EXCLUSIVE: Park Chan-wook’s anticipated Cannes Competition title Decision To Leave has sold to arthouse streamer, theatrical distributor and producer Mubi in what we understand to be the company’s biggest film deal to date.
09.04.2022 - 14:59 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube will award $100,000 to the grand-prize winner of a new global talent show to find the next breakout gaming creator, hosted by U.K. YouTube gaming creator Ali-A.YouTube’s uTure contest kicks off Saturday with a call for entries and the show will debut in June, letting aspiring digital stars compete in weekly challenges to win the top prize.
The project demonstrates that YouTube, even after shuttering its original content group, wants to keep a hand in producing certain special-event programming.The uTure competition is the brainchild of Ali-A (Alastair Aiken), who has more than 25 million subscribers across his YouTube channels and specializes in gameplay videos of “Fortnite” and other titles. Judges for the contest will include Ali-A alongside Australian YouTuber Lachlan and the U.S.’s LilSimsie.
“YouTube is home to tens of thousands of brilliant gaming creators who haven’t yet been discovered,” Ali-A said in a statement provided by YouTube. “It’s my hope that uTure will give all these creative individuals their moment to shine and learn from gaming veterans in the space in front of YouTube’s millions-strong global audience.”Entries for uTure (rhymes with “future”) open Saturday at 1 p.m.
ET. Those must be in English and submitted as a YouTube Short, the platform’s TikTok-style vertical video format, of up to 60 seconds.
Applicants must upload their video to YouTube Shorts using the hashtag #uTureShow, then submit it to uture.show for a chance to be featured on the show. Submissions close May 8.In June, the top 10 applicants selected from the entries will face weekly content-creation challenges over the course of nine weeks, hosted on a new, dedicated uTure channel on YouTube.
.EXCLUSIVE: Park Chan-wook’s anticipated Cannes Competition title Decision To Leave has sold to arthouse streamer, theatrical distributor and producer Mubi in what we understand to be the company’s biggest film deal to date.
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Katie Price allegedly tried it on with both Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell and was furious after being turned down.