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...interactive game went nowhere, a roving war correspondent and an adventure travel guide failed to click with audiences, and there was even discussion of having a newscast read by puppets. This year, scaling back its ambitious plans to produce TV-styled shows, the Media Group has enjoyed some cult success with an amateur video anthology series called The 9. And last week, a Yahoo Talent Show was launched, offering the winner $50,000 and a regular "show" on the site...
Echoing the success by “The Da Vinci Code” producers to lure Catholic viewers by drawing attention to that film’s taboo themes, Cohen (star of HBO’s cult hit “Da Ali G Show,” and Class Day speaker at Harvard in 2004) and his backers at Fox have been focusing attention in their promotional materials on the protestations of the Kazakh government, and of Cohen’s hilarious replies. One recent television spot for the film explicitly refers to the news coverage of Borat, urging...
...total number made. “People like what no one else has,” says Johnny M. “Cupcakes” Earle. “If you make something limited, people are willing to pay a higher price, and you build up a cult following. I don’t want to water down the brand...or make a quick buck in chain stores.” Limited edition t-shirt series, such as the Halloween lines, are restricted to 300 or so, each shirt hand numbered by Earle himself. Make sure to get in line...
...continues its dark tradition of what actor Sam Neill dubbed the "cinema of unease," perhaps most closely identified with Jane Campion's The Piano, Conrich has detected more recently "a wave within a wave." From the Samoan slapstick of Sione's Wedding to the Polynesian hip-hop of the cult animated TV series bro'Town, a distinctly Pacific flavor is adding warmth and a sense of humor to New Zealand screen culture. "I feel like we're in the middle of a real cultural boom," says No. 2's novice director Toa Fraser, whose father hails from the Fijian gold...
...beta form, the addictive, low-tech time waster was introduced just last month and has quickly amassed a worldwide cult following. Created by a programmer with the screen name ~fsk who claims to be from the small European country of Slovenia, the digital amusement first showed up Sept. 23 on deviantART, an online community of artists, designers, photographers and art lovers . "This is a project I did for illustration class," states ~fsk in a brief intro. "It's not a game, it's a toy... there are no goals to achieve and there is no score...