Game of Thrones

Netflix debuts highly anticipated sci-fi series "The Three-Body Problem" at SXSW

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Echoing the experience of characters in the series, viewers watched as the mysterious Sophon, an avatar that appears in the show, spoke from the sky.

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  • Echoing the experience of characters in the series, viewers watched as the mysterious Sophon, an avatar that appears in the show, spoke from the sky.
  • The enduring allure of "The Three-Body Problem" underscores the fundamental questions about existence and inquiries into the human condition.
  • The entire eight-episode season of Netflix's "The Three-Body Problem" series will officially premiere on the platform on March 21.
  • Netflix previously released three trailers for the new series, each of which has garnered over ten million views on YouTube.

FAST COMPANY GRILL RETURNS TO SXSW

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company will return to SXSW with its annual Fast Company Grill in Austin, TX, from March 9-11, located at Cedar Door (201 Brazos Street). This exclusive hub will be open daily with panels, demos, and interactive experiences, giving audiences a window into the wide-open future of business, tech, entertainment, and beyond. An all-star lineup of speakers will include "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Nick Kroll and his collaborators on the upcoming film "I Don't Understand You", award-winning chef and philanthropist José Andrés, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Fast Company is thrilled to partner with Canva, the event's first-ever presenting sponsor.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company will return to SXSW with its annual Fast Company Grill in Austin, TX, from March 9-11, located at Cedar Door (201 Brazos Street).
  • In addition to insightful programming, it wouldn't be the Fast Company Grill without high-impact networking moments and stellar live entertainment from buzzworthy artists including Sudanese-American singer-songwriter, Sinkane.
  • "The Fast Company Grill is a mainstay of SXSW, a place that festival-goers look forward to returning to year after year," says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan.
  • "The Fast Company Grill has become an indispensable part of SXSW, and Canva is thrilled to take part in meaningful conversations which bring business, creativity, and tech closer together.

Vision Films Celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Release of Documentary Quintessentially Irish

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vision Films, Inc. ("Vision") announces the North American Transactional VOD release of the documentary film Quintessentially Irish on March 12, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vision Films, Inc. ("Vision") announces the North American Transactional VOD release of the documentary film Quintessentially Irish on March 12, 2024.
  • The film is a Swipe Films production in association with Carlow Castle Films, Kasiyan Knockbeg Enterprises, CBS 1A1 Motion Picture Fund and Vision Films.
  • Lise Romanoff, CEO/Managing Director of Vision shares, "Quintessentially Irish is an unprecedented peek into the celebrity and history of Ireland.
  • We are excited to release this fun and fact-filled documentary in time to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!"

How Iceland takes better care of its foreign offenders than the rest of Europe

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

It is even harder if you’re a foreign national.

Key Points: 
  • It is even harder if you’re a foreign national.
  • Foreign offenders make up a significant proportion of prison populations across western Europe.
  • I wanted to understand these institutions from the inside, to see what Iceland is doing differently.

Humane settings

  • But in this small world of prisons, it seems that arrangements are possible that we do not often see elsewhere.
  • There are two closed – Hólmsheiði, on the outskirts of Reykjavik and the largest, Litla-Hraun, just outside Eyrarbakki, on the south coast – and two open prisons.
  • Sogn is found on the southern plains, where horse riding is popular.
  • Kvíabryggja, in the remote west of the country, sits right next to Kirkjufell, an iconic mountain that featured in Game of Thrones.
  • These are the kind of settings where you would expect a lush hotel, not a prison.

Being imprisoned on a foreign land

  • So too Werner, also from western Europe, who felt let down by the system, by his defence lawyer and by the country as a whole.
  • Some prisoners I spoke with have taken advantage of these benign conditions to carve out a senior role for themselves.
  • While the foreign prisoners I met in Iceland cope to different degrees, they are not suffering the same multiple disadvantages of isolation and deprivation as their counterparts in other western countries.
  • While the pains of imprisonment that Warr discusses are certainly still felt, people’s status as foreign nationals does not exacerbate those pains.
  • In the interest of fairness and equity, that is an important achievement of Iceland’s open prisons.


Francis Pakes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

LEGAL LEGEND DARRYL "THE HAMMER" ISAACS RETURNS FOR NEW BIG GAME AD

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Monday, February 5, 2024

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For a decade, Darryl Isaacs wowed Kentucky when he premiered his Big Game commercials. Each year was an epic commercial with a unique charm only Darryl could deliver. The commercials amassed over thirty million YouTube views and were featured everywhere: podcasts, radio, even The A.V. Club.

Key Points: 
  • LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For a decade, Darryl Isaacs wowed Kentucky when he premiered his Big Game commercials.
  • The commercials amassed over thirty million YouTube views and were featured everywhere: podcasts, radio, even The A.V.
  • Attorney Darryl Isaacs returns to the Big Game with an epic new ad featuring AI, women's sports stars, and more.
  • Darryl took a few years off, and the public reaction was vocal: Isaacs & Isaacs was flooded with emails and comments asking when he would return.

From Luna Park to neo-Nazis – why the Middle Ages still matters to middle Australia

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Monday, September 25, 2023

Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities.

Key Points: 
  • Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities.
  • Indeed, the very idea of a university is medieval – a concept developed by the Catholic Church around the year 1100.
  • Melbourne’s Luna Park has a giant gaping mouth you walk through to the amusements.
  • People sometimes say the Middle Ages don’t matter in this bright new modern age.

Getting medieval

    • Another, shows how contemporary conspiracy theories derive from medieval models.
    • A third, how the solace of medieval spirituality was a key resource for men dying of AIDS in 1980s New South Wales.
    • What about the medieval legend of “sodomite Christmas”.
    • In fact, and paradoxical as it might seem, medieval history has always moved with the times.
    • The fantastic success of the medieval on film courses (and the like) reflects this.

Protecting the narrative around our heritage

    • The Vatican Library, in the heart of Rome, for instance, isn’t just a setting for Dan Brown page-turners.
    • – is only important to Great Britain (a political formation that did not exist in Elizabeth’s time).
    • We need to protect our cultural heritage from efforts to erase them.

Neighbours vs Friends: we found out which beloved show fans mourned more when it ended

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Monday, September 18, 2023

Perhaps you’ve experienced this sadness on reaching the last page of a book that you’d been reading for months?

Key Points: 
  • Perhaps you’ve experienced this sadness on reaching the last page of a book that you’d been reading for months?
  • Importantly, parasocial relationships, which are connections we form with media characters or personalities, are valued, and we often take them seriously.
  • Let’s consider the television series Friends, whose finale in 2004 was watched by over 52 million US viewers.

When good Neighbours become lost friends

    • I decided to examine the grief and loss reactions of Neighbours fans and what factors were associated with them feeling this loss more acutely.
    • They also described the level of their grief and loss, similar to the survey Friends fans had completed almost 20 years earlier.
    • Importantly, at the time of completing the survey, fans had no indication that the series would be revived in late 2023.

You’re breaking up with me?

    • When Molly Jones passed away from cancer on the Australian series A Country Practice in 1985, the nation almost entered a state of collective mourning.
    • Similarly, exits like Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers and Dr Patrick Reid in Offspring had Australian viewers reaching for their tissue boxes.
    • The deaths of many key characters, including Robb Stark, at the wedding of in Game of Thrones shocked viewers.

Grief, gratitude and viewer motives

    • Not surprisingly, given the series had only just concluded, they did not report feeling a sense of closure to their grief.
    • However, they were very grateful for the role Neighbours had played in their lives and what it had given them.
    • Fans who experienced greater grief and loss reactions had formed strong relationships with their favourite character, involving empathy and understanding.

Finding the perfect blend

    • The sadness we feel when a character or series leaves the parasocial world makes sense from a relationships perspective.
    • Indeed, other studies have found that we react to the deaths of celebrities in some ways as if we knew them.
    • Parasocial relationships do not allow us to experience the satisfaction that reciprocation in feelings, connection or bonds from a relationship partner affords us.

Maxon Congratulates 75th Emmy Awards Visual Effects Nominees

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

BAD HOMBURG, Germany, Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Maxon, developers of professional software solutions for editors, filmmakers, motion designers, visual effects artists and creators of all types, congratulate the talented teams nominated for the 75th Emmy Awards as members go into the final round of voting. Among those nominated are Stormborn Studios for "Five Days At Memorial" ("Day 2"), Elastic for their production of "The Last of Us" title sequences, and Imaginary Forces for the creation of the main titles for "Hello Tomorrow!". These companies utilized various Maxon tools in order to achieve their creative visions, as well as ensure a smooth and streamlined production process.

Key Points: 
  • Maxon tools empower 2023 Emmy-nominated visual effects teams with unrivaled creativity and excellence.
  • BAD HOMBURG, Germany, Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Maxon , developers of professional software solutions for editors, filmmakers, motion designers, visual effects artists and creators of all types, congratulate the talented teams nominated for the 75th Emmy Awards as members go into the final round of voting.
  • These companies utilized various Maxon tools in order to achieve their creative visions, as well as ensure a smooth and streamlined production process.
  • At Maxon, we understand what is necessary to achieve the highest standards of visual effects and we are committed to providing the best resources to help creatives bring these amazing ideas and visuals to life."

Can death on the screen feel the same as a 'real' one?

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Death is a part of life, an adage usually reserved for those who physically exist in our lives – family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances.

Key Points: 
  • Death is a part of life, an adage usually reserved for those who physically exist in our lives – family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances.
  • So what happens when a profound death experience happens on the screen?
  • Via television, we get access to catastrophic loss, multiple casualty events, loss after significant illness – as well as seeing how death impacts the people left behind.

Why does this grief feel real from an armchair perspective?

    • When a show realistically portrays grief in its purest form, the emotive or reflective reaction can unlock our own grief.
    • We might be switching on a program with the intention of relaxation, only to be met with trauma and sadness.
    • Warnings prior to a scene, or consistent information at the end of an episode about seeking additional support, might be minimal.

What is this grief called?

    • This form of parasocial grieving, described as having feelings attached to a pseudo-relationship, does feel real, does have consequences and does need space to be managed.
    • I would encourage you to pause for a moment and remember the ones that did get under our skin.
    • Death in those spaces – and the reactions to that loss – can feel as if they break that contract.

Exile Content Studio Acquires Film Rights to George R.R. Martin’s Hunter’s Run

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Exile Content Studio announced today that it has acquired the rights to develop a feature film based on the 2007 science fiction novel Hunter’s Run, written by New York Times bestselling author and Game of Thrones creator George R.R.

Key Points: 
  • Exile Content Studio announced today that it has acquired the rights to develop a feature film based on the 2007 science fiction novel Hunter’s Run, written by New York Times bestselling author and Game of Thrones creator George R.R.
  • The duo will also executive produce the film alongside Martin and Vince Gerardis, who produced Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.
  • Exile Chief Strategy Officer Eric Bromberg said, “It is a dream come true to be working with George R.R.
  • I’m thrilled to be partnering with Exile to bring George, Daniel and Gardner’s brilliant novel to life.”
    Author George R.R.