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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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The Net Is Somehow Both Outdated and Prescient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The Net , starring a post- Speed Sandra Bullock , was made in 1995, so it’s a given the technology it depicts will look outdated 25 years later.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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Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020

CTOvision

ForgeRock’s surprise flash mob drew attention to the growing significance of Identity with the lead-in message “Nobody puts Identity in a Corner,” playfully referencing the hit classic film “Dirty Dancing.” Identity relationship management market to exceed $50 billion by 2020 (net-security.org).

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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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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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Why Red Notice was able to beat Bird Box as Netflix’s biggest movie debut ever

The Verge

But it’s also the kind of numbers Netflix should be netting right now and should probably be seeing more of. But the film hasn’t achieved anywhere near the cultural cachet of Bird Box or Netflix’s more recent success Squid Game , which remains its most popular TV series debut to date. One answer might be subscribers.

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Will financial advice be delivered primarily through Netflix-like subscription platforms?

Trends in the Living Networks

The emergence of a tailored and personalized model underpinned by data can be observed across industries, but is perhaps most prevalent in entertainment — in the shift from physical music recordings to unlimited streaming of digital music, or from seeing films in movie theatres to streaming them from home — or from anywhere.

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