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The Net Is Somehow Both Outdated and Prescient

Gizmodo

The Net , starring a post- Speed Sandra Bullock , was made in 1995, so it’s a given the technology it depicts will look outdated 25 years later. But some of the broader ideas the film pokes into—amid many, many, many scenes of Bullock’s character being chased around by bad guys—are actually surprisingly insightful. Read more.

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Vulcan Productions shuts down, 23 years and more than 80 films after Paul Allen launched the venture

GeekWire

The Vulcan Productions website features promotion for the documentary film “Summer of Soul,” which just won top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Just a few weeks after taking top honors at the Sundance Film Festival for one of its latest films, the curtain closed for good on Vulcan Productions. .

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God Help Us, the Winklevoss Twins Are Co-Producing a Movie About Their Bitcoin Journey

Gizmodo

If that doesn’t seem masturbatory enough, rejoice: said film is about how they amassed a net wealth of more than $1 billion by getting really into Bitcoin. The Winklevoss twins—the brothers Mark Zuckerberg allegedly stole the idea for Facebook from—are making a movie about themselves, Deadline reported this week. Read more.

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David Blaine pulls off balloon stunt — with help from famed skydiver who jumped with no parachute

GeekWire

In a livestream special called “Ascension,” broadcast exclusively on YouTube, Blaine rose to nearly 25,000 feet above the Arizona desert, carried by 52 helium-filled balloons and looking like a real life floating version of something out of the animated film “Up.” A veteran skydiver from Shelton, Wash.,

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Netflix’s subscriber growth slows, but company isn’t worried about running out of content

The Verge

Netflix’s business soared during the pandemic , but as it heads into 2021 and faces a potential shortage of films and movies, the company will have to prove it can continue performing. million net subscribers in Q3, compared with the company’s 2.5m The company added 2.2 guidance. “The Those shows are all risk. It’s too expensive.”.

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Grounded airline planes turned into pop-up restaurants sell out in 30 minutes

The Verge

I admit I normally quite like airplane food, but that’s probably because it’s something to focus my attention on beyond an endless series of films I was never interested enough in to see in the cinema. Plans for scenic flights were abandoned over environmental concerns.

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Peacock hit 33 million signups before The Office even arrived

The Verge

While the company’s overall revenues beat Wall Street’s expectations, Comcast continued to see the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its filmed entertainment and theme park divisions. percent decline year over year, and net income of $3.3 Revenue for its filmed entertainment division decreased by about 8 percent to $1.4

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