The 100 Million Miracles program is an effort to use social media platforms to raise $100 million to benefit the more than 17 million children and families that the charity supports each year. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals anticipates that its supporters – both individuals and corporations – will use their social media channels to spread the word to support children’s hospitals across North America.
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The video rental service from YouTube is a milestone for on-demand content. Obviously, the video-sharing company is positioning itself as the only destination for video on the Web, going in direct competition with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple and even Facebook. Will it beat out the other online movie-rental services?
The studios told Variety that premium VOD draws from audiences who rather not make the trip to the megaplex because of the size of their families or the expense to hire babysitters or pay for food and other concessions. On the serious side, if audiences get used to staying home watching movies, they might stay away from theaters all together. We will have to wait and see if that is true.
Patch, the Aol-owned network of hyperlocal news sites, has gone Hollywood, as Pandora Young of sister blog FishbowlLA reports that Hollywood Patch made its debut Thursday.
Anna Bakalis is the editor of Hollywood Patch, and contributors include Tina Daunt, Steve Galluzzo, and David Markland, according to FishbowlLA, which gave a tip of the hat to the site for breaking stories on an issue with permits at the Hollywood Farmers Market and the closing of bar and restaurant Kung Pao Kitty.
Interested in being part of movie-making history? You can own a frame of a brand new movie for just $1 – and be part of an innovative crowdsourcing venture to boot. A film-making team in Sydney is harnessing the power of online crowds to first raise donations for production and then distribute their full-length horror movie via torrents. If successful, this could offer up a new formula for indie production companies to use to challenge the big Hollywood blockbusters.
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OMG did you hear who so-and-so is dating/dumping? The more dour among us say that celebrity gossip is superficial, trivial and meaningless. Why should we care about the sex lives and vacation pictures of celebrities?
Well Mr. Boring, STFU! We all have guilty pleasures. So what if they are rooted in the destruction of other people’s lives! Heck, they get paid inordinate sums of money; so we have the ‘right’ to watch them rise and fall under the media microscope.
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Demi Moore. Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon.
What do these lovely Hollywood starlets have in common? MEOW! They are call cougars. And should they become single in the near future, they have their own social network, Cougared.com. Read more
