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Carly Rae Jepsen and Scooter Brawn, the manager of both she and mega pop-star Justin Bieber, settled with Aza Highspeed in the Hunky Santa / Call Me Maybe plagiarism lawsuit that was kept mostly quiet by the media, but not this blogger. And from reports, AZA was made “very, very happy.” I must admit, I … Read more
StardustBlue Media, the boutique marketing and branding company ran by its Founder, Karen Brown, is sponsoring Zennie62Media and Zennie62.com at the NAB Show 2013. StardustBlue Media is best known for its pioneering social media work and public relations marketing work on the amazing Kevin Breslin, Mike Vanderfield/8Docos documentary #whilewewatch, about how the Occupy Wall Street … Read more
The IGDA Sexy Party Controversy for 2013 is rounding to a close after CEO Sana N Choudary released a statement saying that there was a mistaken in identity of just who gave the sexy dancer party at San Francisco’s Ruby Syke Nightclub last week – turns out there were two parties at the same event, … Read more
Epoch, the Los Angeles-based media workflow process firm, is coming to NAB Show 2013 Las Vegas with a new workflow virtualization technology. Here’s the press release I was sent: Epoch (www.epoch-inc.com) will introduce its inaugural product at NAB 2013. Epoch delivers a more efficient way to move and transform media that is easier and more … Read more
NAB Show press releases heat up as we approach the NAB Show 2013 in Las Vegas. Here’s a press release from Qube Cinema: Burbank, CA: Mar. 26, 2013… Qube Cinema will be demonstrating its system for integrated 4K DCP review and playback at the NAB Show in Las Vegas in April. The Qube XP-I server, … Read more
Star Trek quite literally did go “into darkness” for Earth Hour in London. According to Al Caudullo of 3D Entertainment News, Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies, created a Star Trek logo from LED lights flown into air by mini-copters, or drones over The London Bridge. The Star Trek logo was approximately 308 feet tall, … Read more
Pacific Rim, the first of the modern giant monster movies of this generation, was previewed at WonderCon 2013, and its director Guillermo del Toro did not waste the moment. (As a note, I’m not at WonderCon and for reasons explained in this video, but thanks to digital media, I can provide enough material here to … Read more
WonderCon 2013 kicks off today, and the three-day event will have a lot to offer. Let’s see what’s in store at WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim: Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a movie based on William Shakespeare’s classic play and starring Clark Gregg (The Avengers). Whedon’s marketers describe … Read more
Dana Loesch, a conservative talk radio show host, made a statement on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight that would make any intelligent person want to hurl, or throw their TV set out of the window, or scream at Van Jones, who was served as the liberal counter to both she and Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate … Read more
Adam Lanza. The perpetrator of the Newtown Shooting killed 26 people – 20 children and 6 adults – in just five minutes of time, and before taking his own life. That was according to the Danbury, Connecticut State’s Attorney, who released new information on the December 14th shooting tragedy today. It’s clear now, that Mr. … Read more
Akira Takarada. Remember the name? Godzilla fans do! Godzilla 2014 (now in production in Vancourver) and its director Gareth Edwards reach back in time to bring forward Akira Takarada, the legendary actor who’s appeared in seven Godzilla movies, including the first Godzilla in 1954, where he played the Japanese naval diver Hideto Ogata. Here’s the … Read more
Yep. Proud to announce that Zennie62 (well, me Zennie Abraham) is a Media Sponsor / Social Influencer / Blogger for the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The National Association of Broadcasters NAB Show is in Las Vegas from April 6th to April 11th and expects to attract 90,000 to the Las Vegas Convention Center. … Read more
Ah, gone are the days when IGDA parties were simple affairs where you had cocktails, met interesting people, and OK, interesting females-in-tech, and here are the days, or at least this week, where we have news of a party that bent what I thought were the unwritten rules of GDC / IGDA events: don’t piss … Read more
Yahoo!’s $30 million purchase of the IPhone app Summly, created by 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, has royally pissed off the hacker wing of the tech community, and that’s putting it mildly. Summly is the now closed down IPhone app that provides a summary of online news for you. It’s very much like the app I found … Read more
Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have spent four years in jail, were convicted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher the first time, then acquitted on appeal, and now, thanks to the Italian Supreme Court, have to stand trial again on the same murder case, only this time Knox has been back in … Read more
The Chevron Ecuador case, which really should be called the “Tex-Pet Ecuador” case since Chevron was not operating in Ecuador at the time and up to Texaco’s departure in 1992, has produced another new and interesting development: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has refused the request of the Patton Boggs lawfirm to be recused from … Read more
San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update. Here’s the latest San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update: 10 Day Look Ahead: Construction Activities Friday, March 22, 2013 – Sunday, March 31, 2013 NOTICE – STREET CLOSURE – BEALE STREET BRIDGE, APRIL 5-8: The third and final traffic bridge is scheduled to be installed on Beale … Read more
James Bond. Sure you enjoy the movies based on Ian Fleming’s character and have your favorite James Bond actor, but do you have what it takes to actually be Bond? Well, there’s an online test you can take to find out. The test is called “Intelligence Officer Challenge” and is at the website of SIS, … Read more
Daniel Craig will definitely be back as James Bond. After some consternation that the star of SkyFall, the highest grossing Bond film in history earning $1.1 billion, may want to call it quits, Mr. Craig will be back as Ian Fleming’s British agent. In a conference call with investors on March 19th, MGM Chairman and … Read more
This came up via a search, but from the looks of this, someone placed the KTVU version of story of the Oakland City Auditor’s Report called “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs Performance Audit FY 2009‐10 – FY 2011‐12,” and which this blogger has called racist, on a website specifically dedicated to racism against African Americans called … Read more
Tiger Woods has reached Number One ranking in golf for the first time since October of 2010. The Stanford grad won the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a final score of 13 under par. Its Mr. Woods third tournament victory in 2013. The announcement caught the eye of his girlfriend, Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn, who sent … Read more
Harlem Shake vs Gangnam Style. Which video brand is gaining more mentions in social media? Well, according to an infographic this blogger received from BeckonPr and as an intro to their new site Ghergich.com via email, it’s the Harlem Shake. At least on Twitter. The inforgraphic reports that there have been 10.4 million Harlem Shake-related … Read more
Godzilla 2014 is taking massive steps toward movie reality. After months of no-news, the last seven days have produced an explosion of information, including news that the Godzilla 2014 cast and crew are currently filming on location in Vancouver, an effort that reportedly started last week. But before we look at that, here’s the information … Read more
UPDATE: Courtney Ruby rumored to be gearing up to run for Mayor of Oakland. The Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby has presided over the preparation of a report entitled “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs, Performance Audit, FY 2009‐10 – FY 2011‐12,” that is plainly a racist abuse of power. It says, on page 21, that the … Read more
Hatchet III is back and if you remember the last two blog posts installment on the third version of Adam Green’s home-grown horror movie, then you recall: 1) When scream-queen Danielle Harris, who plays ‘Marybeth’ in the film, tweeted she was going to f-up Victor Crowley, the man-monster villain of the series. 2) Scary-looking photos … Read more
Senator Harry Reid (D) Nevada led a group of red-state Senate Democrats who, Senator Reid says, will not back a gun control bill with an assault weapons ban in it, so he took the provision out of the planned gun control legislation. Senator Reid also said that the expansion of background checks may not make … Read more
Roland S. Martin, the CNN Contributor who, with Mark Preston, helped launch my first national TV exposure via the news giant, is departing April 6th. This comes on the heels of CNN’s new President, Jeff Zucker’s decision to sack Solidad O’Brien. Overall, with CNN bringing in Chris Cuomo and Jake Tapper, and the earlier departure … Read more
In this Oakland News, the latest security report from the Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday event is slated to come before the Oakland City Council tonight at 5:30 PM. The report was originally written and presented February 27th, and in the wake of the terrible, horrible shooting that took place at the February gathering … Read more
The NFL Draft is April 25th through April 28th, and to get you officially ready for all that is to come, in addition to what we’ve already presented, here’s the official NFL Draft order. Zennie62 is its 9th year of NFL Draft coverage. Remember, we at Zennie62 / Football Reporters Online will be monitoring changes … Read more
The NAB Show 2013 in Las Vegas will be held April 6-11th at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Billed as the “World’s Largest Media and Entertainment Event,” the NAB Show is by the National Association of Broadcasters, and has an 80 year history. This year, as an IAWTV – International Academy of Web Television – … Read more
The movie MANBORG that’s coming to theaters and to DVD and Blue Ray April 30th is for fans of Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic Woman style science fiction, with some tongue-in-cheek thrown in. Here’s the trailer, followed by the press release: The forces of Hell have risen to the surface of the Earth to … Read more
This segment of Oakland News is a sad one. It starts with a video of an assault that took place last week, March 13th, at Oakland City Hall Plaza (or City Hall / Oscar Grant / Frank Ogawa Plaza), and that has been seen just 9 times on YouTube to this writing, but that’s about … Read more
Mads Mikkelsen’s name is rapidly becoming a house-hold one. Thanks to a number of juicy roles that all fit the bill of someone who’s morally challenged, the Danish actor’s Google Insight for Search ranking is rising to a pattern of behavior that is typical for A-list celebrities. But before we look at his chart, let’s … Read more
This Mads Mikkelsen update: an email to this blogger from a rep was written as if Mr. Mikkelson would be attending the Sonoma International Film Festival. However, internal communications have explained that the actor with the fast-rising star will not be attending the SIFF13, but the film he won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor … Read more
Mads Mikkelsen, the 2012 Best Actor Winner at the Cannes Film Festival for The Hunt, and who’s part of a large media blitz for the new NBC TV Series Hannibal, is coming to The Sonoma International Film Festival April 10th-April 14th, where The Hunt will be shown in the US for the first time. UPDATE: … Read more