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Profile Oversimplifies Modern Anxieties About Online Manipulation The new thriller from Timur Bekmambetov opens Friday in theaters Tweet For a thriller, Profile only really achieves one thing: being as grating as possible. And that’s not entirely meant as negative criticism — it evokes a very contemporary anxiety about online manipulation. Director Timur Bekmambetov produced the Unfriended movies and Searching, all of which were designed to look as though they were entirely recorded via a computer screen. Adapting French writer Anna Erelle’s nonfiction account of her ...

Photo: DAVID DEVLIN/NETFLIX © 2021 It’s finally May. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and the full brunt of the Summer movie season is primed to descend upon us like a mighty avalanche of cinema. There are a ton of new films premiering exclusively in theaters this month, including this weekend’s Wrath of Man (which won’t be on demand), as the country continues to vaccinate and multiplexes reopen with varying safety standards. Still, there are plenty of great new movies premiering via streaming and day-one premiere services, too. This week, there’s Monster, based on Walter...

Press Release – NZ On Air   NZ On Air has greenlit 11 innovative new youth projects to be distributed through a variety of online platforms used by young audiences. Up to $2.4m has been invested in content that will focus on youth voices, perspectives and issues in Aotearoa. The projects were selected following a call out for Scripted, Factual or Music content that could ‘cut through the online noise’ and strongly connect with 15-24 year olds in New Zealand. Emphasis was placed on reaching youth audiences via the platforms they most actively engage with, in line with NZ On Air’s 2020...

What you need to know Twitter today purchased Scroll, a paid ad removal service aimed at readers who want to support sites without ads. The company is immediately pausing all new sign-ups to Scroll. In the future, Twitter plans to launch its own subscription service, and Scroll will form a part of that. Twitter today announced its latest purchase, Scroll, a platform aimed at helping users remove ads from websites. For select websites, users would pay a monthly subscription to Scroll and have their ads removed while still supporting the creators. Scroll would pocket a little of what was paid a...

GR: Listen. Regardless of who coined the phrase, Vtubing is a growing form of performance art with multiple fandoms under that umbrella. The biggest Vtubers, like the monster-girl idols streaming for companies like Hololive, are part of a whole new industry. They’re a combination of YouTube Let’s Players and Virtual Idols with managers and artists and pro-wrestling style kayfabe. It’s a fast and flashy and super-impressive production when you’ve got a whole team doing it like Hololive does, and that kind of thing has raised the visibility of Vtubing a lot. CS: But not all Vtubers work...