Jumpcut models itself after Y Combinator in its approach, pairing emerging talent with buyers and producers. Already the studio has 12 TV and film projects in the works, with partners like 36-time Academy Award nominee Lawrence Bender (“Pulp Fiction,” “Good Will Hunting”), Emmy Award-winning producer Shelby Stone (“Bessie,” “The Chi”) and showrunner Scott Rosenbaum (“Chuck,” “The Shield”). Hosanagar started working on Jumpcut in 2019, but today, the Atomic-backed company launches out of stealth as the first data science-driven studio working to elevate underrepresented voices in film. “The vision is to create a more inclusive era of global content creation,” he said to TechCrunch. But for this next venture, he wanted to tackle Hollywood’s homogeneity hands-on by using his experience with data science to de-risk media projects from underrepresented creators. He was a founder of Yodle, which was acquired by web.com for $340 million in 2016. It’s this rare company where 20 years of my work on data science and entrepreneurship meets with who I am outside of my work.”Īt Wharton, Hosanagar is the Faculty Lead for the AI for Business program.
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“While there’s awareness, there’s no action, because nobody knows how to do it. “How do you make a bet on underrepresented voices or underrepresented stories?” asked Hosanagar. Still, according to a recent report from McKinsey & Company, Hollywood leaves $10 billion on the table each year due to the industry’s lack of diversity. At the previous ceremony, Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Now, films featuring diverse casts are gaining traction - this year, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color, and only the second woman ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Set in India, his script garnered some interest from producers, but no one took the plunge to fund a film by a first-time Indian director. Rise of Skywalker marks the final chapter in the Skywalker saga.Jumpcut founder Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School, but about 10 years ago, he spent his summer in an unlikely way: he wrote a screenplay.
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Driver brought his characteristic depth and vulnerability to Ben Solo, especially in his scenes with Rey for the entire Star Wars trilogy, but more recently Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
Who can forget one of Driver’s best-created characters from the Star Wars universe, Kylo Ren.
This role has earned Driver multiple award nominations and an almost guaranteed nom for an Academy Award.
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The movie was written and directed by Noah Baumbach and co-stars Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta. Next, is Marriage Story released on Netflix in November. Centerville is no longer peaceful when zombies attack. June 2019, brought up The Dead Don’t Die, this Zombie comedy brought Driver together with the likes of Bill Murray. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality. The movie is about Toby (Driver), a disillusioned film director who becomes pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza.
In 2018, it made its way to the Cannes Film Festival and in April of this year made a limited US movie theater release. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was directed by Terry Gilliam.