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  Why Branding Yourself from the Inside Out Isn’t as Painful as it Sounds

  January 9, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner

  Oprah’s got one, Harry Potter is one, and you need to have one.  At least that’s the prevailing wisdom in the social media-centric realm of Web 2.0.  I’m talking about your personal brand, or, as my people call it, your “schtick.” Step One:  Acceptance Your brand is the well-honed version of you, the way you market your “you-ness” to the world.  And though it’s common to feel reluctant to prune one’s deliciously rich and complicated persona down to a few [...]

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  A Father’s Apology to his daughter, Scarlett

  January 5, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner

  Hello Scarlett, I am your father. Not in a revelatory Empire Strikes Back kind of way (although I cannot wait to introduce you to Star Wars – I may even wait until you are 6 months old). It is January 5, 2012. You are 128 days old, I am thirty-eight years old and I am writing this to you, Scarlett, for the following three reasons… (1)   The Small Reason: When you get older you’ll remember me as a forty-something/fifty-something, and never [...]

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  AMC Renews ‘Hell on Wheels” — Directed and EP’d by David Von Ancken

  January 4, 2012 / Articles, News

  AMC has announced the renewal of Hell on Wheels for a second season. The original series reigns as the second highest rated series on AMC, averaging 3.2 million viewers and 1.5 million Adults 25-54.* Season one’s finale is Sunday, January 15th at 10pm EST. Hell on Wheels is created and written by Joe and Tony Gayton, who also serve as executive producers. John Shiban, Jeremy Gold, Endemol’s SVP of scripted programming and David Von Ancken, who also directed the pilot, [...]

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  Hollywood Drive & Talk – Micro-Audience™

  December 14, 2011 / Hollywood Drive & Talk, Videos

  In this edition of HollywoodDrive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret predicts the rise of the “Micro-Audience™” and explains its imperative to content creators.

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  What to Expect When You’re Expecting Trailer

  December 8, 2011 / Trailers, Videos

  Kirk Jones (Everybody’s Fine, Waking Ned Devine) directs What to Expect When You’re Expecting written by Shauna Cross (Whip It) and Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) adapted from the best-selling pregnancy instructional book of the same name. The film follows five couples dealing with the arrival of a child including Rosie (Anna Kendrick), a woman who reunites with an old flame and fellow food-truck owner and becomes pregnant, and Brooklyn Decker as the perky wife of a much older man who [...]

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  Hollywood Drive & Talk – Personal Branding

  November 29, 2011 / Hollywood Drive & Talk, Videos

  In this edition of HollywoodDrive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret defines and discusses “Personal Branding” for Content Creators.    

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  Los Angeles Times publishes first e-book: ‘A Nightmare Made Real’

  November 15, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times today makes its entry into the e-book marketplace with the release of “A Nightmare Made Real,” an expanded version of staff writer Christopher Goffard‘s gripping account of a man accused of unspeakable acts, facing a lifetime behind bars. The original two-part series was one of The Times most-read stories of the year. “As a content company, we are enthusiastic about harnessing new mediums and business models that expand the reach of our [...]

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  Gigniks Interview: Seth Jaret as Manager & Producer

  November 11, 2011 / Interviews, Videos

  Here’s a succinct video overview of what Seth Jaret does as a manager & producer — two of the many hats he wears on a daily basis including developer, packager, Content Creator, video editor, marketer, blogger, social media marketer, consultant, guest speaker, entrepreneur and dad. This career interview was produced, filmed and edited by high school students at LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies), a magnet school, for a new organization called gigniks. gigniks is a non-profit program run [...]

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  ‘Hell on Wheels’ Premieres Huge for AMC

  November 9, 2011 / Articles, News

  Via The Hollywood Reporter: Westerns have continued to pay off for AMC. Sunday’s premiere of its post-Civil War Western Hell on Wheels, directed by Content Creator, David Von Ancken, opened to a 3.1 household rating and 4.4 million viewers, becoming the network’s second-highest series premiere in history, following The Walking Dead. Among key demographics, the Anson Mount starrer created by brothers Joe and Tony Gayton delivered 2.4 million viewers in adults 18-49, second to the Season 2 premiere of the [...]

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  Guinevere Turner explains the perils of working with Uwe Boll

  October 26, 2011 / Interviews, Videos

    Via Joystiq: “Scripts are late. Writers are two years late. I was two weeks late,” Bloodrayne film screenwriter Guinevere Turner passionately explains in an interview pulled from “Tales From the Script,” a documentary showcasing stories from across the world of screenwriting. “Uwe Boll calls me [on the phone], ‘This is fucking disgusting! You lied to me! Where is my script?!’,” she continues, demonstrating how she held the phone away from her head as he yelled. Unsurprisingly, Turner wasn’t a [...]

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  Has Social Media Got You Down?

  October 24, 2011 / Articles, Videos, Virals/Shorts/Music Videos

  Are your recent Facebook status updates uncompelling? Are your latest tweets pointless and devoid of humor? Are you feeling blasé about social media? Hilary Graham directed this commercial for prescription-strength eFrienda, the cure for Antisocial Media Disorder.

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  Making Hell on Wheels

  October 13, 2011 / Behind the Scenes, Videos

  Think you know what it takes to build a train from styrofoam and wood? Watch how the crew of Hell On Wheels collaborates in bringing a functioning period locomotive to life. Hear from the cast and crew of AMC’s newest series which centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose quest for vengeance leads him to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad.

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