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New Longlegs Movie in the Works from Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

Osgood Perkins is working on a new Longlegs feature, a follow-up to the filmmaker’s mystery horror thriller that became highest grossing independent film of the past decade. And in a twist out of the Longlegs playbook, rather than original distributor Neon being involved, this one has Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures as the project’s new home. Paramount has picked up the rights to the new mystery Longlegs project, which Perkins has written and will direct as well as produce. Nicolas Cage is returning as star and producer. Also producing are Brian Kavanaugh Jones of Range Media; Chris Ferguson, Perkins’ partner at their company Phobos; and Dave Caplan of C2, which financed the initial movie. Paramount and Perkins are keeping details in the basement but sources stress that this new Longlegs is not a sequel but something “set in the Longlegs universe.” Longlegs was an out-of-nowhere hit when released by Neon in 2024, launching Perkins as a name horror filmmaker and establishing the star bonafides of Maika Monroe. The actress starred as an FBI agent, with an aptitude for clairvoyance, who …

Is the Household Obsolete? Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Economy, Androcentrism, and the Socialization of Care

Published by Jenni Sidey

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) is well known to lovers of Gothic horror for her acclaimed story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). This story, considered one of the first written documents on postpartum depression, reveals the gender bias of the psychologists of her time. But Gilman was more than just a writer of Gothic horror fiction: she was also a prolific poet, lecturer, illustrator, and essayist. After her divorce from Charles Stetson, she was the subject of a scandal, becoming the indirect target of editorials in ultra-conservative magazines that questioned the ability of literate women to fulfil their duties as wives and mothers. Like many women of the Progressive Era, such as Jane Addams and Anna Julia Cooper, her biography would make a fascinating basis for a TV series or film. (If you are reading this and you are a producer with the means: I have the ideas for the script; please get in touch!) Perhaps most intriguing of all is how a woman who never had the opportunity to attend university and had to educate herself …

With .5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI

With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI

Published by skeptic

Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s $2 billion fundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1 billion for its 22nd early-stage venture fund, and $2.5 billion for a separate vehicle designed to fund late-stage growth businesses. The much larger capital haul is not a surprise. Over the last few years, Kleiner Perkins has managed to secure early stakes in a number of fast-growing AI startups, including Together AI, Harvey, and OpenEvidence. The firm is also an investor in Anthropic and SpaceX, two companies expected to IPO this year. At a time when exits are few and far between, Kleiner Perkins also realized significant returns from last year’s IPO of Figma, a design software company whose $25 million Series B round it led in 2018. The firm also reportedly scored a decent return when its portfolio company Windsurf was acqui-hired by Google last summer. A firm …

John Perkins, civil rights leader, influential Bible teacher, dies at 95

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — John M. Perkins, an influential Baptist author, Bible teacher and longtime racial reconciliation advocate, died Friday (March 13). He was 95. Perkins died surrounded by his wife and family, they announced on social media. On March 4, his daughters, Priscilla and Elizabeth Perkins, co-presidents of the John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation based in Jackson, said he was under hospice care. “To the world, he was Dr. John M. Perkins, a voice for justice, reconciliation, and the gospel of Jesus Christ,” his daughter, Elizabeth, wrote in announcing his death on Instagram. “He received 19 honorary doctorate degrees, but most importantly, he was the devoted husband of his bride, Vera Mae Perkins, for 74 years, and together they were blessed with 8 children.” A civil rights veteran, minister and co-founder of the Christian Community Development Association, Perkins was known for his dedication to a collaborative approach to ministry. “John Perkins is probably one of the true unsung heroes in America — not in Black America, not in the church community, but in America,” said …

Celeste Perkins makes maximalist cakes for artists around L.A.

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. On a Wednesday evening in August, Celeste Perkins walked into El Atacor #1 in Cypress Park holding a towering three-tiered cake, frosted in American buttercream and airbrushed in oversaturated hues of red, green and blue. Thick, excessive piping created an otherworldly texture on the cake’s surfaces. Metallic candy pearls gleamed under the fluorescent lights. The dessert’s colors and exuberance took inspiration from the playful, acid-dream paintings of Angeleno artist Isaac Psalm Escoto, also known as Sickid, for whom the cake was made. Escoto, Perkins’ best friend, was turning 27 and having his birthday party at the legendary fried potato taco joint. El Atacor #1 is frequented by kids from the neighborhood, who play with the vintage pinball machines, and drunken overflow from one of the bars down the street. That evening, a member of the latter group caught his eye on Perkins’ cake and started to get excited. “Cut the cake!” the stranger called across the room to …

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