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The best Chad Michael Murray movies and TV shows include a mix of young adult releases, and in recent years, more adult drama fare. Murray got his start as an actor after he graduated from high school and won a modeling scholarship, which helped him pick up an agent. He moved to California and quickly earned a role in the MTV drama series Undressed. This helped lead to his breakout role on The Gilmore Girls as Tristin DuGray.

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Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.

The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.

All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.

Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.

“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.

“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”

All synopses provided by the festival.

Narrative Features...

Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.

The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.

All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.

Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.

“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.

“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”

Al synopses provided by the festival.

Narrative Features...

In 2006, long before prank videos exploded as a major content category on YouTube, Charlie Todd and his team at Improv Everywhere decided to bring their particular brand of public performance to the world's biggest video site. These "public missions" instantly became quite popular; one of Improv Everywhere's first YouTube videos, in which a group of confederates froze in place at New York City's Grand Central station, is a modern-day classic.

Over the past nine years, Improv Everywhere has continued to provide its subscribers with a regular supply of public, positive pranks assisted by large groups. Todd, who remains the channel's ringleader, spoke to us about his dedication to causing scenes.

Tubefilter: How does it feel to have one million subscribers? What do you have to say to your fans?

Improv Everywhere: We actually crossed the million subscriber mark awhile back, but it felt great. I was so excited when...

As with many other presentations that have taken place over the past week, Collective Digital Studio’s pitch at the 2015 Newfronts was full of content announcements. Several of Cds’ creative partners--including Rhett & Link, Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd, and Epic Meal Time sauce boss Harley Morenstein--took the stage at New York’s Sva Theater to discuss projects they will produce alongside their partner network.

Rhett & Link, who create videos on their titular YouTube hub and their Good Mythical Morning channel, served as the event’s hosts, and they also announced Rethink, a series in which they will take “arbitrary formalities” and each give them “a treatment [to] see whose idea is better.” As an example, Rhett suggested a rethought version of the pinata, in which a papier-mache animal is filled with Kool Aid and kids throw spears at it.

Other new projects include Fake Company, Inc., in which Improv Everywhere...

Improv Everywhere and its fans have been putting on crowdsourced public stunts for more than ten years. Now, a documentary feature offers viewers a look inside at the life of the world's most numerous performance group. It's called We Cause Scenes, and it's available for purchase from iTunes. We Cause Scenes is a look inside the mind of Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd, who has spent the past decade freezing in train stations, riding the subway without pants, and reenacting his favorite movie scenes. The film also examines the thousands of confederates who help make each 'prank' a success. A trailer released on January 7th has drawn a significant amount of attention on YouTube. We Cause Scenes debuted at South By Southwest in April 2013, and then toured the country for the rest of the year. It's now offered for the masses at both iTunes and its own Vhx-powered website, but...

Improv Anywhere took to a public plaza in Manhattan to recreate a public real life sequel to Back To The Future. Created and Directed by Charlie Todd, the skit includes a time traveling DeLorean appearing carrying Doc Brown, who is there to warn Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker that they were about to see themselves from ten minutes in the future, […]...

We love all the ingenious stunts the folks from Improv Everywhere consistently dream up, and now we're about to love on them even more. This is because their inventive, spontaneous flash mobs have invaded our favorite movies for a new series presented by Fandango called Movies in Real Life. Essentially, Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd and his neverending list of improv junkies will be tackling various movies this fall by re-creating iconic scenes in real life. Their first episode is called Rocky in Real Life, and for it the group traveled to Philadelphia, dressed up an actor to portray Rocky Balboa and... well, let's just say they went for a little run. You can watch the first episode of Movies in Real Life below. Following the premiere of episode one, we...

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We love all the ingenious stunts the folks from Improv Everywhere consistently dream up, and now we're about to love on them even more. This is because their inventive, spontaneous flash mobs have invaded our favorite movies for a new series presented by Fandango called Movies in Real Life. Essentially, Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd and his neverending list of improv junkies will be tackling various movies this fall by re-creating iconic scenes in real life. Their first episode is called Rocky in Real Life, and for it the group traveled to Philadelphia, dressed up an actor to portray Rocky Balboa and... well, let's just say they went for a little run. You can watch the first episode of Movies in Real Life below. Following the premiere of episode one, we caught...

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The Collective Digital Studio just added thousands of flash mob fanatics to its talent list. The top multi-channel network has secured a partnership with social prank and public performance channel Improv Everywhere. Actor Charlie Todd founded the group in 2001, and it hit the big time in early 2008 when its Grand Central time freeze prank became a viral hit. The innovative video, which features a disciplined cast of 207 jokesters, has scored more than 33 million videos to date. Since then, Todd and his crowdsourced casts have continued to pull off clever tricks all over New York. Earlier this year, they pulled off one of the largest Harlem Shake videos. Most recently, they turned a modern day bar into a 19th century period piece. Though Improv Everywhere now counts 1.3 million subscribers among its fans, it was, until signing with The Collective, one of the most popular independent channels on YouTube. "I'm thrilled to be joining Collective Digital Studios,...

Improv Everywhere performs large scale, public pranks all year-round, not just on April Fools' Day. But given that the holiday is the prankster's Christmas, they always break out something special.

This year, 2000 people descended upon Times Square to do one simple thing: walk backwards. And it's predictably weird. But, as an added dash of April Fools' fun, Charlie Todd and company start showing their hand about halfway through, revealing that they're pranking all of us watching at home as well. By the time you see people biking backwards you know he's played a little joke on you, too.

Austin — The story of how a college grad with Broadway dreams but no prospects wound up coordinating stunts involving hundreds of strangers in Manhattan's most public places, We Cause Scenes could hardly fail to provide a certain amount of anarchic entertainment. Its look at Charlie Todd and his Improv Everywhere project is surprisingly straight given the nature of the subject (and the fact that director Matt Adams is part of the crew), and many viewers will find the pranksters' ragtag charm wears off as they become more successful. But the film is a welcome piece of cultural history that

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At some point in our lives, we're told that we can't play pretend in public.  There's a space for entertainment, and out in the real world, you have to abide by societal norms.  Keep your head down, go about your business, etc.  Charlie Todd decided to break those rules when he created Improv Everywhere.  In Matt Adams' documentary We Cause Scenes, the director looks at the history of the web sensation, and goes behind the scenes of some of the group's most famous and hilarious "missions".  While the film is incredibly funny, Adams' primary focus on the mission back-stories leaves the more interesting issues in the background. In 2001, Todd and a group of friends began doing public pranks as a way to amuse themselves, and Todd took advantage of the Internet to write about these missions.  "Improv Everywhere", as Todd called it, began to grow in popularity with more people joining in the missions.

Natpe announced the recipients of the 2012 Digital Luminary Awards, which honor leadership in digital media in six categories ranging from Branded Entertainment Series to Online Video Personality. Natpe CEO Rick Feldman announced the winners of the third annual awards, which honor the innovative people and companies who act as catalysts in the content revolution. Recipients in six categories will be honored during a presentation at Natpe || ContentFirst, the premier U.S.-based media marketplace. Alex Albrecht of Fat Dolphin will emcee. The Digital Luminary Awards are produced again with Tubefilter. Each year, digital media continues to redefine itself and mature in terms of content, brand integration and talent,” remarked Feldman. “Natpe is proud to recognize the 2012 Digital Luminary Awards honorees as they lead the charge in uniting the world of media in a truly exciting way.” The 2012 recipients are: Brand Leadership in Online Video: Honoring a brand that has shown...

Somehow, when I read that Showtime was going to turn Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love into a television show, I was expecting an older William Masters, and not sexy Paul Bettany.

Conceptual artist Marina Abramović is under fire for her planned dinner Saturday night at the Moca Gala. She's auditioned performers to lay nude on and under the dining tables so that attendees can gawk at and fondle them. Some will be placed on lazy susans under the tables with just their head protruding.

I had completely missed the news that Rob Reiner was working on a movie about the Prop 8 legal case. Reiner is of course a major funder of the Afer court case winding through the courts.

While over at Gizmodo Mat Honan is forbidden to speak about what he thought of the actual movie The Muppets,...

Can TV's Ashton Kutcher, Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd, tech giant Intel, and random people on the street find the gooey center of viral hilarity? At the very least, we'll laugh and learn while their attempts at this piece of the inspiration-seeking IdeaJam project publicly fails. (But, you know, goes viral anyway.)

Standing in front of the studio audience while three cameras live-stream to YouTube, Charlie Todd offers a brief tutorial on improv comedy then issues a challenge to the countless viewers and Twitter users at home (literally, as no one knows just how many are there). He wants them to tweet jokes based on the topic #mygooglehistory.

Pulling from the tweeted responses, he reads one: "How to make my mom tell me she loves me," he says. The studio audience bubbles with a few random chuckles. "Maybe they're being a bit too real here," Todd says. Mind you, being arbiters...