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Marshall Vian Summers claims to be a prophet and has filled 9,000 pages with communications from the Angelic Assembly.

Sorgente: Is He God’s New Messenger?

If you can’t say something nice, Instagram will make sure you say nothing at all.

Sorgente: Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet—But Is That a Good @&#$ing Idea?

A documentary on history’s most famous ocean liner is set to debut on Sunday worldwide with Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron set to premiere in 171 countries in 45 languages.

Sorgente: Titanic: 20 Years Later documentary set for worldwide premiere

Revealing what it says is a telling trend in how much time Americans spend watching TV and film content and how they’re watching it, research from the NPD Group has shown how viewing is shifting from live TV to subscription services.

Sorgente: US consumers spend more time watching films and TV

Juda is a low-life gambler hustling a living in the murky depths of the criminal underworld. But after winning big in a high-stakes poker game, his luck runs out when he is robbed and bitten by a seductive vampiress.

Unbeknown to her, she has drunk Jewish blood and begun her own path to mortality, therefore facing a race against time to kill Juda and save herself or save him and risk everything.

Zion Baruch, creator and star of the series, and director Meni Yaish, reveal how they were inspired by films such as Blade and Interview with a Vampire and filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino to bring this gothic horror to life.

They also consider why Israeli dramas have had such an impact on the global stage in recent years

Juda is produced by United Studios of Israel for HOT and is distributed by Banijay Rights.

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Sorgente: Drama with bite

Trust, safety and the pursuit of transparency in online media have been top of mind for marketers this year. From Procter & Gamble’s crackdown on wastage in its media buys, to question marks over the efficacy of media agencies, events over the last year have spotlighted just how little control marketers have had over their […]

Sorgente: The state of digital advertising strategies, in 4 charts – Digiday

YouTube has really messed up. The channel referenced this week in a Times article should have been removed long ago, and certainly shouldn’t have been available as media inventory. That’s indisputable.

Sorgente: The latest YouTube scandal is a wake-up call for programmatic

James Norton and Juliet Rylance lead the cast in McMafia, the BBC and AMC’s global crime drama about a family of Russian ex-gangsters struggling to stay respectable.

Langleybury House, a splendiferous stately home on the outskirts of London, oozes opulence. The drawing room boasts a set of matching statement chandeliers and enough oil paintings to fill several rooms at the National Gallery. There are two classical columns in the middle of the room and a gigantic marble fireplace across one wall. The room screams megabucks.

tagged in: AMC, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Cuba Pictures, Hossein Amini, James Watkins, McMafia, Twickenham Studios

Sorgente: From Russia with cash

Uma Thurman has been hinting towards a coming statement on Harvey Weinstein, both in an red carpet interview and in a new Instagram post, saying, “Stay tuned.”

Sorgente: Watch Uma Thurman’s chilling comments about Hollywood’s sexual misconduct scandal that have everyone talking

Sorgente: Monet: A Brilliant Perspective

The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday will release its plan for reversing rules that require internet service providers to treat all content equally.

Sorgente: FCC Plans to Gut Net Neutrality, Allow Internet ‘Fast Lanes’

Ampere Analysis has found a strong willingness to pay for sports content and of those 42% that enjoy watching sport, the vast majority would be willing to pay

Sorgente: Vast majority of fans willing to pay regularly for sports

Disney Animation and Pixar chief John Lasseter is taking a leave of absence for six months after admitting “missteps,” following allegations of misconduct levelled against him.

Sorgente: Lasseter steps back at Disney, Pixar

Brazilian hospital drama Bajo Presión (Under Pressure) takes the medical genre to new levels of authenticity, using real-life stories and filming at a disused hospital. DQ hears from creator Jorge Furtado and artistic director Andrucha Waddington about producing this ‘genuinely Brazilian’ series.
For all the talk that nobody watches linear television these days, ignoring traditional schedules to catch up in their own time, one series has proven beyond doubt it is still possible for a family – heck, a nation – to share the experience of watching a drama series together.

When it first aired in July, Brazilian medical drama Bajo Presión (Under Pressure) attracted an astonishing 44 million viewers. At a time when there are more ways to watch television and more shows to watch than ever before, five out of 10 households across the country tuned in to Globo’s fast-paced series, set in a run-down hospital in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.

Coproduced by Globo and Conspiração and distributed by Globo International, the nine-part series follows a team of doctors torn between their personal conflicts, the difficulties of their profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient as they attempt to save lives.

Here, creator Jorge Furtado and artistic director Andrucha Waddington, who also directed a movie that preceded the series, tell DQ about the origins and production of the show.

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Sorgente: Medical marvel

Lorenzo the Magnificent takes centre stage in the second chapter of Renaissance drama Medici: Masters of Florence. As filming continues apace in Tuscany, DQ speaks to the star and producers of the Rai series, which has built a worldwide audience on Netflix.

The life of Lorenzo de Medici is widely associated with the golden age of the Renaissance. Politician, diplomat, magnate, he was also a patron of scholars, artists and poets. Who better, then, than Lorenzo the Magnificent, as he was known, to be at the centre of the next season of Medici: Masters of Florence.

The series – Medici: Masters of Florence – The Magnificent to give it its full title – begins in Florence in 1469, when an attempt on Piero de Medici’s life forces his son, Lorenzo, to assume leadership of the family-run bank.

Once in power, young Lorenzo resolves to do things differently. With his brother Giuliano and young artist Sandro Botticelli at his side he abandons the cynical politics of the past to usher in a new era of creative and political revolution. This sparks conflict with the head of Florence’s other powerful banking family, Jacopo Pazzi, leading to one of the most notorious political intrigues in history: the infamous Pazzi conspiracy.

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Sorgente: Simply Magnificent