, Screening Room still has a long climb to gain support within the industry.
Filmmakers James Cameron and Christopher Nolan have spoken out against it, as well as Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara.
A company that is familiar with what Screening Room is trying to accomplish is Prima Cinema, which offers streaming of first-run movies to the super rich for $500 per rental.
When Business Insider asked its CEO Shawn Yeager about the chances of Screening Room being accepted by Hollywood, he said it doesn’t make sense for movie studios to go with the model.
"The movie business is smart enough to realize that you never want to trade analog dollars for digital pennies, which is what would happen under that scenario," he said.
Jackson told Deadline that conversations about Screening Room are ongoing with studio heads and others within the industry.
Read the full story over at Deadline.
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In a new "Saturday Night Live" promo, Drake reveals that "Hotline Bling" isn't just a song.
The rapper and actor will be the host and musical guest for this weekend's episode of the NBC sketch show. This will be his second time appearing in the dual role on "SNL." He first did it in January 2014.
The latest promo for the show pairs him with cast member and star of the upcoming "Ghostbusters" remake Leslie Jones. They're hanging out in a park and keep getting disrupted by ringing on Drake's phone.
Jones attributes the calls to Drake's fame and popularity, but he says it's more than just that.
"No, it's just I gave my number out in a song," he says, referring to his hit single from last year "Hotline Bling," which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"I got to get this one. It's long-distance," Drake says. "Hotline bling, Drake speaking. How can I help you?"
By this point, Jones is losing her mind: "Why don't I have this number?"
But here's the funny twist. He then tells the person on the phone, "I only do wax from five to seven, but we could do it now if you want."
"You do wax? Drake is going to wax me!" Jones says.
Watch the funny "SNL" promo below:
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"You're gonna make me do this?" Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director, said to Business Insider before watching the "Snowden" trailer for the first time.
After about 30 seconds, Hayden looked up from the iPad screen and said: "Could we be done?"
Oliver Stone's "Snowden" tells the story of NSA subcontractor Edward Snowden who infamously leaked classified information about the NSA's surveillance activities to journalists in 2013. To Hayden, the portrayal is an "alternative universe."
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It was supposed to be a fun comedy about the assassination of Kim Jong Un. It turned out to be a movie that sparked an international incident — at least, we think.
It was June 2014 when news broke that the North Korean government was aware of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s comedy “The Interview,” in which Rogen and James Franco play journalists who are granted an interview with Kim Jong Un and have been tasked by the CIA to kill him.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry stated that the US would face “stern” and “merciless” retaliation if the film were released. Hoping to calm the waters, the studio behind the film, Sony, pushed the release date from October to Christmas of that year for digital tweaks of the movie in the hopes of not offending North Korean officials, even altering the death scene of Kim Jong Un.
On November 24, a group known as the “Guardians of Peace” hacked the company networks of Sony Pictures, releasing internal emails, employee records, and recent Sony movies onto the internet. Then on December 16, the hackers threatened to attack any theater that showed the movie, leading Sony to pull the title from theaters. (Only a handful of independent chains showed it.) The movie was made available online instead.
North Korea has never claimed responsibility for the hack, and it’s something that Rogen and Goldberg, who cowrote and directed the film, still wonder about.
“Every now and then we look at each other and one of us will say, ‘Remember that?’” Goldberg told Business Insider in a recent interview alongside Rogen.
“And we still work with a lot of the same people,” Rogen added. “We're making a movie with Amy Pascal [the former head of Sony, who stepped down after the hack]. We're in the same places a lot. We're dealing with the same marketing people. It's impossible not to bring it up. And we still debate whether or not it was North Korea.”
When asked if they got a lot of dirty looks around the Sony lot at the time of the Sony hack, Rogen laughed.
“Oh yeah, lots of people,” he said. “That ended eventually. But every once in a while people are still surprised to see us there.”
The hack hurt the film substantially at the box office, as it only took in $11 million worldwide, though it was the top-selling film of 2014 on YouTube and Google Play.
Rogen said that “time heals all wounds” and that he and Goldberg have a good relationship with Sony now. The studio will be releasing their upcoming movie, the R-rated comedy “Sausage Party” — out in theaters August 12.
One thing the hack didn't affect, they say, is how they approach comedy writing. Well, with the exception of one topic.
“I would probably maybe not make a thing about North Korea again,” Rogen said. “We played that card, and all I can say is, touché.”
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