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Comic-Con 2012: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Book Signing Draws Big Crowd


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Box Office Report: 'Spider-Man' on Track for $800 Million Worldwide


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Exclusive: Ken Jeong Signs on for Expanded Role in 'Hangover: Part III'


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Comic-Con Update: 'Lone Ranger' Wows, 'Twilight' Stars Get Emotional; WB Plans Superman Sneak

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The Hollywood Reporter Festival News

July 12, 2012


LATEST FESTIVAL NEWS

'Lone Ranger' Wows At Disney Presentation
The studio showed footage from 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' and 'Frankenweenie,' but Gore Verbinski's Western stole the show.

'Twilight' Panel Gives Vampire Finale Emotional Sendoff
Summit revved up the crowd by showing seven minutes of "Breaking Dawn Part 2," with castmembers Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner joined onstage by author Stephenie Meyer.

New Superman Henry Cavill to Appear at WB Panel
The British actor will be in Hall H Saturday with director Zack Snyder to promote "Man of Steel."

6 All-Stars Talk Knife-Wielding Fans, Mortifying Auditions and How Their Shows Should End
David Boreanaz ("Bones"), Stephen Amell ("Arrow"), Joshua Jackson ("Fringe"), Ginnifer Goodwin ("Once Upon a Time"), Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter") and Lucy Liu ("Elementary") share the secret ups and downs of working in genre TV, from children named after them to fears of being attacked.

Hot Panels and Parties
What to see and do amid the TV and movie panels and big parties during the San Diego fan fest.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside 'The Walking Dead' Escape Obstacle Course
THR goes inside the completed obstacle course at Petco Park ahead of its official opening Friday night.

RZA's 'Man With the Iron Fists' to Hit Theaters on Nov. 2
The film, inspired by classic kung-fu movies, marks RZA's feature directorial debut.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Inside 'The Walking Dead' Escape Obstacle Course
THR goes inside the completed obstacle course at Petco Park ahead of its official opening Friday night.

'Dredd' Fans Cheer Reboot's Body Count, Absence of Stallone's Gold Codpiece
Stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby introduced an enthusiastically received advance screening of Pete Travis' "dark and gritty" interpretation of the iconic comic book character Wednesday night in downtown San Diego.

LATEST FESTIVAL REVIEWS
The Amazing Spider-Man: Film Review
Marc Webb's adaptation features Andrew Garfield as the webslinger hero and Emma Stone as his love interest.

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MTV Renews 'Teen Wolf'


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4chan's Moment Is Over Even Though It's More Popular Than Ever

July 12th, 2012Top Story

4chan's Moment Is Over Even Though It's More Popular Than Ever

By Adrian Chen

4chan's Moment Is Over Even Though It's More Popular Than EverAt the internet culture conference ROFLCON in May, the assembled geek digerati were asked during one panel if they were readers of 4chan, the legendary butthole of the internet. A bare smattering of hands went up.

Then they were asked if they read Reddit, 4chan's cleaner, newsier cousin. Practically the whole room raised their hand. When I heard about this, I took it as another sign of 4chan's decline.

But it turns out 4chan, which will turn nine years old in October, is bigger than ever, at least numbers-wise. Traffic to 4chan has more than doubled in the past two years. 4chan had 22.2 million unique visitors in the last month, according to a rare recent update by Christopher "Moot" Poole, who founded 4chan as an Anime fan message board when he was 15 years old. That's up from 8.2 million visitors a month in 2010. The sheer numbers have forced Moot to cut down on popular plug-ins that let users refresh 4chan rapidly, so they don't "slaughter" their servers.

Still, 4chan is on the wane as a cultural force. 4chan and its raucous "/b/" board was once the internet's supreme boogeyman. Merely mentioning it in a blog post would bring comments warning about impending hacker doom. By last year, the Anonymous hacker collective that began on 4chan had become such a phenomenon it was mentioned (by deluded geeks, at least) in the same breath as the Arab Spring and Wikileaks.

Now, Anonymous has been near-fatally crippled by defections and arrests, reduced to hacking heating equipment company websites instead of repressive governments. And 4chan is just a gross website. As an exciting internet thing it's been overshadowed by Reddit, which harnesses furious hives in 4chan-like-fashion, but towards charitable and political ends instead. The 4chan-like start-up of founder Christopher "Moot" Poole, Canv.as, has failed to catch fire. And where 4chan's hordes voted Moot to the top of TIME's "most influential person of the year" poll in 2009, he was nowhere to be seen this time around. Instead it was Reddit General Manager Erik Martin who was nominated by TIME to make it seem like they're in touch with what the kids are into these days.

Like so many once-dominant trends, 4chan was made irrelevant by its own success. A few years ago, 4chan's hyperactive remix culture made it a unique cauldron where bits of internet detritus could come together and give birth to new memes. As memes became the language of the web—and grew to be increasingly lucrative—aggregators like BuzzFeed professionalized the process, repackaging the best stuff from darker corners of the web with cold efficiency. Why wade through the porn and gore on 4chan to find the next internet thing when a slick BuzzFeed listicle comes complete with a half-dozen share buttons to easily show all your friends?

Similarly, the hive mind that once made 4chan so frightening has become the default model for online social action. Twitter in particular has made it easier than ever for disparate groups to come together instantly to mob something or someone, just as Photoshopped posters on 4chan once rallied "/b/-tards" to raid some unsuspecting YouTube user. Even Anonymous eventually abandoned its home 4chan for the superior organizational and promotional capabilities of Twitter and IRC chatrooms.

While traffic numbers show plenty of people are still attracted to the morbid parade of curiosities 4chan still hosts, 4chan is now boring to the rest of the internet. And in the ceaselessly churning online culture it helped create, that's the worst thing to be.

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Steven Tyler Leaves 'American Idol'


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Activist investor Ackman buys into P&G, shares rise
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LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barclays' embattled former chief executive Bob Diamond is being represented by top white-collar defense lawyer Andrew Levander in a widening scandal over the manipulation of benchmark interest rates, people familiar with the matter said.
Wells Fargo to pay $175 million in race discrimination probe
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Peugeot cuts 8,000 jobs; Opel axes CEO
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GM reverses gears on outsourcing, plans big IT overhaul
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Analysis: Fallout from JPMorgan loss may have just begun
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