Snap Inc. — parent company of popular disappearing messaging app Snapchat — has just inked a two-year deal with Time Warner to invest in original shows and ads on its content. Snap Inc. confirmed the partnership with TheWrap on Monday, but did not disclose financials. Time Warner will invest $100 million in Snap, and its Warner Bros. studio will partner on up to 10 shows. The Wall Street Journal reports Ellen DeGeneres, Samantha Bee and Wonder Woman may all be involved in the new shows. Also Read: 'Silicon Valley' Is Right: Snapchat's 'Phone Swap' Perfectly Taps My Millennial Angst “Time Warner and their brands have.
- 6/19/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
Snap Inc. — the parent company of popular messaging app Snapchat — has acquired Placed, a Seattle-based company that helps advertisers track the location and buying habits of its customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a blog post on his company’s site, Placed CEO David Shim said “Placed’s goal continues to be the adoption of a common yardstick that can measure the offline effectiveness of advertising across multiple platforms and publishers.” Also Read: 'Silicon Valley' Is Right: Snapchat's 'Phone Swap' Perfectly Taps My Millennial Angst Shim will report to Imran Khan, Snap’s Chief Strategy Officer,...
- 6/6/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
Snap Inc. — the tech company that founded messaging app Snapchat — continues to roll out its slate of original content with Friday’s release of the second episode of “Phone Swap,” the self-described “super awkward dating show.” The show is simple, but that’s why it works: Two young singles show up for a date, where they’re forced to exchange phones and then immediately go in separate directions. They take turns checking out what type of cringe-worthy content they can find, while the other person sits in a booth and comments on their discoveries. And despite the anxiety it caused me,...
- 5/26/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
While James Corden is not entirely new to the United States, he's not entering The Late Late Show with nearly the same level of familiarity to U.S. audiences as his predecessor, Craig Ferguson.
For the uninitiated, here are some of Corden's best TV moments that prove he's got this gig on lock.
That Time He Locked Lips with Harry Styles
To the envy of teens everywhere (and grown adults, shut up), One Direction's Styles, then 19 years old, laid one on Corden during a kiss cam segment on A League of Their Own, which Corden has hosted since 2011. Though...
For the uninitiated, here are some of Corden's best TV moments that prove he's got this gig on lock.
That Time He Locked Lips with Harry Styles
To the envy of teens everywhere (and grown adults, shut up), One Direction's Styles, then 19 years old, laid one on Corden during a kiss cam segment on A League of Their Own, which Corden has hosted since 2011. Though...
- 3/23/2015
- by Amanda Michelle Steiner, @amandamichl
- People.com - TV Watch
The Nollywood New York Film Series, organized by the Yoruba Cultural Institute and MediAfritiQ, will host the USA premieres of two recent Nigerian hit movies - Phone Swap (by Kunle Afolayan) and Finding Mercy (by Desmond Elliot). Included in the series, which celebrates "Nollywood At 20," will be a panel discussion on that subject, featuring actor/producer/activist Gbenga Akinnagbe, veteran Nollywood screen diva and human rights advocate, Stella Damasus; Mojisola Sonoiki, founder and director of Wocaf Festival; Iroko Partners business development officer, Oluchi Enuha; Nyu professor of Drama and...
- 10/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Forget popcorn, it will be beignets and Naija meat pies all round when the French capital hosts its first Nigerian film week
Even though Nigeria didn't get much love at this year's African film festival, Fespaco, some Parisians believe the francophone world is ready for Naija cinema. Nollywood, the world's second largest film industry, produces more than 2,000 films annually, and now seven of its best will be screened at France's first ever NollywoodWeek Paris. From 30 May to 2 June, the L'Arlequin Theatre in Saint-Germain-des-Prés will host the festival, which is to include a VIP cocktail with the filmmakers, panel discussions and a crafts marketplace.
Nollywood is already popular in France. A new channel, Nollywood TV, has launched. A walk through Barbès and Château Rouge reveals shops full of films from around west Africa. Nollywood still doesn't have much access to mainstream France however, something the organisers of the film festival are hoping to change.
Even though Nigeria didn't get much love at this year's African film festival, Fespaco, some Parisians believe the francophone world is ready for Naija cinema. Nollywood, the world's second largest film industry, produces more than 2,000 films annually, and now seven of its best will be screened at France's first ever NollywoodWeek Paris. From 30 May to 2 June, the L'Arlequin Theatre in Saint-Germain-des-Prés will host the festival, which is to include a VIP cocktail with the filmmakers, panel discussions and a crafts marketplace.
Nollywood is already popular in France. A new channel, Nollywood TV, has launched. A walk through Barbès and Château Rouge reveals shops full of films from around west Africa. Nollywood still doesn't have much access to mainstream France however, something the organisers of the film festival are hoping to change.
- 5/7/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
We've given coverage to his latest work, the rom-com titled Phone Swap, as he prepares for his next film, an international collaboration (the first for the filmmaker) titled Dead Alive. Nigerian director Kunle Afolayan is one of a handful of internationally-known Nollywood filmmakers, pushing for a new kind of Nollywood cinema - specifically, a Nollywood cinema that can compete in the international film marketplace, and as we continue to see more and more of these cross-continental (we could even say pan-Africanist) collaborations, between African American or British actors, and African writer/directors (those in Nigeria/Nollywood...
- 12/20/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 35th Cairo International Film Festival will take place from November 27 to December 6. We will bring you coverage of this year's lineup, which includes several familiar African cinema titles you should recognize (Nairobi Half Life, Last Flight To Abuja, Relentless, Phone Swap and more), as well as panels and other symposiums. In the meantime, here's a starter from the festival press release: The 35th Ciff, which is scheduled to start on November 27th and end on December 6th, will have a high presence of African cinema by having nine participating films. These films are about different cases from the reality of African society. Ciff will also host a major symposium...
- 11/9/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Director Kunle Afolayan's romantic-comedy Phone Swap, will screen on November 10 at the Film Africa film festival in the UK; and ahead of that premiere, the UK's Guardian newspaper profiled Afolayan and his film (which we've covered a bit here on S&A), and, in reading it, towards the end, I read this: Afolayan is aiming to shoot October 1st, a serial killer movie set in 1960 against the backdrop of Nigerian independence, in February, but he is trying to secure a foreign co-producer outside the country first, to better his international chances. "It is difficult to get a mainstream distribution deal, no matter how fantastic your film is, because...
- 10/30/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Hailed as the 'Martin Scorsese of Lagos', Afolayan is finding new ways to take his films beyond Nigerian borders – screening his latest, Phone Swap, at the Film Africa festival in London
They're calling you "the Scorsese of Lagos" – no pressure then. That's what the New York Times recently headlined its piece, and Kunle Afolayan's ambitions to shake up the industry now known (more great expectations) as Nollywood. With three films under his belt since he started directing in 2005 – which, by frantic west-African standards, makes him more the Kubrick of Lagos – the 38-year-old has become a byword for elevated quality: shooting on 35mm, releasing in cinemas, trying to improve on horribly stilted Nollywood formulas that seem to place more emphasis on gaudy soft furnishings than on dialogue and camerawork.
Actually, Afolayan would prefer it if you called him the Mel Gibson of Lagos. "I always show Apocalypto to my crew,...
They're calling you "the Scorsese of Lagos" – no pressure then. That's what the New York Times recently headlined its piece, and Kunle Afolayan's ambitions to shake up the industry now known (more great expectations) as Nollywood. With three films under his belt since he started directing in 2005 – which, by frantic west-African standards, makes him more the Kubrick of Lagos – the 38-year-old has become a byword for elevated quality: shooting on 35mm, releasing in cinemas, trying to improve on horribly stilted Nollywood formulas that seem to place more emphasis on gaudy soft furnishings than on dialogue and camerawork.
Actually, Afolayan would prefer it if you called him the Mel Gibson of Lagos. "I always show Apocalypto to my crew,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Rehashing Emmanuel's March 23rd post on the project, when it was announced that it would be seeing theatrical releases in Nigeria and Ghana... Director Kunle Afolayan's romantic-comedy Phone Swap, stars Nigerian-British stage/film vet Wale Ojo (Meet The Adebanjos) and the very lovely Nse Ikpe-Etim (Guilty Pleasures) in the lead roles. The synopsis for Phone Swap reads: Akin and Mary meet for the first time at an airport where they accidentally bump into each other and mistakenly swap their identical Blackberry phones. This leads to a destination mix up after they receive one another’s text regarding a travel destination. Consequently, Akin...
- 8/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
His latest work, the rom-com titled Phone Swap, still playing in Nigeria (per his Twitter feed), director Kunle Afolayan is already on to the next one - an international collaboration (the first for Afolayan) titled Dead Alive. In the interview below, Afolayan breaks the news about this new project, adding that it'll be something totally different from anything he's ever done, as he collabs, for the first time, with producers and production companies from outside Nigeria, as well as an international cast of actors. He then adds that he thinks it's the film that will get him "there" - "there" being, a film that can compete on the...
- 8/21/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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