Daily 30: Sun 10.19.2014

Dat Boy Spittin 2mo
Go Off

1 Go Off Canon

Music video by Canon performing Go Off.
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On Arguing With 2pac

12 On Arguing With 2pac Vlad TV

The Mafia Dons, formally known as Junior M.A.F.I.A., recently chopped it up with VladTV about arguing with 2Pac while he was in New York City, saying him and Suge Knight pulled up in front of them in a Hummer and began cursing them out, so they responded in kind. Looking back, they say it was more about being in the heat of the moment than actually having a problem with them. When asked if they heard the Outlawz smoked 2Pac's ashes, they say they have and are sure they did it out of love, but could never see themselves smoking Biggie's ashes.
Top 10 Airplay of the Week 2mo
OCT 19TH, BILLBOARD REPORT

16 OCT 19TH, BILLBOARD REPORT Billboard

1. New Flame (Chris Brown Feat. Usher & Rick Ross) 2. Lifestyle (Rich Gang Feat. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) 3. Don’t Tell ‘Em (Jeremih Feat. YG) 4. 0 To 100 / The Catch Up (Drake) 5. ***Flawless (Beyonce Feat. Nicki Minaj) 6. Hold You Down (DJ Khaled Feat. Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future, & Jeremih) 7. Studio (ScHoolboy Q Feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) 8. Hot Boy (Bobby Shmurda) 9. About The Money (T.I. Feat. Young Thug) 10. Stay With Me (Sam Smith)
Big Money Earners 2mo
OCT 19TH, BOX OFFICE REPORT

17 OCT 19TH, BOX OFFICE REPORT Box Office

1. Fury (2014) $25,000,000 2. Gone Girl $18,000,000 3. The Book of Life (2014) $17,300,000 4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day $12,900,000 5. The Best of Me $11,500,000
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12 O'Clock Boyz

18 12 O'Clock Boyz Mission Films

Pug, a young boy growing up on a combative West Baltimore block, finds solace in a group of illegal dirt bike riders known as The 12 O'Clock Boys.
2mo
Laugh At My Pain

19 Laugh At My Pain Kevin Hart

Experience the show that quickly became a national phenomenon. Get an up-close and personal look at Kevin Hart back in Philly where he began his journey to become one of the funniest comedians of all time. You will laugh 'til it hurts!
From The Classic Album! 2mo
Illmatic Live

20 Illmatic Live Nas

The 20th anniversary tour for Nas' classic Illmatic album
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Become a Film Producer For $1

26 Become a Film Producer For $1 Daily Dot

In the crowdfunding school of filmmaking, the argument can be made that every donor is a producer—even if those donations generally earn you an appreciative tweet from the filmmakers at best. But a new film being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, Talk Is Cheap, is aiming to put its money where its mouth is by offering an official associate producer credit to every donor who contributes to the campaign. The filmmakers behind Talk Is Cheap, a fictionalized account of one teenager’s mission to do something about climate change, launched a Kickstarter campaign two days ago, seeking to raise $1.5 million to produce the film. It’s a lofty goal that they’re hoping is buttressed by having Oscar-winning producer Barrie M. Osborne, one of the producers of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix, and Face/Off, as their executive producer. The other sell? Giving an on-screen associate producer credit to every backer who donates even just $1. Rather than tier donation rewards up to the thousands of dollars range, the film has only three rewards: for $1, onscreen associate producer credit; for $15, the credit and a streaming copy of the film; and for $25—you guessed it—25 onscreen associate producer credits for 25 people of your choosing. To put this into perspective, Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here Kickstarter campaign charged a minimum of $10 just to receive production updates from Braff throughout the shoot, whereas one of the priciest rewards, for $9,000, earned a mere onscreen credit that would read “Visual Effects Made Possible By” said donor. Similarly, the Veronica Mars film Kickstarter from Kristen Bell and director Rob Thomas offered a speaking role for the maximum $10,000 donation, but no producer credits to speak of at any donation level. Deadline Hollywood was quick to pan Talk Is Cheap’s gimmick—which, to be clear, is most definitely a gimmick to entice Hollywood hopefuls the chance to see their name (ever so briefly) in the lights—but ultimately, are Kickstarter backers not film producers by definition? Hollywood has long been known to hand out producer credits to people for any variety of reasons. While executive producers are usually involved elbow-deep in almost all aspects of the development of the film, from concept to completion, lesser credits—those of coproducers, associate producers, supervising producers, and so on—can be handed out for a myriad of reasons (being a manager of one of the actors or writers of the film, being an junior executive who helped develop the film, offering some sort of financial contribution toward the film), the generally unifying reason being to placate the person being named. The Producers Guild of America is equally vague on what defines an associate producer. While an executive producer credit is very specifically delineated by the PGA—“an individual who has made a significant contribution to the motion picture and who additionally qualifies under one of two categories: having secured an essential and proportionally significant part (no less than 25%) of the financing for the motion picture, and/or having made a significant contribution to the development of the literary property”—an associate producer is by far much more discretionary, and ceremonial, a title. The Associate Producer credit is granted solely on the decision of the individual receiving the Produced By credit, and is to be granted sparingly and only for those individuals who are delegated significant production functions. At a $1.5 million campaign funding budget (at the time of publication, the film has earned only $8,457, but has another 28 days to go on its campaign), it’s clear that the filmmakers behind Talk Is Cheap aren’t handing out credits as "sparingly" as the PGA would advise—but there’s also nothing in the PGA constitution that reprimands them for handing out credits like they’re candy. While most producer credits come with some sort of profit participation, Talk Is Cheap has promised no such thing—and again, by PGA standards, isn’t under any requirement to do so. Industry insiders like Deadline Hollywood can mock the trend and chalk it up to a cheap gimmick for a film that might not otherwise get funded, but really, what Talk Is Cheap is offering to its backers is no different from what other independent films that secure financing in the more traditional offline avenues of fundraising: a ceremonial title that is offered up as a thank-you. While Talk Is Cheap may be cutting through the backroom dealings that usually secure funding and producers, their Kickstarter donors are every bit as much producers for helping bring the film to fruition. Offering them onscreen credit shouldn’t be viewed as an aberration; it should instead become the norm for all crowdfunded films.
Based On A True Story 3mo
Kill The Messenger

27 Kill The Messenger Focus Features

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
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Top Five

28 Top Five Paramount

A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.
Powerful! 4mo
Finding Fela

30 Finding Fela Jigsaw Produtions

Alex Gibney's Finding Fela (2014) is a sweeping portrait of the artist as guerilla warrior. Set to the insistent groove of Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti's revolutionary Afrobeat sound, the remarkable story of one man's courageous stand against a corrupt and dictatorial government gives testament to the transformative power of music as a force of social and political unification.