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‘The song got us signed but I hated it’: how Haircut 100 made Fantastic Day
‘In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’If I’d been sitting down when I wrote Fantastic Day, it would have been a different song, but I was standing up in…
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Xbox Slashing 3,200 Jobs In “Most Significant Restructure” in Platform’s History
“Our business today is not healthy,” Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warned in a memo to staff Monday.
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Elderly fisherman reveals gruesome trick he used to get rid of alligator that chomped down on his leg and tried to pull him into water for dinner
James McMicken, a 71-year-old fisherman in Florida, narrowly escaped with his life after his quick-thinking stopped a gruesome alligator attack.
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Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 Staffers in ‘Most Significant Restructure’ in Company’s History
Xbox is set to lay off 1,600 staffers Monday and up to another 1,600 over the next year in what new CEO Asha Sharma calls the “most significant restructure” in the Microsoft division’s history. In addition, four Xbox studios — Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions, which collectively employee approximately 350…
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Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company’s Xbox division. The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and also involve four game studios being spun off to be run independently from Microsoft. Today’s layoffs, which are being described as…
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce. Most of the employees affected by today’s cuts are in Microsoft’s commercial sales business or the company’s Xbox division.…
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Noah Wyle On How ‘The Pitt’ Could Be A Replicable Model To Bring Production Back To L.A. – Guest Column
Editor’s Note: The harsh decline of film & TV production in Los Angeles the past few years has become a central issue in both the City of Angels’ mayoral race & California’s gubernatorial campaign. Even with the Golden State’s program now at $750 million annually, jobs are still scant movies & shows are far &…
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Forrest Galante says most shark bites are a case of mistaken identity as Florida attacks lead the US
Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante explains why shark attacks spike every summer and shares simple beach safety tips to avoid a negative encounter.
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‘The Black Demon: Atlantis’: The Making of a Shark Thriller at 8,600 Feet Above Sea Level in Colombia
When the producers of shark thriller “The Black Demon” decided to make a sequel, making it in Colombia was a no-brainer. Mucho Mas Media, led by Javier Chapa, had already shot three other movies in the country with local production company Jaguar Bite. The first pic they shot in Colombia, golf drama “The Long Game,”…
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TV’s ‘Fall of Rome’ Broken Down by Scott Free’s David W. Zucker, Talking With ‘Wednesday’ Exec Producer Steve Stark at Italian Global Series Fest
The global immediacy of TV and some not so welcome knock-on effects proved the focus of one of the biggest panels at this year’s Italian Global Series, featuring David W. Zucker, chief creative officer at Scott Free, and Steve Stark, chairman and executive producer at Toluca Pictures (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fargo,” “Vikings,” “Wednesday”). Zucker, who…