It looks as if Resident Evil will join Halo, Call of Duty, and Super Mario Bros in the growing list of popular video games that have received a gritty YouTube reboot. The likeabosstvnow channel has released a trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, a dark adaptation of the zombie-filled franchise set to release on February 28th. Welcome To Raccoon City will follow three of the series most popular protagonists: Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and Jill Valentine. Director Jay Lee has also hinted at an interactive element, imploring viewers to "Watch as three different story lines unfold before you! Better yet…you get to choose who to follow!" If the trailer is any indication, we can expect plenty of dark corridors and shadowy assassins along each path. The series' cast is a laundry list of notable web creators. Travis Richey and Helenna Santos-Levy, both of whom currently appear...
- 2/7/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Startups have been known to pivot all the time, but it isn’t often that you see this from Streamy-nominated web series. Gold, the tabletop RPG playing comedy series is back today with Gold: Night of the Zombie King, a mini-series that turns towards the dramatic side of the its gamer characters. Creator David Nett wrote the new project alongside fellow Gold stars Rick Robinson and Andrew R. Deutsch. The trio brought on new faces for the offshoot to join Gold actor James Ellis Lane, scoring indie vets Jonathan Nail (Solo), Stephanie Thorpe (After Judgment), Brian Majestic (Solo) and a standout performance from Maxwell Glick (lonelygirl15). Related News:‘Night of the Zombie King’: ‘Gold’ Expands Its Universe ‘Gold’ Takes A Darker Turn with ‘Night of the Zombie King’ ‘Gold’ Premieres, Uncovering Geekily Wonderful RPG World...
- 12/14/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
A cocktail party so crazy you have to sign a waiver just to get in? I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to hop on the freeway a few miles up to a dark corner of North Hollywood to find the undisclosed home base of the web’s latest live-streaming reality show. Walking up to the three-story loft building it became clear this wasn’t going to be my run-of-the-mill Saturday night drinks at a friend’s place. Before entering the ControlTV loft, I’m hustled into a back room filled with producers and burly Pa types ushering me through a waiver and some ground rules. “Try to keep this PG-13,” said one of the younger producers on duty that night. “Just basically don’t drop the f-bomb too much.” She mentions the 30-second delay on the live stream they’ve set up just in case we get out of hand. And...
- 11/10/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
In a week of Apple announcements, Digital Hollywood and other new media events, it’s worth taking note of a rather heavy week of web series premieres. Some went seasonal for Halloween while others went a little racy trying to crack through the crowded web series field this fall. New series premieres this week: Suck and Moan Timed for the Halloween season of darker fare, this Vampire vs. Zombies comedy from creator director Brendan Fong in his scripted web series directing debut. It’s produced by Streamy-nominee Joel Bryant from After Judgment along with iBallz founder Danny Ohman. The creators are billing this one as: “1 part Zombieland, 1 part Shaun of the Dead, and 2 parts Clerks, this satirical web series follows a group of overly analytical vampires who find themselves knee deep in a race to preserve a newly dwindling food source.” Related News:‘The Suffersons’ Premieres As Rocketboom’s First...
- 10/21/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Growing up as a lanky, bookish, clumsy girl, I remember experiencing watching my best friend (who was busty, blond, and outgoing) as she dove head-first into the dating scene, leaving me to spend weeks and sometimes months wondering if she was doing okay...or if she was even still alive. But in a best friend relationship, sometimes the old cliché is in effect: if you care about something set it free, if it comes back... This is the premise of the new independent web series The Best Friend: a romantic comedy shown through the Pov of the best friend character rather than the ingenue. In the first episode we see Millie, gobbling away at a tub of ice cream and talking to her mother who is trying to convince her she's wasting her time with therapy. Her best friend, the seemingly perfect Sooze, is in love and nowhere to be found.
- 4/5/2010
- by Jenni Powell
- Tubefilter.com
Streamy-winning director Blake Calhoun (Pink) has announced his latest web series project today, a sci-fi drama set in space called Continuum. The series will star Harper's Globe and loneylgirl15 star Melanie Merkosky (left) as Reagen, a young woman who awakes on a space ship without any memory of what she is doing there. Her only companion on board is the ship's computer, a female spin on 2001's "Hal," voiced by Taryn O'Neill (Compulsions, After Judgment). Also announced for the cast is Brad Hawkins (Pink) as Tipton. Calhoun and co. are calling the project "a futuristic thriller in the noir-ish tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien." Loud Pictures, Calhoun's production company is producing along with Alternative Fuel, a multiplatform company he co-founded with Pink producer Mike Maden. Also producing is Cjp Digital Media, with Wilson Cleveland involved on distribution and marketing of the series, as it does for The Fall of Kaden,...
- 2/4/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Web series and online video tid-bits worth clicking today: Compulsions Episode 4 (below) came out today, with After Judgment's Taryn O'Neill taking a seat in Craig Frank's empty warehouse of fun. And is it just us, or is Annemarie Pazmino the best looking office It Tech we've ever seen? [Dailymotion] Private the series is giving away a gaggle of free swag just in time to give to your 13 year-old cousin. T-shirts, novels and a signed posted from the teen queen cast. [Alloy] Planet Green, Discovery Channel's offshoot cable network, is launching its own daily web series, Planet 100, which will blaze through the top environmental stories of the day in 100 seconds or less. [C21 Media] Hidden Valley Ranch is jumping in the branded entertainment scene by sponsoring NBC Universal Digital Studio's new original web series, Garden Party, which will be getting featured placement on iVillage.com [MediaPost] Good Magazine's Big Ideas web series on...
- 12/4/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
The title Hurtling through Space at an Alarming Rate is slightly misleading. Oh, there's certainly a great deal of hurtling through space. The shared apartment of our overgrown fratboy protagonists goes warping through the universe, periodically marooning said overgrown fratboys on strange new worlds. But an alarming rate? Nothing seems to alarm or even rouse the main characters, Mike and Stuart (played by Michael Davies and Stuart Paap, who are presumably channeling some version of themselves). Htsaaar is one of the more deliberately laid-back web comedies out there, and much of the humor comes from the characters bemused unflappability in the face of space monsters, explosive devices, and female-types (this being a dude-centric webshow, semi-ironic sexism abounds). Web TV aficionados will know Davies from his role as writer/director of the sleek post-apocalyptic webseries After Judgment and his influence on the production values of Htsaaar is clear. The series looks good.
- 12/2/2009
- by Ana Hurka-Robles
- Tubefilter.com
Hype can be a dangerous thing. Is it after all a fickle critter that once rattled can never really be sent back to its cage. So when Bernie Su and his team behind Compulsions began their late summer teases for their dark web thriller, they knew this day would come. The internet's day of reckoning. Today the 8-episode series debuts exclusively on Dailymotion, having signed a deal with the site granting it a month-long exclusive window on Compulsions. Already the popular video site had been featuring the trailer for the series front and center, and it now leads with the first episode surrounded by some custom front page skinning. Last night in Los Angeles, in a packed screening premiere at Cinespace a room full of some 200 or so lucky ones had a chance to collectively writhe and squirm through the first 4 episodes. "I know the expectations are high," wrote creator...
- 12/1/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Babelgum has been on a web series roundup of late, and these guys are moving fast. With news coming just two weeks ago of indie sci-fi series The Crew jumping ship to the online network as its news home for season 2, a fresh new batch of sci-fi series have followed suit. Today Babelgum announced three new original series, several of which are helmed by some web series notables, to make up the bulk of the sci-fi/horror comedy channel. Launching today is a new series from Goodnight Burbank creator Hayden Black—no not The Cabonauts, which we're still waiting on—but a hastily assembled paranormal comedy The Occulterers. The "interactive comedy and horror series" stars Black as one of his inventive characters, Hervé Villechez, this time part of a four-person Transylvanian ghost hunting crew. Black's new series took just two weeks from concept to production, and that includes inking the deal with Babelgum.
- 10/26/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.