Michigan five-piece Liquid Mike have released a riffy new single, “American Caveman,” ahead of their upcoming album, Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot.
On “American Caveman,” the group — which we named one of our artists to watch this year — juxtaposes their signature, hook-heavy sound with devastating lyricism about death, dying, and general malaise. It’s what your favorite small-town hero has been saying all along: there is no American Dream. Stream the track below.
Co-founded by Mike Maples and Monica Nelson (synth/horns/vocals), Liquid Mike also includes guitarist Dave Daignault, bassist Zack Alworden, and drummer Cody Marecek.
Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot is due out on February 2nd and marks the follow-up to Liquid Mike’s 2023 power-pop record, S/T. In a statement about the new album’s title, Maples said, “I’ve always thought it was funny how many Midwest towns claim to be the home of Paul Bunyan or have...
On “American Caveman,” the group — which we named one of our artists to watch this year — juxtaposes their signature, hook-heavy sound with devastating lyricism about death, dying, and general malaise. It’s what your favorite small-town hero has been saying all along: there is no American Dream. Stream the track below.
Co-founded by Mike Maples and Monica Nelson (synth/horns/vocals), Liquid Mike also includes guitarist Dave Daignault, bassist Zack Alworden, and drummer Cody Marecek.
Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot is due out on February 2nd and marks the follow-up to Liquid Mike’s 2023 power-pop record, S/T. In a statement about the new album’s title, Maples said, “I’ve always thought it was funny how many Midwest towns claim to be the home of Paul Bunyan or have...
- 1/24/2024
- by Kayla Higgins
- Consequence - Music
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Christopher McDonald, Ryan Guzman, Meadow Williams, Colin Egglesfield, Baylee Curran, Jenna Willis, Heather Johansen, Swen Temmel | Written by Mike Maples | Directed by Brian A. Miller
Directed by Brian A. Miller and written by Mike Maples, Backtrace stars one of the most famous actors of all time, Sylvester Stallone and Matthew Modine. Modine plays Macdonald, a bank robber who can’t recall when he hid millions of dollars, and a bunch of people want to know the answer to the riddle. Stallone plays Sykes, a cop who, along with Franks, an FBI agent played by Christopher McDonald, are out for information about what’s going on. The premise is simple, it doesn’t really attempt to be more than it is, and this is, without frills or excuses, an action crime movie. Hell, within the first five minutes there’s been more bullets fired than a Walking Dead finale.
Directed by Brian A. Miller and written by Mike Maples, Backtrace stars one of the most famous actors of all time, Sylvester Stallone and Matthew Modine. Modine plays Macdonald, a bank robber who can’t recall when he hid millions of dollars, and a bunch of people want to know the answer to the riddle. Stallone plays Sykes, a cop who, along with Franks, an FBI agent played by Christopher McDonald, are out for information about what’s going on. The premise is simple, it doesn’t really attempt to be more than it is, and this is, without frills or excuses, an action crime movie. Hell, within the first five minutes there’s been more bullets fired than a Walking Dead finale.
- 6/10/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
“You can’t kill me! I died seven years ago!” It’s very much to the credit of Matthew Modine that he persuasively sells this melodramatic scrap of dialogue, and every other aspect of his trickily written lead character, in “Backtrace,” a better-than-average VOD-centric thriller that likely wouldn’t work nearly so well without the veteran actor’s totally committed performance. Sylvester Stallone and Christopher McDonald are along for the ride, but in roles that keep them largely consigned to the sidelines until the inevitable climatic shootout. Throughout most of the movie’s running time, Modine is tasked with the majority of the heavy lifting, and he handles the burden admirably.
Of course, he does get a little help from co-stars Ryan Guzman, Meadow Williams and Tyler Jon Olson, cast as conspirators who smuggle Modine’s character, MacDonald, out of a prison psychiatric ward. Seven years earlier, MacDonald and two...
Of course, he does get a little help from co-stars Ryan Guzman, Meadow Williams and Tyler Jon Olson, cast as conspirators who smuggle Modine’s character, MacDonald, out of a prison psychiatric ward. Seven years earlier, MacDonald and two...
- 12/14/2018
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Adept at finding good franchise material, producer Mace Neufeld’s feature adaptation of the bestselling crime thriller The Samaritan is getting underway, having hired Mike Maples (Padre) to adapt the first in a series of books by Stephen Besecker. The thriller is the first of three books written by the author. It follows a highly skilled CIA tracker named Kevin “Hatch” Easter whose life is shattered when his wife is killed in a botched mafia hit. A deadly chain…...
- 5/11/2015
- Deadline
Move over Priest and Machine Gun Preacher, there’s a new man of God in town. Padre, a spec script by Mike Maples, has been picked up by Screen Gems in what Deadline is reporting is a six-figure deal. The screenplay is, reports the site, in the mould of No Country For Old Men and A History Of Violence. Padre is billed as a “stark drama”, although it has elements of fuzzy, lo-fi thriller about it the synopsis is anything to go by. The titular priest has a dark past as a special-forces soldier, presumably one of those with a CV full of brutal killings and IEDs, but his efforts to shrug off the agonies of his experiences is hampered when his congregation is laid waste by a group of villainous lawmen.He’s then tortured and dumped in the desert. From there it sounds like a pretty standard vengeance quest,...
- 4/9/2014
- EmpireOnline
The One and Only Ivan
Disney Pictures is in negotiations to acquire the screen rights to Katherine Applegate's 2011 novel "The One and Only Ivan". A writer is currently being sought to adapt the script into a live-action feature.
The story centers on the silverback gorilla Ivan, an elderly elephant named Stella and a stray dog dubbed Bob, who all live in a cage at a shopping center. The ape concocts a plan to escape back to the wild to protect this infant animal from their abusive owner. [Source: THR]
Pursuit
"Jack Ryan" film series producer Mace Neufeld has begun development of the $45 million-budget World War II thriller "Pursuit" for New Films International. No director is currently attached.
Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement penned the script set in 1944 as the Nazi regime begins to realize they've lost. They launch a desperate plan to assassinate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a Pow camp in Washington state.
Disney Pictures is in negotiations to acquire the screen rights to Katherine Applegate's 2011 novel "The One and Only Ivan". A writer is currently being sought to adapt the script into a live-action feature.
The story centers on the silverback gorilla Ivan, an elderly elephant named Stella and a stray dog dubbed Bob, who all live in a cage at a shopping center. The ape concocts a plan to escape back to the wild to protect this infant animal from their abusive owner. [Source: THR]
Pursuit
"Jack Ryan" film series producer Mace Neufeld has begun development of the $45 million-budget World War II thriller "Pursuit" for New Films International. No director is currently attached.
Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement penned the script set in 1944 as the Nazi regime begins to realize they've lost. They launch a desperate plan to assassinate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a Pow camp in Washington state.
- 4/9/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: In a solid six-figure deal, Screen Gems has acquired Padre, a stark drama spec by Mike Maples. Greg Champion and Mark Lawyer will be producers and Screen Gems’ James Lopez will oversee it. The script has a No Country For Old Men and A History of Violence vibe to it. A priest, trying to atone for his bloody past as a special ops soldier, witnesses the brutal murder of members from his congregation by a malevolent Sheriff and his deputies. Tortured and left for dead in the desert, he survives. Then, he faces a crisis of conscience and the dawning realization that his past military training and three tours in Afghanistan may have been preparation for what his soul and his heart tell him is right. From there it goes all bad for the crooked cops. Maples is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment, and attorneys Alan Wertheimer and Jeff Hynick rep the producers.
- 4/8/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Screen Gems is strapping on a clerical collar and a gun to pick up Padre, a spec script by Mike Maples. Gregg Champion and Mark Lawyer are on board to produce the thriller, which is described as being in the tone of No Country for Old Men and A History of Violence. The story centers on a priest with a dark past on a quest for revenge against a group of thugs that left him for dead. However, he soon discovers the men are part of the sheriff's department in the small town where he seeks refuge. The deal was
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- 4/8/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A company that started out looking to join the social commerce revolution found an opportunity in simply being useful to people trying to manage email receipts.
With the rise of Square's paperless transactions, those instant digital receipts from Apple Store purchases and others, inboxes are the new wallets--stuffed with too many receipts to even begin to organize.
That’s why Project Slice is today launching a new application that will automatically scan your emails and collect all your purchase information in a single place. You’ll be able to see a history of what you bought and when. And for online purchases, you’ll be able to see when your items shipped and what their tracking number are.
While our inboxes contain the records of everything we’ve bought online, trying to retrieve that information by searching for individual emails is far from easy. “It’s a problem we all experienced personally,...
With the rise of Square's paperless transactions, those instant digital receipts from Apple Store purchases and others, inboxes are the new wallets--stuffed with too many receipts to even begin to organize.
That’s why Project Slice is today launching a new application that will automatically scan your emails and collect all your purchase information in a single place. You’ll be able to see a history of what you bought and when. And for online purchases, you’ll be able to see when your items shipped and what their tracking number are.
While our inboxes contain the records of everything we’ve bought online, trying to retrieve that information by searching for individual emails is far from easy. “It’s a problem we all experienced personally,...
- 5/26/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption? | Illustration by Craig Robinson
It's 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning on their way to Google, Gorenflo hands over his 15-month-old son, Jake, to a nanny he shares with his neighbor. At a local coffee shop, he logs on to a peer-to-peer banking site called Lending Club to make a series of small loans to someone planning a wedding, another starting a pet business, and a guy named Pat who wants to move. After biking down to the station, he drags his ancient Peugeot onto the train to San Francisco, where he hops into a Prius he's reserved for a few hours from City CarShare,...
It's 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning on their way to Google, Gorenflo hands over his 15-month-old son, Jake, to a nanny he shares with his neighbor. At a local coffee shop, he logs on to a peer-to-peer banking site called Lending Club to make a series of small loans to someone planning a wedding, another starting a pet business, and a guy named Pat who wants to move. After biking down to the station, he drags his ancient Peugeot onto the train to San Francisco, where he hops into a Prius he's reserved for a few hours from City CarShare,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Danielle Sacks
- Fast Company
Advertising dollars are moving to Facebook because of its targeting capabilities. But what if there was an even better way for brands to reach their desired audiences?
The big meme in advertising today is that brands are gradually moving to Facebook, because on Facebook, you can find the specific audience you want to advertise to. Want to market to 30-something moms in Tallahassee who like ice cream? Using Facebook's controls, you can make sure your ad gets placed right in front of people who’ve identified themselves as 30-somethings, living in Tallahassee, who like ice cream.
But as much information as Facebook users post about themselves, the system still relies on a core assumption: Namely that, because a user has “Liked” topic X, or added topic X to their interests, they actually care deeply about topic X. That might not actually be the case. Which is why the Experience Project,...
The big meme in advertising today is that brands are gradually moving to Facebook, because on Facebook, you can find the specific audience you want to advertise to. Want to market to 30-something moms in Tallahassee who like ice cream? Using Facebook's controls, you can make sure your ad gets placed right in front of people who’ve identified themselves as 30-somethings, living in Tallahassee, who like ice cream.
But as much information as Facebook users post about themselves, the system still relies on a core assumption: Namely that, because a user has “Liked” topic X, or added topic X to their interests, they actually care deeply about topic X. That might not actually be the case. Which is why the Experience Project,...
- 4/5/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
Illustration by Frank Chimero
Farhad Manjoo explains how an emerging class of investors is reinventing the startup economy.
Folks in Silicon Valley are fond of attaching friendly, anodyne labels to forces that seem bent on world domination (hello, Facebook). So it's no surprise that the latest group of alleged tech marauders goes by a name that might be better suited to a Japanese cartoon boy band: Beware the super angels!
These crafty interlopers represent a hybrid between the two investing models that have long ruled the normally placid world of startup funding. Super angels raise funds like venture capitalists but invest early like angels and in sums between the two, on average from $250,000 to $500,000. By being smaller, faster, and less demanding of entrepreneurs than VCs, super angels are getting first dibs on the best new ideas. Mint, Digg, and Ustream are three of the prominent super-angel-funded companies with traction.
The...
Farhad Manjoo explains how an emerging class of investors is reinventing the startup economy.
Folks in Silicon Valley are fond of attaching friendly, anodyne labels to forces that seem bent on world domination (hello, Facebook). So it's no surprise that the latest group of alleged tech marauders goes by a name that might be better suited to a Japanese cartoon boy band: Beware the super angels!
These crafty interlopers represent a hybrid between the two investing models that have long ruled the normally placid world of startup funding. Super angels raise funds like venture capitalists but invest early like angels and in sums between the two, on average from $250,000 to $500,000. By being smaller, faster, and less demanding of entrepreneurs than VCs, super angels are getting first dibs on the best new ideas. Mint, Digg, and Ustream are three of the prominent super-angel-funded companies with traction.
The...
- 1/19/2011
- by Farhad Manjoo
- Fast Company
It used to be when you started a company in Silicon Valley, the venture capitalists held all the cards. Entrepreneurs would beg, borrow or steal for a chance to pitch an idea to the denizens of Sand Hill Road. And when they were lucky enough to secure backing, the money men would often walk away with a sizeable chunk of the company in return for a mere pittance.
That’s changing, Floodgate managing partner Mike Maples said last night at the Founder Showcase startup competition in Mountain View, CA. He should know. As an early stage investor whose $25,000 stake in Twitter was already worth 26 times that amount as of a year ago, according to Bloomberg, Maples has had a front-row seat on the changes in the investing ecosystem. Two years ago, Fortune named Maples, who also invested in Digg and Ngmoco, one of “8 Rising Vc Stars.”
The power shift, Maples said,...
That’s changing, Floodgate managing partner Mike Maples said last night at the Founder Showcase startup competition in Mountain View, CA. He should know. As an early stage investor whose $25,000 stake in Twitter was already worth 26 times that amount as of a year ago, according to Bloomberg, Maples has had a front-row seat on the changes in the investing ecosystem. Two years ago, Fortune named Maples, who also invested in Digg and Ngmoco, one of “8 Rising Vc Stars.”
The power shift, Maples said,...
- 10/22/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
The Wall Street Journal-hosted Venture Capital Dispatch blog linked to my article yesterday about the closing of independent film distributor and festival website service business B-Side Entertainment. Scott Austin's piece focused on comments made in the piece by CEO Chris Hyams and President of Distribution Paola Freccero about the company's fate at the hands of the Vc funding model. The executives said that B-Side was on the road to being profitable but couldn't deliver large enough returns in the time period desired by financier Valhalla Partners. Austin points to another B-Side investor: original Series A-funder Mike Maples, Jr. and his Vc firm Silverton Partners. Maples and his firm invested $3.1 million in B-Side in 2006. Last week,...
- 2/23/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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