jason hirschhorn's Media ReDEFined

The uncomfortable difference between being a founder and an employer

2013-05-24T16:00:05Z

It’s a common gripe about tech blogs: They spend so much time focusing launches and exits that they don’t write much about the stuff in between. And that stuff is exactly where companies are made or broken. We’re guilty of this too. Which is why we’re following up our previous series on the Art of...

Exclusive: Uncovered: the technology behind the impossibly light football boot

2013-05-24T06:30:00Z

A bar of soap. The iPhone 5. A pear. An empty wallet. These are all things that weigh more than Adidas' new F50 99g football boot. When you first hold it in your hand, it's hard to believe that this is really something that a professional sportsperson could wear. It's so light that it has more in...

Sex education struggles with porn

2013-05-24T10:10:32Z

In an age when "extremely violent and sadistic imagery is two clicks away", school sex education is struggling to keep pace, suggests a study.

VIDEO: Webscape: Video editing software

2013-05-24T07:44:21Z

Kate Russell looks at a website offering video editing software used in Hollywood movies, plus other sites and apps reviewed.

How a Computer Model Could Help Fight Terrorism

2013-05-24T07:59:11Z

When Justin Bieber tweets, 39,361,876 people (and counting) immediately jump to attention. But when one of those nearly 40 million people tweet, does the Beebs see it? Does he react at all? Communication among terrorist cells works much in the same way as Justin Bieber's Twitter account, according...

Deconstructing Google's Strategy: Will Google Eat Your Business Next?

2013-05-24T07:04:27Z

After Google’s I/O announcements, I flashed back to a dozen or so conversations I've had with executives and entrepreneurs about what Google is doing. Reading between the lines, some imagined buying yachts after a Google acquisition. Others feared downgrading to an inner tube if Google entered...

Study: Women Movie Critics Fewer Than 20% on Rotten Tomatoes

2013-05-24T06:26:44Z

The age of the Internet has not been kind to female movie critics. According to a new study titled "Gender @ the Movies" obtained by TheWrap ahead of its Friday release, film criticism has become even more male-dominated in the age of online news than it was six years ago. Also read:...

A well told story using excellent cinematography and ryhtmm. The...

2013-05-24T05:46:00Z

A well told story using excellent cinematography and ryhtmm. The music was good, but as my wife pointed out perhaps more maudlin than needed given the subject matter. After a series of poor ads Apple is showing us they still got it.

Discovery & User Acquisition Costs: Content Licensing To The Rescue? - by David Garth

2013-05-24T16:45:00Z

The huge increase in the number of games makes it harder and more expensive to attract consumer attention. The marketing buzz from licensed content can provide the edge to solve mobile gaming’s discovery problem AND lower customer acquisition costs.

TV: Crosstalk: Will Internet-fueled anticipation kill our enjoyment of Arrested Development?

2013-05-24T05:00:00Z

Welcome to Crosstalk, wherein A.V. Club writers discuss their varied (or unvaried, as the case may be) perspectives on a pop-culture topic. This time, Erik Adams and Josh Modell chat about the high expectations surrounding the new Arrested Development episodes. Josh Modell: Erik, I’ve been very...

The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine

2013-05-24T05:21:00Z

There's something unusual about the motorcycle Denis Andzakovic likes to ride. In addition to being able to transport Andzakovic, 22, from A to B, it can also allow him and others to "terrorise their neighbours" by scanning for Wi-Fi access points as it passes them.

John Doerr on the great entrepreneurs of the last half-century

2013-05-24T04:35:51Z

In his nearly 40 years in Silicon Valley, John Doerr has worked alongside many of the greatest entrepreneurs and leaders in history. The first: Former Intel CEO Andy Grove, with whom Doerr worked closely in roles ranging from intern to a leading sales person at the microchip company. Over the next...

John Doerr: Microsoft might be the “fifth horseman”

2013-05-24T03:57:05Z

Microsoft is everyone’s favorite punching bag these days. But there’s at least one person who doesn’t think the once-seemingly invincible tech giant is done: John Doerr. Google chairman Eric Schmidt famously listed “the four horsemen” of the technology industry: Google, Apple, Amazon, and...

Teens’ Coded Language is Latest Challenge for Facebook's Ad Algorithms

2013-05-23T23:39:29Z

Most teenagers deliberately hide what they are really talking about on Facebook - a practice that could make it harder to pitch ads at them.

Yahoo’s Design Chief to Depart

2013-05-24T02:16:55Z

Though the company's Web page redesigns have received negative reviews, Tim Parsey, senior vice president of user experience design, said his work was done.

Iranian Cyberattacks on U.S. Firms Rise

2013-05-24T17:05:37Z

Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions, according to U.S. officials.

Is This Google X's Plan to Wire the World?

2013-05-23T10:00:24Z

To extend Internet access throughout the world, Google may be working on balloon-based broadband transmitters

All-Nighter: Perpetual Motion Machine

2013-05-24T02:20:03Z

Owen and Murph's new invention promises eternal happiness until it doesn't.

The Top 10 Future Tech Trends From 5 Top Venture Capitalists

2013-05-24T02:09:32Z

The only thing people in Silicon Valley like to do more than talk about the future of tech is to invent it. Tonight they settled for the second-best thing, in the form of the popular Top 10 Tech Trends dinner.

The Elvis Presley Family Supports Potential Sale Of CORE Media’s Majority Estate Stake

2013-05-24T02:22:18Z

As we reported earlier this week citing the Financial Times, CORE Media Group is exploring a sale of Elvis Presley Enterprises as well as Muhammad Ali Enterprises. There had been no official comment on the potential sale until now. Deadline has obtained exclusively a statement from the Presley...

Personality, social media and marketing: No hiding place

2013-05-23T15:05:16Z

UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The sleepwalkers Fly Title: Personality, social media and marketing Rubric: ...

Multiplatform World: TV Everywhere Still Lacks Simplified, Consistent User Experience

2013-05-24T00:49:04Z

Panelists agree infrastructure needs to improve to lead to...

15 Startups Leading The Hardware Revolution

2013-05-24T01:01:00Z

New hardware companies are one of the hottest trends in the startup world. Instead of building apps and Web services, companies are building real physical hardware that you can buy and use. A lot of these find life on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, where the community votes with its wallet...

One (Bad) Week in the Life of a Wireless Customer

2013-05-24T00:46:10Z

This was not a good week to be a wireless provider's customer – a universe that encompasses, well, everybody.

Why Paul Tudor Jones’ theory that women aren’t good traders if they have babies is scientifically unsound

2013-05-24T00:59:14Z

Tudor Investment Corporation’s Paul Tudor Jones today found himself in the middle of a firestorm of his own making when the Washington Post published a video of a speech he gave last month. During that speech, the hedge fund billionaire told the audience: You will never see as many great women...

Google may start bidding war with Facebook over Waze

2013-05-24T00:46:13Z

Google, maker of the Android operating system, is reportedly considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook.

11 Awesome 'Illegal' Airbnb Apartments You Can Rent In New York Right Now

2013-05-24T00:44:00Z

Earlier this week, an administrative law judge in New York City ruled that a man renting out his East Village apartment through Airbnb violated the city's law. New York City has a law that makes it illegal for people to rent out their homes or apartments for less than 29 days. The law is...

This Telepresence Robot Is Powered By a Smartphone

2013-05-24T00:38:40Z

What if you could have your smartphone greet customers while they’re shopping in your store or have a tablet work as a babysitter? That’s the idea behind R.bots Synergy SWAN, a telepresence robot with that works with any Android or iOS device. To make the robot work, you attach your smartphone or...

Even Jason Sudeikis Doesn't Know If He's Leaving 'SNL'

2013-05-23T18:49:52Z

Even Jason Sudeikis doesn't know if he's leaving "Saturday Night Live." During a visit to "The View" to promote his new movie "Epic," Sudeikis was pressed about his future with the show by Barbara Walters. He gave a non-answer, but Walters continued asking for a real answer. "I sincerely don't...

A Vibrator Called Limon

2013-05-24T00:04:09Z

No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its “couples’ vibrator”, which just so happens to look like a pink lime-lemon hybrid. However, the Limon is no lemon or lime. It’s an...

Michael B. Fishbein: E-Commerce: Trends, Opportunities and Startups to Watch

2013-05-23T22:22:02Z

Like so many other industries, software is eating commerce. Trends like increasing usage of mobile devices, massive amounts of publicly available personal data, new operating models, the social graph and new distribution channels are creating fundamentally new possibilities for commerce...

Lindsay Hoffman: How Technology Has Changed the Way We Understand National Tragedies

2013-05-23T21:02:37Z

The final entry for the "Blog Blog Project" this semester comes from UD junior Christina Mavrikis, a Criminal Justice and Psychology major, who examines how technology has changed the way we learn about and understand tragedies like the Boston bombings. I remember sitting in my third-grade class,...

Reddit's WTF hub won't take your gore—unless clowns are involved

2013-05-23T23:53:07Z

Reddit's premier forum for bugs, bullet holes, and eyeball stitches just banned blood and guts.

Second Life Founder's New Virtual World Uses Body-Tracking Hardware

2013-05-20T22:32:42Z

Hardware that tracks your head, eyes, and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different from the pioneering virtual world. The founder of the once-popular virtual world Second Life, Philip Rosedale, is working on a new 3-D digital world that looks like it will be operated using...

Can watches show more than the time?

2013-05-23T23:07:42Z

Why have we been waiting so long for watches to catch up with smart phones?

The tech that's transforming gardening

2013-05-23T23:03:43Z

The technology that's transforming gardening

Silicon Beach: The Selena Gomez of SoCal’s tech industry

2013-05-23T23:31:45Z

Since it’s LA Tech Month here at PandoDaily I thought I’d take the opportunity to spill the unpleasant truth about my adopted hometown. Just like our cousins in Hollywood, where tabloid-friendly party monsters get all the press while hard working talent is ignored, this same dynamic has carried...

What LeBron James, In The Clutch, Can Teach Us About Managing Fear

2013-05-23T22:59:02Z

LeBron James may seem to have leapt out of the womb blessed with unrivaled basketball skills – but the ability to be a clutch performer didn’t come automatically. It came with time and practice and, yes, failure. And when he led his Miami Heat to a playoff victory last night over the Indiana...

Multiplatform World: Wakshlag Says Industry Creating ‘Frankenmetrics' to Measure Usage

2013-05-23T22:56:59Z

Turner research chief lives by three rules: how many, how often, how...

The Social Revolution – Remember Us

2013-05-23T23:01:31Z

We live in rather interesting, intriguing, complex, uncertain and wonderful times. We surely do. We live in times of extreme negatives juxtaposing themselves with extreme positives. We live in times where the Social Web has become that amplifier of (global / local) events, of our passions, of our...

Adios, Dora: Netflix is starting to take Viacom shows offline

2013-05-23T22:36:18Z

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Don’t ask Netflix subscribers: The video service removed Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Blue’s Clues and other animated Nickeolodeon fare from its streaming library this week as its licensing agreement with Viacom is expiring. Also...

Adam Savage On Why Copyright And Trademark Holders Need To Get Over Their Obsession With 'Control'

2013-05-23T23:01:30Z

Reader aster points us to a tested.com video in which Adam Savage talks about copyright issues. I've seen Savage mention on Twitter in the past that he's a closet copyright geek who is very interested in copyright policy, and the conversation is definitely interesting, focusing on the high profile...

Tracking: Drones And The Law

2013-05-23T21:39:11Z

Armed drones abroad and autonomous commercial and law enforcement aircraft at home are entangled in ever-changing legal issues. Here is Fast Company's look at the evolving legal aspects, and what they mean for the future. 6:15 p.m., 05/23/2013 Obama's Drone Policy Speech In a historic sea...

Hulu video site auction attracts four bidders: sources

2013-05-23T23:02:05Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, triggering a tug-of-war for the online video service.

Watch a trailer for Metallica's upcoming 3-D concert film

2013-05-23T22:19:00Z

The last time Metallica was at the center of a high-profile Hollywood movie -- in Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's revealing 2004 documentary "Some Kind of Monster" -- the members of the influential heavy-metal outfit spent most of their time on-screen talking about their feelings.

The Future of Brick-and-Mortar Retailers? Turning Into Datacenters

2013-05-23T22:46:47Z

Sears! Once the catalog king, then an eminent brick-and-mortar retailer, and now, perhaps, a real-estate holding company that leases out space for computers that power the cloud. Data Center Knowledge reported today that Sears had created a new unit -- Ubiquity Critical Environments -- to look...

Google Copies Amazon's Playbook

2013-05-23T22:39:27Z

Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they don’t pay much attention to rivals. But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.’s lead. The latest example involves cable ties, AC-DC adapters, radiation detectors and the like. In April of last year,...

Explore the Googlapagos: Google Street View to add remote Galapagos

2013-05-23T22:17:43Z

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, but soon it will take only the click of a mouse or finger swipe on a tablet to explore some of the Galapagos Islands' most remote areas, surrounding waters and unique creatures.

Nintendo's Epic Fail — Grabbing Copyright From Its YouTube Fans

2013-05-23T22:52:00Z

You might think that Nintendo, beleaguered by falling revenues, minuscule profit and the almost-but-not-quite-failed launch of the Wii U, already has enough problems to worry about. And you would be wrong, as Nintendo itself set out to demonstrate last week by going out of its way to alienate a...

Morgan Freeman Explains Why He Seemed to Fall Asleep During TV Interview

2013-05-23T22:48:30Z

Morgan Freeman appeared to fall asleep during a TV interview--but he has another explanation, and it involves Google.

Pandora Sees Quarterly Revenue Grow 55 Percent

2013-05-23T22:17:29Z

The company added more than 700,000 net new subscribers to its ad-free music-streaming service. read more

TED Global newsmakers: A closer look at Laptop U, plus the first all-female race in Beirut, and more

2013-05-23T22:49:08Z

With TEDGlobal 2013 just 17 days in the distance, we in the TED office are getting very excited to “Think Again.” Here, a look at the conference speakers who made the news this week. Education innovator Anant Agarwal is interviewed in The New Yorker article “Laptop U.” The founder of edX, Harvard...

Yahoo snagged Tumblr; who's next on shopping block?

2013-05-23T06:59:21Z

Yahoo's $1.1 billion planned purchase of Tumblr points up fascination with hot start-ups.

The Future of Video Games: A Box and a Cloud

2013-05-23T23:26:23Z

Thinking about the next generation of video-game consoles yesterday, I kept coming back to the same question: How can Microsoft or Sony possibly design and build a box with the staying power to sit under your television for the next several years? Over the seven-year life spans of Xbox 360 and...

DARPA wants you to design its new amphibious tank

2013-05-23T22:23:55Z

Many will enter, few—with actual military design experience, most likely—will win.

Ashton Kutcher: 'I Don't Think Anyone Has Mastered Mobile'

2013-05-23T22:24:51Z

Actor and prominent startup investor Aston Kutcher took the stage at CTIA Thursday to talk about mobile, and specifically mobile apps. During a fireside chat at the wireless trade show Kutcher talked about how he discovers the apps that he uses and invests in, as well as how he currently sees the...

Multiplatform World: Streamlining Second-Screen Experience DrivesUser Engagement

2013-05-23T21:55:40Z

Arris' Ruff says HTML 5 technology is where the market is...

Multiplatform World: Ops, Nets Need More Cooperation to Make TV Everywhere Work

2013-05-23T21:51:33Z

Window of opportunity will close unless better partnerships are...

Why Does Siri Say Sorry?

2013-05-23T22:10:25Z

Who decided that we need our soulless machines to act like eager to please friends? It’s not like we think they’re human. Right? Read More »

Small businesses: Stop thinking you’re immune to a mobile hack

2013-05-23T22:04:02Z

Compared to sizable companies, small to medium sized businesses (SMB) seem to be less concerned with mobile security because they feel too “unimportant” to be attacked. This, of course, is not true. In the first half of 2012, small businesses accounted for 36 percent of all targeted cyber attacks,...

Studios Drool Over Sci-Fi Drama - but Will Spielberg Take It to TV? (Exclusive)

2013-05-24T06:16:25Z

Mickey Fisher, an unknown and unsigned writer until recently, has film studios drooling over his script "Extant" for weeks. There's just one twist: it's not a film script. Fisher wrote "Extant" as a TV pilot. It's a one-hour sci-fi drama about John and Molly Watts and their son, a...

YouTube Sensation Charles Ramsey to Be Honored With Statue

2013-05-23T21:22:56Z

Charles Ramsey, the Celevand, Ohio man who helped rescue three women from a decade of captivity earlier this month, is joining the likes of Batman, Rocky and John McClane with a statue erected in honor of his heroism. The statue will be unveiled to the public on Friday in Stanville, Kentucky at...

A YouTube Piano Teacher Took Down His Competition With Phony Copyright Claims

2013-05-23T20:00:00Z

Image via Flickr I learned piano at age 10 by watching my Grandmother slowly play Für Elise in small fragments. She would play a phrase which I would then mimick on next octave. I'm a visual learner, and was able to play the whole piece at the end of a week. A lot of beginning piano students...

More Retailers Challenge Card-Fee Settlement

2013-05-23T20:41:31Z

Some of the country's biggest retailers sued Visa and MasterCard over transaction fees, days after a separate group also opted out of a settlement over the fees.

Tony Awards Dive Into the Digital Stream

2013-05-23T22:00:27Z

This year the Tonys will launch a second-screen digital destination, with interactive content set to stream during the annual live kudocast on CBS — a measure other TV skeins, such as the AMC zombie hit and HBO’s "Game of Thrones," also have taken to cultivate fan enthusiasm beyond the TV screen. ...

YouTube Paid Subscription Channels May Be One Plan Too Many

2013-05-23T22:00:05Z

If the biggest brand YouTube has to brag about at this point is UFC, that’s not exactly a show of strength in the marketplace. But in all fairness, Google rarely goes big out of the gate with anything.

AT&T Imposes New 61-Cent Monthly Wireless Fee

2013-05-23T21:46:27Z

AT&T Inc. has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that could bring in more than a half-billion dollars in annual revenue to the telecom giant. Other carriers also have so-called “below-the-line” fees, named...

How cable companies offset cord cutters by squeezing more money from Internet customers

2013-05-23T21:45:13Z

Yes, the major cable companies are losing paid television subscribers and yes, they have stunningly low customer satisfaction ratings. But as The Atlantic's Derek Thompson ably explains, they aren't going anywhere because they're still making money hand over fist providing home broadband...

Why the Producer of "The Hangover Part III" Spends So Much Time in Prison

2013-05-23T21:19:55Z

The past few weeks have been particularly busy ones for Scott Budnick, the 36-year-old executive producer of the hilarious, cringe-inducing, and incredibly lucrative Hangover film franchise. In case you hadn't noticed, this is opening weekend for The Hangover Part III, starring Bradley Cooper, Zach...

Meet the Millennial HuffPo

2013-05-24T04:04:43Z

Elite Daily wants to be the online media destination for millennials for everything from news, to GIFs and sex tips.

Native Ad Terminology is a Mess

2013-05-24T04:01:15Z

If native advertising is the future of digital media, the industry should at least agree what it means.

2morrowknight: Jenni Hogan: Social Media Influencer-turned Social TV Visionary

2013-05-22T20:26:58Z

This post was also co-written by Ryan Hodgson. When Jenni Hogan was a little girl growing up in Australia, her family taught her to dream bigger than the boundaries of any continent, and to have a healthy respect for cultural traditions around the world. This would serve her well in the Great...

Behind Twitter’s Savvy Embrace of TV

2013-05-24T04:05:28Z

The social platform has become a favorite of agencies and media companies by catering to their needs.

Art Review: ‘Mel Bochner: Proposition and Process’ at Peter Freeman

2013-05-23T20:30:49Z

A Mel Bochner exhibition at Peter Freeman provides a glimpse of old SoHo in the midst of new SoHo’s retail madness.

How J.Lo Is Becoming A Wireless Brand

2013-05-23T21:28:26Z

Jennifer Lopez’s partnership with Verizon Wireless to launch a new mobile brand targeting Latinos is a no-brainer when you consider the surging growth rates of those consumers in the U.S. and their high ownership of smartphones. But positioning the popular singer and actress with the brand was not...

Get Ready For Napster: The Movie

2013-05-23T21:31:54Z

"Downloaded," a documentary directed by Alex Winter, follows the rise and fall of Napster, one of the first music file-sharing services. Watch the trailer.

The power of custom cohorting in mobile games

2013-05-23T21:27:29Z

This sponsored post is produced by Darren Keyes, Director of Business Intelligence at Fuse Powered. For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘cohorting’ refers to creating user segments, or technically, a group of people banded together as a group. You can segment a user base in many different ways....

Why We Like to Look at Pornstars' Twitters

2013-05-23T19:37:00Z

Photo courtesy of Stoya I have this acquaintance in NYC. Her main career is in technology, but she occasionally works as a burlesque performer. Our paths intersect at shows and parties, where she's either in full costume or a version of it that is tamed down enough to wear comfortably on...

Digg’s Google Reader alternative will be called Digg Reader and won’t come as a standalone app

2013-05-23T21:35:56Z

Speaking on stage at Internet Week New York, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin revealed that his company’s upcoming Google Reader replacement will not be a separate app, and will simply be called “Digg Reader.” McLaughlin made it clear that users will ”have one download, which is Digg, and the current...

First-round bids due this week for Hulu

2013-05-23T21:24:00Z

The first round of bids were due this week for Hulu, the popular online TV service whose prospective sale has attracted interest from digital media players as well as cable operators.

There’s a Movie in the Works About the Bra Designers Behind the Apollo Spacesuits

2013-05-23T21:25:54Z

Warner Bros. has tapped a new writer to pen a screenplay based on the book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, which chronicles the Playtex designers behind the NASA program's spacesuits.

The bible belt’s “porn problem”: Religious cities watch as much porn as non-religious cities

2013-05-23T21:27:40Z

Apple’s got a porn problem. Xbox? Huge porn problem. Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest? Just three giant porn problems, basically. And with a name like Wii, you know it’s got a porn problem. And the biggest porn problem of all? Tumblr, of course. But now that’s somebody else’s problem. Jared...

Nile Rodgers In Ibiza

2013-05-23T20:24:07Z

We’re up all night ’til the sun We’re up all night to get some We’re up all night for good fun We’re up all night to get lucky Number one in 65 countries! And what’s the most distinctive element of “Get Lucky”? NILE RODGERS’S GUITAR PART! So they put the Daft Punk track up on [...]

Here's Why Janet Jackson Is Not On Our Billionaires' List

2013-05-24T01:45:00Z

The Internet is abuzz with news that singer Janet Jackson is a billionaire. In fact several news outlets are saying she is "officially" a billionaire.

‘SNL’: How Will NBC, Lorne Michaels Fix the Cast Conundrum?

2013-05-23T21:06:33Z

The venerable NBC late-night skein is on summer hiatus, but the lack of fresh material on air isn’t keeping SNL-watchers from prognosticating the show’s direction come the autumn.

Ross On Radio: What's Left Between The Records?

2013-05-23T20:55:10Z

In high school, the only radio stations I wanted to hear were the ones that weren’t playing “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac or “Hotel California” by the...

2013 MuchMusic Video Awards Nominations Announced

2013-05-23T16:44:06Z

Vancouver's pop-rock band Marianas Trench -- now a headlining arena act in Canada after a dozen years of hard work, and whose frontman Josh Ramsay co...

Health care consumers are in the dark. Here’s how data can help

2013-05-23T21:00:40Z

Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get the latest insights from our Dylan's Desk and DeanBeat columns right in your inbox. Follow me on LinkedIn Today, where this story originally appeared. Imagine walking into a flea market where you don’t know the price of anything until after you’ve bought...

The Best Film at Cannes Is the French, Lesbian Answer to Brokeback Mountain

2013-05-23T20:30:25Z

Wild Bunch Rain beat down (again!) on the press queuing outside for an evening screening of Abdellatif Kechiche's La vie d'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Color) Wednesday at Cannes, while poker-faced security guards stared down from their dry, awning-covered perch at the top of the steps. "This...

MGM Buys ‘Modern Family’ Producer Ben Karlin’s ‘Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me’

2013-05-23T20:16:51Z

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired screen rights to Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me, the best-selling humor anthology edited by Ben Karlin. Script will be written by Kyle Pennenkamp & Scott Turpel, who scripted the upcoming Get A Job. Karlin is the Emmy-winning former executive...