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Psy changes next single from "Assarabia", worries it might offend Arabs
Psy Will Alter Next Single Over Concerns It Might Offend Arabs
Song title 'Assarabia' is a slang term open to misinterpretation
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Psy will change the lyrics of the potential follow-up to "Gangnam Style" out of concern they might offend Arabs. The song was to be called "Assarabia," or "Assaravia" in English, The Associated Press reports.
The word is a South Korean slang term used to to express thrills and has no racial or bodily connotations, yet worries that same listeners might misinterpret the title and take offense are prompting Psy to change it.
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Tops One Billion YouTube Views
Psy announced he would be changing the title, as well as some of the lyrics, on a South Korean social media site yesterday.
After a massive break-out 2012 that saw "Gangnam Style" become the most watched video in YouTube's history (it currently has about 1.44 billion views), Psy said he was ready to move on to his next single after performing the smash on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
"I'm really working hard on a new single right now, and I'm not saying ['Gangnam'] is ending on Dick Clark — I still have a lot of invitations to perform it . . . I'll be in Paris, and in February I got invited to perform in China, and I've still got to do promo," Psy said at the time. "So let me say that in America I need a new single because 'Gangnam Style' got too popular, so I've got to write a new single."
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Song title 'Assarabia' is a slang term open to misinterpretation
Psy will change the lyrics of the potential follow-up to "Gangnam Style" out of concern they might offend Arabs. The song was to be called "Assarabia," or "Assaravia" in English, The Associated Press reports.
The word is a South Korean slang term used to to express thrills and has no racial or bodily connotations, yet worries that same listeners might misinterpret the title and take offense are prompting Psy to change it.
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Tops One Billion YouTube Views
Psy announced he would be changing the title, as well as some of the lyrics, on a South Korean social media site yesterday.
After a massive break-out 2012 that saw "Gangnam Style" become the most watched video in YouTube's history (it currently has about 1.44 billion views), Psy said he was ready to move on to his next single after performing the smash on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
"I'm really working hard on a new single right now, and I'm not saying ['Gangnam'] is ending on Dick Clark — I still have a lot of invitations to perform it . . . I'll be in Paris, and in February I got invited to perform in China, and I've still got to do promo," Psy said at the time. "So let me say that in America I need a new single because 'Gangnam Style' got too popular, so I've got to write a new single."
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Nikolaj Coster Waldau on Season 3 and getting dirrrty on set~ & webcast party post!
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Viewed from a distance, the scene is picturesque and romantic.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, playing the complicated Game of Thrones villain (xcuse u) Jaime Lannister, sits atop a lush Northern Ireland mountain top overlooking a green valley that sweeps down to the sea. It looks like a vacation postcard. Who wouldn’t want to be there? Except when you’re actually next to him, on the ground, your opinion of the scene is quite different. It’s very cold. It’s pouring rain. The wind is gusting and unceasing. You’re standing in mud — except, ugh, that isn’t mud. Even inside a cramped craft services tent, there’s no escaping the elements. And since he’s on camera shooting his scene over and over again, nobody is enduring more of Mother Nature’s hammering than Coster-Waldau. Yet when he gets a break to speak to a huddle of shivering reporters, he has a big grin. You’re suspicious of the grin. He’s an actor — is he faking this?
“I actually really like it,” he insists. “It’s really cold, that’s not nice. But it makes the work easier. You just react to the elements and they help you.”
And nobody has had more “help” on this show than Coster-Waldau. Last season Jaime Lannister spent nearly the entire shoot chained in a muddy cage as Robb Stark’s prisoner. Yet other actors on the show and the producers insist he always makes the best of tough environments.
“The hardest scenes to do are sitting around a table talking,” Coster-Waldau says. “Good acting is when you don’t think. I don’t want to see the mechanics of a performance. Sometimes you can see, ‘Oh, that’s what he’s doing.’”
Later, the production moves to a forest glade near Shane’s Castle. Ah, much nicer. No rain. Coster-Waldau sits beside a slow-drifting river, the sun reflecting off the water and throwing hypnotic shimmers onto his grey-flecked beard (this glorious fanfic rn) . This is a big season for Jaime Lannister, whose character is being escorted to King’s Landing by noble knight Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) who hopes to trade him for the Stark daughters. There’s very little we can tell you about his story at this time, and very little Coster-Waldau can say.
“Change,” is the cryptic one-word verb that Coster-Waldau emphasizes. “For Jaime, there’s a lot of change in every way you can imagine. He’s still driving Brienne crazy. He succeeds in driving her crazy to the point where he actually gets a shot at freedom. Then everything takes a turn.”
Coster-Waldau is called back to the set to dive into the scene. His character, shackled and parched, is tricked into drinking horse urine and vomits. He’s then knocked face down into the soupy mud by a gang of tormentors and kicked in the gut, over and over. Then he’s accidentally kicked for real — which happens during fight scenes on movies and TV shows sometimes, and Coster-Waldau is extremely nice about the whole thing. “Wow” says one of the crew members after watching Coster-Waldau give a particularly searing performance during one take.
Coster-Waldau asks the director: How many more times?
Oh, just a few…
game of thrones webcast livestream starting at 7:40PST
ugh so excited for his arc this season, I cannot wait. what are you looking forward to most this season?
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10 Awful Movie Couples Who Have No Chemistry
Even more so than a good script and firm direction, chemistry is the most important thing in a movie romance; without it, audiences will be left unconvinced that they should even care about the love story unfolding on screen, and it can result in some extremely awkward cinematic moments.
Plenty of sub-standard rom-coms have survived on the basis of their chemistry, and in many cases – see: The Adjustment Bureau – the sizzling frisson between the two stars has elevated an otherwise pretty flat film.
However, sometimes Hollywood, so unwaveringly confident in the box office bankability of its leads, forgets to screen-test them together or even begins to entertain the thought that, you know, they might not be all that well suited.
Whether it’s down to the casting department or the simple fact that these actors simply weren’t attracted to each other in real life, the result is the same – a stale, flaccid movie romance that flounders around on screen for all of us to mock.
Here are 10 awful movie couples who have no chemistry…
5. Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O’Donnell – Exit To Eden
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd are horrendously mis-cast in Exit to Eden, though given how terrible the film is on a conceptual level alone – two detectives investigating a diamond heist end up at an S&M resort – it’s a surprise the film wasn’t even worse. Apparently director Garry Marshall hoped that we’d be so entranced by the full frontal female nudity that we’d forget about all of the film’s short-comings – oh, how wrong he was.
If seeing O’Donnell strutting around in S&M gear isn’t enough to turn just about anyone’s stomach, the complete lack of sex appeal that the premise begets when occupied by these two actors makes the result a sterile curio and little more. They simply don’t have a spark, and their lack of appeal as a couple to audiences doesn’t help things either.
4. Matthew McConaughey & Kate Hudson – Fool’s Gold
I have to admit, I was really surprised that this pairing didn’t work; Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson seem like a great personality match – they both seem chilled out and down-to-Earth – and, of course, are both extremely good-looking.
Somehow, it doesn’t translate into romantic chemistry on screen, however; though the script is anything but good, it at least puts the pair in enough argumentative situations and tight spots that their innate chemistry should shine through. Alas, despite making for a great movie poster, the two being paired together results in an oddly sexless film.
Furthermore, given that the majority of the film’s production saw the pair frolicking in the sun and being paid for it, you’d think their sheer joy at that predicament would translate to something that feels real. Instead, they both seem like they have other people on their minds.
3. Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts – I Love Trouble
Granted, Nick Nolte didn’t look quite as haggard in 1994 as he does now, but that doesn’t mean his pairing with Julia Roberts for this old-school screwball comedy is in any way convincing. The story follows veteran reporter Peter Brackett (Nolte) and newbie Sabrina Peterson (Roberts) as they both compete to score the same big scoop, and soon undercover a bigger conspiracy that, you guessed it, brings them closer together.
Harkening back to classic romantic comedies from the early-to-mid 20th century is fine, but it’s hard to imagine matching up two greater, more polar opposites than Nolte and Roberts; not only does the age difference make this one hard to believe, but their total lack of chemistry seals the deal. Neither actor really seems to care, instead content that their natural charisma and previous successes will see them through. Try and find a review that doesn’t decry their lack of chemistry – I dare you.
2. Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie – The Tourist
Here’s one that just doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever; you take two of the most physically attractive actors on the planet, put them in one of the most beautiful locations in the world (Vienna), and what’s more, you’ve got the director of an Oscar-winning foreign film at the helm – what can possibly go wrong?
Though the limp script doesn’t really help things, the truly startling thing about The Tourist is that it proves you can’t just throw together people you think will have explosive sexual chemistry on screen – you need to screen test them first!
Depp plays a grungy character much like himself, while Jolie is the epitome of class; like so many other films on this list, it fails to reconcile their differences and explain why they would fall for each other. Plus, the love scenes – probably the main appeal for many viewers – are among some of the most sterile and dull you could possibly imagine. It’s staggering proof of how a project with even the most potential can crash and burn without due care.
1. Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman – Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3
But still, they’ve got nothing on the number one spot – Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman as Anakin Skywalker and Padme in Episodes 2 & 3 of George Lucas’ “new trilogy” of Star Wars films.
Though Natalie Portman tries her hardest while working with Lucas’ woefully melodramatic script, she’s essentially powerless against both it and her dull-as-dishwater romantic interest; Christensen’s infamous performance was widely derided in both films, and this transpires through to how he interacts with Portman’s Padme.
Take the above scene from Episode 2; sure, Lucas’ dialogue about sand is dreadful and hardly lends itself to forging a romantic connection between the actors, but Christensen’s performance is so bland it could cure insomnia. For all of its visual splendour, these films lacked character as far as the relationships go; it’s especially important in these films given that the Anakin-Padme relationship is essentially what results in Anakin rising as Darth Vader. Just awful, awful, awful.
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Plenty of sub-standard rom-coms have survived on the basis of their chemistry, and in many cases – see: The Adjustment Bureau – the sizzling frisson between the two stars has elevated an otherwise pretty flat film.
However, sometimes Hollywood, so unwaveringly confident in the box office bankability of its leads, forgets to screen-test them together or even begins to entertain the thought that, you know, they might not be all that well suited.
Whether it’s down to the casting department or the simple fact that these actors simply weren’t attracted to each other in real life, the result is the same – a stale, flaccid movie romance that flounders around on screen for all of us to mock.
Here are 10 awful movie couples who have no chemistry…
5. Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O’Donnell – Exit To Eden
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd are horrendously mis-cast in Exit to Eden, though given how terrible the film is on a conceptual level alone – two detectives investigating a diamond heist end up at an S&M resort – it’s a surprise the film wasn’t even worse. Apparently director Garry Marshall hoped that we’d be so entranced by the full frontal female nudity that we’d forget about all of the film’s short-comings – oh, how wrong he was.
If seeing O’Donnell strutting around in S&M gear isn’t enough to turn just about anyone’s stomach, the complete lack of sex appeal that the premise begets when occupied by these two actors makes the result a sterile curio and little more. They simply don’t have a spark, and their lack of appeal as a couple to audiences doesn’t help things either.
4. Matthew McConaughey & Kate Hudson – Fool’s Gold
I have to admit, I was really surprised that this pairing didn’t work; Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson seem like a great personality match – they both seem chilled out and down-to-Earth – and, of course, are both extremely good-looking.
Somehow, it doesn’t translate into romantic chemistry on screen, however; though the script is anything but good, it at least puts the pair in enough argumentative situations and tight spots that their innate chemistry should shine through. Alas, despite making for a great movie poster, the two being paired together results in an oddly sexless film.
Furthermore, given that the majority of the film’s production saw the pair frolicking in the sun and being paid for it, you’d think their sheer joy at that predicament would translate to something that feels real. Instead, they both seem like they have other people on their minds.
3. Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts – I Love Trouble
Granted, Nick Nolte didn’t look quite as haggard in 1994 as he does now, but that doesn’t mean his pairing with Julia Roberts for this old-school screwball comedy is in any way convincing. The story follows veteran reporter Peter Brackett (Nolte) and newbie Sabrina Peterson (Roberts) as they both compete to score the same big scoop, and soon undercover a bigger conspiracy that, you guessed it, brings them closer together.
Harkening back to classic romantic comedies from the early-to-mid 20th century is fine, but it’s hard to imagine matching up two greater, more polar opposites than Nolte and Roberts; not only does the age difference make this one hard to believe, but their total lack of chemistry seals the deal. Neither actor really seems to care, instead content that their natural charisma and previous successes will see them through. Try and find a review that doesn’t decry their lack of chemistry – I dare you.
2. Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie – The Tourist
Here’s one that just doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever; you take two of the most physically attractive actors on the planet, put them in one of the most beautiful locations in the world (Vienna), and what’s more, you’ve got the director of an Oscar-winning foreign film at the helm – what can possibly go wrong?
Though the limp script doesn’t really help things, the truly startling thing about The Tourist is that it proves you can’t just throw together people you think will have explosive sexual chemistry on screen – you need to screen test them first!
Depp plays a grungy character much like himself, while Jolie is the epitome of class; like so many other films on this list, it fails to reconcile their differences and explain why they would fall for each other. Plus, the love scenes – probably the main appeal for many viewers – are among some of the most sterile and dull you could possibly imagine. It’s staggering proof of how a project with even the most potential can crash and burn without due care.
1. Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman – Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3
But still, they’ve got nothing on the number one spot – Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman as Anakin Skywalker and Padme in Episodes 2 & 3 of George Lucas’ “new trilogy” of Star Wars films.
Though Natalie Portman tries her hardest while working with Lucas’ woefully melodramatic script, she’s essentially powerless against both it and her dull-as-dishwater romantic interest; Christensen’s infamous performance was widely derided in both films, and this transpires through to how he interacts with Portman’s Padme.
Take the above scene from Episode 2; sure, Lucas’ dialogue about sand is dreadful and hardly lends itself to forging a romantic connection between the actors, but Christensen’s performance is so bland it could cure insomnia. For all of its visual splendour, these films lacked character as far as the relationships go; it’s especially important in these films given that the Anakin-Padme relationship is essentially what results in Anakin rising as Darth Vader. Just awful, awful, awful.
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In -yes, this is real- news: Splash - A celebrity diving reality show
This thing keeps popping on my fb feed and I assumed it was about a 'Splash' remake but it turns out, it's a new reality show premiering tonight that consists on celebrities jumping into a pool. Yes, you've read it right. Here's the promo for it, including the likes of Kendra from Girl's Next Door, Drake Bell and Chuy from Chelsea Lately.
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Some of the Game of Thrones cast perform their own version of the theme song!
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oh god they all did their best. Can you imagine the shitstorm if they actually DID do a musical?
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Tons of Steven Yeun videos
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Pretty Little Liars Season Finale Recap: Red Coat is ReveAled
Who came back from the dead? Which couple called it quits? And who is the girl in the red coat? Spoilers ahead!
To say the March 19 season finale of Pretty Little Liars was the most mind-blowing episode of the series to date would be a grAve understatement. After sorting through a few confusing revelations — one of the biggest being that Spencer (Troian Bellisario) was the person who kidnapped Malcolm last week — the girls decided they could finally trust Spencer again. So they joined pretty little forces to take down Mona (Janel Parrish) and unmask the girl in the red coat. And she turned out to be…
Alison (Sasha Pieterse)!
Yes, the long-dead friend of the liars turned out to be not-so-dead after all. Spencer, Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Mona all claim they saw her, shortly after the girls were trapped in a house fire. And considering Aria (Lucy Hale) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) were willing to believe them, I’m thinking it might have actually been her!
Aria & Ezra Break Up — Again!
I know it feels like Aria and Ezra (Ian Harding) reach their emotional breaking points every week — and, to be fair, maybe they really do — but this time, their breakup felt real. Ezra needed the substitute teaching position, and the only way he could do it was if he stopped seeing Aria for good.
“I love you just as much as I always have, and that’s why I want you to take this job,” she told him through tears.
“I love you,” he replied. More tears.
This might have been Ezria’s saddest weekly breakup yet! I wonder if their breakup on the fourth season premiere this June will be even sadder.
Toby Is Alive!
Remember when Spencer found that body in the woods and thought it was Toby (Keegan Allen)? Then the police found that same body in the woods, and the girls agreed it was Toby? Well, apparently they were all wrong, because Toby showed his pretty little face this week during a diner meet-up with Mona. Only it wasn’t Mona — it was Spencer!
The newly reunited — and totally alive — “Spoby” retreated to a nearby motel, where they did the only thing we really want “Spoby” to ever do: They humped like bunnies! And yes, they took their black hoodies off. Let’s not be crazy now.
Later, when the girls ambushed Mona, Toby helped Spencer escape the house before it was set on fire. But a chance meeting in the woods left him unconscious, and holding the lighter that started the fire! Something tells me there’ll be more juvenile hall — but hopefully less do-rags — in Toby’s future.
What’s In The Trunk?
I’m still not sure where Jenna (Tammin Sursok) has been all this time, but she returned to Rosewood this week — and she brought friends! Throughout the course of the episode, it was revealed that she has strong connections to Shana (Aeriel Miranda) and Melissa (Torrey DeVitto). To make things even more complicated, the girls all have ties to Detective Wilden (Bryce Johnson), as well!
At the end of the episode — after all the red-coat madness — the girls found Wilden’s car, recently pulled from the lake. Along with the footage of Hanna’s mom hitting Wilden with her car, there was also footage of Jenna and Shana retrieving his body from the scene of the crime!
And when the girls got yet another mysterious text from “A,” they popped the trunk to discover… well, we don’t know yet. That’s one revelation they’re saving for the fourth season premiere this June.
Such a crap finale, imo. I wish I could quit this show.
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GOT emmys panel
this is currently live
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Panelists
DAVID BENIOFF Creator/Executive Producer
D.B. WEISS Creator/Executive Producer
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Co-Executive Producer
PETER DINKLAGE Tyrion Lannister
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU Jaime Lannister
LENA HEADEY Cersei Lannister
KIT HARINGTON Jon Snow
MICHELLE FAIRLEY Catelyn Stark
SOPHIE TURNER Sansa Stark
MAISIE WILLIAMS Arya Stark
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ROB MCELLHENNEY Star and Creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
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Live Video app for Facebook by Ustream
Panelists
DAVID BENIOFF Creator/Executive Producer
D.B. WEISS Creator/Executive Producer
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Co-Executive Producer
PETER DINKLAGE Tyrion Lannister
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU Jaime Lannister
LENA HEADEY Cersei Lannister
KIT HARINGTON Jon Snow
MICHELLE FAIRLEY Catelyn Stark
SOPHIE TURNER Sansa Stark
MAISIE WILLIAMS Arya Stark
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ROB MCELLHENNEY Star and Creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
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Just felt like making ONTD writers angry tonight nbd
By Nina Mandell, TODAY contributor
When Beth Reeks began writing her hit novel, "The Kissing Booth," she wasn’t expecting to be a record-setting author before her third year of high school. She just wanted to read something that didn’t involve vampires, werewolves, or fallen angels.
“I just wanted a plain simple teenage romance,” Reeks — who goes by the pen name Beth Reekles — told TODAY.com.
The now 17-year-old apparently wasn’t the only one. After she posted her novel on the self-publishing site Wattpad, it received a site-breaking record 40 million hits and caught the notice of a Random House UK editor who sent her an email through the site.
“I was sitting in my living room with my laptop and I was going through my emails and I saw I had a message...it started off more formal than the usual, 'are you making a sequel to '"The Kissing Booth"' and 'oh my God I love your book,'" she recalled. When she looked more closely at the message, she took off running.
“I grabbed my laptop and ran to my parents, making kind of inhuman noises because I couldn’t talk,” she said.
In October of 2012, Reeks signed a three-book deal with the publishing house, beginning with "The Kissing Booth" which is now available in e-book form. It’s slated to come out in paperback later this year.
She’s also gathered a legion of loyal fans who ask her for advice about writing their own novels and eagerly await her latest work.
Meanwhile, Reekles has already cranked out more novels, including one that she recently posted on Wattpad —all while doing the normal things teenagers do: hanging out with her friends, boyfriend and of course, getting into college, where she wants to study physics.
“I’ve always really enjoyed physics and I find it really fascinating,” she said. “A lot lot of my friends don’t like it at all, but there’s something about it I really like. I like knowing how things work.”
As for her career as a writer, Reeks said she’s just trying to navigate her success and enjoy the ride. “I think it’s a bit difficult for all of us, it's not the kind of thing you can just Google easily and find out how it all works,” she said. “I think we’ve all been taking it in stride.”
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Rob Thomas Plans a 'Veronica Mars' Behind-the-Scenes Documentary, Comic-Con Visit
The series creator tells THR that he plans on expanding the film as the project makes more money, and defends his use of Kickstarter.
Rob Thomas was getting so much good news, his cell phone couldn't handle it.
Last Wednesday, when the veteran TV showrunner launched a campaign to finance a movie version of his cult-hit TV show Veronica Mars on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter, he had no concept of just how successful the effort would immediately become. Within hours, the movement had spread across the internet, exciting both fans of the Kristen Bell-led teenage detective series (which ran on UPN/CW from 2004-7) and generating think-pieces of all kinds.
"It made my phone unusable, because there would be literally four pledges a second," Thomas tells The Hollywood Reporter. "You couldn’t clear the notifications fast enough ... I had to use my computer to remove the Kickstarter app so it could function as a phone again."
Less than 12 hours into the drive, the project had reached its $2 million goal, and nearly a week later, it's still climbing, up to $3.6 million and counting, from over 56,000 donors. The cash will go toward producing a film from the Warner Bros.-owned property, which will shoot between mid-June and mid-July this summer. Thomas has been actively promoting and answering questions about the endeavor, and he doesn't plan on disappearing when the 30-day window of Kickstarter fundraising closes.
"We were built by fans, so we’ll try to do our best to keep the momentum going through that," he says, promising an open shoot with plenty of tweets and photos transmitted to the Internet. "We’re hoping to go to Comic-Con, maybe have some footage to show at Comic-Con. We have a documentary following the making of the movie."
The writer-producer continues to watch the needle rise, adjusting his in-progress script as the wallet fattens.
"The movie is outlined, but frankly, I needed to know how we were doing to figure out how to model the script and how to write it. There are very specific things that are going to be affected by what our budget is," he says. For one, Thomas wants to be able to shoot in Southern California, where the series was originally set. That's more expensive than, say, Vancouver or Michigan, but the palm trees are worth it.
"There’s an altercation [at a high school reunion in the film], and how much money we raise affects whether that is having terse words exchanged or a full-on brawl," he adds. "One if we hit certain dollar amounts, and the less spectacular if we haven’t."
As the project sets crowd-funding records, some concerns have been raised over whether a property owned by a major studio should even be on Kickstarter, which was started -- and has largely served -- as a way to support independent artists and entrepreneurs who otherwise might not have the capital to launch their vision. Kickstarter is known for helping raise funds for projects like the six shorts that have earned Oscar nominations, including Inocente, which won this year for best documentary and shot on a budget of just $52,000, or movies made by the New York Independent Film Collective. Since 2009, the site has directed over $100 million to over 8,500 indie films.
"I don’t think Veronica Mars is negatively affecting people that Kickstarter was built to serve, those people who are making $30-40,000 documentaries," Thomas defends. "I think what Veronica Mars has done is brought Kickstarter to the masses. More people are now familiar with Kickstarter, and more people are browsing Kickstarter for other projects, who now understand what it is and what it does than there were before we launched our campaign. I think we’re bringing more eyes to that site, so I think that has to be good for indie filmmakers."
On the other hand, the fervent fan base putting up its own money to fund the project is in some ways instructive to both major networks and creatives; Veronica Mars was canceled by The CW after three seasons, and once-mighty broadcasters such as NBC have seen ratings tank, thanks in part to the failure of broad efforts meant to capture wide swaths of audience.
"There are more and more markets and more networks, more places you can put shows on, the mandate becomes more and more 'Give us something that two million people love rather than attempt something that 20 million people like,'" he says. "The big networks are struggling to stay in that old model of a little something for everyone."
Yet at the same time, Thomas also knows his business model -- or even that of cable -- isn't necessarily the answer for the national broadcasters.
"I don’t know what it would do to advertisers at NBC. I suspect if [small niche shows] were the key, they’d be heading down that direction," Thomas adds, which could have been a nod at Community, the fervently-loved but little-watched comedy that is most widely known for its backstage drama, not quirky meta-humor. "Those bigger networks need big products. The things they can do better than the smaller shows like throw $3 or $4 million at the screen. No small network could’ve done Lost. That show had a budget and a cast that you could not do. Those few hits big networks have tend to make up for the failures so I don’t think they’re going to give up to the cable networks. They’re going to go down screaming, trying to do big shows that appeal to tens of millions of people."
Luckily, thanks to Kickstarter and some dedicated fans, Thomas doesn't have to worry about that struggle anymore.
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Suraj Sharma Interview for Nylon
Bonus Suraj holding a puppy
Also Happy Birthday on March 21st (He'll be 20 idk why this article says he's 17)
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The Way - Ariana Grande ft. Mac Miller leaks
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Ant-Man concept video leaked.
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La Toya Jackson Talks Celebrity Apprentice and Omarosa Feud
La Toya Jackson talks about her fight with Omarosa on Celebrity Apprentice and being fired by Donald Trump. Find out what La Toya thinks about Omarosa and what her biggest regret is about her time on the show.
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Guess Who This Gentlemen Is.........
We are gathered here today to remember one of Hollywood's greatest treasures: Chuck Norris's beard. The well-trimmed facial hair lived a long and butt-kicking life during its decades-long existence on Norris's face. Now -- sadly -- the beard is no more.
Is Norris, 73, going through a first-quarter-life crisis? Can Chuck still intimidate man, woman, and inanimate object without his world-famous facial hair? Well, of course he can. He's Chuck Norris. But one shouldn't discount the beard's contribution to the man’s success.
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Kevin Clash in trouble AGAIN!
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who originated beloved Sesame Street character Elmo, has kept a low profile since November, when a trio of lawsuits accused him of having sex with underage males.
Now he’s back in the news as a fourth suit has surfaced, accusing the performer of hosting a “crystal-meth sex party” with a teenage boy.
In a suit filed Monday in Pennsylvania District Court, plaintiff Sheldon Stephens claims he met Clash in 2004 at “a social networking event for models and actors.” He alleges Clash “lured” Stevens to New York for sexual encounters, starting when Stephens was 16.
Stephens was actually the first to accuse Clash of instigating an inappropriate relationship, but it was 24-year-old Cecil Singleton who first filed suit. Stephens has claimed he was made to recant his story in exchange for a $125,000 settlement, but now wants to clear his name. (All four cases against Clash are being handled by the same lawyer.)
During one tryst, Stephens alleges, a driver took Clash and Stevens to his home, where the three had sex and did meth. “Clash smoked crystal meth while engaging in sexual activity with Sheldon. Clash also gave Sheldon poppers as a sexual aide,” the lawsuit reads. “While Clash had sexual contact with Sheldon, the chauffeur watched and masturbated.”
Clash’s attorney calls all four case “meritless” and is looking to have them all dismissed because the statute of limitations had run out. “Mr. Clash continues to deny any wrongdoing, and we intend to defend this case forcefully.”
Stephens is seeking unspecified damages in excess of $75,000.
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and so it begins.........again
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Faye Resnick is trying hard to land a spot on The Real Housewives!
It was the cat fight of the season between Faye and Brandi on this week’s The Real Housewives.
Marisa was starting trouble by showing the ladies a private text message she had received from Brandi lightheartedly offering advice on how to spice up her marriage to her husband Dean. Marisa, who we hear complain about how bored she is by her husband all season long, turned it into an all out Brandi-bashing session with the other ladies.
Yolanda stood up for Brandi by telling Marisa that if she had a problem with Brandi why not go straight to the source? Why was she talking behind her back?
At Lisa’s party, Yolanda corners Marisa and urges her to talk to Brandi. Marisa looks like she wants to die out of the awkwardness of this confrontation and stumbles over her words when Faye intrudes which prompts Brandi to say with disgust “You’re not involved in this, you can go.” To which Faye says, “I’m involved in everything. Don’t tell me what to do.” She then turns to Yolanda and says she is not going anywhere and that Yolanda is being “mislead by a very bad girl.”
And then Faye delivers her punch line to Brandi by saying with utter disdain, “You want to talk about ladies? No matter how many Chanel’s you borrow, you will never, ever be a lady.”
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Let's "Elementary" news, ONTD!
1. Jonny Lee Miller has a twitter now. Please don't be Those People.
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Plus he's still raising money for his charity thing, so go over there and Veronica-Mars-kickstarter the fuck out of him please.
2. Synopsis for the next new (April 4th) episode:
"SNOW ANGELS": Sherlock and Joan try to prevent a robbery from one of the largest cash vaults in the country during the middle of a Nor'easter. Meanwhile, Sherlock tries to help a transgender woman who is recovering from her latest break-up.
That woman will be played by actual transgender actress Candis Cayne!
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Is this cool? Does it drool? Are we looking at a possible Mrs. Hudson? Please peruse the other promo pics and discuss.
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I'M EXCITED FOR SNOWNANIGANS. How qt was the last episode btw.
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Plus he's still raising money for his charity thing, so go over there and Veronica-Mars-kickstarter the fuck out of him please.
2. Synopsis for the next new (April 4th) episode:
"SNOW ANGELS": Sherlock and Joan try to prevent a robbery from one of the largest cash vaults in the country during the middle of a Nor'easter. Meanwhile, Sherlock tries to help a transgender woman who is recovering from her latest break-up.
That woman will be played by actual transgender actress Candis Cayne!
Is this cool? Does it drool? Are we looking at a possible Mrs. Hudson? Please peruse the other promo pics and discuss.
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I'M EXCITED FOR SNOWNANIGANS. How qt was the last episode btw.
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Ugh. This Fauxminist B-word!
Beyoncé's new track Bow Down / I Been On divides fans and fellow singers as Keyshia Cole slams song
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She's been busy being the adoptive mother to Poison Ivy for the past year but on Sunday Beyawncé posted a snippet of her new music to her website.
The 31-year-old woman released a recording entitled Bow Down / I Been On, along with a picture of herself before any of her surgeries,with a room full of trophies behind her. How tacky is that?
And the lyrics include the lines: 'I know when you were little girls you dreamt of being in my world. Don’t forget it. Respect that. Bow Down b******.'
The three minute, 34 second clip also includes: 'I took my time to live my life but don’t think I’m just his little wife. Don’t get it twisted this is my sh*t.'
British fans might be familiar with some of the music in the second portion of the recording, a snippet of which accompanies the 02 Priority adverts filmed to promote the singer's UK tour dates.
The music is actually sections from two different songs, Bow Down is said to have been produced by Hit-Boy and Bleachoncé is said to have worked with Timflopland on I Been On.
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While the horrible new track addresses her absence from the music industry and asserts her authority as Queen Bee of the charts (of course, pretending 4 didn't happen), the content of the music is already causing controversy and dividing fans - and her fellow musicians.
Keyshia Cole unleashed a Twitter tirade against the star. 'Can't stand when people all self righteous when it's convenient it makes them look good. Lmao! But can still talk s*** when convenient 2 FOH,' she tweeted.
After apparently receiving a backlash from Beyawnce's fans, the singer added: 'I done kept it real from the start! #RespectTHAT.'
And the R&B star was far from finished. She went on: 'First "Women need to Stick together" now b****** better Bow. Smh. But it's all G! Chicks stay shooting the s***. But when I speak my mind its a prob. #Well #StayMad'
One listener wrote on Twitter: ‘This song makes no sense, is randomly offensive, and is way out of Byeonce's lane. I wonder where she stole it from?’
Another fan tweeted: 'how can u sing at the presidents inauguration then release this disgusting, offensive song @beyonce? I'm genuinely shocked.' (sic)
Other comments included: ‘The new Beyonce song is horrid. Unnecessary swearing, offensive misogynistic referencing of women, and terrible music and vocals. 0/1000.’
And another: ‘So much for female empowerment.’
And Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills who tweeted: 'Isthat Beyonce song a joke?'
Plenty of the pressed fans welcomed the new music with one listener writing: 'Sorry I'm not sorry that @beyonce is a trend-setter-wannabe and doesn't sound like everyone else. It's about changing the game #byehive.'
But some fans suggested that the singer hadn't gone far enough and if she was a white male music artist she wouldn't be on the end of such criticism.
One fan posted: 'Miss me with the "she's so arrogant" mess. Were she a man, this would scarcely be an issue. Bye-once isn't arrogant enough. #BowDown' (sic)
Source.
SMH. I cunt with Fauxminists!
She's been busy being the adoptive mother to Poison Ivy for the past year but on Sunday Beyawncé posted a snippet of her new music to her website.
The 31-year-old woman released a recording entitled Bow Down / I Been On, along with a picture of herself before any of her surgeries,with a room full of trophies behind her. How tacky is that?
And the lyrics include the lines: 'I know when you were little girls you dreamt of being in my world. Don’t forget it. Respect that. Bow Down b******.'
The three minute, 34 second clip also includes: 'I took my time to live my life but don’t think I’m just his little wife. Don’t get it twisted this is my sh*t.'
British fans might be familiar with some of the music in the second portion of the recording, a snippet of which accompanies the 02 Priority adverts filmed to promote the singer's UK tour dates.
The music is actually sections from two different songs, Bow Down is said to have been produced by Hit-Boy and Bleachoncé is said to have worked with Timflopland on I Been On.
While the horrible new track addresses her absence from the music industry and asserts her authority as Queen Bee of the charts (of course, pretending 4 didn't happen), the content of the music is already causing controversy and dividing fans - and her fellow musicians.
Keyshia Cole unleashed a Twitter tirade against the star. 'Can't stand when people all self righteous when it's convenient it makes them look good. Lmao! But can still talk s*** when convenient 2 FOH,' she tweeted.
After apparently receiving a backlash from Beyawnce's fans, the singer added: 'I done kept it real from the start! #RespectTHAT.'
And the R&B star was far from finished. She went on: 'First "Women need to Stick together" now b****** better Bow. Smh. But it's all G! Chicks stay shooting the s***. But when I speak my mind its a prob. #Well #StayMad'
One listener wrote on Twitter: ‘This song makes no sense, is randomly offensive, and is way out of Byeonce's lane. I wonder where she stole it from?’
Another fan tweeted: 'how can u sing at the presidents inauguration then release this disgusting, offensive song @beyonce? I'm genuinely shocked.' (sic)
Other comments included: ‘The new Beyonce song is horrid. Unnecessary swearing, offensive misogynistic referencing of women, and terrible music and vocals. 0/1000.’
And another: ‘So much for female empowerment.’
And Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills who tweeted: 'Is
Plenty of the pressed fans welcomed the new music with one listener writing: 'Sorry I'm not sorry that @beyonce is a trend-setter-wannabe and doesn't sound like everyone else. It's about changing the game #byehive.'
But some fans suggested that the singer hadn't gone far enough and if she was a white male music artist she wouldn't be on the end of such criticism.
One fan posted: 'Miss me with the "she's so arrogant" mess. Were she a man, this would scarcely be an issue. Bye-once isn't arrogant enough. #BowDown' (sic)
Source.
SMH. I cunt with Fauxminists!
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