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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has revealed why her Barbie film pitch failed in the 1990s, long before the 2023 box-office sensation came out.Stone, who starred in Casino and Basic Instinct, claimed she was “thrown out” of an undisclosed film studio after suggesting a story about a Barbie.Many different stars had tried and failed to make a Barbie film before director Greta Gerwig’s success, including…

Every game starts with an idea, and once the idea has begun to blossom, the next step is often getting a publisher to help with funding and marketing. Fortunately for supernatural strategy-shooter Children of the Sun developer René Rother, major publisher Devolver Digital liked his game, even if it didn’t like his “shit” pitch. “I didn’t plan any of this at all,” Rother told NME. “When I realised, ‘Oh, I maybe have a game,’ I just sent an email to Devolver. They were like, ‘your pitch was shit but the game looks cool,…

Some athletes were ready to risk it all last weekend. A Korean actress left quite the impression on Los Angeles Dodgers baseball players after throwing her first pitch at an exhibition game in South Korea.The American baseball team played an exhibition game in the South Korean capital city on Sunday night (March 17), where the Dodgers went head-to-head against the Kiwoom Heroes at the Gocheok Sky Dome, a baseball stadium located in Gocheok-dong, Seoul.To kickstart the game, Korean actress Jeon Jong-seo was invited to…

Looking for big names?Download 14 to 16 June, LeicestershireThe headliners at the 21st staging of metal’s marquee event – Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold – are glitzy and blokey, but not particularly heavy. Thankfully it’s a different story elsewhere, including Friday’s eardrum-rattling prospect of hardcore must-sees Scowl, Speed, Ithaca and Zulu in quick succession. Huw BainesIsle of Wight20 to 23 June, Isle of WightThe epitome of something for everyone, the Isle of Wight festival again offers…

Astek Diagnostics closed a $2 million round for its urine diagnostics system, despite the fact that raising money for medtech isn’t for the faint of heart. The company’s deck has some good stuff in it and could be a deep source for things we can learn from, too. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that.  Slides in this deck Astek Diagnostics has a pretty beefy 22-slide deck that splits a lot of the narrative over multiple slides. In some…

PHOENIX —  Trevor Bauer still hasn’t been signed by a major league team since being released by the Dodgers 14 months ago, after the completion of his suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy.However, on Sunday, the embattled pitcher is expected to return to the Dodgers’ Camelback Ranch spring training facility to participate in an organized game against minor-leaguers with the club.How?Bauer will be playing for a team called Asian Breeze, a traveling club from Japan that plays…

Image: Warner Bros.There’s already plenty of Batman coming in James Gunn’s new DC universe, between Brave and the Bold and the sequel to The Batman. But hey, it’s Batman, and when has DC been known to not simply keep doing even more Batman? Which is why this incredible concept art for a Beyond movie, by the way of Spider-Verse, has us hoping Warner Bros will get something in the works.A visual development artist on both Into and Across the Spider-Verse, Yuhki Demers, dropped this trio of Batman Beyond concept pieces on X,…

It’s a rare startup that tears down its own pitch deck, but that’s exactly what Equals did after it raised a $16 million Series A round. Equals’ mission is not to replace the spreadsheet, but to ensure that a spreadsheet can do whatever its users throw at it. As an inveterate spreadsheet user, this is an approach that I can get behind — I’ve built entire software solutions with extremely complex spreadsheets as the back end. Furthermore, as a pitch deck connoisseur, I can also get behind the bright and bold design of…

Creating presentations is one of the most tiresome jobs around. It requires a lot of time and effort and to make it interesting can be an exercise in delusion. However, we are now living in a world where making presentations has become an integral part of meetings. Therefore, presentations have to be attractive and understandable. To make the process quick and easy we have found just the right tool and it is called 'Pitch'. It's an AI-based presentation app which simplifies the process. Know more about the Pitch app here…

We’re just months away from TNW Conference 2024 (ahem, Europe’s leading tech festival). Now, if you’re a startup, you may be thinking of attending to meet some investors and fresh new hires, get your name out there, and get inspired. But why be a spectator when you can be part of the show? We caught up with Isabell Trinh, Communications Specialist at Nostics and winner of TNW 2023’s Pitch Battle Competition, to find out what they got out of the experience. At the time Nostics, a medical…