#wendy rogers

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

The social media and messaging platform Telegram is allowing numerous QAnon and far-right channels to monetize their content on the platform with revenue from its newly launched advertisements program, a Media Matters review has found.

In late February, Telegram’s CEO and founder Pavel Durov announced that the company would be launching advertising on the platform, “allowing channel owners to receive financial rewards.” Specifically, owners of public channels with over 1,000 subscribers would receive “a 50% share of the revenue Telegram earns in connection with the number of valid impressions of sponsored messages displayed in eligible channels you own” — an arrangement the platform has called “one of the most generous reward systems in the history of social media.” Ads are described within the app as “help[ing] the channel creator.” [...]

As for where these advertisements are winding up, a Media Matters review found them running in nearly three dozen QAnon-affiliated and far-right channels, suggesting that the owners of these channels have financially benefited from the new feature. These include multiple channels associated with QAnon figures and shows such as Nicholas Veniamin, Jacob Creech (known online as “Clandestine”), “Pepe Lives Matter,” John Sabal (known online as “QAnon John” and “The Patriot Voice”), “StormyPatriotJoe,” “Enoch,” “TheStormHasArrived17,” “Shadow of Ezra,” Paul Fleuret (known online as “Absolute1776”), Jeffrey Pedersen (known online as “intheMatrixxx”), David Hayes (known online as “Praying Medic”), Jordan Sather, X22 Report, Patriot Streetfighter, Woke Societies, and Zak Paine. The review also found a channel called “Q NEWS OFFICIAL TV #WWG1WGA” with advertisements.

[...]

Outside of QAnon, far-right figures who have promoted white nationalism, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and/or Holocaust denial — Vincent James Foxx, Laura Loomer, Stew Peters, Nick Fuentes, and Keith Woods — also had advertisements on their channels. Other far-right figures and entities had advertisements on their channels as well, including Patrick Byrne, Sidney Powell, David Clements, and former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, who have pushed election denial; Sherri Tenpenny and Larry Cook, who have pushed anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories; conspiracy theorists Roger Stone and Karli Bonne; conspiracy theory channels Disclosure Hub and “Covid Truth Network”; and Tracy “Beanz” Diaz, who played a key role in QAnon’s early spread.

Telegram coddles far-right extremists and QAnon conspiracists with its new ads program that allows monetization of their content.

[not-safe-for-democracy]

After Kari Lake lost the Arizona governorship race last month, Republican state senator Wendy Rogers, who once told a group of white nationalists that 'more gallows' are needed and who is also a vocal 2020 election denier, wonders if the GOP has a messaging problem.

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its The People Under the Stairs 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray. Originally due out on April 25, the 1991 cult classic will now release on May 30.

Written and directed by master of horror Wes Craven, the film stars Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Bill Cobbs, Kelly Jo Minter, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch.

The People Under the Stairs has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision (HDR-10 compatible) with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 options. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by writer-director Wes Craven

Audio commentary by actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch

Audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams

Interview with writer-director Wes Craven

Interview with actress A.J. Langer

Interview with actor Sean Whalen

Filmmaker Jeffrey Reddick on the film’s lasting impact

Theatrical trailer

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by writer-director Wes Craven

Audio commentary by actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Birch

Audio commentary by actor Brandon Adams

Interview with actress Wendy Robie

Interviews with special effects artists Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, And Robert Kurtzman

Interview with director of photography Sandi Sissel

Interview with composer Don Peake

Making-of featurette

Behind-the-scenes footage

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

Storyboard gallery

Still gallery

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. He quickly learns the true nature of the house’s homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.

Pre-order The People Under the Stairs.

[moviemosaics]

The Magician’s Elephant

directed by Wendy Rogers, 2023

[movienized-com]

The Magician’s Elephant (2023)

Der Elefant des MagiersJahr: 2023 (März) Genre: Anime / Abenteuer / Comedy Regie: Wendy Rogers Hauptrollen: Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou, Sian Clifford, Benedict Wong, Miranda Richardson, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Aasif Mandvi, Pixie Davies, Dawn French… Filmbeschreibung: Peter (Stimme im Original: Noah Jupe) befindet auf der Suche nach seiner verschollenen…

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[ex0rin]

Cap, they want you back at S.H.I.E.L.D they want you now.

[forevervanity]

[newsfromstolenland]

Dozens of Toronto residents are now boycotting Home Hardware due to the company's "engagement" with a specific advertising company that advocates claim "lock out unionized performers." 

In a recent post to a local community Facebook group, one Toronto resident informed other members that the home improvement retailer was one of the companies named on ACTRA's (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) boycott list.

"Did you know that Home Hardware is on a boycott list issued by ACTRA, the union of Canadian performers on TV and film? Why? Because they buy their ads from a company that has locked out unionized performers for the last year in an attempt to break the union," the post reads.

[...]

Other companies listed on the ACTRA lockout include H&R Block, Canadian Tire, Rogers, Wendy's, and Sleep Country.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945)

[rhyliethecaterfly]

Guess The Reference

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[not-wholly-unheroic]

ATTENTION HOOK FANS!! I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!!

Been debating for awhile about doing a compare/contrast of various Hooks’ cabins and ships and what it says about them as an individual. I definitely want to include Isaacs, Hoffman, and Disney, as those are usually the three most well-known versions of the character. Might also include Fox’s Hook and Jude Law’s recent interpretation of the character. HOWEVER… I’m gonna need A LOT of stills to do this properly and it may take me awhile to get them all together. To that end…if any of you have any high resolution images of either specific details on the outside of the Jolly Roger (close-ups of things like figureheads, bulwarks, etc.) or images with a decent look at the background inside Hook’s cabin for any of these versions, please send them my way.

[theodoradove]

I went to the 2024 Cat Video Fest on a whim (since the first showing was right before A Matter of Life and Death) and it was such a delight to watch silly cat videos in a theater full of laughing people. It's playing at the Roxie several times over the next few weeks as well as in other places across the US (and the proceeds go to cat rescue organizations!).

[terrorpenned]

someone get her a new job

bonus:

[rogers-attic]

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