Daily Archives: October 6, 2008

Schoolhousin’ – Episode 2: Dirty Deeds

Ding-ding-ding.



Yes, that’s the Chinatown school-bell ringing. Finish your lunch, put out your cigarettes and grab your books because the Notorious MSG’s original web series ‘Schoolhousin” is back – with Episode 2.



Episode 2: ‘Dirty Deeds’ is an important lesson about dating and the details that are shared amongst friends/bruthas/Chinatown pimps. When is it too much? Watch and learn.



More episodes to follow soon! Watch them all and make your parents proud…they might even forgive you for your lousy report card last semester. If you missed the first episode, you can see Schoolhousin’ – Episode 1: For the Ladies.



Schoolhousin’ – Episode 2: Dirty Deeds

The Princess of Nebraska coming soon

Magnolia Pictures announced acclaimed filmmaker Wayne Wang’s new film THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA will make its world premiere on YouTube on Friday, October 17, 2008. The free release on YouTube’s recently launched YouTube Screening Room (http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom), a channel dedicated to premium film content, is part of a larger distribution plan, which launched with Magnolia Pictures’ national theatrical release on September 19 of Wang’s companion film A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS. Magnolia, Cinetic Rights Management and YouTube worked together to plan the parallel distribution strategy.

Magnolia Pictures’ Ray Price stated, “The internet’s ability to provide free streaming video is going to radically redefine independent film’s access and availability to its audience. It provides a new platform, which can free us from the ‘Top Ten’ mentality in the same way that FM radio did for the music business.”

Filmmaker Wayne Wang added, “THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA is about a young woman from
China who tries to locate her identity through different kinds of new media. The piece was shot with this kind of mentality with various kinds of easily accessible digital sources. I am very excited that the distribution will be consistent with the way the piece was conceived and produced!”

“For years, filmmakers have asked me when a veteran icon would release a new work for free, online,” said Matt Dentler of Cinetic Rights Management. “That time is now, and we’re thrilled to be part of this exciting distribution strategy.”

THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA and A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS are both adapted from a collection of short stories by Granta prize winning author Yiyun Li. They mark the seventh and eighth of Wang’s Asian-themed films that explore the bonds of family and Chinese identity in the modern world, making up one of the largest bodies of introspective work in independent film over the last 25 years.

In THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA, Sasha (Ling Li) is a foreign exchange student who finds herself pregnant. She’s the new generation of China, unmoored to traditions and history. As she says, “In America I learned a new phrase, ‘moving on.’ Tomorrow I can start a new page.” She travels from Nebraska to San Francisco to get an abortion, but in her exploration of the city in the next 24 hours she learns that turning a new page doesn’t necessarily mean turning your back on the past.

PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA YouTube exclusive trailer

Diane Mizota co-hosts Bingo America on GSN

Weekdays at 6:30PM/5:30c, weekends at 4PM/3c.

Beginning October 2008, Diane Mizota is co-hosting Bingo America with Richard Karn on the Game Show Network five nights a week. She also continues to be a Buzz Session host for Yahoo!, using her dance expertise to cover such shows as Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. Recently, Diane also co-hosted the family game show Your Place or Mine for TLC, where she led a fast-paced moving team installing instant room makeovers.

A Northern California native, Diane Mizota attended UCLA and graduated cum laude with her degree in Communications Studies, while pursuing a professional dance career. With credits such as the Academy Awards, Friends, and Memoirs of a Geisha to dancing for Prince and in Boogie Nights, Diane expanded her dance career into acting. Getting her start in commercials, her theatrical credits now include King of Queens, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, CSI: Miami, and a memorable film role opposite Mike Myers as “Fook Mi” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She also recently starred in a national Cadillac campaign titled, “Accessories”.

For almost 4 years Diane hosted G4’s gadget and video game countdown show Filter. Her loyal fan following made this show one of the most popular on the network.

As the host of the hit kids’ decorating show Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls on NBC and Discovery Kids, Diane helped execute kids’ room makeovers across the country. The show is a spin off of the original Trading Spaces and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, Diane joined the cast of NBC’s primetime reality show, Three Wishes. As part of a team led by singer Amy Grant, Diane traveled to small towns across America to grant people’s wishes.

As a producer, Diane recently worked as a field producer for the NBC primetime reality show, Momma’s Boys. She has created and produced independent pilot presentations for the Warner Brothers Television Workspace and is currently developing projects with Glassman Media.

Diane Mizota Hosting Reel

Life in the Fab Lane Season 2

Life in the Fab Lane with Kimora Lee Simmons expanded its cable TV presence. Not only does the show air on the Style Network, but now it also airs on the E! Channel. The second season of Life in the Fab Lane continues its candid and entertaining look at the fabulous and frenetic life of model, mogul, mom Kimora Lee Simmons. The half Japanese and half African American continue to try to balance her duties running a fashion empire with those of being a loving and attentive mother. (BTW – Kimora won custody of the kids back in June.)

Shot on location in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and anywhere on the globe her business takes her, “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane” brings viewers behind the closed doors of Kimora Lee Simmons’ world. In addition to her most important job as mom to two adorable daughters Ming Lee and Aoki Lee, Kimora is faced with even more challenges this season as she takes on the new and expanded role of Creative Director of Phat Fashions, including the global brands Phat Farm and Baby Phat.

New episodes feature birthday parties, public appearances, ad campaign shoots and insider meetings at the Phat Fashions offices, among other behind-the-scenes action. Viewers witness the real Kimora while along the way getting to know her extended family and the “cast” of characters that inhabit her daily life.

As Style’s highest rated original series ever, the first season of “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane” performed ahead of the network’s primetime average by +105% among households and +150% among women 18-49 across its premieres. The series debuted August 5, 2007 on Style. Season 2 is airing on E! most likely to see if the rating will carry over like it did on Style.

Life in the Fab Lane Season 2 episode 1 – Ming Lee’s Birthday Party trailer