Director says YouTube is his secret weapon for box office success
As the credits for his film Taking It Back rolled at the Austin Film Festival, filmmaker Andreas Schmied rose from his seat beaming from ear to ear. The road from writing and directing his first...
View ArticleHere's what's new on Netflix in November
The chilly weather of late fall and the beginning of winter is upon us. Knowing that more and more people will be staying indoors with their TV sets, Netflix is offering brand new options all over the...
View ArticleChelsea Peretti shares the secret to eating bananas in Netflix standup trailer
Back in August, Netflixannounced its new schedule of original standup specials, including Chelsea Handler’s Uganda Be Kidding Me, Bill Burr’s I’m Sorry You Feel That Way, and Chelsea Peretti’s One of...
View ArticleParanoid Drake tries to one-up 'hackers' by releasing 3 new songs
Everyone is paranoid about hackers right now. Even Drake. Over the weekend, the rapper took a firm stance against hacking and preemptively released three previously unreleased songs on his SoundCloud...
View ArticleAnimal Planet is running a zombie livestream for Halloween
Usually Animal Planet delivers adorable animals on live cam for us to watch during the day. This week, in honor of Halloween, they have trapped a zombie.The zombie, which they jokingly describe as a...
View ArticleHonest Trailers eviscerates the 'Saw' franchise
The Saw“torture porn” franchise seems like it’s been around for at least five centuries at this point. Mercifully, there hasn’t been a new movie in four years, but the Honest Trailers franchise is...
View ArticleMichael Jordan is now the Michael Jordan of Twitter
Michael Jordan is still fairly new to the whole social media thing, but the Charlotte Hornets owner took over the team’s officialTwitter account Tuesday to connect with fans and share some selfies. He...
View ArticleGwar renders Pet Shop Boys' 'West End Girls' unrecognizable
Infamous metal band Gwar’s longtime singer Dave Brockie, a.k.a. Oderus Urungus, passed away in March, and for a while the band’s future was uncertain. Last month, the band anointed a new singer, the...
View ArticleCurtis Lepore to 'part ways' from Rainn Wilson’s Vine-related TV show
BY SAM GUTELLE On Oct. 21, Rainn Wilson announced Hollywood and Vine, a TV comedy starring five popular Vine personalities. Immediately after he unveiled the project, Wilson received backlash for his...
View ArticleYouTuber gives 'All About That Bass' an even more body-positive message
Meghan Trainor’s hit “All About That Bass” rocketed up the chart in the past few months under the guise of a body-positive message, but one YouTube performer took issue with that claim and created her...
View ArticleDiego Maradona's ex-fiancée films alleged domestic abuse
A video has surfaced that allegedly shows Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradonahitting his former fiancée Rocío Oliva. The video, which Oliva secretly recorded on her cell phone, was first...
View ArticleR.L. Stine haunts Twitter with 14-tweet short story
Master of (young adult) horror R.L. Stine spent Tuesday evening tweeting out an original, short story. It’s about a sandwich, required 14 tweets to flesh out, and is generally delightful. The gimmick...
View ArticleHere's a sneak peek inside YouTube's new spot in New York
Start spreading the news: YouTube’s newest global space wants to be a part of New York City, with a fresh and innovative new studio opening next month in Chelsea.YouTube Spaces serve as locations for...
View ArticleEclectic Method remixes the Ghostbusters films
It's no secret that Ghostbusters is the epitome of awesome. Thanks to a new remix, it’s getting even more awesome. Eclectic Method, a YouTube channel that remixes popular movies (including A Christmas...
View ArticleAeropostale's Nash Grier partnership is going over about as well as you'd expect
Aeropostale apparently doesn’t read Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube or any other teen-dominated social network, because it just decided to partner with Nash Grier, a Vine star who’s faced severe backlash for...
View ArticleThis spoof imagines millennial habits as Halloween horrors
Every year around Halloween, we pause to reflect upon those elements of life that scare us: terrifying ghosts, unstoppable monsters, receiving the wrong costume from Amazon two days before your party....
View ArticleDaniel Radcliffe is a surprisingly good rapper
We’re already learning a lot about Daniel Radcliffe this week, but the man who played the boy wizard has even more talents up his sleeve to show off.He divulged in an interview last night that he used...
View ArticleVimeo inks distribution pact with Cinedigm, beginning with ‘My Little Pony’...
BY SAHIL PATELVimeo and Cinedigm have agreed to an ongoing distribution partnership, under which the film and TV distributor will sell some of its titles on Vimeo On Demand. The pact begins with the...
View ArticleThe Cancellation Bear mercilessly tracks failing shows
It’s TV cancellation season, and there’s one Twitter account you need to follow if you want to stay up to date: @TheCancelBear. The Cancellation Bear is aimed at two groups of people: those who view...
View ArticleThis charming webseries is about love, loyalty, and John Stamos
Is the idea of John Stamos inherently funny? The makers of webseries Stuck On A hope so. The success of their show hangs on it.Stuck On A was brought to my attention by way of a tweet from Uncle Jesse...
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