When Wattpad Webtoon Studios was preparing to release the drama “Float” this year, author Kate Marchant asked for a little help from her fans. The Lionsgate film was based on her story, and now she presented three movie posters to her followers, asking them to pick their favorite.
“I can feel your readers shifting in their seats,” Aron Levitz, president of Wattpad Webtoon Studios, says with a laugh. “All those creative execs are going, ‘Wait a minute, people knew about it before it went out? Are you sure that’s Ok?’”
For Levitz, the answer is a resounding yes. His company is shaking up the traditional approach to creating film and TV adaptations by putting the power in the hands of fans.
Just last month, the third movie in the “Through My Window” series, adapted from Wattpad author Ariana Godoy’s webnovels, dominated the Netflix film charts, amassing 14 million views...
“I can feel your readers shifting in their seats,” Aron Levitz, president of Wattpad Webtoon Studios, says with a laugh. “All those creative execs are going, ‘Wait a minute, people knew about it before it went out? Are you sure that’s Ok?’”
For Levitz, the answer is a resounding yes. His company is shaking up the traditional approach to creating film and TV adaptations by putting the power in the hands of fans.
Just last month, the third movie in the “Through My Window” series, adapted from Wattpad author Ariana Godoy’s webnovels, dominated the Netflix film charts, amassing 14 million views...
- 4/18/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
Unsw's School of Public Health and Community Medicine is offering a new course, Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence.
To demonstrate the five-day course's content, the school has created a five-part web-series - Pandemic..
Directed by Nick Hunter and starring Michael Booth (Wonderland), Pandemic consists of five episodes of around four minutes each.
It's the story of a deadly virus unleashed on the fictional nation of 'Mendona' and the hunt to find those responsible..
Created by Sydney company Paper Moose, Pandemic is branded content selling a product - the product just happens to be a university course, on a subject that sounds scarily apocalpytic.
The Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence course is described as being suitable for "professionals involved in any aspect of bioterrorism preparedness and response, who wish to be intellectually challenged, to think outside the square, to gain insight into quantum changes in science which pose a biosecurity risk, to understand...
To demonstrate the five-day course's content, the school has created a five-part web-series - Pandemic..
Directed by Nick Hunter and starring Michael Booth (Wonderland), Pandemic consists of five episodes of around four minutes each.
It's the story of a deadly virus unleashed on the fictional nation of 'Mendona' and the hunt to find those responsible..
Created by Sydney company Paper Moose, Pandemic is branded content selling a product - the product just happens to be a university course, on a subject that sounds scarily apocalpytic.
The Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence course is described as being suitable for "professionals involved in any aspect of bioterrorism preparedness and response, who wish to be intellectually challenged, to think outside the square, to gain insight into quantum changes in science which pose a biosecurity risk, to understand...
- 3/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Unsw's School of Public Health and Community Medicine is offering a new course, Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence.
To demonstrate the five-day course's content, the school has created a five-part web-series - Pandemic..
Directed by Nick Hunter and starring Michael Booth (Wonderland), Pandemic consists of five episodes of around four minutes each.
It's the story of a deadly virus unleashed on the fictional nation of 'Mendona' and the hunt to find those responsible..
Created by Sydney company Papermoose, Pandemic is branded content selling a product - the product just happens to be a university course, on a subject that sounds scarily apocalpytic.
The Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence course is described as being suitable for "professionals involved in any aspect of bioterrorism preparedness and response, who wish to be intellectually challenged, to think outside the square, to gain insight into quantum changes in science which pose a biosecurity risk, to understand the...
To demonstrate the five-day course's content, the school has created a five-part web-series - Pandemic..
Directed by Nick Hunter and starring Michael Booth (Wonderland), Pandemic consists of five episodes of around four minutes each.
It's the story of a deadly virus unleashed on the fictional nation of 'Mendona' and the hunt to find those responsible..
Created by Sydney company Papermoose, Pandemic is branded content selling a product - the product just happens to be a university course, on a subject that sounds scarily apocalpytic.
The Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence course is described as being suitable for "professionals involved in any aspect of bioterrorism preparedness and response, who wish to be intellectually challenged, to think outside the square, to gain insight into quantum changes in science which pose a biosecurity risk, to understand the...
- 3/7/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Strand Releasing
NEW YORK -- Style takes precedence over content in this fourth installment of Strand Releasing's popular series of gay-themed short-film compilations. Perhaps the weakest edition of the series, "Boys Life 4: Four Play" features a quartet of efforts more reflective of the filmmakers' career aspirations than of a desire for meaningful expression. The film is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The opener, "L.T.R.", from writer-director Phillip J. Bartell, at least displays a timeliness in its satirical look at reality TV, which this summer has been on a particularly gay-oriented bent. It depicts the unraveling of the so-called "long-term relationship" between pot-smoking, stay-at-home Riley (Weston Mueller) and the younger, party-animal Michael (Cole Williams), a relationship not at all helped by the sexual fling between Michael and the filmmaker documenting their story.
Another rocky relationship is examined in Brian Sloan's "Bumping Heads", depicting the developing friendship between thirtysomething Craig (Craig Chester) and much younger Gary (Anderson Gabrych), who meet when their noggins collide at a party. Craig wants the relationship to progress into something more romantic but is unable to act on his desire until yet another incident of head bumping lands him in the hospital.
The most serious entry, Alan Brown's "O Beautiful", uses the Matthew Shepard incident for inspiration in its depiction of the aftermath of a gay-bashing incident in which a young man (Jay Gillespie) has been left for dead in a Midwestern cornfield. One of his attackers (David Rogers) returns to help him, with his true motivations only gradually becoming clear. Its extensive use of split screen is more distracting than illuminating.
But not as distracting as it is in "This Car Up", Eric Mueller's trivial depiction of the "meet cute" between a yuppie exec (Michael Booth) and a sinewy bike messenger (Brent Doyle), in which the relentless use of split screen is as annoying gimmicky as it's been in Mike Figgis' feature-length experiments.
NEW YORK -- Style takes precedence over content in this fourth installment of Strand Releasing's popular series of gay-themed short-film compilations. Perhaps the weakest edition of the series, "Boys Life 4: Four Play" features a quartet of efforts more reflective of the filmmakers' career aspirations than of a desire for meaningful expression. The film is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The opener, "L.T.R.", from writer-director Phillip J. Bartell, at least displays a timeliness in its satirical look at reality TV, which this summer has been on a particularly gay-oriented bent. It depicts the unraveling of the so-called "long-term relationship" between pot-smoking, stay-at-home Riley (Weston Mueller) and the younger, party-animal Michael (Cole Williams), a relationship not at all helped by the sexual fling between Michael and the filmmaker documenting their story.
Another rocky relationship is examined in Brian Sloan's "Bumping Heads", depicting the developing friendship between thirtysomething Craig (Craig Chester) and much younger Gary (Anderson Gabrych), who meet when their noggins collide at a party. Craig wants the relationship to progress into something more romantic but is unable to act on his desire until yet another incident of head bumping lands him in the hospital.
The most serious entry, Alan Brown's "O Beautiful", uses the Matthew Shepard incident for inspiration in its depiction of the aftermath of a gay-bashing incident in which a young man (Jay Gillespie) has been left for dead in a Midwestern cornfield. One of his attackers (David Rogers) returns to help him, with his true motivations only gradually becoming clear. Its extensive use of split screen is more distracting than illuminating.
But not as distracting as it is in "This Car Up", Eric Mueller's trivial depiction of the "meet cute" between a yuppie exec (Michael Booth) and a sinewy bike messenger (Brent Doyle), in which the relentless use of split screen is as annoying gimmicky as it's been in Mike Figgis' feature-length experiments.
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