Disrupting Hollywood
Check out our recent podcast about how web3, blockchain, and decentralization are upending the entertainment production & consumption paradigm
Who: Jon Heder, Tony Uphoff, Justin Trevor Winters, Wes Sherwin (host)
Where: Theta.TV/Ultralight
Why: Because you want to know what technology is doing out there on the leading edge of Hollywood and entertainment!
Jon Heder
Since crashing the Hollywood scene as Napoleon Dynamite, Jon has starred in films such as Blades of Glory, The Benchwarmers, School For Scoundrels and others. Earlier this year he partnered with Verified Labs to release the Order of the Tigons, a successful NFT project featuring his quirky hand-drawn art. He recently signed a deal to voice the lead role in Cyko Ko, an animated series that will launch exclusively on blockchain tech firm Replay’s Rewarded.TV web3 streaming service. The project will use revenue from an NFT collection from Theta Labs’ Thetadrop platform to fund, produce, and distribute the project. He’s also working with Verified Labs to bring his Tigons project to the Sandbox Metaverse.
Tony Uphoff
Tony has served as Publisher at Hollywood Reporter, and is an in-demand speaker on the intersection of technology and business. As an executive at tech media companies Ziff-Davis and CMP Media, he had a ringside seat as technology radically reshaped society and business. Today, Tony is Co-Founder and Chief Analyst at Acceleration Economy, which analyzes the trends, opportunities and technologies that define the digital-first world. He also advises senior management and boards of media, marketing, and technology companies as the CEO & Founder of Uphoff Management. Tony is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Insider, and other top media brands, as an expert on the digital industrial economy.
Justin Trevor Winters
Justin is the founder and CEO of Verified Labs, a web3 production studio driven by a passion for blockchain tech, digital art, media, entertainment and the future of the metaverse. In addition to independent film production, his company focuses on creating iconic, revenue-generating virtual entertainment experiences for artists, celebrities, athletes, and brands. Justin has nearly two decades of experience as a screenwriter, lecturer, producer, and development executive. He’s a member of Creative Artists Agency, and has worked in collaboration with many established directors, screenwriters, and authors.
Wes Sherwin
Wes is the founder and host of Ultralight TV on the decentralized Theta.TV platform (Theta.TV/Ultralight), where he frequently interviews guests in the web3, blockchain, and NFT landscape, as well as names in hip hop, entertainment, and the entrepreneurial space. He was previously an entertainment reporter for Hot Topics, where he interviewed Hollywood names such as Will Ferrell, Gary Sinese, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Zach Woods and many others.
