“District 9” director Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios will experiment with selling short films on gaming website Stream as a way to develop feature film ideas. Many shorts will also be available on the Oats Studios YouTube channel, but a few will be exclusive for purchase as a way to see if the ecosystem works for film, Blomkamp said.
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If I sold experimental short films on @steam_games as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them?
— NΞill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp) April 9, 2017
The director, also known for “Elysium” and “Chappie,” floated the idea on twitter: “If I sold experimental short films on [Steam Games] as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them?” He added that concept art, 3-D assets, and Maya scene files would be available for download through Steam. “I want to have...
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If I sold experimental short films on @steam_games as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them?
— NΞill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp) April 9, 2017
The director, also known for “Elysium” and “Chappie,” floated the idea on twitter: “If I sold experimental short films on [Steam Games] as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them?” He added that concept art, 3-D assets, and Maya scene files would be available for download through Steam. “I want to have...
- 5/23/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Welcome back to the series of posts here at SciFi Mafia that we’re calling Web Series Wednesday where we devote a space to the wonderment of the web series. Every Wednesday we’ll cover an awesome web series and give you all the info to get into it.
If you’ve got a favorite web series you’d like us to cover, head on over to the Contact Us page and shoot us your request. To catch up on past Web Series Wednesday posts click here.
This week we’re covering Stream.
Stream is a six part web series from FEARnet starring Whoopi Goldberg. It’s about a woman who, since she was a teenager, has believed she has suffered from schizophrenia. Really she has been having visions of the future. For the first time in her 50′s she’s able to recall back to moments in the past...
If you’ve got a favorite web series you’d like us to cover, head on over to the Contact Us page and shoot us your request. To catch up on past Web Series Wednesday posts click here.
This week we’re covering Stream.
Stream is a six part web series from FEARnet starring Whoopi Goldberg. It’s about a woman who, since she was a teenager, has believed she has suffered from schizophrenia. Really she has been having visions of the future. For the first time in her 50′s she’s able to recall back to moments in the past...
- 11/13/2013
- by Jess Orso
- ScifiMafia
In the web series world, shows written by and starring black people are a rare but growing segment of the market. Within the sub-genre, there are surprising number of shows starring black women, a real divergence from television and film. The most well-known, Buppies, did some decent business for both Bet and its sponsor CoverGirl, and a number of series in a variety of genres have attracted smaller audiences including Chick, Blue Belle, Kindred, Whoopi Goldberg’s Stream and Robert Townsend’s popular Diary of a Single Mom which just entered its third season on Pic.TV. Debuting on Koldcast this summer and now finishing up its run, Celeste Bright, from TV writer Sonya Steele, furthers this mission of giving better roles and more complexity to black women on screen. Celeste Bright follows the story of a banker of the same name, who becomes embroiled in a financial scandal involving...
- 12/2/2010
- by Aymar Jean Christian
- Tubefilter.com
Uh Oh. It's Going To Be A Stream Of Consciousness Column. Buckle Up!
Man, you take a couple of days off and you get the gayest Emmy nominations ever and about a zillion other things happen that I need to catch up and comment on. How to cover it all?
Hmm, how about I just open my mind up and do it stream of consciousness style? Things might sort of leap all over the place, but it should be interesting. Ready, here we go. Prying open subconscious and...
Nooo! It's awful in here! So cold and dark and empty! Aieeee!
Oh, wait. I actually opened Mary Cheney's soul. How did that happen?
So where did the Flying Monkey (that would be Brent, my partner) and I go last week that kept me from writing the Bgwe? A couple hours north of where we live are the San Juan Islands which...
Man, you take a couple of days off and you get the gayest Emmy nominations ever and about a zillion other things happen that I need to catch up and comment on. How to cover it all?
Hmm, how about I just open my mind up and do it stream of consciousness style? Things might sort of leap all over the place, but it should be interesting. Ready, here we go. Prying open subconscious and...
Nooo! It's awful in here! So cold and dark and empty! Aieeee!
Oh, wait. I actually opened Mary Cheney's soul. How did that happen?
So where did the Flying Monkey (that would be Brent, my partner) and I go last week that kept me from writing the Bgwe? A couple hours north of where we live are the San Juan Islands which...
- 7/16/2010
- by michael
- The Backlot
"Precious" leads the nominations for the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards earning eight noms including Best Director for Lee Daniels, Best Actress for Gabourey Sidibe, Supporting Actress for Mariah Carey, Monique, and Paula Patton, and Best Supporting Actor for Lenny Kravitz.
"Precious" also got nods for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Independent Film. Other films nominated were "Invictus," "Michael Jackson's This Is It," "The Blind Side," and "The Princess and the Frog."
Winners will be announced Feb. 26 on Fox.
Here's the complete list of nominees for the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards:
Motion Picture Categories
Outstanding Motion Picture
. "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
. "Invictus" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
. "Michael Jackson's: This Is It" (Columbia Pictures)
. "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
. "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
. Denzel Washington , "The Taking of Pelham 123" (Columbia Pictures...
"Precious" also got nods for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Independent Film. Other films nominated were "Invictus," "Michael Jackson's This Is It," "The Blind Side," and "The Princess and the Frog."
Winners will be announced Feb. 26 on Fox.
Here's the complete list of nominees for the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards:
Motion Picture Categories
Outstanding Motion Picture
. "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
. "Invictus" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
. "Michael Jackson's: This Is It" (Columbia Pictures)
. "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
. "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
. Denzel Washington , "The Taking of Pelham 123" (Columbia Pictures...
- 1/6/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Thomas Haden Church, former Wings regular and breakout star of 2004 film Sideways, is going after the one meidum he hasn't dabbled in yet—the internet. The 49 year-old Oscar-nominated actor has signed on to star in FEARnet's new original web series Zombie Roadkill which is set for a Spring 2010 release on the site and through its video on demand network. Henry Gayden wrote the script for the six episode horror-comedy which David Green will direct. It's the fourth project made for FEARnet from Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, which had crafted 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails and 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, and Devil's Trade for the network. Aaron Lam from Ghost House will produce the series. Also announced joining the cast is teen David Dorfman known as the little boy from The Ring flicks. Zombie Roadkill centers around a group of college kids as they are driving on an unfamiliar road.
- 12/14/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Just in time for Halloween week, FEARnet launched its much-anticipated horror web series Fear Clinic today. After whetting appetites back in July at Comic-Con, the Robert Englund (Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street films) led thriller centers around a brilliantly creepy Dr. Andover (Englund) and his unlisted clinic for curing lifelong phobias. Director Robert Hall, who comes from the world of visual effects, is a newcomer to web series. His Almost Human effect shop was called on to produce the complex makeup and creature effects so far unseen in a web original. ”This looks like a nasty little Cronenberg film made for the web,” said Englund during our recent interview with him, referencing the venereal horror master. "Fear is the little death that consumes you," warns Dr. Andover in the opening episode (above) to an uneasy Lucas Till. Till plays Brett, a young guy looking to get over his...
- 10/26/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
A 30 Minute Stream? Get yourself to a doctor! Unless of course instead of a severe bladder issue, you're referencing the movie version of FEARnet's original series Stream starring Goldberg and William Sadler! In that case catch the full movie version on FEARnet.com at the Stream show page now and On Demand soon. In case you haven't been following the series and are just getting your feet wet now, Stream is about a girl, Jodi (Goldberg) who spends a lifetime wrestling with her personal demons, and gathering the strength to face her worst fears. Watch now! And seriously, if you weren't talking about the Whoopi starring series? Doctor. Now.
- 2/26/2009
- FEARnet
Whoopi Goldberg stars and executive produces the sci-fi miniseries "Stream" for FEARnet.com. Goldberg plays the lead character, Jodi, trying to come to terms with her lifelong fears. Here we bring you a clip from the very first episode of "Stream", courtesy of the kind folks over at FEARnet.com. Stay tuned for more exclusive clips from the series right here on Bww TV!
- 1/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Thanks to Whitney at Pop Candy, I discovered a new web series that may prove worth watching, starring the one and only savior of The View, Whoopi Goldberg.
Whoopi stars in FEARnet.com’s Stream, a six-episode series in which she plays Jodi Quinn, a woman who has had hallucinations since she was a teen. When she was 17, Jodi took a drug that has the effect of letting her live two moments at once — including moments from the future.
Stream flashes back and forth between three times in Jodi’s life: her turbulent teen years, her present in a psychiatric unit and her future as a 50-something adult trying to live a normal life in the South Bronx.
In an interview with the L.A. Times, Whoopi said that Stream is not the usual blood-and-gore horror story we usually find on FEARnet:
My character has this thing that happens to...
Whoopi stars in FEARnet.com’s Stream, a six-episode series in which she plays Jodi Quinn, a woman who has had hallucinations since she was a teen. When she was 17, Jodi took a drug that has the effect of letting her live two moments at once — including moments from the future.
Stream flashes back and forth between three times in Jodi’s life: her turbulent teen years, her present in a psychiatric unit and her future as a 50-something adult trying to live a normal life in the South Bronx.
In an interview with the L.A. Times, Whoopi said that Stream is not the usual blood-and-gore horror story we usually find on FEARnet:
My character has this thing that happens to...
- 1/21/2009
- by thelinster
- AfterEllen.com
Some may know her from The View, others may know her from Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. We, of course, know and love her best as Guinan, the El-Aurian barkeep of Ten-Forward on the Ncc-1701-d. (That means she had a semi-regular part on Star Trek: The Next Generation.) From this point-of-view, it seemed only natural that she’d be starring in a sci-fi web series called Stream instead of just yenta-ing about Angelina Jolie’s outfits. We were thrilled to speak with Whoopi (finally, someone our Mom has heard of) over the phone the other day. And she gives us a whole new way of looking at Guinan and Picard: Ugo: Whoopi! Hi! We’re talking about Stream, today. Can you tell us a little bit about it? Whoopi Goldberg: Sure. This is my first foray into something called “webisodes,” specifically made for the web. It...
- 1/21/2009
- UGO Movies
Sci-fi website io9.com has a look at the trailer and an exclusive clip from actress and host of “The View” Whoopi Goldberg’s new web series, “Stream”. You can check both out here. “Stream” is about a woman institutionalized for hallucinations, when in fact she is ricocheting through time, from her teenage years to the future to back to the present, seemingly without control. She must try to manage to get back in time to when she first started as a teen and find out what went wrong with her years ago, or she’ll be stuck streaming back and forth forever. Goldberg, known for her stand-up comedy and radio and TV [...]...
- 1/16/2009
- by Costa Koutsoutis
- ShockYa
In the first few moments of the first scene of FEARnet’s latest original web series Stream, I expected Whoopi Goldberg to snap her fingers, smile, and start singing a tune tweaked with theocentric lyrics from the days when American Bandstand was relevant. The high ceilings, stained glass, vaulted windows, marble floors and overall ecclesiastical atmosphere of whatever New York City building her character Jodi Quinn is laboring through give the immediate impression that Sister Mary Clarence was back on the pulpit. But then the flashback started…or is it flashfoward? Due to complications from a drug she took when she was 17, “Jodi Quinn remembers the future.” Physiologically, it looks a lot like how Ashton Kutcher’s character in The Butterfly Effect manipulates his past. Quinn seizes, and in the middle of epileptic thralls recollects past events or events yet to happen. It’s as if The Fates were drunk...
- 1/15/2009
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
It's been a little while since Whoopi Goldberg went sci-fi (we're thinking back to Star Trek: The Next Generation here), but apparently she missed the genre enough to take a stab at her own web series. Goldberg will executive produce and star in a new sci-fi web series Stream that premieres January 15th on FEARnet. Goldberg plays Jodi Quinn, a woman locked up in a psychiatric facility due to a bizarre drug she took years before which causes her to simultaneously experience parts of her life, both past and present. The series is slated for just six episodes, each one at about five minutes, so it's hard to say how much of a story can really develop and get resolved in the thirty minute runtime. Aside from FEARnet's site, the series will be pushed out to distribution partners including Joost, Metacafe, Comcast's Fancast, Veoh and Break.
- 12/16/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg is creating and will star in a new science fiction mini-series that will be broadcast only online.
Stream will debut on 15 January on Fearnet.com.
Six five-minute weekly installments will follow Goldberg's character coming to terms with her fears.
It won't be the Ghost actress's first venture into the sci-fi world - she appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the late 1980s.
Stream will debut on 15 January on Fearnet.com.
Six five-minute weekly installments will follow Goldberg's character coming to terms with her fears.
It won't be the Ghost actress's first venture into the sci-fi world - she appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the late 1980s.
- 12/16/2008
- WENN
Before Whoopi Goldberg was in the profession of making Elisabeth Hasselbeck cry, the Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, and many other awards-winning actor played a good listener. Her role on Star Trek the Next Generation as wise Guinan marked the culmination of a childhood infatuation with Lt. Uhura from the equal-opportunity, original Star Trek series. It also gave Goldberg a status of niche, sci-fi celebrity to accompany her mainstream success. It’s that kind of pedigree that makes for a wildly successful online series (see Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible), and come early next year we’ll see if Goldberg’s popularity on daytime TV and in the science fiction genre can translate to a big audience for a horror/thriller on the web. On January 15, viewers can watch Goldberg star in FEARnet’s latest online original series, Stream. The action unfolds over six, five-minute episodes. Here’s the premise: “Stream...
- 12/15/2008
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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