Exclusive: Entertainment 360 has signed Inkitt, a data-driven publisher dedicated to discovering the world’s best storytellers, for representation across film and television.
The goal will be to help Inkitt move closer to realizing its vision of building an even more formidable next-gen media company, with Inkitt Original stories to be adapted for film and TV. Other avenues to be explored, with regard to the exploitation of its IP, include immersive reading, audiobooks, video games, and theme parks, to name just a few.
Founded in 2013 by Ali Albazaz, who serves as CEO, Inkitt is a reader-powered platform that has used proprietary technology to identify promising up-and-coming scribes, who have then been assisted in refining and monetizing their work. By examining reader engagement and behavioral data, the publisher has been able to establish a particularly impressive track record in identifying future bestsellers.
Since the San Francisco-based company launched its own publishing and distribution platform,...
The goal will be to help Inkitt move closer to realizing its vision of building an even more formidable next-gen media company, with Inkitt Original stories to be adapted for film and TV. Other avenues to be explored, with regard to the exploitation of its IP, include immersive reading, audiobooks, video games, and theme parks, to name just a few.
Founded in 2013 by Ali Albazaz, who serves as CEO, Inkitt is a reader-powered platform that has used proprietary technology to identify promising up-and-coming scribes, who have then been assisted in refining and monetizing their work. By examining reader engagement and behavioral data, the publisher has been able to establish a particularly impressive track record in identifying future bestsellers.
Since the San Francisco-based company launched its own publishing and distribution platform,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephen Soderbergh does his homework. The director just released his diary of all the media he consumed in 2014 (it's an annual tradition), and the totals are astounding: More than 100 different films, 30-some-odd books, and dozens of TV shows. And he did all that while working on The Knick and Magic Mike Xxl! Surely you, with your comparatively minuscule workload, could afford to mimic Soderbergh's watching habits and thus gain a small measure of his encyclopedic film knowledge. If you're so inclined, here's how to do it:Be a PolymathThe most interesting thing about Soderbergh's taste is that there is no real "Soderbergh taste." The guy watches everything. He'll watch the Elia Kazan melodrama The Arrangement, then follow it up with a Katt Williams comedy special the same night. Then, the next week, he'll watch another Katt Williams comedy special, followed by Citizenfour and a Smithsonian documentary on the Nazca...
- 1/6/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
I don’t mean to take anything away from Faye Dunaway, the legendary Oscar winner who turns 73 today, but even though she’s a fantastic actress who defined fierce sensuality, I mostly marvel at the level of glamor she exuded on film. It’s one thing to wear magnificent clothes (which she often did), but it’s another to be a smokin’ sorceress in fabulous costuming. Here are my favorite Faye Dunaway glamor moments.
7. This Particular jacket and hat combo from Bonnie and Clyde. I would wear it. I really would.
6. All the lingering legginess from Barfly (which Faye insisted upon)
5. This famous photo of Faye after winning her Oscar for Network. Very posed, very necessary.
4. This smokin’ glance from the amazing Voyage of the Damned.
3. Oh yes. She really enjoyed grapes this way in The Arrangement.
2. Her film noir eyebrows in Chinatown. Like little wisps of suspicion.
1. Every moment...
7. This Particular jacket and hat combo from Bonnie and Clyde. I would wear it. I really would.
6. All the lingering legginess from Barfly (which Faye insisted upon)
5. This famous photo of Faye after winning her Oscar for Network. Very posed, very necessary.
4. This smokin’ glance from the amazing Voyage of the Damned.
3. Oh yes. She really enjoyed grapes this way in The Arrangement.
2. Her film noir eyebrows in Chinatown. Like little wisps of suspicion.
1. Every moment...
- 1/14/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Elia Kazan is one of my top five favourite American filmmakers of all time, and so I decided to ask our staff to rank his films. If you are not yet familiar with the filmmakers work, now would be a good time to start. Kazan was one of the most honoured and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history and introduced a new generation of unknown young actors to the world, including Marlon Brando, James Dean, Warren Beatty, Carroll Baker, Julie Harris, Andy Griffith, Lee Remick, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam, Fred Gwynne, and Pat Hingle. Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his cast, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. The source for his inspired directing was the revolutionary acting technique known as the Method, and Kazan quickly rose to prominence as the preeminent proponent of the technique. During his career,...
- 6/1/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Deborah Kerr movies: with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity Deborah Kerr Pt.2: Sexual Outlaw As an unhappily married woman having a torrid affair with an army officer shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Deborah Kerr is equally powerful in one of her best-remembered movies, From Here to Eternity (1953), stealing the romantic melodrama from her male co-stars. Fred Zinnemann’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster marked one of the rare times when Kerr’s physique played a part in her erotic persona, as she parades around Hawaii in Lana Turner-type shorts and frolics on the wet sand with brawny Burt Lancaster. Less obvious is Kerr’s headmaster’s wife in Tea and Sympathy (1956), who, despite her discreet clothing and demeanor, ends up seducing one of her husband’s teenage students. It’s all for a good cause, of course — the "sensitive" adolescent thinks he may be gay...
- 5/22/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the 1950s, and the fact that he claimed to be unrepentant about naming names — and ruining careers and lives — during the Red-baiting hysteria of the post-World War II years. Kazan's 19 feature films as a director are wildly uneven. For every great A Streetcar Named Desire there is a dreadful America, America, in addition to everything in between. Yet, probably as a result of his Broadway training, Kazan was undeniably an outstanding actors' director. Tough-guy Brando remains the best-remembered Kazan star for his performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront (less so for his Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata!). Even so, the director elicited superb performances from a wide range of players, from child actress Peggy Ann Garner, who won a Juvenile Oscar...
- 2/22/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
[Editor's Note: This interview was published during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.] Many will dismiss The Lie as another mumblecore graduate and not get why it’s worth making a movie for this, which is fine. Let them. There are enough of us out there who do get this. Written by Leonard with the participation of Jess Weixler, Mark Webber and Jeff Feuerzeig (director of The Devil and Daniel Johnston and an upcoming Untitled Chuck Wepner Project), I see this as a modern telling of Elia Kazan's The Arrangement, but do not take that to mean Leonard is conjuring Kirk Douglas in any way. Although come to think of it, Weixler could probably do a very fine Deborah Kerr. I invite you to check out my review, and listen to my pre-festival phone interview below where writer/director/co-star Joshua Leonard --- where we dig into the fabric and genesis of the film and how the actor went from The Blair Witch Project...
- 11/17/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Self-taught costume designer who dressed Beatty and Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Theadora Van Runkle was almost 40 and broke, a commercial illustrator drawing fashion ads for the May Department Stores Company to support her children, when she met the movie costume designer Dorothy Jeakins at a party in Los Angeles in 1966. Jeakins had been in the business a long time by then (from Joan of Arc to The Sound of Music), but she was no sketch artist, and she hired Van Runkle on the spot to do that task for the glum epic Hawaii. The engagement lasted barely a month. As payback, Jeakins later called to say: "I've just been asked to do a little western over at Warner Bros" – she couldn't do it because of conflicting schedules – "and I recommended you."
Van Runkle, who has died of lung cancer aged 83, panicked. She had no design training, but she had...
Theadora Van Runkle was almost 40 and broke, a commercial illustrator drawing fashion ads for the May Department Stores Company to support her children, when she met the movie costume designer Dorothy Jeakins at a party in Los Angeles in 1966. Jeakins had been in the business a long time by then (from Joan of Arc to The Sound of Music), but she was no sketch artist, and she hired Van Runkle on the spot to do that task for the glum epic Hawaii. The engagement lasted barely a month. As payback, Jeakins later called to say: "I've just been asked to do a little western over at Warner Bros" – she couldn't do it because of conflicting schedules – "and I recommended you."
Van Runkle, who has died of lung cancer aged 83, panicked. She had no design training, but she had...
- 11/12/2011
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Celebration of Actor.s Life and Career to Include Conversation with Robert Osborne,
Clips from One-Man Show and Special Screening of Spartacus (1960)
Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas will be a special guest at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. During the festival, which takes place April 28-May 1, the three-time Oscar nominee and honorary Academy Award winner will join TCM host Robert Osborne for an interview on stage, leading into a screening of Stanley Kubrick.s epic film Spartacus (1960), which Douglas also produced. The evening.s festivities will include clips from Douglas. biographical one-man show, Before I Forget (2009).
.Kirk Douglas is an American icon whose performances have struck an indelible chord with moviegoers for more than 60 years,. Osborne said. .At the age of 94, he retains the great vitality and enthusiasm which has always been the Douglas trademark. We couldn.t be more pleased that Spartacus himself will be joining us at...
Clips from One-Man Show and Special Screening of Spartacus (1960)
Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas will be a special guest at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. During the festival, which takes place April 28-May 1, the three-time Oscar nominee and honorary Academy Award winner will join TCM host Robert Osborne for an interview on stage, leading into a screening of Stanley Kubrick.s epic film Spartacus (1960), which Douglas also produced. The evening.s festivities will include clips from Douglas. biographical one-man show, Before I Forget (2009).
.Kirk Douglas is an American icon whose performances have struck an indelible chord with moviegoers for more than 60 years,. Osborne said. .At the age of 94, he retains the great vitality and enthusiasm which has always been the Douglas trademark. We couldn.t be more pleased that Spartacus himself will be joining us at...
- 3/28/2011
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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