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Featuring an impressive cast that includes Malcolm McDowell and Lance Henriksen, Kids vs Monsters debuts Monday, September 28th in Los Angeles, and we've been provided with a pair of tickets to the premiere party and screening to give away.

One lucky winner and a guest will win tickets to the Kids vs Monsters premiere party in Los Angeles. The event will begin at 6:00pm Pdt with a special dinner, followed by a screening of the film with several cast members in attendance, including Lance Henriksen, Francesca Eastwood, and Anna Akana. The event will take place at the Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA).

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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (2) tickets to the 6:00pm Kids vs Monsters premiere party and screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles next Monday, September 28th.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email [email protected] with the subject “Kids vs Monsters...

In Old 37, horror icons Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley show us that calling for help is a fatal mistake. Release dates and details for Kids vs Monsters and I Spit on Your Grave 3 are also featured in this morning's round-up.

Old 37: "Two brothers (Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley) intercept 911 calls in a beat up, old ambulance to terrorize a small Northeastern town. Available For Preorder Now on Amazon.com, Walmart.com, and Bestbuy.com. VOD on September 29th and DVD on October 6th."

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Kids vs Monsters: Press Release: "Los Angeles (August 25, 2015) – Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, “The Mentalist”) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens, “Millennium”) lead a stellar cast including Armand Assante (American Gangster, “NCIS”), Adrian Paul (“Highlander”), Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon) and Richard Moll (“Night Court,” “House”) in the fantasy horror-comedy, Kids vs Monsters, available on Digital HD and On Demand September 29 from MarVista Digital Entertainment.

Ray William Johnson is back and ready to entertain on YouTube. After handing over hosting responsibilities of his popular =3 show to newcomer Robby Motz nearly eight months ago, Johnson uploaded a scripted short titled How to Get a Date to his YouTube channel.

How to Get a Date is a well-paced short stuffed with some of the most cringe-worthy one-liners you’ve probably heard used on you or someone you know. Viewers are introduced to a group of three women interested in a new male co-worker, and a group of three men (one of them being Johnson) eyeing a new female colleague. Members of each group believe they can get a date with the respective male or female co-worker before the other members do, and comical awkwardness ensues.

Johnson is certainly no new face to the realm of scripted entertainment. The ex-Maker Studios creator released a five-part web series...

Snapchat just unveiled its Discover platform on January 27, 2015. It’s an outpost on the ephemeral messaging application that was once the butt of jokes about lewd digital pictures and is now worth billions of dollars and the butt of less jokes about lewd digital pictures where select publications and entertainment companies can showcase branded content in a way that’s intuitive and makes sense for the platform’s users who view more than 500 million Snapchat Stories (videos that show a collection of photo messages and disappear after a day) per day.

But Discover isn’t the only method by which a brand can gain traction on Snapchat. And Discover’s launch partners - including CNN, Comedy Central, Espn, Food Network, Vice, Yahoo, People, National Geographic, Daily Mail, and Warner Music Group - aren’t the only major brands creating content they hope will appeal to the site’s massive teen and millennial demographic.

Last month, we learned that former Hulu boss Jason Kilar's new startup, which will be called Vessel, has already raised a reported $75 million from investors. Now, we're hearing rumblings of at least one place where Vessel will spend its money: The YouTube community. According to a new report from The Information, Vessel is looking to lure away some of YouTube's top content creators by offering them a bigger payout. Many YouTube content creators have long expressed their discontent with YouTube's ad revenue split, but no platforms have emerged to offer a suitable alternative for creators who want to make more money while keeping their audiences intact. Vessel likely wants to use its deep pockets to lure away more than one of these disgruntled channels. If that strategy sounds familiar, it's because Yahoo is reportedly trying the same thing. Vessel may also offer some of its funds in exchange for 30-day periods of exclusivity.

After Anna Akana and Ray William Johnson uploaded all five acts of their sci-fi, teenage drama Riley Rewind to Facebook and YouTube under the banner of their Runaway Planet studio, Akana quickly moved onto a new project. The burgeoning entertainer is releasing 12 short films in 2014, so that she may hone her writing and directing skills and essentially “learn by doing.” The first of Akana’s shorts to hit the internet was Hallucination, a two-minutes-and-fifty-six departure from her regularly scheduled, vlog-style videos and a look look at a mental health patient who battles a figment of the imagination. More shorts are shot and scheduled for release in the very near future, but in the meantime Akana took to her camera to talk about the short filmmaking process in the kind of detail creators of all kinds tend to shy away from. In addition to telling viewers the importance of a fantastic,...

Facebook is attempting to use its scale and targeting to make a splash in the TV and web video industries, and it has hired an executive to lead the way. The top social media network has hired Sibyl Goldman, formerly the Executive VP of New Media at Ryan Seacrest Productions, to become its head of entertainment partnerships. The specifics of Facebook's social video plan can be seen in a deck uncovered two months ago by TechCrunch. According to that source, Facebook wants to use its massive reach and its treasure trove of accurate, meaningful data to appeal to video advertisers in a way other platforms cannot match. Part of this plan requires Facebook to secure deals with content creators and celebrities, who in turn offer Facebook-exclusive windows. YouTube fans saw one of these partnerships in action when Ray William Johnson released the first episode of his Riley Rewind web series...

Anna Akana and Ray William Johnson introduced their new studio with the bombastic Riley Rewind, but Akana's latest product is much smaller and more introspective. She stepped behind the camera to helm Hallucination, a three minute short film about a mental health patient. Hallucination was written and directed by Akana and is a sharp departure from the vlog-style videos she usually features on her channel. The film stars Alexis Dickey as a mentally ill woman who is stalked by a figment of her imagination. Hallucination, which was Dp'd by online video vet Lan Bui, looks great, though the story itself is ultimately a pretty simple one. It's artistic and pretty and easy to digest, making it Vimeo entertainment for the YouTube crowd. Akana plans to create 11 more shorts before the year is up, which will help fill out the catalog of her Runaway Machine studio. Meanwhile, Johnson will be using...

Add Ray William Johnson to the list of creators who are putting an end to their primary YouTube shows in 2014. Johnson, whose main channel has more than 10.6 million subscribers, has announced his plan to cease production on =3 sometime in 2014. Hate to be a downer, but it's official: I'm retiring =3 at some point in 2014. Going to move fwd and focus on other aspects of my career. — Ray William Johnson (@RayWJ) December 30, 2013 =3 (pronounced 'equals three'), which first debuted in April 2009, features Johnson's fast-paced commentary on viral video clips. The series' popularity has vaulted Johnson to Internet superstardom, including a stint as the most subscribed channel on YouTube. Recently, however, he has begun to focus on other projects, namely his first original scripted series Riley Rewind. Johnson surely plans to focus on his Runaway Machine production studio, from which Riley Rewind was the first major release. The 50 minute sci-fi high school dramedy impressed many viewers and critics,...

When Ray William Johnson chose to debut the first act of Riley Rewind on Facebook, it seemed like a curious decision. A few days later, Facebook's appeal has become much clearer. TechCrunch has reported on a "leaked, confidential deck" that reveals the network's plan to dominate both TV and YouTube by offering reach and ad targeting not available on other platforms. The full deck can be viewed over at TechCrunch. It is aimed at advertisers and offers reasons why those buyers should pick up Facebook's video ads, which the site recently teased on mobile. For starters, Facebook claims to offer a more complete reach to the 18-24 demographic than the major TV networks, and the site's execs also claim that, for all the ground YouTube has gained a social network in the past couple of years, it still doesn't hold a candle to Facebook. ”A lot of time is spent...

Riley Rewind is here. Ray William Johnson has released the first major production from his Runaway Planet studio to Facebook, where "Act 1" of his sci-fi/teen drama is available right now for our viewing pleasure. All installments of Riley Rewind will make their way to Johnson's YouTube channel and its 10.5 million subscribers later today, but the 3.8 million fans who like the =3 host on Facebook have been given the initial look. The 11-minute first act is one of five, with the completed series to clock in with a runtime of about one hour. Those familiar with the very well-received Riley Rewind trailer will notice some differences between the previews and the actual series. For instance, Riley Rewind is peppered with special effects, including hand-drawn animation sequences. They add to the visual fireworks and overall aesthetic that feels endearingly channeled from the kinds of highschool movies popular in the 80s. The tone...

I'll admit that I was skeptical about Ray William Johnson's directorial debut, Riley Rewind. The =3 host has built his YouTube reputation almost entirely on one series, and I wasn't sure how well his ability to riff on viral videos would translate to a feature-length presentation. That being said, Johnson has recently released a pair of trailers for Riley Rewind, and I must admit that the film looks pretty good. Riley Rewind will star Johnson's girlfriend, Anna Akana, as a high school time traveler who must stop a bomb from destroying her school. The film is the first major production released by the couple's studio, Runaway Machine, which was recently renamed from Runaway Planet to avoid copyright issues with a bluegrass band of the same name. The film's second trailer gives us a good idea of its basic style, and it seems like Riley Rewind will have a balanced combination of science fiction,...

More than ten months after he launched his own studio, Ray William Johnson is set to deliver a new film project. It's called Riley Rewind, and it will finally debut after a long wait on December 12th Upon release, Riley Rewind will be the first significant project from Johnson's Runaway Planet studio, which he formed last year after his contentious split with Maker Studios. It will star Johnson's girlfriend and Runaway Planet co-creator Anna Akana as Riley, with both the title and the poster hinting at a time-travel theme. Johnson also teased the upcoming film at the end of the latest episode of his ongoing web series, =3. Though details are still sparse, the Riley Rewind IMDb page states that the film will be an impressive 169 minutes long. That's an impressive length unheard of for most independently funded web productions.

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