Anytime I hear a story on the news of a teenager committing suicide because they felt that there was simply no other way out of the hell that is bullying, I stop what I am doing and cry out of sheer frustration and a feeling of enormous helplessness. I became a writer in the hopes that my words would reach out and heal others. It is for this purpose that I share my personal story of bullying.

Next year's action comedy 21 Jump Street uses the 1987 television series as a conceptual jumping-off point, following two narcotics cops who go undercover as high school students, with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum playing the grown-up police officers tasked with believably infiltrating the social circle of teenagers.  Between Hill's rapid-fire comedic style and Tatum's action hero chops, the two leading men seem unlikely competitors for one another, but apparently the two internalized the bickering between their characters in 21 Jump Street.  Hill and Tatum are promoting the film with a Tweet-Off competition, a competition that will culminate in the unveiling of the film's first red-band trailer.

In 1978's Superman, as directed by Richard Donner, Marlon Brando played Superman's Kryptonian father Jor-El, a wise,beneficent, silver-coiffed scientist attempting to warn his doomed homeworld of impending planetary disaster.  Some digital work even allowed Brando to briefly reprise the role posthumously in Superman Returns, but in the currently-filming Superman reboot Man of Steel, Jor-El is played by none other than Russell Crowe.  Earlier this month, a batch of unofficial pictures from the Vancouver set gave our first look at Crowe in costume, which is traditionally regal, but more martial than past Jor-Els.  Now, Crowe himself has indicated that his version of Superdad is more physical, getting into a proper fight with a combatant the identity of whom is a minor spoiler.

While both the acting unions and the Writer's Guild now have New Media divisions to set guidelines and rules for the protection their members, generally actual shoots for web-based projects don't have such guidelines and rules in place.  Some choose to run their sets much like television and film sets, as many people working in the web space have TV and film backgrounds.  Some projects, especially first-person projects such as lonelygirl15 or the work of Philip DeFranco, don't require as stringent guidelines because of the bare-bones nature of their sets and crew needed.

Having worked on both film sets when I used to be a filmmaking assistant at the Los Angeles Film School to producing a great number of web shoots from scripted series to the before-mentioned first-person projects, I've seen a lot of things that just generally should not be happening. 

This article isn't designed to be an end-all-be-all document on how you shouldn't run your set but a series of suggestions on potential Standards and Practices that could maybe make your next web project shoot run a little bit smoother and keep your cast and crew happier and healthier.

As he proved in a sweaty, shaved-headed, clinched-jawed turn in Fast Five earlier this summer, Dwayne Johnson is a veritable locomotive of testosterone.  The dude's arms are so big that he can't functionally stand with his arms straight at his sides.  Probably the only way to make the estrwhile professional wrestler and Scorpion King look more conclusively masculine is to put him in a military outfit with a really, really big gun.  That's how you'll find him in this, the first image of Johnson in costume as Roadblock in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation.  Fertile women be warned: simply looking at this picture could very well get you pregnant.  Such is his virility.

Like many other means of modern social networking, Twitter no doubt has the potential to be utilized as little more than a facilitator of digital narcissism, but it also presents a plethora of opportunities for unique discourse that would otherwise have been unlikely, if not impossible.  If, for example, you wanted to address any number of questions to horror director/writer/composer John Carpenter, you'll have a chance to do so this week during a live tweeting Q & A session with the man behind Halloween, Escape from New York, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Starman, and The Thing.

After only a month and a half on Twitter, Oscar nominated actor James Franco is already calling it quits. According to Politico, the 127 Hours star recently stated that he believes that social media is dead. "Social media is over," he told Politico. "Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first," claimed Franco. "My thought was ... this is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want," he explained. "But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying,"

With James Cameron’s Sanctum opening tomorrow, we’ve been flooded with talent interviews, stories and more awesome features from director Alister Grierson’s thrilling, underwater adventure.

A few days ago, we reported that James Cameron had joined the massively popular world of Twitter (@jimcameron). He has gathered over 50,000 followers and continues to add more, all the while promoting his latest project, Sanctum where he takes on the role of executive producer.

James Cameron is one of the most influential filmmakers in Hollywood. He has created the two top moneymakers of all-time with Avatar and Titanic, as well as a number of commercial and critically successful films including Aliens and the Terminator franchise.

Yet as much as this talented director knows about moviemaking, he is a newcomer to Twitterverse. So the question is, where do you start in the strange and addictive world of Twitter?

Award winning director and producer, James Cameron has taken us on many incredible movie adventures. From his groundbreaking work on Avatar to the awe-inspiring Terminator franchise, he continues to amaze. More recently, Cameron has produced a thrilling underwater adventure Sanctum - which is in theaters February 4th. So, what else could this busy genius be up to? TWITTER!