Unboxtherapy Gives Us the Cold, Hard Truth About Cell Phones

“It’s the thing all of us have in our pockets, it’s like a million gadgets in one, it’s your music player, it’s your video player, it’s your communicator, it’s how you interact with social media, it’s really how you interact with the world now.”

But are we tired of the revolutionary product? Here, Lewis talks to us about smartphone fatigue…

Little Dead Pool

Patrick Boivin goes back to his roots with his own “little” rendition of the Marvel classic.

And how. After the phenomenal success of the Ryan Reynolds-starring Fox film, which became the most successful instalment in the X-Men franchise on a modest $58 million budget, we are more than set for the May release of Dead Pool 2. And why not a little spoofing on the way?

Jón Atli Jónasson Pitching at MIPTV

Excerpted from Jamie Lang’s Variety article

Jón Atli Jónasson, best known for co-writing 2013’s Oscar short-listed “The Deep,” will be in France this week pitching his latest project, an Icelandic police procedural titled “Violator,” at both the Canneseries and MipTV markets. He also recently co-wrote for the in-development German-Finnish crime series “Arctic Circle,” which will receive a 15-minute sneak peek at the Mip Drama Buyers’ Summit on Sunday April 8.

“Violator” is a multi-generational police series set in Reykjavik, in 1988 and today, where two detectives investigate the same case.

Based on the real life experiences of Detective Inspector Ragnar Jonson of the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police, Jonas is a punk rocker-turned-police officer in the late ‘80s, who advances quickly through the ranks to make detective and is assigned to a task force assigned to investigate the sexual abuse of young girls.

Read the whole Variety article here.

Past Work From Tiny Inventions

This is one of our favorite works from the recently Oscar nominated duo, Tiny Inventions.

It’s an animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.

Based on a true story.

Techniques and tools:
After Effects, Stop-Motion, Pixilation, Drawn on Paper, Flash, & Live Action puppets.

Search for New Blood Contest Announces Winner: Kevin Bachar’s Blood Relative

The Grand Prize Winner will meet with the Stage 32 judges: Daniel Beckerman (Producer, Scythia Films, The Witch, Rememory), Korey Pollard (DGA, Halloween, Salem, Deadwood), Dan Ingram (Executive, Dino Di Laurentiis, Hannibal, Dune, Red Dragon), Rudy Scalesce (Producer, New Nightmare, 6 Souls, Ritual), Christian Taylor (Producer, Taylor Lane Productions), Shaun O’Banion (Ravenwood Films, Scream 3, Dark Wall).

Congratulations to Kevin Bachar.