Stephanie Carrie

Left to right: Jonathan Silver

LARPs, a Web Series About Live-Action Role Playing

Following in the footsteps of Felicia Day's hit web series The Guild, sleek, smart Canadian web series LARPs brings to life an endearing cast of characters from another oft-ridiculed "nerd" subculture: Live-Action Role Playing, which is like Dungeons & Dragons except that the players physically act out their roles. Hollywood loves to throw......
Still from The Beauty Inside

Advertiser-Funded The Beauty Inside, Rediscovered

Every morning, Alex (Topher Grace) wakes up in a new body. Some days he's a virile, chisel-jawed man; others, a prepubescent girl or an overweight hipster. Some days he can speak only Mandarin. The pain of his predicament hits home when we see that he has to measure his feet......
Alex Anfanger as Lonny in season two of Next Time on Lonny

Ben Stiller Funds Hollywood Newcomers' Fake Reality Show

As the final credits on the fictional reality show Lonny roll, the doe-eyed, mild-mannered protagonist waxes poetic about his hopes for his bowl-ing-alley date with Bethany. Then comes the teaser for the next episode: Lonny and Bethany's date is interrupted by a spaceship that bombs New York City! Lonny is......
Jason Nash; Credit: Derek Hui

How Jason Nash Makes a Living in Web Series

Jason Nash came to Hollywood to follow in the footsteps of Woody Allen, making a living writing and starring in his own work. And he is -- on the Internet. An overview of Nash's career in recent years illustrates the evolution of the monetization of scripted digital media. Perhaps it's......