Tinder is taking its speed dating style to the boardroom. Former Microsoft and eBay executive Chris Payne is out as CEO of the popular dating app after just five months, and co-founder Sean Rad is set to return to the position, Re/code reported Thursday. “It became clear after a few months that it wasn’t going to become a long-term fit. It’s only been a few months, but everyone came to the realization, the board and Christopher, and all agreed it wouldn’t work out long-term,” Tinder board member and Benchmark partner Matt Cohler said. “Given that, we...
- 8/14/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
BAFTA members, award-winners and nominees to hold talks in UK schools.
As part of their Give Something Back campaign, BAFTA has announced it will partner with education charities Into Film, Speakers for Schools and Stemnet to bring BAFTA members, award-winners and nominees into UK schools and youth programmes.
The new programme is designed for speakers to share their skills and experiences with young people and inspire them to enter the film, television and games industries.
Speakers already confirmed for the programme include game mechanics programmer Chris Payne, screenwriter Paul Viragh, presenter Tazeen Ahmad and actor Jimmy Akingbola. They will visit primary schools in Greater Manchester, Essex, Kent and London.
“Through the BAFTA speaker programme, young people across the UK will get a chance to learn first-hand from some of the best in our industries,” commented BAFTA chairman John Willis.
“We hope that as many schools and youth groups as possible take up this free opportunity to introduce...
As part of their Give Something Back campaign, BAFTA has announced it will partner with education charities Into Film, Speakers for Schools and Stemnet to bring BAFTA members, award-winners and nominees into UK schools and youth programmes.
The new programme is designed for speakers to share their skills and experiences with young people and inspire them to enter the film, television and games industries.
Speakers already confirmed for the programme include game mechanics programmer Chris Payne, screenwriter Paul Viragh, presenter Tazeen Ahmad and actor Jimmy Akingbola. They will visit primary schools in Greater Manchester, Essex, Kent and London.
“Through the BAFTA speaker programme, young people across the UK will get a chance to learn first-hand from some of the best in our industries,” commented BAFTA chairman John Willis.
“We hope that as many schools and youth groups as possible take up this free opportunity to introduce...
- 7/2/2014
- ScreenDaily
In Part One we talked about how Christopher Payne decided to get into small press publishing. His first couple of years involved new authors whose writing he liked. But he realized he needed some well-known name value in his authors if his company was going to grow and begin selling great enough numbers of books to be self-sustaining. But "names" in horror are not the same as names in general literature.
By "well-known" where do you put that criteria?
Granted. Definitely mid-tier or low-end mid-tier as far as sales. But in 2013 we're working with Jonathan Maberry and some others. Now you take that into 2014 and you have a situation where I had to close down submissions because I can't take any more than I already had. 2014 is signed, full, and done. It's an entirely different looking company. It seems to have evolved every year. We're growing so fast.
Now it is not just you,...
By "well-known" where do you put that criteria?
Granted. Definitely mid-tier or low-end mid-tier as far as sales. But in 2013 we're working with Jonathan Maberry and some others. Now you take that into 2014 and you have a situation where I had to close down submissions because I can't take any more than I already had. 2014 is signed, full, and done. It's an entirely different looking company. It seems to have evolved every year. We're growing so fast.
Now it is not just you,...
- 1/24/2014
- by Del Howison
- FEARnet
Members of the BalletBoyz dance company provide the choreography in this uneven film about dance
Here is a lo-fi indie about dance that won the best UK feature award at last year's Raindance festival. Chris Payne directs, and Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt of the BalletBoyz dance company provide the choreography. There are some unusual ideas and a self-conscious sort of potential, but it fails to come together. Oriel is a charismatic Cuban dancer who catches the eye of Maya, an elegant young woman, one day on the tube: driven by a sense that he knows her from somewhere, Oriel strikes up a conversation and the two begin a spontaneous, complex relationship. They are played by professional dancers, Arionel Vargas and Cindy Jourdain. I spent this movie wishing I could have watched it in another form, telling the same story as a stage ballet, with Vargas and Jourdain expressing everything through dance.
Here is a lo-fi indie about dance that won the best UK feature award at last year's Raindance festival. Chris Payne directs, and Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt of the BalletBoyz dance company provide the choreography. There are some unusual ideas and a self-conscious sort of potential, but it fails to come together. Oriel is a charismatic Cuban dancer who catches the eye of Maya, an elegant young woman, one day on the tube: driven by a sense that he knows her from somewhere, Oriel strikes up a conversation and the two begin a spontaneous, complex relationship. They are played by professional dancers, Arionel Vargas and Cindy Jourdain. I spent this movie wishing I could have watched it in another form, telling the same story as a stage ballet, with Vargas and Jourdain expressing everything through dance.
- 11/8/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In four short years, JournalStone Publishing has positioned itself as an attractive home to established authors and new talents alike. With a depth chart that includes Jonathan Maberry, Rick Hautala, Lisa Morton and Christopher Golden, and a deep catalog of horror, science fiction and fantasy novels and anthologies – not to mention an acclaimed quarterly magazine and a prominent genre website – I’d be shocked if you haven’t happened across this imprint already. But just in case you haven’t, consider this your formal introduction. JournalStone was founded in 2009 in San Francisco by Christopher Payne. It started out as a blog before transitioning into a publishing company the following year. JournalStone followed the unconventional route of building its initial slate via a novel writing contest. The first winner, That Which Shall Not Be by Brett J. Talley, was nominated by the Horror Writers Association in the “Superior Achievement in a...
- 9/13/2013
- by Blu Gilliand
- FEARnet
Harry Shannon has worn several hats in various fields of entertainment. He's been a music executive, working on films such as Terminator 2 and Basic Instinct; he works as an actor and screenwriter; and he is also an award-winning writer of novels and short stories. He took some time to talk to FEARnet about writing; filmmaking; music and The Hungry 3, the soon-to-be-released third novel in the popular Sheriff Penny Miller series.
You have a new book coming out, The Hungry 3. It's the third in the zombie novel series. What happens in this one?
If I told you that it would wreck the experience, not to mention cost us a sale! Seriously, the first two novels continued in sequence from the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse through to Sheriff Penny Miller and her friends fleeing what is left of the state of Nevada. The third book, The Hungry 3: At the End of the World,...
You have a new book coming out, The Hungry 3. It's the third in the zombie novel series. What happens in this one?
If I told you that it would wreck the experience, not to mention cost us a sale! Seriously, the first two novels continued in sequence from the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse through to Sheriff Penny Miller and her friends fleeing what is left of the state of Nevada. The third book, The Hungry 3: At the End of the World,...
- 1/30/2013
- by Nancy Greene
- FEARnet
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