by Marc Hustvedt on March 11th, 2009
Almost a year after its sizzling teaser trailer went up on YouTube starring the original lonelygirl15 Jessica Rose, Blood Cell from web studio 60Frames has finally found a mass distribution deal. The horror-thriller web series has found a home on Warner Bros.’ online network TheWB.com for release later this year.
Back in October, we wondered what happened to Blood Cell, which seemed to have squandered its healthy web buzz. The trailer (above), which was released on April 1, 2008, netted some 5.2 million views. The eighteen episode series was produced by Jeremy Bell and written-directed by genre director Eduardo Rodriguez.
by Alex Crowley on March 11th, 2009
Does anybody know what to make of Andy Dick? I mean, is he for real? The guy pops up everywhere (sometimes with this son?!?) and whenever I see him I laugh, but I can’t tell if it’s with him or at at him. If anything, dude’s probably laughing at me because, unless he invested with [...]
by Jamison Tilsner on March 11th, 2009
MTV began as a showcase for music videos, but the art form has slowly shifted almost exclusively to the web. In turn, MTV has turned to the web for scripted series that were once the exclusive domain of television. This is the clearest example to date of the ways in which the internet is changing [...]
by Pat Miller on March 11th, 2009
We All Float On makes it on to the list of “Shows That Every Aspiring Web Series Creator Should Watch” for one simple reason: it’s a show about a pair of two twenty-something best friends who decide that they need to grow up and become proper adults. Episode One of the series premiered today at noon EST, with new episodes every Wednesday.
Created by veteran commercial director Jason Zada, Tim Immordino, and Nic Novicki, and starring Novicki and Bob Bledsoe as Marvin and Timmy, We All Float On starts off with a very promising pilot episode; Marvin and Timmy wake up to find that their primary source of income – selling stuff online – has been shut down by the website authorities for violating the Terms of Service.
by Marc Hustvedt on March 11th, 2009
MTV has ordered up a half hour pilot of raunchy comedy web series Private High Musical which debuted last fall, marking the latest of the network’s web to TV pickups. Creator and star Taryn Southern will produce the new pilot, which is still in pre-production.
As part of the deal, MTV acquires the rights to the series, though Southern will remain a producer and actor in the show. Southern originally cast a talented group of actors she’d worked with before, including Lauren Mayhew and fellow Sorority Forever star Angie Cole, even her new producing partner and web star Jessica Rose made a cameo. Some of the original cast are expected to return, though no word yet on whether Mr. Belding himself, Dennis Haskins, who played Mr. Johnson in the series, will be making his the trip back to primetime.
by Michael Shaw on March 10th, 2009
Great Depression Cooking features the spry, still-brown-haired-90-something-year-old Clara cooking- pasta with peas, egg drop soup, cooked bread, and more, all while recounting brief snippets of her memories of the Great Depression. Shot by her grandson, Christopher Cannucciari (the Grandson/Grandmother duo is a common ingredient in online cooking shows) the results are surprisingly subtle. Originally released [...]
by Andrea Ball on March 10th, 2009
Madatoms, a digital studio and production company jumping into developing web series, created S.W.I.P.E. as their first serial project. They are still hashing out distribution details, but there are at least seven more series down the pipeline. The list includes a series directed by Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) and another series, Dream Crushers, featuring comedy giants such as Will Sasso, Bryan Callen, Sara Rue, and Scott Thompson. Head to their YouTube channel and you will find a few clips over the last month from The Whitest Kids U’Know promoting Fox’s Miss March.
Written and directed as a team by Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntrye. Ginsburg said the idea for the series was spawned after the government anti-copyright campaigns, which you have most likely seen as a commercial at the movie theater, and only made you laugh at the issue.
Max Hartman plays Special Agents Billdog Hicks and Joel Spence plays special agent Hersch Norton. There is also an appearance from Kate Micucci (Scrubs) also well known for her YouTube music mash-ups on ukulele.
by Marc Hustvedt on March 9th, 2009
If you haven’t caught up on Crackle’s brash action comedy series The Hustler yet, you might want to take a break from what you’re doing and go do just that. Today marks the end of the 11-episode debut season of the original web series from creators Sam Friedlander and Mark Feuerstein, with the release of the plot-turning finale (above).
Friedlander and Feuerstein are a classic producing duo—one half filmmaker, one half veteran actor. The pair, along with partner Adam B. Stein make up LA-based Supdawg Productions, which has a handful of web, TV and film projects in development. Friedlander and Stein both were finalists in 2007′s On the Lot reality series, where the two young filmmakers compete for a Dreamworks development deal.
