Control of the platform layer is central to competition in the connected TV market. Operating systems determine what content consumers see, how services are positioned, and how advertising is delivered.
Ben muses about what's behind their shared love of extreme activities, suggesting that while some seek perfection or a thrill, 'personally, I think the wiring is just messed up.' This insight foreshadows the darker elements of the story as he hunts Sasha with a bow and arrow.
EA's Battlefield is reportedly attracting Hollywood's attention, with Christopher McQuarrie set to write, direct, and produce the adaptation, and Michael B. Jordan attached as a producer. The project is being pitched to various studios, aiming for a theatrical release.
The movie explores the glamour and corruption of mid-'80s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark Universal Television series.
The Acolyte is still one of the best Star Wars shows like wow. I saw every episode of Star Wars The Acolyte and Loved it. Sure hope it makes a comeback.
The television show I'm most enjoying right now: There is a Hollywood story in David Niven's autobiography Bring on the Empty Horses, in which the screenwriter Charles MacArthur asks Charlie Chaplin how to make the comic pratfall scene of a person slipping on a banana peel new again. Chaplin suggests that MacArthur start with a lady walking down the street and cut to a shot of the banana peel on the sidewalk, which the lady steps over-right before she falls down a manhole.
We don't need proof, says one short-seller out for the kill, because we finally have a good story to tell. Cooked books can be explained as simply a misalignment between the velocity of my vision and the velocity of regulation, according to the slippery fintech entrepreneur Whitney Halberstram. The gap in between is where smart people have always made money.
He was Dawson. He was always questioning every script! I knew him when he was so young. I can remember him coming to audition. As the creator of the show, he recognized they'd found their Dawson right away, but the network and other producers were hesitant. I don't know what they said about him, but they didn't want him. And I was like, 'Are you crazy? What's wrong with you? That's Dawson. Trust me.'