Directing and releasing five films across the last four years, with the three of them premiering at Cannes, and another at Venice, you might understand why Xavier Dolan might not have time to return phone calls. And give the limited stateside distribution of his films, it might also be easy to forget that in addition to writing and directing, Dolan is also a pretty good actor, having appeared in three of his features (“I Killed My Mother,” “Heartbeats” and “Tom At The Farm”). He’s a charismatic and playful screen presence... Читать дальше...
At some point earlier this week Screen Gems, the low-budget genre arm of Sony Pictures, sent out an email saying that press screenings for their upcoming home invasion thriller "No Good Deed" had been shuttered because the twist ending was so seismic that they didn't want members of the press seeing it early and then spilling the beans. (There had been a handful of screenings in anticipation of junket interviews; presumably these same journalists were not reviewing.) According to this official statement... Читать дальше...
At last week's GameStop Expo, the video game retailer's annual consumer-centric event, more than 3,000 people had the chance to test highly anticipated titles like Evolve, ''Dying Light and Battlefield Hardline in the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center. The publishers behind the monster-fighter "Evolve," zombie survival adventure "Dying Light" and cops-and-robbers romp "Battlefield Hardline" each postponed their release dates this year so developers have more time to work on the titles. "Oh... Читать дальше...
Beyoncé recently posted a video on Facebook and YouTube that took her fans behind the scenes to see the preparations for her live performance last month at the MTV Video Music Awards. YouTube still hugeYouTube is still the big gorilla of online video, especially as an archive for work with lasting appeal and as a place where creators can make money from ads sold around their material. [...] Facebook's ability to use social connections to make content popular quickly, along with changes the social... Читать дальше...
Amid the jibber jabber of drones, driverless cars and smart watches that pervades the Bay Area these days, it would be tempting for a well-worn technology firm to shake things up in the name of innovation and relevance. Eventbrite derives all its revenue from the relative mundane business of selling tickets online to events that previously sold paper tickets. Demand for live eventsAs the economy recovers from the recession, online ticket sales have been growing at a healthy annualized rate of 4 percent... Читать дальше...