Valhalla Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films have kicked off production on upcoming documentary Mass Effect: The Story of YouTube, Deadline hears.
Directed and produced by Alex Winter, with Gale Anne Hurd and Glen Zipper also on board as producers, Mass Effect will be a gripping, frightening and, at times, hilarious look at the video-streaming platform, examining its humble origins within a pizzeria attic, and how it went on to become the largest media platform in history.
While looking at cultural phenomena like cat videos, the doc will also dig into weighty issues associated with YouTube. Offering access to key players in technology, business, media and politics, it will specifically tackle such subjects as surveillance, algorithmic capitalism, online radicalization, and the spread of fake news.
“I’m very excited to be partnering with Gale Anne Hurd and my long-time producing partner Glen Zipper on this film,...
Directed and produced by Alex Winter, with Gale Anne Hurd and Glen Zipper also on board as producers, Mass Effect will be a gripping, frightening and, at times, hilarious look at the video-streaming platform, examining its humble origins within a pizzeria attic, and how it went on to become the largest media platform in history.
While looking at cultural phenomena like cat videos, the doc will also dig into weighty issues associated with YouTube. Offering access to key players in technology, business, media and politics, it will specifically tackle such subjects as surveillance, algorithmic capitalism, online radicalization, and the spread of fake news.
“I’m very excited to be partnering with Gale Anne Hurd and my long-time producing partner Glen Zipper on this film,...
- 3/18/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Horror documentary to be released theatrically and on VoD on June 5.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American distribution rights to The Nightmare.
Rodney Ascher’s horror documentary premiered at Sundance in January and also screens today [March 13] at SXSW.
It sees the Room 237 film-maker use cinematic recreations to get the audience into the heads of everyday people suffering from “sleep paralysis”.
The film will be released theatrically and on VoD on June 5.
Ascher commented: “I’m thrilled that we’ve found such a fearless partner to release the film into the world at large, Gravitas is dedicated to welcoming everyone to our Nightmare and I’m excited to be working with them.”
The deal was negotiated by Mia Bruno for Gravitas and Zac Bright and Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Campfire’s Ross M. Dinerstein and Zipper Brothers Films’ Glen Zipper produced The Nightmare, which was co-produced by Tim Kirk and executive...
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American distribution rights to The Nightmare.
Rodney Ascher’s horror documentary premiered at Sundance in January and also screens today [March 13] at SXSW.
It sees the Room 237 film-maker use cinematic recreations to get the audience into the heads of everyday people suffering from “sleep paralysis”.
The film will be released theatrically and on VoD on June 5.
Ascher commented: “I’m thrilled that we’ve found such a fearless partner to release the film into the world at large, Gravitas is dedicated to welcoming everyone to our Nightmare and I’m excited to be working with them.”
The deal was negotiated by Mia Bruno for Gravitas and Zac Bright and Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Campfire’s Ross M. Dinerstein and Zipper Brothers Films’ Glen Zipper produced The Nightmare, which was co-produced by Tim Kirk and executive...
- 3/13/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Rodney Ascher took us on a tour of the secluded and ominous Overlook Hotel like never before in Room 237, a documentary about various theories on what hidden messages or themes could exist in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. With The Nightmare, Ascher returns to the big screen with another documentary on a scary subject, one that's all too familiar for some folks: sleep paralysis. Tormented by "shadow people" and other eerie entities while unable to move their bodies, people plagued by sleep paralysis have their stories recreated in Ascher's The Nightmare (showing tonight at the SXSW Film Festival), and North American audiences can see these nighttime terrors brought to life onscreen soon, as Gravitas Ventures has acquired The Nightmare and will release it in theaters and on VOD early this summer:
"El Segundo, CA (March 13, 2015) – The Nightmare, the unique horror documentary from director...
"El Segundo, CA (March 13, 2015) – The Nightmare, the unique horror documentary from director...
- 3/13/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Following a triumphant win at this year.s Oscar ceremony, Exclusive Media has sold international rights in a number of key territories to its Academy Award® Winning documentary feature film Undefeated, it was announced today by Exclusive Media, President of International Sales and Distribution, Alex Walton.
Deals have been completed with the leading documentary distributor Dogwoof in the UK and to Madman Entertainment in Australia as well as with Cdc in Latin America, Independent Films in Benelux, Impuls Pictures/Rialto in Switzerland, Sam Films in Iceland and United King in Israel. Additional sales were made withCathay in Singapore, Pt Amero in Indonesia, Lots Home Entertainment in Taiwan and M Pictures in Thailand. Negotiations are currently underway with a number of remaining territories.
On finalizing the sales, Walton said, .Undefeated is a universally crowd pleasing film exploring the triumph of the human spirit and it is attracting some of the leading...
Deals have been completed with the leading documentary distributor Dogwoof in the UK and to Madman Entertainment in Australia as well as with Cdc in Latin America, Independent Films in Benelux, Impuls Pictures/Rialto in Switzerland, Sam Films in Iceland and United King in Israel. Additional sales were made withCathay in Singapore, Pt Amero in Indonesia, Lots Home Entertainment in Taiwan and M Pictures in Thailand. Negotiations are currently underway with a number of remaining territories.
On finalizing the sales, Walton said, .Undefeated is a universally crowd pleasing film exploring the triumph of the human spirit and it is attracting some of the leading...
- 3/22/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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