Peter Thiel: Last News

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorEmbattled podcaster Joe Rogan said he isn’t planning to exit his Spotify deal to bring his popular — and controversial — show to Rumble, a video platform startup catering to right-wing personalities.Rogan, in a stand-up performance Tuesday in Austin, Texas, told the crowd he would not be moving “The Joe Rogan Experience” to Rumble, which earlier this week publicly offered him a $100 million deal. Rogan’s exclusive multiyear Spotify deal is reportedly worth more than $100 million.“No, Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably,” Rogan said in answer to an audience member’s question about whether he was taking Rumble up on its offer, as reported by THR.

Addie Morfoot Contributor In Asif Kapadia‘s latest documentary, “2073,” Ivanka Trump celebrates her 30th year as leader of a nightmarish fascist police state that was once America. The docudrama blends interviews with journalists and archival real-life news footage with a fictional story starring Samatha Morton to tell a story about a dystopic future that doesn’t feel too far off. The film is inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 featurette “La Jetée,” about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.

With global conflicts escalating, it's not unreasonable to consider a contingency plan. Israel's conflict in Gaza is morphing into a regional war with Iran, Africa is witnessing a series of civil wars, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows no signs of abating.

There’s a disturbing plausibility to director Asif Kapadia’s docudrama 2073, which just premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. It’s set 49 years in the future, a time when surveillance drones swarm the skies and shock troops keep the order, truncheons in hand. We’re not in America anymore. Welcome to “New San Francisco – Capital of the Americas.”

The Hulk Hogan vs Gawker court case looks to be getting the movie treatment as sources tell Deadline that Gus Van Sant is in early talks to direct the pic Killing Gawker with Artists Equity producing. Artist Equity co-founders Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are producing but not attached to star at this time.

Katcy Stephan A film about Hulk Hogan’s infamous legal battle against Gawker is officially in the works. Artists Equity, MattDamon and Ben Affleck’s production banner, has acquired a screenplay written by Charles Randolph and based on Ryan Holiday’s book “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue.” The project, titled “Killing Gawker,” is in active development. Gus Van Sant, who previously helmed Affleck and Damon’s “Good Will Hunting,” is set to direct.

Ben Affleck is reportedly eager to take on the role of Hulk Hogan in a new film about the wrestler’s sex tape legal saga with Gawker.Affleck and Matt Damon’s production company Artist Equity are said to be lined up to produce the film, provisionally titled Killing Gawker, with filming set to start in January 2025 (via PWInsider).The film would tell the story of Hogan’s legal battle with the American celebrity blog Gawker, who in 2012 released a clip of a sex tape that the WWE star was not aware was being filmed.Hogan filed a lawsuit against the site, backed by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who Damon will reportedly portray in the film. The wrestler was eventually rewarded $115million for defamation, loss of privacy and emotional pain, and the saga contributed to Gawker’s eventual demise.The Killing Gawker screenplay was written by Charles Randolph, who picked up an Oscar for The Big Short, and was based on Ryan Holiday’s 2018 book Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex and a Billionaire’s Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire, which documented Thiel’s personal vendetta against Gawker for outing him as gay.In 2020, Chris Hemsworth was rumoured to be taking on the role of Hogan in a biopic, but that project has not yet materialised.In other Affleck news, last week, reports emerged that he and Jennifer Lopez are to file for divorce after two years of marriage.It came after Affleck purchased a new $20.5million “bachelor pad” mansion in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, July 24, the day of Lopez’s 55th birthday.

Donald Trump‘s acceptance speech will be the highlight of the final night of the Republican National Convention, but the other speaker lineup will have the feel of a cage match.

The Atlantic that he would no longer be financially supporting Trump — or any other candidate — in 2024, taking a step back from involvement in the political realm. A source close to Thiel told Reuters in April that Thiel, a father of two children who is married to businessman Matt Danzeisen, thought Republicans were making a mistake by emphasizing culture-war issues rather than U.S.

Everything about this case, everything connected to Jeffrey Epstein is just so gross. And every time you think it’s over, it just gets a little worse…

Popular hip-hop media personality DJ Akademiks has signed an exclusive streaming deal with Rumble, a site that brands itself as “immune to cancel culture”; hosts right-wing figures such as Dinesh D’Souza, Dan Bongino, and Sean Hannity, as well as the Donald Trump-owned platform Truth Social; and is funded in part by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and Republican Ohio senator J.D. Vance.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVenture capitalist and right-wing booster Peter Thiel, after 17 years on the board of Facebook — now Meta Platforms — will step down as director of the internet giant.Thiel joined Meta’s board in April 2005, after he had invested $500,000 in the then-fledgling Facebook startup.Thiel is leaving Meta in order to “focus on influencing November’s midterm elections,” the New York Times reported, citing an anonymous source. “Mr.

Gawker, the digital brand whose gimlet-eyed but often caustic tone won it many fans but plenty of enemies, has been brought back to life by Bustle Digital Group.

Reports have emerged that Apple CEO Tim Cook has stepped in to ensure that the company did not produce a TV show which is inspired by gossip outlet Gawker. Claims by The New York Times say that Cook, who is one of the the most powerful openly gay men in the world, was the least bit excited to hear that his company had picked up the TV show Scraper, which is based on Gawker.