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Power Rangers defined the 1990s children's television scene. Although the series initially faced pushback regarding its depiction of violence, it soon became one of the highest-rated TV shows. After the success of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the franchise grew to include action figures and films. It also became a staple of the American tokusatsu, giving the genre a more international presence outside Japan.

Many TV shows drew on the franchise's essential elements to capitalize on the growing new genre and its success. While many companies wanted to imitate the American tokusatsu classic, the most successful adaptations were those by Saban Entertainment. This company gave Power Rangers its success and gave way to new series that further experimented with the genre.

Updated on August 17, 2024, by John Dodge: The most successful American tokusatsu show, Power Rangers was a crucial franchise in the 90s. Given this, many shows of this genre drew inspiration from it,...

We all agree that Michael Jackson is known for his enduring dance moves and infectious dance-pop songs, but one of his most poignant ballads, She’s Out of My Life, has a special place in his discography. This heartfelt song, produced by Quincy Jones, highlights Jackson’s emotional depth and vulnerability.

Written by veteran songwriter Tom Bahler, the song was released as the fourth single from Jackson’s 1979 album Off the Wall. Though the album gave the world, many upbeat songs, it also produced a breakup song (She’s Out of My Life) that made Jackson cry every time he tried to sing it.

Michael Jackson in a still from Smooth Criminal (Image via YouTube)

Jackson was moved by this real contemplation of lost love, and he gave the depressing lyrics his whole being. Now, we can all agree that a wide range of performers, including Patti Labelle, Josh Groban,...

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dome Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #351: How to make a successful low-budget indie...

“American Gladiators” aired in the 1990’s, but the competition still remains a phenomenon decades later. Last month, ESPN’s “30 for 30” explored the show, and now, Netflix is getting into the game.

Netflix’s five-part docuseries, “Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of ‘American Gladiators,” dives into the hit, chronicling the meteoric rise and sweeping impact the superhero-like athletes had on both fans across America and their “average Joe” competitors.

Co-directors Jared Hess and Tony Vainuku were fans of “American Gladiators” as teens, so it was natural to revisit the TV show when Netflix presented the opportunity. In their series, the filmmakers explore the good, the bad and the ugly, bringing audiences insight through access to executives who greenlit the production in the ’80s, original crew members and gladiators, including Nitro (Dan Clark), Storm (Debbie Clark), Diamond (Erika Andersch Bunker), Laser (Jim Kalafat), Ice (Lori Fetrick), Zap (Raye Olson), Blaze...

Also picks up festival favourite ‘A Life On The Farm’.

Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired four films for UK-Ireland release, including darkly comic thriller A Kind Of Kidnapping.

Writer-director Dan Clark’s feature debut won the main Golden Bee plus best actress and best screenplay awards at Manchester Film Festival in March; Bulldog will release it theatrically in July, including a Q&a tour. Patrick Baladi stars as a sleazy politician who turns his kidnapping by a young couple to his advantage.

Oscar Harding’s A Life On The Farm, which has played over 30 film festivals including Edinburgh and the US’ Fantastic Fest,...

On today’s episode of the Comic Concierge Jay Soderberg aka PodVader from the Next Fan Up podcast joins me to discuss Kyle Starks’s Kill Them All. We get into PodVader’s history with comics as well as make time for a little football talk as well.

Hosts:

Jay ‘PodVader’ Soderberg @TheRealPodVader, @NFUPodcast

Dan Clark @MovieRevolt

The new gonzo graphic novel love letter to 90s action movies by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks. A betrayed murderess wants revenge. A hard drinking former cop wants his job back. For either to get what they want, they’re going to have to fight their way through fifteen flights of criminals, assassins, drug lords, murderers, yup, even accountants, and… Kill. Them. All.

Listen to “Kill Them All” on Spreaker.

Another week, another episode of the Pop Addled podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly!

Pop Addled is a pop culture podcast with nerd tendencies. Join Keenan, Sam and Timmy as they discuss movies, music, video games, sports, TV, comics, and any intersection thereof. Their brains have been thoroughly addled by pop culture and they’re here to share their twisted thoughts with you!

If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out old episode on Libsyn and iTunes; and we’ll be bringing you the latest episodes each and every week.

Pop Addled: Movie Special – Avengers: Infinity War

Keenan and Tim traveled all the way to Baltimore to meet up with fellow podcaster Dan Clark for this one! We even got a special guest, Dan’s neighbors dog, who apparently loves to run around directly above where we were recording. We had a...

Clark joins from Motion Picture Services.

Dan Clark has been appointed as Commercial Director in the United Kingdom for leading content services in film and TV firm Eclair.

Clark started his career as Feature & Short Film Manager with Kodak Motion Picture in 2001, and has since worked for both Fujifilm Motion Picture and Arts Alliance Media as a Sales Manager. For the past four years he was Commercial and Client Relations Manager of Motion Picture Services.

Eclair’s Svp Business Development & Studio Relations, UK General Manager Manuel Carreras says of the appointment, “We are delighted to be working with Dan Clark as we are convinced his 16-year background experience in sales and technologies…will be a great opportunity to increase business momentum for our portfolio of content services.”

Clark said he is “thrilled to be joining the inspiring team at Eclair…to accelerate both the development of our business in various fields…and our powerful...

The Paris Coproduction Village has unveiled its selections and online registration is now open to book meetings. At the event, 14 carefully selected international projects without French partners attached will be presented to producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, and fund representatives.

The 14 projects selected are the followings:

"Across the Fields" by Daniel Joseph Borgman ("The Weight of Elephants" Berlinale Forum and Generation Selections 2013 ; short film "Berik" Grand Prix Critic’s Week Cannes 2010) produced by Adomeit Film (Denmark) "Brotherhood" by Pepe Diokno ("Above the Clouds", Tokyo International Film Festival 2014 ; "Clash" Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Futur and Orrizonti Award) produced by Epicmedia (Philippines) "Fireflies" by Bani Khoshnoudi ("Ziba" International Film festival Rotterdam 2012 ; short film "Transit" Grand Jury Prix Premiers Plans Angers 2005) produced by Zensky Cine (Mexico) and Pensée Sauvage (U.S.) "Look Up" by Fulvio Risuleo (short film "Varicella" Semaine de la Critique 2015 ; short film "Lievito Madre" Cannes Cinéfondation 2014 ;) produced by Revok (Italy) "Lost Wolves" by Carlos Moreno ("All Your Dead Ones" Competition Sundance 2011 ; "Dog Eat Dog" Competition Sundance 2008) prodced by 64-a Films (Colombia) "The Man from the Sea" by Koji Fukada ("Au revoir l’été" Gold Montgolfière Festival des 3 Continents 2013 ; "Hospitalité" Best Picture Award Tokyo International Film Festival 2010) produced by Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan) "The Omission" by Sebastián Schjaer (short film "The Broken Past," Director’s Fortnight 2015 ; short film "Tomorrow All the Things" Cannes Cinéfondation 2013) produced by Trapecio Cine (Argentina) et Titus Kreyenberg (Germany) "Opening Hours" by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul and Wichanon Somumjarn ("Mother" Competition Torino Film Festival 2012 ; "In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire" Competition International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 ; "Mundane Story" Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009) produced by Electric Eel Film (Thailand) "Pirate of Love" by Sara Guðmundsdóttir & Árni Sveinsson (short film "The Pirate of Love" Official Selection New Directors / New Films 2013 ; "Backyard" Special Mention Sound&Vision Award Cph:dox 2010) produced by Netop Films (Iceland) "Single Mother" by Hana Makhmalbaf ("Green Days" Venice Film Festival 2009 ; "Le Cahier" Crystal Bear Berlinale 2008) produced by Makhmalbaf Film House (U.K.) "Zoology" by Ivan I. Tverdosvsky ("Correction Class" Gold Star Marrakech Film Festival 2014) produced by New People (Russia) Projects selected as part of the Brazilian Focus:

"Tinnitus" by Gregorio Graziosi ("Obra" Toronto International Film Festival 2014 ; short film "Mira" International Competition Locarno Film Festival 2009) produced by Superfilmes (Brazil) "Revenge Therapy" by Marcos Bernstein ("My Sweet Orange Tree" Alice nella Citta Award Rome Film Festival 2012 ; "The Other Side of the Street" C.I.C.E.A. Award for Best Film - Berlinale Panorama 2004) produced by Passaro Films (Brazil) "A Yellow Animal" by Felipe Bragança (short film "Escape from my Eyes" Berlinale Forum Expanded 2015 ; "A Alegria" Director’s Fortnight 2010) produced by Duas Mariola Filmes (Brazil) The Paris-based international coproduction market is organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival with support from the Champs-Élysées Fim Festival to take place June 10-12, 2015. All the meetings will take place at Eurosites George V 28 Av. George V, 75008 Paris

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Second edition set to unfold in French capital June 10-12.

Hana Makhmalbaf, Ivan I. Tverdosvsky and Jonas Carpignano will be among the directors presenting new projects at the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village in June.

A joint venture between Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs Elysées Film Festival, the event is set to unfold June 10-12 in the French capital.

Hana Makhmalbafwill present her first feature since the 2009 Green Days, a new UK-produced project entitled Single Mother.

Russian Ivan I. Tverdosvsky, who is being touted as an upcoming director to watch following the festival success of his Corrections Class, will unveil Zoology.

Jonas Carpignano, whose Mediterranea is premiering in Critics’Week, will unveil his next film, A Ciambra, as part of the Cinéfondation selection, which will also be presented at the village.

A total of 14 projects have been selected for the central line-up, five of them European, three Asian and...

How Not to Live Your Life could return in the future, according to creator Dan Clark.

The comedian, who played Don Danbury in the BBC Three sitcom, has said that although he wouldn't pursue a resurrection of the show, he would be interested if a channel approached him.

Speaking to Digital Spy, Clark said of bringing the show back: "If for some reason the BBC or Channel 4, whatever, said, 'We'd love to do it', then I probably would. You should never say never.

"I was actually quite happy with the way the show ended," he added. "I felt like we gave it a good send off. I would have liked to have done more series, but I was also glad that we ended on a high because I thought it definitely ended in a good place."

Clark also said that he wanted to move away from the character of Don after the show concluded.

Julia Davis returns to Channel 4 in 2015 with a new comedy series spoofing breakfast television.

Davis will star as daytime TV icon Gail Sinclair, who suddenly finds her career and TV ratings on the slide.

The press release reveals: "After eight glorious years of high ratings and winning awards, things begin to go wrong for Sinclair when the programme begins to lose viewers and tensions break out within the production team."

The six-episode series is written by Davis and has been commissioned by Channel 4's head of comedy Phil Clarke.

Davis is famous for her work on BBC Three's Nighty Night, Sky Atlantic's award-winning Hunderby and Gavin & Stacey.

The series will be directed by How Not to Live Your Life's Dan Clark.

The creative forces behind the hit short film Yellow and documentary Visiting Uwe have joined together for a new sci-fi road movie, Fonotune - An Electric Fairytale. Directed by Fabian Huebner, who previously helmed the documentary about controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll, Visiting Uwe, Fonotune stars Japanese actress Yamashita Yuho and Watanabe Kazushi, star of Miike Takashi's classic Visitor Q. There is also an appearance from the superb Japanese punk band, Electric Eel Shock (who I've seen play live and are utterly insane).Shot on location in Japan and, among other places, the salt flats of Utah, the first teaser for the film has just been released, and frankly it looks pretty gorgeous. As well it should, the cinematography is from Jon Britt, who was responsible for the startling look...

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