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Superstar Director Guillermo del Toro Nails the Reason Why Hollywood Should Watch Out for Online Video
Posted by NALIP on December 08, 2015
Kerry Hayes / Warner Bros.
Guillermo del Toro has made a career in Hollywood on his expansive imagination.
In films from “Pan’s Labyrinth” to “Hellboy” to “The Orphanage,” he has brought strange and compelling supernatural worlds to life on screen. To a certain type of filmmaker, del Toro is the model of how to be successful while not compromising your vision.
That’s one of the reasons why Tony Valenzuela was so excited to meet del Toro at a screening of one of Valenzuela’s shorts. Valenzuela is a prominent YouTuber who works in the horror and supernatural genre, and who recently sold a show called “The Fourth Door” to Verizon’s new streaming service Go90.
But this screening was before that, before he had been bankrolled by Verizon to fulfill his vision.
Valenzuela says del Toro came up to him after the screening and perfectly expressed one of the differences between filmmakers who have grown up in the DIY online community and those who come up through the traditional Hollywood system.
“For some people, there is never enough money,” del Toro said. “With you, I know you will make something really amazing with whatever you’re given.”
Valenzuela says he thinks this is one of the things that sets apart those who make shows online. They are used to working with nothing. Whatever budget you give them, they will make it work.
Check this out at BusinessInsider.com
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Occupants Screening and Q&A with WGAW
Posted by NALIP on December 08, 2015
Monday, 12/14, 7:30-10:00p.m.
WGAW 2nd Floor, Multipurpose Room.
The WGAW’s Committee of Women Writers and Latino Writers Committee invites you to attend the screening of Occupants, an independent sci-fi found footage thriller about a filmmaker who discovers a parallel version of herself while filming her latest project, written by Julia Camara, starring Robert Picardo, Brianna White, and Michael Pugliese.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Julia Camara, director Russ Emanuel, producer Howard Nash and some of the cast, moderated by WGAW member Annie Wood. A light food & drink reception will follow.
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Adrian Martinez Featured in 2016 Sundance U.S. Competition
Posted by NALIP on December 04, 2015
Adrian Martinez at NALIP's member screening of FOCUS with Warner Bros.
NALIPster Adrian Martinez, who co-starred in last years ‘FOCUS’ alongside Will Smith, appears in ‘White Girl’ currently selected for the 2016 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition. Following a college student who goes to extremes to get her drug dealer boyfriend out of jail, ‘White Girl’ is written and directed by female director Elizabeth Wood. Other cast include: Morgan Saylor, Brian ‘Sene’ Marc, Justin Bartha, Chris Noth, and India Menuez. Congrats Adrian! Have Sundance news? Email [email protected] -
The New ‘Sesame Street’ Keeps It Real With Celebrity Guest Gina Rodriguez
Posted by NALIP on December 04, 2015
By: VIBE Viva
Photo credit: Getty
While neighborhoods throughout the boroughs of Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens become increasingly filled with yuppies from around the country, Sesame Streettakes a leaf out of the gentrification manuel and moves to a new block.
The show has been reduced from it’s usual hour-long running time to 30 minutes and the iconic theme song has been retired, all while the old neighborhood gets an upgrade. Yet, all’s not lost. There’s a new kid on the block and it’s not some lily-white character, but a bilingual Latina woman named Nina, played by Cuban-American Suki Lopez.
And although the show has gone through some major changes, like moving from PBS to HBO, it strives to maintain its reputation for teaching children cultural values from all around the world. For instance, Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is set guest star on the 46th season to teach the kiddies their ABCs – in Spanish!
“As always, Sesame Street features a dazzling array of celebrities in the new season, including: Gwen Stefani singing “Be a Good Friend;” Pharrell singing “B is for Book:” Nick Jonas singing “Check that Shape;” 5th Harmony singing “That’s Music;” Sara Bareilles singing “Just Like Magic;” Alan Cumming as “Mucko Polo” the grouch explorer; Ne-Yo singing “You’ve Got a Body, So Move It!;” Aloe Blacc singing “Everyday Hero;” Tracee Ellis Ross learning about bedtime routines; and Gina Rodriguez singing the ABCs in Spanish,” reads the Sesame Workshop site.
The new and improved Sesame Street is set to air on HBO January 16, 2016, and on PBS Kids in the fall. Stay tuned.
Check this out at: VIBEViva
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Tell Us A Sports Story
Posted by NALIP on December 04, 2015
By: NBC Sports
Here at NBC Sports, we have a passion for storytelling. Now, we want to hear from you.
Welcome to CPTR’D, a video contest for amateur storytellers, student filmmakers, and avid sports fans to tell any sports story, your way.
We want you to get out there and produce the best short-form documentary or feature on any sports-related topic you choose. No subject is off limits. Please just keep your future masterpiece under 10 minutes.
If your film is selected as one of our Top 5, you’ll win an all-expense paid trip to Austin, TX for a Watch Party featuring your film. Better yet, the first place winner will win $10,000!
So get out there and capture your sports story today!
SUBMISSION & JUDGING
The submission window will be open from November 9th, 2015 – January 12th, 2016. The Top 5 will be announced on February 4th, 2016. Public voting on the Top 5 will run from February 4th, 2016 – March 9th, 2016. Your votes, combined with judging from industry influencers, will determine 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Winners will be announced in March, 2016.RULES
Submissions must contain sports subject matter, must be no longer than ten minutes in length, must contain originally shot footage and must have been produced within the past two years. Contest participants must have the permission of all persons appearing in the video.Have a question? Check this out at: NBCSports
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‘The Wiz Live’ Ratings Strong: NBC Musical Draws 11.5 Million Viewers
Posted by NALIP · December 04, 2015
Courtesy of NBC
It's Also the Most-Tweeted Live Special Program on Record
Two years after NBC stunned the industry with boffo ratings for its live presentation of “The Sound of Music,” the network was back at it Thursday night with “The Wiz Live,” which drew impressive numbers of its own. The event also set a Nielsen Twitter record as most social live special program in the more than four years of tracking such numbers — generating more reactions than NBC’s two prior musicals combined.
Despite facing a highly rated NFL game on CBS, last night’s live musical, whose all-star cast included Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and David Alan Grier, averaged a 3.4 rating/11 share in adults 18-49 and about 11.5 million viewers overall from 8 to 10:45 p.m., according to preliminary Nielsen estimates. The only NBC entertainment series to fare better this fall is “The Voice,” whose season premiere averaged a 3.5/11 in 18-49 and 12.37 million.
The 3.4 demo rating is 42% above that earned by last year’s live musical presentation of “Peter Pan” (2.4/7 in 18-49, 9.21 million viewers overall). It wasn’t quite up to the level of “Sound of Music,” which averaged a 4.6/13 in the demo and 18.32 million viewers.
For the night, NBC nearly tripled its season 18-49 average on Thursday with regular programming (3.4 vs. 1.2). And it finished ahead of football for the night in key female demos as well as kids 2-11 (3.1/13).
As expected, “The Wiz Live!” fared especially well in markets with large African-American populations. While the overall household average in Nielsen’s 56 metered markets was 7.9, the top scores came in Richmond (16.1), Norfolk (15.0), Baltimore (14.8), Washington, D.C. (13.2) and Atlanta (13.2). Joining D.C. and Atlanta as top-10 markets soaring above the national average were Philadelphia (10.3), New York (10.2) and Chicago (10.0).
According to Nielsen, roughly 269,400 people send 1.6 million tweets about “The Wiz Live!” on Thursday night and 6.4 million people saw those tweets a total of 128.9 million times. Last night’s production more than tripled the number of tweets for either “Sound of Music” (449,536) or “Peter Pan” (474,735). And according to social media analyst company Canvs, “The Wiz” drew four times as many reactions per minute than “Peter Pan” (792,000 vs. 178,000) and more than three times as many as “Sound of Music” (238,000).
Canvs, which also identifies content containing emotions, said 46.9% of the tweets during “The Wiz” fell into the “love” category — about on par with “Sound of Music” (47.5%) and well above “Peter Pan” (40.6%). Roughly 12.6% of “Wiz” tweets fell in the “dislike/hate” category, about the same as “Peter Pan” (12.4%) and higher than “Sound of Music” (10.6%).
The big ratings and Twitter numbers for “The Wiz Live!” aren’t a surprise based on strong early social-media interest for the project. Shareablee, a social media analytics company, said “The Wiz” had captured more engagement than “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Pan” combined in the lead-up to the show. From Tuesday through Thursday, “The Wiz” posted 19 pieces of content on Facebook, which captured 60,579 actions (of which 65% was positive). In the same three-day window, “Sound of Music” had posted seven pieces of content and captured a total of 28,523 actions, and “Peter Pan” posted three posts on Facebook that garnered a total of 4,505 actions.
And last night during the 8-11 p.m. ET window, global digital marketing technology company Amobee Brand Intelligence said “The Wiz Live!” attracted 1.374 million tweets during its three-hour telecast window — more than four times the number generated last year during the live telecast of “Peter Pan Live” (360,000). Roughly 30% of the sentiment was positive, 58% neutral and 13% negative — meaning the Twitter sentiment was 133% more positive than negative around the broadcast. Shanice Williams, the 19-year-old actress playing Dorothy, scored especially well, with only 2% of the sentiment surrounding her performance considered negative.
CBS and NFL Network combined to win the night overall, with their coverage of the NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions averaging a 12.0 overnight household rating. This should translate into a mid-5 demo rating and more than 17 million total viewers.There wasn’t much else happening on the broadcast front last night, though the CW took advantage of a lack of scripted originals. “The Vampire Diaries” (0.5/2 in 18-49, 1.3 million viewers overall) and “The Originals” (0.5/2 in 18-49, 1.2 million viewers overall) both rose in 18-49 from their prior episodes, with the latter hitting a season high in total viewers.
ABC saw subdued numbers for its holiday specials “Toy Story That Time Forgot” (0.9/3 in 18-49, 4.0 million viewers overall), “Shrek the Halls” (1.0/3 in 18-49, 4.2 million viewers overall) and “CMA Country Christmas” (0.9/3 in 18-49, 5.8 million viewers overall).
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Danny Pino To Star In CBS Summer Series ‘BrainDead’
Posted by NALIP · November 30, 2015
Cold Case alum Danny Pino is returning to CBS with a starring role opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead in BrainDead, CBS’ upcoming summer series from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King. The comic thriller, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Laurel (Winstead), a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in Washington, D.C., leads her to discover two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers. Pino will play Luke, Laurel’s older brother, the Democratic Whip Senator from Maryland.
This marks the third back-to-back series for Pino. Following a seven-season run as Detective Scotty Valens, the male lead of CBS’ crime procedural Cold Case, he segued to NBC’s Law & Order: SVU where he co-starred as Detective Nick Amaro for the past four seasons.
The Kings executive produce BrainDead with Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Brooke Kennedy and Liz Glotzer for CBS Television Studios, King Size Productions and Scott Free Productions. Aaron Tveit and Johnny Ray Gill co-star.
Pino is repped by ICM Partners and manager Geordie Frey of GEF Entertainment.
Check this out at Deadline.