When Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla first joined YouTube, they each received a free iPod nano from the site for signing up. Over ten years later, and Smosh, the channel they named after a junior high inside joke, is the sixth most subscribed channel on YouTube — just after Rihanna’s Vevo, but before Taylor Swift’s.
When they arrived at the IndieWire offices last month to promote their second feature, “Ghostmates,” co-produced by Defy Media and YouTube Red, they each donned crisp black jackets and fresh haircuts. (The latter caused much hubbub from fans during a Facebook live interview.) If “Pokemon In Real Life” is your only Smosh reference point, you might not recognize the sleek young moguls on the screen.
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When they arrived at the IndieWire offices last month to promote their second feature, “Ghostmates,” co-produced by Defy Media and YouTube Red, they each donned crisp black jackets and fresh haircuts. (The latter caused much hubbub from fans during a Facebook live interview.) If “Pokemon In Real Life” is your only Smosh reference point, you might not recognize the sleek young moguls on the screen.
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- 1/4/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Leelee Sobieski and Donald Faison are starring in The Optimist, an indie feature directed by Marius Balchunas and being produced by Scott Sturgeon of 2Loop Films. Optimist centers on a family of Russian immigrants whose home is taken over by two local car thieves (Faison, Shane West). Sobieski plays a daughter who wants out of her home and falls for West. Rade Serbedzija plays Sobieski's father, a Russian-Jewish clarinetist. The two also played father-daughter in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
- 5/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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