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Halloween Trailer Teaser Reveals First Footage from Sequel

Universal has released another trailer teaser for Halloween, this time unveiling the very first footage from the new film. The sequel picks up forty years after the first movie, disregarding all the subsequent films, and picks up with the residents of Haddonfield on another horrifying Halloween night when Myers stalks the streets. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode, with everybody’s best friend Judy Greer playing her daughter, and Andi Matichak as her granddaughter.

The film finds Laurie traumatized by her encounter with Myers all those decades ago and determined to take him if and when he escapes the asylum where he’s been locked up since his first killing spree. Naturally, her greatest fears come true when Myers breaks loose, and Strode has to confront the man that’s haunted her one last time. The idea for this new movie originated with David Gordon GreenDanny McBride and Jeff Fradley, who all co-wrote the script together. Green, whose versatility behind the camera ranges from Stronger to Pineapple Express, directs.

This trailer teaser shows off the first footage, including The Shape himself and Curtis and Laurie Strode. It’s unclear, but it very much seems as though this film will be jettisoning the idea that Michael is Laurie’s brother. Perhaps we’ll find out tomorrow when the actual trailer arrives.

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Watch Halloween trailer teaser below. The film opens October 19th and also stars Will Patton, Virginia “Ginny” Gardener, Dylan Arnold, Drew Scheid, and Miles Robbins, and features the return of Nick Castle as The Shape (stuntman and actor James Jude Courtney is also helping bring the role to life).

Here’s the official synopsis for Halloween:

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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ShareChat: The no-English social network

Ankush Sachdeva (extreme left), Bhanu Pratap Singh (centre) and Farid Ahsan, co-founders of ShareChat ; Image by: Nishant Ratnakar for Forbes India

In early 2015, an online debating platform called Opinio caught the attention of Mayank Khanduja. The app was flagged by a software internally used by venture capital firm SAIF Partners, Khanduja’s employer, to identify fast growing apps in India. Khanduja, responsible for early-stage investments at the firm, sensed an opportunity and set up a rendezvous with its founders in Mumbai.

What transpired was a discovery bigger than Opinio. The creators of the app—IIT-Kanpur graduates Ankush Sachdeva, Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh—had started work on their next product, ShareChat, which allows users to share vernacular content—picture greetings, GIFs, text messages—on the instant messaging platform WhatsApp.

The idea struck a chord with Khanduja. It was in line with the thesis that SAIF Partners had drawn up on the scope of vernacular content businesses in India—it must cater to the non-English speaking population and thrive on user-generated content that would keep costs low; and it must have a social networking component that will aid user acquisition without significant spends. ShareChat ticked both boxes and in October that year, SAIF Partners, along with India Quotient, wrote a $1.2 million cheque to Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, the company behind ShareChat. This was India Quotient’s second infusion into the firm.

Three years on, Khanduja can take pride in having sensed ShareChat’s potential. The platform currently boasts 6 million daily active users, who use it for about half-an-hour a day on average, sharing content in 14 Indian languages. By design, ShareChat is off-limits for English content. “By eliminating English, it possibly lost the top 15 million users in the country. But that audience is already on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. It is better that as a competitor, ShareChat creates a position elsewhere,” says Anand Lunia, general partner at India Quotient.

“We invested in the firm when ShareChat had less than 1,000 daily users. What really stood out was the insight the team had about new internet users of India. They understood the kind of content users would like,” says Khanduja.

For the three founders, seasoned product builders since their college days, the insights came from experience. Before launching ShareChat, the trio had burnt their fingers on at least ten occasions, including a panorama-based real estate engine, which failed to take off. ��The images were so heavy, they could not be rendered on a computer,” recalls Ahsan, chief operating officer at the Bengaluru-based firm. CEO Sachdeva avers: “Our products were technologically good, but we were not solving any real problems.”

The battle-scarred trio had to part ways in 2014—Ahsan and Singh, both 26, relocated to Mumbai after graduation, to work on an anonymous chat platform, while Sachdeva, a year younger, was completing his course in Kanpur. He would work on the product remotely and travel intermittently to Mumbai over the next year.

In those penny-pinching years, Ahsan and Singh, and later Sachdeva, would end up sleeping in the office of real estate startup GrabHouse, founded by Prateek Shukla, a friend from IIT Kanpur. To add insult to injury, their anonymous chat platform did not cut ice with investors.

Lunia felt it was not a product that Indians needed. He encouraged them to build something that will get new internet users hooked. “Hence, we thought of doing something around contextual chat rooms and came up with the idea of debating,” says Ahsan as he recalls the genesis of Opinio. “It was growing, but there were issues. A lot of users were from Europe. The debates were around nuclear disarmament and water scarcity, but we wanted [Sachin] Tendulkar vs Virat [Kohli] or [Mahendra Singh] Dhoni vs [Sourav] Ganguly.”

Then, one November afternoon in 2014, Sachdeva had his eureka moment. He came across a Facebook post that asked people to share their phone numbers if they were keen on being added to a WhatsApp group about Sachin Tendulkar. There were a staggering 50,000-odd responses.

Sachdeva sprang into action. “I quickly made a tool that could scrape a thousand phone numbers, created WhatsApp groups and left for lunch,” says Sachdeva. When he returned, each group was buzzing with hundreds of messages. More revealingly, none of the messages was in English. Sachdeva had stumbled upon the trio’s next big idea—a vernacular content sharing platform with the flavour of a social network.

This time, Lunia bought in to their idea. In February 2015, India Quotient seeded the firm with $100,000. By then, the company had retired the Opinio app.

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A further eight months of iterations created ShareChat in its current form. “The good thing with the founders [of ShareChat] is, they focus on building something for the masses. While building the product, we realised that an ideal India-product would involve more sharing, and less typing,” says Lunia.

A March 2017 report by Google and KPMG suggests vernacular internet users (234 million) far outnumber English users (175 million). The report also projects local language users will grow to 536 million by 2021, as against 199 million for English. It adds that more than 90 percent of the vernacular users access chat apps and digital entertainment content. Also, rural, Indian language internet users have higher engagement. They spend approximately 328 minutes every week on chat apps, social media, online entertainment and news as against 308 minutes spent by urban users.

Investors, too, have taken note of the trend. News app Dailyhunt, self-publishing portal Pratilipi and the online video community Clip App have found backers in Chinese content company Toutiao, Nexus Venture Partners and Matrix Partners respectively.

ShareChat is reportedly in talks to snare another $70-80 million, at a valuation of approximately $400 million, though the founders refused to comment. Believed to be in the fray are a handful of Chinese strategic investors. The funds will perhaps help them sail through until the revenue counter starts ticking.

Despite its huge user base, ShareChat is yet to monetise. And it is unlikely to do so for the next one year, says Sachdeva. “There is limited value in monetising at low scale—higher ad rates come as a platform gains user scale and relevance, leading to meaningful levels of monetisation. Platforms like ShareChat have the advantage of growing predominantly through organic growth without the pressure of having to monetise too early in their lifecycle,” says Akshay Bhushan, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which has invested in Mohalla Tech.

If ShareChat starts accumulating revenues through advertisements, it will be pitted against the likes of Google and Facebook, who corner a lion’s share of India’s digital ad pie. ShareChat is therefore devising ancillary revenue streams. “A bigger opportunity should be micro transactions, that is users can pay for content and services on the platform. For instance, pay for accessing horoscope, sending virtual gifts to mini-celebs or playing a game. One needs to look at China, where all the content networking businesses were driven by micro transactions,” says Khanduja. Other use cases extend to filling up forms for government exams, checking exam results and even status checks for train and flights. Adds Bhushan, “While an individual’s propensity to pay may be low, the 500 million internet users now accessible allows new kinds of business models which are driven by low ticket size, but will be multiplied through sheer scale”.

Inside ShareChat’s sparsely furnished Bengaluru office (the company shifted base to the city in 2015) spread across two floors, the buzzword is scale. About 70-odd employees are glued to their MacBooks, working on ways to make ShareChat India’s answer to global behemoths like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Another big job at hand is to prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber like most social networks, replete with vitriolic messages and fake news. “At times I think, have I invested in a Frankenstein’s monster?” says Lunia.

About half the team at ShareChat is devoted to moderation and engagement with the community and content creators. ShareChat deploys a set of algorithms that takes into account about 40 signals, apart from relying on reports from the users themselves, to identify such content. Anything pornographic is detected by the algorithms and deleted even before it goes live. “We have a stringent policy for hate speech and violent content. We monitor content in a hybrid way which includes both algorithms and humans. The algorithm is trained with keywords to detect most of such content,” says Sachdeva.

Having sorted out text and images, the company is now building an exclusive video repository, all user-generated, called ShareChat Talkies. “We have about 14 studios that put exclusive content on ShareChat and we want to take that number to 50 by the end of this year. But this content needs to be something than can be created easily. We don’t want big sets, but simple things,” says Ahsan.

The hope is, someday, ShareChat will make money for its investors and itself.

(This story appears in the 22 June, 2018 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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When you decided to take on the path of entrepreneurship, you might have known that you were in for a journey full of ups and downs.

And in the beginning, it may seem like mostly downs, and a lot of them are unexpected. Don’t be a part of a statistic and give up, remember that all your hardships make your successes feel that much better.

I made this video for you to know that I also had to realize there is no magic wand, there is no person that will take me by the hand and show me the way. And knowing that you have to work harder than ever before is actually an incredibly liberating feeling.

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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 7, 2018 | Demanders

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10 NEW TO NETFLIX

“Bad Genius” “Blue Jasmine“ “The Departed“ “Just Friends“ “The King’s Speech“ “Miracle“ “National Treasure“ “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” “Outside In“ “Thor: Ragnarok“

6 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD

“Annihilation“

Alex Garland‘s “Annihilation” is undeniably one of the most “essential” films of 2018. What I mean by that is that it’s a film that movie lovers need to see because it created enough conversation about the current landscape of the medium that it’s key to understanding it. First, there was the controversial decision by Paramount to sell it off to Netflix in international markets. Then there was the relative box office failure despite rapturous critical praise. Before it even hit DVD, it felt like the film was a beloved cult item, with groups of fans going to see it in theaters before it left. Now it’s on Blu-ray, where I have to admit it looks AMAZING. The fact is that it looks better on my 4K player than it did in the mediocre chain theater in which I saw it. And this is the perfect film to rewatch and appreciate in new ways. I have a feeling it’s a movie we’ll be writing about and considering for months to come. 

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Special Features Part 1 – SOUTHERN REACH Refractions – See how director Alex Garland created the tone, textures and color palettes for the various film environments on set. For Those That Follow – Listen to the cast’s perspective on their roles and learn why they found the story so intriguing. Part 2 – AREA X Shimmer – See how filmmakers transformed real set locations to create the world of Annihilation. Vanished into Havoc – Check out all the action as cast and crew walk you through the mind-blowing stunts and special effects. Part 3 – TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Unfathomable Mind – Learn why the visual effects are integral to achieving director Alex Garland’s overall vision for Annihilation. The Last Phase – Listen to the cast and crew share their fondest memories from filming Annihilation.

“Au Hasard Balthazar” (Criterion)

When I was asked a couple months ago to find reviews of films by Roger Ebert that reflected empathy, I considered it a treat to go through so many of his best pieces searching for that theme. In doing so, I came upon Roger’s Great Movies review of Bresson’s classic “Au Hasard Balthazar.” If you have not yet done so, you owe it to yourself to read it. Roger writes, “They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.” He then goes into detail about Bresson’s approach to cinema, shooting takes dozens of times to drain it of artifice and focus on the action of the moment. Get the new Criterion Blu-ray upgrade, read Roger’s review, and appreciate further how Bresson impacted cinema, and how Roger impacted the way we write about it.

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Special Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Interview from 2004 with film scholar Donald Richie “Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson,” a 1966 French television program about the film, featuring director Robert Bresson, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Au hasard Balthazar’s cast and crew Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar James Quandt  Cover by Sarah Habibi

“Gringo“

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“Gringo” meanders into subplots just when it needs to tighten up, but there’s a remarkable ensemble in this mediore dark comedy, which includes fantastic performance from Charlize Theron as an ice queen of a corporation under siege. The problem with “Gringo” is that Theron is so good that she steals focus from David Oyelowo’s genial dope, who is well-played but not well-written. Still, they don’t make a lot of adult comedies like this any more, and a chance to spend a couple hours with Theron, Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley makes it worth a mild reccomendation for a rental. 

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Special Features The Making of Gringo – Featurette Who is Harold? – Featurette The Stunts of Gringo – Featurette Filming Gringo in Mexico – Featurette Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature

“Midnight Cowboy” (Criterion)

John Schlesinger‘s award-winning drama is such a memorable snapshot of an era that it has come to define it. Anyone over 40 can’t see a man in a cowboy hat in New York City and not think of Jon Voight, or cross the street and nearly get hit by a car and quote Dustin Hoffman. It’s one of those films that really tapped into something not just about the era in which it was made but where we were going as a culture. It’s really a modern take on the country mouse in the city, but the city is now deadly dangerous and a place where people can get lost and forgotten forever. Few films have done as remarkable a job of being a bridge from one arguably-naive era to a more cynical look at the future to which we were all headed as this one. It’s a movie that always makes me notably sad, despite such great work by Voight and Hoffman.

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Special Features New 4K digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Adam Holender, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman New video essay with commentary by Holender New photo gallery with commentary by photographer Michael Childers The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, an Academy Award–nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann Two short documentaries from 2004 on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970 Voight’s original screen test Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to Schlesinger Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris

“Thoroughbreds“

Quality Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen Alert! Focus kind of bobbled the release of this great little thriller, a movie that should have been a word-of-mouth hit but barely made a dent at all in theaters. If you like dark comedies like “Heathers,” this is your jam, a razor-sharp, socially-smart thriller about two young ladies who conspire to kill someone. Olivia Cooke does her best work to date as Amanda, the more sociopathic of the two, and a woman who befirends Anya Taylor-Joy’s Lily. They’re both great, as is Anton Yelchin in one of his final performances, but this is really startling as a writing/directing debut by Cory Finley. Keep an eye on him. 

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“Unsane“

Claire Foy’s performance in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller remains one of the best of the year, and will be so in another six months as well. It’s a fearless turn, especially given the fact that he’s not allowed many of the tricks and crutches used by actors due to the intimacy created by Soderbergh’s iPhone camera. We are right there with Foy as she goes through the psychological and physical challenges of the story of a woman on the edge of sanity, unsure if she’s being stalked or going crazy. This is one of many Soderbergh films that I expect time will catch up to, especially as his status as one of the best living American filmmakers continues to rise. Hopefully, at some point in the future, it gets a better Blu-ray treatment than this quickie job by Universal, almost entirely bereft of special features.

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M'sian News Site That Parodies Politics & Current Events

The Tapir Times is a parody news and satire website founded by an anonymous group of friends.

Started in 2012 as Fake Malaysia News, The Tapir Times currently crafts news stories that poke fun of the Malaysian political landscape, social happenings, and other newsworthy events.

If you’re one for political humour and witty satire, odds are you’ve already chanced upon The Tapir Times, a Malaysian “news” portal very much in the vein of internationally renowned satire site The Onion that pokes fun at current happenings in Malaysia, with a keen focus on our the local political landscape.

From humorous commentary about the very many shenanigans within Malaysia’s corridors of power to the fabrication of completely false yet still conceivable news pieces, The Tapir Times is always par for the course whenever one is in need of a good dose of laughter.

Started in 2012 as a website called Fake Malaysia News, The Tapir Times was founded by a group of friends (who have chosen to remain anonymous) after they were inspired by the popular late-night talk show The Colbert Report.

“It got us wondering why there wasn’t more satire and parody news in Malaysia since That Effing Show came up,” said Adam, one of the members of The Tapir Times.

The idea to create a platform of their own then came after the friends found themselves bored during a family wedding trip in Kuching, sitting in a hotel room doing nothing but re-reading pro-government English newspapers.

“We came up with some ideas and published them on a very basic WordPress website,” Adam explained. “At that time, Jon Stewart playfully called his parody news ‘fake news’, so we initially named our website Fake Malaysia News.”

“We shared it with a few friends who passed it on to others, which then inspired us to write more articles and it grew organically from there.”

Satire Is An Artform

The team members now work day jobs in the fields of engineering and telecommunications, and find time to push out new content during lunch breaks, conference calls, and plane flights—essentially running on a “whenever we feel like it” schedule, as simply put by Adam.

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“There’s one guy who writes nearly all of it, and some other contributors,” he explained. “We operate at no fixed address.”

As for the actual content, Adam explains the process as a methodical one, beginning with the deciding of the title.

“When you write news satire, the headline is the most important part of the story, so sometimes we start out by checking current news and brainstorming ideas for funny headlines,” he said. “We choose the funniest ones and flesh them out into Tapir news articles.”

With no prior experience writing satirical content, it took plenty of learning for the team to get proficient at crafting their content.

“The first year or so, we experimented and discovered that if we’re going to write parody news, it has to be about the story of the day,” said Adam.

“If Malaysians are talking about kangkung, writing a story about traffic jams isn’t going to resonate with readers unless it’s on the front pages.”

He also noted the importance of being able to tread the fine line between poking fun and being outright unsavoury.

“Satire by nature needs to be a little prickly to be relevant, but there are lines we won’t cross,” he said. “Even if we don’t like a politician, we wouldn’t write a fictional news story about him or her coming to physical harm or injury.”

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“Also, we won’t look for humour in genuine tragedies like MH370,” he added. “We’ve seen it done in other satire blogs overseas, but the risk of coming off as insensitive and insulting victims make it a risk not worth taking.”

Finally, Adam also discussed some of the challenges of running a parody news site in a country like Malaysia, particularly during the Najib administration.

“We were mindful of the government clamping down on criticism, so we toned down a little earlier this year because we didn’t want to get blocked,” he said.

“We knew we were being monitored, but nobody contacted us or warned us directly.”

“We suspected the Barisan government concluded we were a silly joke factory and not a real threat like the Sarawak Report.”

Now after the change of government, Adam thinks that The Tapir Times will still continue on its trend of poking fun at the government, only that now they’ll have new and different things to write about.

“We heard that Zunar admitted he will be missing Najib and Rosmah, but it’s going to be a nice change having some new personalities to write about,” he joked.

“But generally, satire is anti-authoritarian, so we tend to poke fun at the government of the day more than the opposition.”

“The post-GE14 landscape has flipped things a little, but as long as people are following the news cycle, there’s always something to write about.”

Just One Big Joke

Currently, The Tapir Times receives approximately 2,000 to 8,000 reads per article, with the really viral ones getting 50,000 reads should they do really well.

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“It might be small for a proper news portal, but for a shoestring hobby website, it’s quite big,” Adam said. “We’ve had to upgrade our host after a few stories crashed the server.”

And on what they actually hope to achieve with their platform, Adam says that The Tapir Times is really just about having fun with no hidden agenda—the exact reason they distanced themselves from their old Fake Malaysian News brand.

“We ran as Fake Malaysia News for five years but decided to change it earlier this year because Trump redefines what ‘fake news’ now means,” he explained. “’Fake news’ used to be funny news parodies like The Onion, but now it’s about distorting public opinion through spreading falsehoods or starting hoaxes which we aren’t into.”

“There’s no final objective other than making funny jokes,” he said. “The Tapir Times isn’t a business, there’s no revenue model, advertising or money coming in. Ultimately, the website is a fun sandbox we can play in and the creative challenge is finding jokes in the current headlines.”

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