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Chris Brown’s legal troubles and history of abuse is the subject of a new documentary from Investigation Discovery, the network behind the Nickelodeon child abuse exposé “Quiet on Set.”

Out Oct. 27, “Chris Brown: A History of Violence” will launch ID’s third annual “No Excuse for Abuse” campaign. The doc will explore the legal issues faced by Brown, the pop star behind songs like “With You,” “Forever” and “Under the Influence,” which include domestic violence and assault charges and sexual assault allegations. Brown’s troubles date back to 2009, when he beat his then girlfriend Rihanna, causing severe facial injuries that required hospitalization. (Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault and accepted a plea deal.) In the years following, Brown pleaded guilty to a separate assault and was sued by a woman alleging sexual assault (that lawsuit settled out of court), along with a variety of other legal issues.

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Chris Brown has been in the limelight on many occasions and not just for his musical talent. The singer has courted many controversies throughout his career, including receiving a 5 year probation for physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna, which made huge headlines across the world.

R&b singer Chris Brown (image credit: Lukas Gerronimo)

It now seems like his onstage performances too have been marred by a lot of technical issues of late. The singer who is currently on a tour across the country, has been subjected to malfunctions on stage not once, but twice in a week, causing him to walk out mid-way through his concert. Fans have taken to social media to comment on his predicament.

This Grammy Winner Is Unable To Escape His Stage Woes

Chris Brown is currently regaling fans across North America with his 11:11 tour which is hitting the length and breadth of the country.

Chris Brown was technically over the influence during a concert on Tuesday night, after the R&b star got caught suspended in the air mid-song after his wires malfunctioned.

The Grammy-winning star glided across the stage on wires at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, while performing his song “Under the Influence.” Brown seemed to come to a halt, movement wise, mid-song, although the crowd seemed unaware at first as he kept singing.

An upset Brown then signaled to tour workers to help him down. Despite being stuck, he didn’t stop singing and continued to perform.

A ladder was brought to the stage, and Brown climbed down and finished performing his song, though he exchanged words with one of the tour workers who helped bring the ladder over.

At the end of the two-hour concert, he told the audience he was angry but also made light of the situation.

Prepare for a riveting episode of “Mean Girl Murders” as Season 2 Episode 7, titled “Under the Influence,” delves into the dark side of social media influence. Tune in on Monday, May 6th, 2024, at 9:00 Pm on Investigation Discovery for an intriguing exploration of jealousy, rivalry, and the quest for online fame.

In this installment, viewers are introduced to the cutthroat world of social media influencers, where the pursuit of followers and likes can lead to unexpected consequences. When a tragic accident sheds light on the secrets hidden behind one influencer’s glamorous facade, the true nature of online life is revealed.

Expect gripping storytelling and shocking revelations as “Mean Girl Murders” uncovers the truth behind the carefully curated images and personas presented on social media. With jealousy and rivalry driving the narrative, this episode promises to keep viewers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

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Get ready for an intense and riveting episode of “The First 48” titled “Under the Influence”! Tune in to A&e at 8:00 Pm on Thursday, February 29, 2024, for an evening of gripping true crime stories that delve into the brutal underworld of illegal drugs.

In this installment, “Critical Minutes” takes a closer look at three cases from “The First 48” that are intertwined with the influence of illicit substances. Viewers will be taken on a harrowing journey through the dark and dangerous world of drug-related crime.

In Tulsa, the episode follows the investigation into the ambush of a homeless dealer on a desolate trail, shedding light on the perils faced by those involved in the drug trade. Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, detectives work tirelessly to solve the murder of an elderly man who was strangled in his own apartment, uncovering the disturbing connections to the city’s drug scene.

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America really likes its Morgan Wallen. The country star dominated streaming on both Apple Music and Spotify this year, earning the Number One streamed song in the country on both platforms with “Last Night.” His One Thing at a Time album was the most streamed album on Spotify.

On Apple Music, Wallen’s “Last Night” was the top streamed song globally, beating out Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” which came in second, “Kill Bill” by Sza in third, “Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage in fourth, followed by Sza’s “Snooze” in fifth.

David Dobrik, the 25-year-old YouTube superstar, has a grin that speaks a thousand words. Dobrik is the quintessence of cute — eager and baby-faced, with big dark puppy eyes and floppy brown hair combed so that it never seems combed. Clad in sweatshirts that he wears like pajamas, he looks like the comic-strip character Dondi crossed with Mark Wahlberg in 1995 crossed with the world’s smarmiest frat-house douche. When Dobrik grins, his face lights up, but he’s a self-contained firecracker. That grin is a smirk, a freeze-frame guffaw, and a snicker of contempt all at the same time. It’s the look of a class clown, of a kid who can’t believe what he’s getting away with, or of the nicest, most polite office colleague who is also, in case you weren’t looking, the worst corporate backstabber.

David Dobrik, in short, is a dude who looks a lot like America.

This year’s SXSW Film Festival marked the first in-person edition of the Austin gathering in two years, and it was filled with buzz for new movies and crowds eager to embrace them. From opening night entry “Everything Everywhere All at Once” to the meta Nicolas Cage comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” SXSW was a satisfying platform for several upcoming releases.

But that’s only a small fraction of the lineup, which also includes a lot of smaller highlights that have yet to secure U.S. distribution. As usual, we’ve combed through the program and urge buyers to consider these gems as they look for new work to round out their slates.

Carlos Aguilar, Robert Daniels, David Ehrlich, and Kate Erbland contributed to this story.

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Fresh from directing a few episodes of HBO’s “Winning Time,” Trinidadian filmmaker Damian Marcano’s first feature is a...

On July 30, 2015, a dough-faced 19-year-old Vine creator named David Dobrik posted his first YouTube video, a five-minute vlog called “Putting A Puppy Into The Microwave!!” Part “Drake & Josh” (minus the adult supervision) and part “Jackass” (minus the corporate oversight), that hyper-active but ultimately adorable clip anticipated the kind of all-caps antics that would elevate Dobrik and his wack pack of Disney Channel-ready edgelords into new media superstars.

In August of 2020 — after eclipsing eight billion views across his various channels and being selected over pop stars Harry Styles and Shawn Mendes as People Magazine’s “Sexiest Heartthrob of 2019” — Dobrik bought a mansion in Sherman Oaks for $9.5 million. At some point in there, between Dobrik putting a puppy in the microwave and getting a super-lucrative sponsorship deal with Chipotle (they named a burrito after him!), 40-year-old web video elder statesman Casey Neistat began making a documentary about the young content kingpin...

When it comes to the world of social media stars, well, it’s all happened so suddenly. Fifteen years ago, talk of influencers, vlogging, and the concept of “instafamous” would have raised eyebrows. Flash-forward to 2022, though, and monetizable social media platforms are integral to millennial culture. And their most famous users? They’re minor celebrities in their own right, with their online content a lucrative brand sought after by corporate sponsors. In their world, numbers and attention are everything.

Continue reading ‘Under The Influence’ Review: Enter the Dark Side Of The Attention Economy [SXSW] at The Playlist.

David Dobrik was one of the biggest YouTube stars on the planet, a cheery prankster who commanded a vast online following with his so-called “Vlog Squad” and massive brand sponsorship, when everything came tumbling down. After a 2021 Business Insider article detailed the sexual assault allegations against Vlog Squad member Dom Zelaitis, Dobrik’s popularity plummeted, and the drama didn’t end there: That same year, Vlog Squad member Tony Wittek lambasted Dobrik for driving the crane during an ill-fated stunt that left Wittick with major facial injuries and temporary blindness in one eye.

The unraveling of the Dobrik mythos was a jarring reversal of fortune for a face emblematic of modern-day YouTube stardom, and Casey Neistat captured all of it. A prolific Vlogger himself, Neistat started making a movie about Dobrik in 2017, aiming to explore a unique form of 21st century stardom. When Dobrik’s story took a sudden dark turn,...

Most people had a bad 2021, but perhaps no one had a worse year than David Dobrik. At the beginning of last year, the YouTube sensation and head of the crew known as the Vlog Squad was on top of the world and poised to cross over into the mainstream, having lined up countless blue-chip brand deals and even an eponymous pizza franchise called Doughbrick’s.

In March 2021, however, Insider published a bombshell article accusing him of having facilitated and profited off of the sexual assault of an anonymous woman by...

When Casey Neistat, along with his brother Van, made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2006, he had already made over 300 shorts that had played at film festivals, museums and online. Three years later he launched an HBO series. But Google Neistat now and the information panel for the 40-year filmmaker offers a single blunt ID: “American YouTuber.” It was only in 2010 that Neistat began posting his work on YouTube and in 2015 that these postings became daily, a profusion of content (and subscribers — 12 million) that have made him a progenitor of a newer generation of […]

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When Casey Neistat, along with his brother Van, made Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2006, he had already made over 300 shorts that had played at film festivals, museums and online. Three years later he launched an HBO series. But Google Neistat now and the information panel for the 40-year filmmaker offers a single blunt ID: “American YouTuber.” It was only in 2010 that Neistat began posting his work on YouTube and in 2015 that these postings became daily, a profusion of content (and subscribers — 12 million) that have made him a progenitor of a newer generation of […]

The post Five Questions for Casey Neistat about His SXSW-Premiering David Dobrik Documentary, Under the Influence first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

In early 2019, Casey Neistat began filming “Under the Influence,” about 23-year-old YouTube phenomenon David Dobrik, capturing his evolution from prankster to online celebrity with major brand sponsors and tens of millions of followers across social media platforms. But in 2021, the docu took a turn when a Business Insider story documented sexual-assault allegations by a woman against a former member of Dobrik’s Vlog Squad, Dom Zeglaitis. When the article went viral, Dobrik’s world began to collapse around him and Neistat was there to capture it. The result is a can’t-take-your-eyes-off-it feature docu that sheds light on the social media’s ecosystem and the personalities it perpetuates.

Neistat teamed with Killer Films and documentary writer-producer Mark Monroe to make “Under the Influence,” which is bound to cause more controversy for Dobrik after premiering at South by Southwest on March 12. Neistat and Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon spoke to Variety...

Casey Neistat has made a documentary about fellow vlogger David Dobrik that’s set to appear at SXSW – and the film is already causing controversy before it has even premiered.

While neither creator has promoted the film, which is called Under the Influence, per the SXSW schedule, the 100-minute feature proposes to “capture one of the most precipitous rise-and-falls in the history of the internet...in real-time.” It is set to debut on March 12 at the festival, with an online screening the following morning that will be available worldwide.

The film chronicles two controversies weathered by Dobrik: sexual assault allegations surrounding a former collaborator, and a near-lethal accident in which Vlog Squad member Jeff Wittek incurred serious eye injuries while performing a dangerous stunt.

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You won’t believe what’s about to come out of Kilbride’s mouth in this exclusive sneak peek from CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles. And frankly, neither can he.

In the clip above from the high-octane drama’s first episode in seven weeks, titled “Under the Influence” and airing this Sunday at 9/8c, Fatima (played by Medalion Rahimi) briefs Callen and Sam (Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J) on the case of Gia Michele (Caitlin Carmichael), a “mega-influencer” whose socials haven suddenly gone silent — and who thus may have gone missing.

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In-person festival to run in Austin, Texas, from March 11-20.

A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.

The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.

The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a...

"One minute I was standing next to a deep fryer, and the next I was watching the sunset over the Sahara." Focus Features has released the official trailer for Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, a new doc film about the late Anthony Bourdain. Everyone knows about him, everyone loves him (for the most part), and everyone knows that unfortunately he took his own life a few years ago. This film is made by one of my favorite doc filmmakers – Morgan Neville, of the acclaimed docs 20 Feet from Stardom, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, and They'll Love Me When I'm Dead previously. Roadrunner is a comprehensive doc about Anthony Bourdain and his extensive career as a chef, writer and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture and travel. This looks like everything I was...

101 Studios is developing drama Under the Influence, based on Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey’s bestseller Under The Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty, as a series. A writer is not yet attached.

Under the Influence was published by Simon & Schuster in 1991. The potential series, based on the book, will chart the dramatic rise and fall of the Busch family, German immigrants whose entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen brought them untold wealth thanks to one signature product: Budweiser.

Tracing five generations of personal triumphs and tragedies, power struggles, and unscrupulous dealings, the compelling corporate saga is also a turbulent tale of fathers and sons determined to maintain control over the world’s largest brewery, Anheuser-Busch – until a hostile takeover threatens to bring an end to their empire, according to the description.

“To have the opportunity to tell the story of one of America’s most fascinating...

Nicole Kidman puts her money where her mouth is. Always in demand, this fearless actress goes where many fear to tread. She has made it clear that when she picks her projects, half must be directed by women. Beyond that, she urges her directors to hire as many women as possible on the crew. Thus, she committed to starring in Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” even with a meager budget of less than $9 million.

“Scripts aren’t getting better,” Kidman said. “They’re scant. I still have to find them. You don’t change the statistics by just saying it. ‘Karyn — let’s go. You get to go again!’ She’s had hits and failures. It’s easier to get behind the 25-year-olds. The female Dp, she’s gotten some work. You’ve got to allow women sometimes to come out of the gate. They have to build up experience and...

Nicole Kidman puts her money where her mouth is. Always in demand, this fearless actress goes where many fear to tread. She has made it clear that when she picks her projects, half must be directed by women. Beyond that, she urges her directors to hire as many women as possible on the crew. Thus, she committed to starring in Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” even with a meager budget of less than $9 million.

“Scripts aren’t getting better,” Kidman said. “They’re scant. I still have to find them. You don’t change the statistics by just saying it. ‘Karyn — let’s go. You get to go again!’ She’s had hits and failures. It’s easier to get behind the 25-year-olds. The female Dp, she’s gotten some work. You’ve got to allow women sometimes to come out of gate. They have to build up experience and learn...

Will Mr. Rogers win an Oscar? In a way he might. He’s the subject of the new Focus Features documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” which opened June 8 to glowing reviews. It has a score of 83 on MetaCritic based on 30 reviews. It also has a near-perfect 99% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 77 reviews (only 1 is negative thus far). The Rt consensus says the film “takes a fittingly patient and honest look at the life and legacy of a television pioneer whose work has enriched generations.”

Fred Rogers was a Presbyterian minister who became famous for his educational series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” which aired nationally from 1968 all the way to 2001, making it one of the longest-running children’s shows in television history. He famously appeared before the Us Senate in 1969 to support government funding for public television. And over the course of his career he received a Peabody...