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How Millennials Are Transforming Children's Entertainment
Millennials were the first generation entrenched in the entertainment world, having entire television networks devoted just to us -- from Disney to Nickelodeon -- paving the way for that millennial “me” filter we've all heard so much about. And the production companies have not forgotten about us.
By Zane Sanders8 years ago in Geeks
What Could Marvel's Secret Television Project Be?
I was perusing the twitter-verse when I came across a link from comicbook.com. Writer Jay Jayson said: In April, it was revealed that Oscar-winning and Emmy-nominated screenwriter/producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) is developing a Marvel television project for ABC. Entertainment Weekly, the site that broke the story, only knows that it involves reinventing a hero from Marvel’s stable of characters.
By Zane Sanders8 years ago in Geeks
Oh. My. Gawd. Friends: The Musical Is Coming!
Well, it seems that they really will always be there for you. While Matthew Perry may have squashed all hopes of an official Friends reunion, there is an unofficial one in the cards. Friends uber-fan Eli Golden has written and directed a stage musical entitled Friends: The One Where They All Sing, and it is coming very soon!
By Tom Chapman8 years ago in Geeks
The Genius of Sugar Pine 7
YouTube started off as a way to share your funny fail videos or vacation videos to friends. Since the day that uploading to YouTube began on April 23, 2005, a lot has changed in terms of content on YouTube and for the most part, those changes have been for the best. Of course, we have the annoying diss tracks and beef and Instagram "comedians," but every once in a while someone comes along and shifts the way people think about entertainment on a platform. In the sitcom world, it was The Office that changed people's minds to how shows can be produced. Sugar Pine 7 is a channel that I believe will revolutionize the way that people want their online media to look.
By Calder Amos-Wood8 years ago in Geeks
10 Superhero Comic Series We Need To See In Live Action
Superhero season is in full swing. We are fresh off the joyride that was ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and now await, with no dearth of trepidation, the arrival of DCEU’s ‘Justice League’. Hollywood has been in reboot/remake mode for quite a while now. If we aren’t catching the third rendition of Spider-Man in a single decade, we are faced with remakes of forgotten favourites like ‘The Power Rangers’.
By Monita Roy Mohan8 years ago in Geeks
Middle-earth Is Coming to Amazon Studios
As television networks and streaming services scramble to fill the void that Game of Thrones’ end will inevitably create in 2019, Amazon has taken their first steps to do so—by bringing one of the original fantasy behemoths to the small screen, The Lord of the Rings. In the beginning of November, Amazon announced that they had acquired the television rights for the book series and have a multi-series commitment. While many fans may be worried that this is an effort to remake the well-loved The Lord of the Rings movies from director Peter Jackson, Amazon assures fans that the television series will focus on events that took place before Frodo ever stumbled upon Bilbo’s cursed ring. The deal reportedly is priced somewhere between $200 and $250 million.
By Amanda Valdivieso8 years ago in Geeks
A Historical Preface to Outlander
Diana Gabalon's Outlander series has become increasingly popular, especially since Starz' television series. Doune Castle, home of the fictional Castle Leoch, has seen a 91.9% increase in tourism since the show aired in 2014, and Outlander has been hailed 'The New Braveheart' in terms of encouraging international tourism to Scotland. But how many people know the full history from which the storyline is based?
By Briony Fraser8 years ago in Geeks
9 Weasleys Weren't Enough: Everything About Mafalda Weasley and Why She Didn't Make the Books
Try to imagine a character as nosy as Rita Skeeter and meritorious as Hermione. Weird, right? Well, Potterheads missed out an opportunity to be introduced to such a character, who would have been named Mafalda Weasley, when J.K. Rowling decided to omit her from the books.
By Subham Das8 years ago in Geeks
Orientalism in Cyberpunk
Spend a minute in the Cyberpunk subgenre and you're likely to find some aspect of the work that is nominally East Asian. Neuromancer by William Gibson opens on the imagination of a futuristic Chiba, Japan; Blade Runner (1982) works with the inspiration of "Hong Kong on a really bad day" [x]; the 2017 movie adaptation of Ghost in the Shell works with everything from Japanese sensibilities to a story from a manga written by a Japanese man, Masamune Shirow. Cyberpunk as a genre seems to take its visual cues from a perception of the Chinatowns that exist in major U.S. cities, places of en-masse freeform convergences covered in neon signs, cuneiform and kana, and in the case of Seattle's International District, a historic archway that sits grandly over King Street.
By Robin Gibson8 years ago in Geeks
