In Haywire, the new action film from director Steven Soderbergh, Mixed Martial Arts star Gina Carano plays Mallory Kane, a special ops-trained mercenary who finds herself betrayed by her superiors and those she trusted most.  The unstoppable Kane must then get to the bottom of the mystery negotiating between a cast of enemies and allies played by Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fassbender, and Michael Angarano.

Inspired by Soderbergh's unique command of stylish action and Carano's badass heroine, Go Haywire is a new interactive thriller, a series of shorts that transpose the bone-crunching action to the realm of YouTube.  After her facebook friends abandon her online, YouTube star Olga Kay vows to take her two-fisted revenge.  With the help of Aaron Cohen, the Special Forces adviser on Haywire, Kay trains herself to be a whirlwind of supercool action, taking on her nemeses Joe Nation, Toby Turner, and Michael Gallagher of Totally Sketch.  Since Go Haywire is an interactive thriller, you get to choose the order in which Kay decimates her opponents.

For those of you not aware of what VidCon is, or haven't had a chance to check out iamrogue's coverage of Industry Day, here is a summary: it's where online video stars go to be worshipped. 

Okay, it's not just that, though the center of the event most definitely focuses on giving the online video community one-on-one facetime with the creators they admire.  While mainstage performances felt more like attending concerts, there was also just as much educational programming included: break-out sessions, panel discussions, and presentations were spaced evenly with Q & A sessions and musical performances.

The second annual VidCon got off with a bang Thursday morning at the Hyatt Regency Plaza Hotel in Century City. YouTube stars and industry professionals assembled to discuss online video and the future of the Internet on day one of the three day convention. 

The convention's organizers John and Hank Green kicked off the event, which is designed to celebrate the wonderful world of online video and the creative people behind it. The event had not one but three keynote speakers Thursday morning, which included Jim Louderback from Revision3, YouTube NextUp program winner Ethan Newberry, and YouTube sensation Olga Kay. 

Let the digital revolution begin! YouTube fans were out in full force Tuesday night as they packed the famous El Rey theater in Los Angeles for the opening night of DigiTour 2011.

The tour, which is presented by YouTube, features fourteen of the hottest YouTube acts on a twenty-six city nationwide tour that kicked off last night. The tour will hit major cities like San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta, and New York, before finally ending in Miami on May 15th. While the show's lineup will change throughout the tour, some of the popular YouTube acts that are featured include Ricky Ficarelli, MysteryGuitarMan, David Choi, DeStorm, The Gregory Brothers, and Dave Days.The tour will also feature new, previously recorded video content from some of your favorite YouTube stars, woven in between the live musical acts.

Remember the trailer for Girl Walks Into A Bar, the feature length movie set to debut online, free of charge?  If you don't recall, it's directed by Sebastian Gutierrez the cast includes Carla Gugino, Rosario Dawson, Zachary Quinto, Danny DeVito, Alexis Bledel, Robert Forster, and Josh Hartnett.  Well, what is being touting as "The First Major Motion Picture Made for The Internet" premiered online today, in ten easy-to-watch sections.  What are you waiting for?  Get a taste of Girl Walks Into A Bar right here. 

For your viewing pleasure, I humbly present the first ten minutes of Girl Walks Into A Bar:

How extreme do you think you are? Do you regularly go bungee jumping? Have you ever swum in the ocean with a great white shark? Do you feel the need to take a risk or two and see how you’d fare while doing something completely dangerous? Well here is one sure way to find out just how extreme you are!

Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re a hilarious, gorgeous YouTube sensation with a smile that could very well launch a thousand ships. What do you do? Well, if you’re Brittani Louise Taylor, who I’m pretty sure is the only person who actually matches the above description, then you join forces with RogueTV to produce a singularly perfect fusion of internet forces: Tube Top, a weekly summation of the very best that YouTube has to offer.

Think The Soup, only instead of Joel McHale, you have the endlessly amusing Taylor, and instead of snarky jabs at Desperate Housewives or The View, you have funny, revelatory picks from the cream of the creative YouTube crop.That’s right, Brittani Louise Taylor is hosting a weekly web series and every Monday you can see her top picks on the iamROUGE's YouTube channel and on iamROGUE's website. Every episode of Tube Top highlights some of the most popular videos and personalities on YouTube, with the annotation system allowing you to jump immediately to any clip you like. It also features clever takes on videos you might be familiar with.

Jay Roach is one of the most talented directors in Hollywood. He has an uncanny ability to turn something tragic into laugh out loud humor. This is especially evident in his latest feature Dinner for Schmucks starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd. Schmucks is available now on Blu-ray and DVD.

Freddie Wong & Brandon Laatsch are filmmakers and co-creators of the highly successful YouTube channel, FreddieW. In our second Rogue Spotlight, we asked them how they come up with fresh storylines.

Be sure to check back next week to hear more from these self-described "cool dudes making sweet vids with rad FX!"

Freddie Wong & Brandon Laatsch are filmmakers and co-creators of the highly successful YouTube channel, FreddieW. In our first Rogue Spotlight with these adrenaline, action junkies, we asked them to give us some of their BEST filmmaker tips. 

Be sure to check back to hear more from these self-described "cool dudes making sweet vids with rad FX!"