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Kast Media‘s shady dealings have earned it the ire of creators, and a lawsuit could soon follow. Investigative YouTuber Coffeezilla took a deep dive into Kast’s financials after comedian Theo Von claimed that the podcast network defrauded its partners out of $4 million.

The official website for Kast Media describes it as “one of the fastest growing and most exciting podcast networks and publishers in podcasting.” Kast built its library by making deals with comedians (including Von and Whitney Cummings), athletes (Brandon Schaub), and writers (Jim Cornette).

In July, word began to spread about Kast’s financial woes. Cornette revealed that the network owed him payments and was threatening to declare bankruptcy. Von threw fuel on the fire in September by raising his own nonpayment claims. He said that Kast owed its partners “up to $4 million” in total.

Just wanted to warn folks about @colinpthomson. This man defrauded our podcast and others.

This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies, with each one reflecting a special event or day in May.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a tense battle between mothers, a tale of evil in the suburbs, a fast-food slasher, a twisty wartime horror story, and an indie slow burn with a Hitchcockian vibe.

You’ll Like My Mother (1972)

Directed by Lamont Johnson.

The movie stars Oscar winner Patty Duke as young widow Francesca, who’s visiting her late husband’s mother (Rosemary Murphy) for the first time at a remote house in snowy Minnesota. Soon things take a turn when Francesca becomes not only stranded at her in-law’s house, but also drugged and taken prisoner.

Just in time for Mother...

Martin Wiley, a veteran producer and executive whose credits include Acts of Violence, Never Talk to Strangers and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, died March 20, his son Cameron told Deadline. He was 65.

A USC alum who got his post-graduate degree from UCLA, Wiley served as a creative executive in charge of development on films produced at Warner Bros., Sony, Lionsgate and other studios and the supervising producer and/or unit production manager for more than a dozen theatrical features.

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Wiley began his career in the late 1980s, serving as a producer or co-producer on films including Mutator, Diving In and Little Sister. His...

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It's a "Gossip Girl" reunion - only this time, the subject is embarrassing middle-school stories. Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester, also known as Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf on "Gossip Girl," reunited on the premiere episode of Badgley's new podcast, "Podcrushed." On May 18, Badgley announced the nostalgic collaboration by posting a photo of him and Meester on his Instagram Stories with the caption: "Best pic we took (No lie)."

The podcast features Badgley narrating listeners' stories about their middle-school experiences. Badgley cohosts the podcast with Nava Kavelin, a former middle-school director, and former fifth-grade teacher Sophie Ansari. Additional guests on the show will include Badgley's costar from "You" Victoria Pedretti, Drew Barrymore, and Rainn Wilson.

"These stories stick out in our minds for more than just like, 'It was awkward and humiliating and it made me cringe,'" Badgley said in an interview with The Day.

It 2 is gearing up to return to Derry this summer and director Andres Muschietti is ready, sharing pictures of he and the cast and some new concept art of the headless boy from the first movie. It was first reported that the sequel was going to begin production this June in Toronto under the working title of Drive Thru, but that information has changed. Instead, it looks like It 2 production will begin in July with the working title of Largo. Andres Muschietti has been teasing the production start for a few months on social media.

Andres Muschietti took to Instagram to post a picture of himself and the young cast of It 2 from the set of the first movie with a caption that reads, "Wake up, losers. Derry is calling." The photo features Muschietti with Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, and Jack Dylan Grazer who will reprise their roles as Beverly,...

As if working in the fast food industry wasn't stressful enough, an intrepid prankster decided to up the creep factor for some unsuspecting drive-thru staff by modifying the old “invisible driver” trick. The resulting video, appropriately titled Drive Thru Scary Doll Driver, features a deranged doll – basically dressed like Chucky, but with long, luxurious locks - leering at them from the driver's seat. Pretty basic move, but some of the reactions (“Imma Instagram this joint!”) are priceless. Drive Thru Scary Doll Driver...

Clowns – if you are one of them people that actually enjoy them prancing around with those huge, fake painted smiles then you really should watch these films to re-evaluate your standing on the matter.

Over the years there have been a plethora of horror movies completely dedicated to these creepy entertainers. I may get some degree of abuse from this but after watching the majority of these movies I have resorted to sleeping with my bedroom light on for a day or two afterwards. These clowns can take many guises, from demonic entities, aliens or your bog standard, deranged, psychopathic killers.

Here we count down the 10 scariest horror movie clowns to have graced our screens over the years…and if your curiosity takes the better of you and you do decide to watch one of these films, WhatCulture cannot be held liable for lack of sleep or an onset of Coulrophobia.

Watch Alex Jones tear into Piers Morgan, Russell Crowe is ripped into for Les Mis and a fat man drums up support

We've got a sweet start to the chart this week – before everything kicks off and it gets a bit aggressive. Tom Fletcher from McFly sings his way through the groom's speech at his wedding – and you can be certain that there won't be a dry eye in the house.

Meanwhile you may think that the only thing that links the hit comedy The Office with The Hobbit is actor Martin Freeman? Well think again – this one will get them all Tolkien!

This week's big cinema opening in the UK is Les Miserables and there's a great spoof from The Onion on one of its leading men – Russell Crowe. If you aren't sure if Russell has the music in him, then one man who definitely does is this big...

Remy and I like instant gratification just as much as the next guy - how could you not? Drive thru’s and insta-apps have made life so simple and easy, it’s almost disgusting. In many ways, we have become parodies of ourselves, refusing to move until we melt into the furniture of our bedrooms like a scene from Videodrome. So, of course, the idea of instantly accessing an entire database of films at your beckoning call is some sort of heaven, moving us one step closer to our human forms from Wall-e.

Streaming Netflix movies have only made this self-gratifying sloth like indulgence worse for us, which is why we love it. Click a movie and get to watch it? That’s some Willy Wonka levels of magic there, except all you need to do is press a button instead of sit through a song sang by little orange midgets.

Dorothy Booraem is a video production multi-hyphenate from Lincoln, Nebraska. In addition to creating several film and video shorts, she is also the writer and director of the Asian-influenced horror feature Wake the Witch (available on Netflix). As the COO of Unfiltered Entertainment, a privately owned production company, she has helped in fostering a creative community of artists who specialize in genre content. Her newest project, Blood Rites, is a well-shot, micro-budget horror feature that she co-wrote, produced and directed with the help of her dedicated team. In spite of our underwhelming review, Booraem generously gave her time (and refreshing sense of humor) to speak with Planet Fury about working with a low budget, her creative process and embracing negative criticism.

How did you get started making movies?

How did I get started making movies? Like this… I was working at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder on the costume/prop crew.

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New York - Fresh off his 100th SNL Digital short premiere on Saturday, Andy Samberg, dressed as Shy Ronnie, crashed Santigold's show in New York City Monday night (May 14).

The show was put on by Samsung to celebrate its 5 million "likes" on Facebook and held at the intimate Irving Plaza. The singer opened with her best-known hits before moving on to her latest tracks from her sophomore album, Master of My Make Believe.

She rocked out on stage with two backup dancers in festive costumes and at one point selected a dozen or so fans to come up on stage to dance with her.

The crowd, which was composed mainly of fans who were hooked up through Samsung's Facebook page, was treated to an open bar, appetizers and even a few surprise guests.

In addition to Samberg, Pharrell Williams also joined the indie sensation to perform "My Drive Thru.

Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke and Danny Trejo have all signed on to star in the supernatural western tale Dead in Tombstone , Deadline reports. To be directed by Roel Reine ( Death Race 2 ) and with a script from Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles ( Drive Thru ), Dead in Tombstone tells the story of an outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez (Trejo) who, whilst attempting to free his half-brother (Hall) from a small-town prison, is shot in the back and killed. Making a deal with the devil (Rourke), Hernandez returns from the dead to take his revenge. Trejo, who worked with Reine on Death Race 2 , recently appeared in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas . His upcoming roles include the lead in Bad Ass and Machete Kills . Hall, meanwhile, has been making regular television...

You want me to pick you up something from the drive-thru, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five minute window. Anything you want, I'll order it and get it to you in about five minutes no matter what. But I don't go inside the restaurant. I don't do carry out. I just drive thru. If you've seen Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (and if you haven't, what are you waiting for?!?) the above quote will make much more sense. It's Ryan Gosling's character's mantra adapted for fast food. That also happens to be the aim of the latest Funny or Die video Drive Thru. It takes the visuals, sounds and attitude of Drive and folds it into a kind of unclear, but still hilarious story of a man who picks up drive thru only to mistakenly come in possession a bag of burgers that don't belong to him.

Whitney Adams of Brunellos Have More Fun and Claire Thomas of The Kitchy Kitchen have turned the task of creating a short video into an artful fun romp. We dare you to watch an episode of their series Take Out and not have a smile on your face. In each video sommelier Whitney Adams chooses a wine to drink with a dish of take-out food. Thomas then shoots video of Adams exploring the pairing by drinking the wine with the dish and exploring the combination. For anyone wondering if Ricky’s Fish Tacos goes well with a 2009 Von Buhl Armand Kabinett reisling, the answer is yes. Shot in the style of a music video with superimposed text and cut away images of the tasting notes and flavors Adams finds in the wine. In the videos she may also be petting a cute dog or sharing a pizza with friends ensuring...

In another senseless act of violence, the BBC reports that the Sony/Pias distribution centre warehouse in Enfield, North London was sadly destroyed in the riots in London on 8th August. Major labels such as Sony had their stock destroyed, but perhaps more disturbing is to hear of all the independent labels that have been affected. This will be this devastating to them and their artists who have worked so hard to build strong businesses around good independent music. Pias are the biggest distributor of indie labels in the UK. and they also had most of their stock destroyed.

Below is a list of the labels they handle distribution for;

[Pias] Recordings, [Pias] Recordings Belgium, 4Ad, A Camp, Absynthe Minded, Accidental, Aei Music, Air Recordings, Alc Music, Alsation, Ambush Reality, Ancient & Modern, Angular Recording Corporation, Arcady Records, Ark Recordings, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Atlantic Jaxx Recordings, Bad Magic, Balling The Jack, Banquet Records,...

I'm sure most of you aren't excited for the recent installment in the Warner Bros/Newline Final Destination franchise, but for those of us who carry a soft spot for Death and it's clever and sometimes ridiculous ways of killing off those silly people who try to escape it, this news is for you!When asked what could be expected in Final Destination 5 during an interview with Dread Central, Tony Todd responded "Thumbs up! Thumbs way up. They expanded my part, and the producer told me as we were leaving Vancouver that if it opens at Number 1 – which statistically it has – they’re going to shoot the next two simultaneously."Without an official trailer for Final Destination 5, it's tough to determine much about the film and of course, we already know that everyone dies at one point or another. Let's face it, who really goes to see a...

Converse, maker of shoes, has sponsored a new song by Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Kid Cudi, and Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino. According to Spin, the track, “All Summer,” “is part of Converse's Three Artists, One Song series, where three acts come together in the studio to write and record a new song.” The series’s inaugural iteration featured Julian Casablancas, Santigold (née Santogold), Pharrell, and a song called “My Drive Thru,” a kind of mishmash of guitar riffs, Game Boy sounds, and robotic vocals than end up sounding like Hot Hot Heat, of all things. Anyway, “All Summer” is much, much better. The pairing of vocals by Cosentino and Kid Cudi is a fun, pop-y mix, and Rostam’s production keeps the song from sounding like it’s striving too conspicuously for radio play—a trap that “My Drive Thru” walked right into. Fans may download “All Summer” at Converse’s Web site.

The public once again voted for Katie Price to do her sixth I’m A Celebrity Bushtucker Trial. “It’s another day at the office hon,” said Colin. “Yeah, I’ll go and hunt for us again,” she replied. “Feed us Katie, feed us,” said Jimmy.

Katie explained: “I suppose you get into a routine and the routine is I go out to work to bring back the food and you just have your daily routine. I’m the bread winner. I’m going back to work to get the food to provide for my little chickens. I’ve no idea how many stars I’m going to get. I’d like to get a full house. I do every day. I’ve no idea what this challenge is. It’s called Car–Lamity. I don’t even know what calamity means.”

Ahead of the trial, hosts Ant and Dec asked how she was feeling,...

It's a little bit strange to think about, but "Weird Al" Yankovic has been scoring hits with song parodies for nearly 30 years. How has he managed to maintain a full career while other novelty songwriters fall by the wayside? He kept ahead of the game and stayed incredibly sharp. His commentary remains clever and biting, and he has been drifting away from parodying actual songs ("Smells Like Nirvana" and "Amish Paradise," for example) and getting into stuff that mocks things stylistically. (Not that he hasn't completely given up attacking specific tunes — his "Trapped in the Drive Thru," a fun-poker at R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet," was brilliant.)

His latest work is an Internet-only Ep called Internet Leaks, which collects five singles Yanokovic has dropped in the past year. There's the Doors parody ("Craigslist"), a tribute to actor Charles Nelson Reilly ("Cnr") and a sharp play on art school...

Perhaps you read that Mariah Carey's upcoming CD, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, will come with a 34-page booklet packed with ads for upscale perfumes and liquors. Her label, Island/Def Jam, is promoting the venture as a ground-breaker in integrating marketing for a music industry that has seen a steadily increasing decline in music sales over the past decade. But as pioneering as it is, Mariah is not the first artist to dip her toe into musical product placement by teaming up with advertisers to hawk her music.

Last year, Chris Brown's label cut a deal with the Wm. Wrigley, Jr. company to have the singer turn his song "Forever" into a jingle in ads for Doublemint gum by using the 1famous "double your pleasure, double your fun" tagline. While plenty of singers have lent their songs out to be used in commercials, the collaboration with the gum...

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - For the second time in as many weeks, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been spotted taking their kids to McDonald's. Like last time, the Jolie-Pitts used the drive-thru at the golden arches in Hollywood. A witness at the scene tells X17online the family ordered Happy Meals for the kids, while Brad enjoyed a McCafe iced coffee. The kids are apparently not allowed to drink soda, since 3 bottles of water were ordered with the Happy Meals. Is this the family's new Sunday ritual? Or perhaps like many other working families it's an easy and inexpensive way to keep the kids happy. Click Here To See The Pictures Of Brad And Angelina At McDonald's Click Here To See The Pictures Of Brad And Angelina's First Trip To The Drive Thru Click Here to see all of X17online's Brad Pitt photo galleries Click Here...

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - We're they just picking up a quick for the kids or was something else behind Angelina and Brad's recent trip to McDonald's? Brad drove and Angelina sat in the passenger seat of the family's black Suburban, while their army of children all sat in the back of the monstrous SUV. The family waited in the line for about five minutes, and their bodyguards blocked the drive through to prevent anyone from coming near the Jolie-Pitt gang. A witness tell X17online exclusively, "It seemed like a normal family outing for them. Brad and Angie didn't try to hide from the cameras, and even though they attracted a lot of attention, they didn't seem to care." Could there another reason these two are stopping by the golden arches? Like pregnancy cravings? Rumors that Brad and Angelina could be adding to their brood are floating around Hollywood,...

"Penance," which is showcasing itself in Cannes through Quantum Releasing, now has some more promotional material, which fans can enjoy. Currently looking for international distribution the film can be seen by horror enthusiasts living in the Los Angeles area at the Fine Arts Theatre later this month. Director Jake Kennedy is also announcing the production of a five part horror mini-series that will highlight the talents of five talented, up and coming directors. For now have a look at the first poster for "Penance," along with a listing of the ensemble cast.

Director: Jake Kennedy.

Writer: Jake Kennedy.

Cast: Marieh Delfino (Jeepers Creepers 2), Tony Todd (Masters of Horror), Tracy Coogan (Dark Woods), Michael Rooker (Whisper), James Duval (Donnie Darko), and Sita Young (Drive Thru).

For more information on "Penance," visit a previous article here...

The Midnight Madness Continues

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Tcb Public Relations. May 17, 2009. Herbert M. Brindl.

Spotted: The Queen B straying from her Upper East Side hive and making a break for the recording studio. Certainly Blair Waldorff wouldn't be caught dead "slumming it" in Williamsburg, but Leighton Meester may be headed to a stage near Brooklyn soon.

When she hasn't been stealing every scene on the CW’s Gossip Girl, the dark-eyed thud-worthy Meester has been busy putting together an electro-pop album with aspirations of sounding like her influences M.I.A. and Gwen Stefani. Those are some pretty lofty goals (especially in the M.I.A. department) and if her recently leaked song, "Birthday," (a New Republic cover) is any indication, she may want to reconsider her production team.

The song starts out strong: Her voice has a great pop aesthetic and the beat propels the song forward nicely. In fact, it would be a great tune to put the show’s “Omfg” ad...

Leighton Meester is going full circle folks (and no, that's not some weird way of saying topless). The young starlet who started off her career in TV work, eventually scored the leading role in 2005's Drive Thru opposite "Horny the Clown" and has most recently starred in TVs hit show, Gossip Girl, has amazingly decided to come back to her horror roots! Ms. Meester's horror boomerang may just land her a starring role in Sony Screen Gems' thriller The Roommate, set to be directed by Christian E. Christiansen (Lazy parent's, heh?). According to HollywoodReporter.com, "the story follows Sara (Meester), a college student who is randomly assigned to a freshman dorm with a stranger named Rebecca. Things turn...

Aw yeah, mama! If you cats haven't played the ridiculously good new zombie rail shooter from Sega, then you are missing out! If you have then you know how funky it is. Especially the Seventies themed music! Guess what? You can now download some of it for free!

As a bonus to fans, If you head on over to the official House of the Dead: Overkill website, you'll find that the fine folks behind this splatterpiece have just this week released the Overkill Fan Site Kit, which included two of the game's best music tracks, as well as a lot of other HotD goodies. You can download the tunes for free by clicking on the "Drive Thru" portion of the site! Sweet!

What are you waiting for! Get to it! House of the Dead: Overkill (review here) is available on the Nintendo Wii only and is rated M for Very mature!

NEW YORK -- Intrepid Pictures has acquired the graphic novel The Expendable One and signed Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles to write the screenplay for the superhero satire.

Intrepid Pictures partners Marc D. Evans and Trevor Macy will produce the feature, which centers on a typical suburban guy who accidentally injects himself with a serum that allows his body to heal from any injury. He tries to help some locals with the aid of a police radio, but when the CIA recruits him to find a serial killer, he finds he is in over his head.

Writer Jason M. Burns and illustrator Bryan Baugh published the book through Viper Comics last year.

Kuhn and Cowles are now writing the video game-inspired action film Twitch for Sony Pictures and Neal Moritz's Original Film. The pair is set to make their directorial debut with the Lionsgate horror film Drive-Thru and have a script deal at Focus Features' genre arm, Rogue Pictures.