Yesterday, Bloomberg Business News reported that China’s $2 billion buy—about a year in the making—is official. AMC Theaters, the second-largest theater chain in the United States, belongs to China now.

ABC News reports that this is the largest deal China has ever made in the U.S.

But what the heck does this really mean?

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HBO is developing a new comedy that reunites the team behind the big-screen hit The Other Guys.

Starring Daily Show vet Rob Riggle and exec-produced by Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and Eastbound & Down EPs Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, the untitled project centers on a successful bond trader (Riggle) in 1980s Wall Street who lives a dark and self-centered life, Deadline reports.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Election season brings with it the most incredulous commentary and oh-so-painful-it’s-comedic yammering from your elected officials and wannabelected nofficials. Now is the time to laugh at the people running your country and unload the grief in cathartic, satirical form.

Deadline is July 20th, but all the material you could ever need is available now. 

For more information visit seeflik.com. 

Firefox Flicks

Yes. The Mozilla Firefox wants you to submit your short film before May 1. As part of a personal initiative to distinguish the nonprofit as the people’s ISP, Firefox is baiting with a $10,000 cash prize for current film students, or $10,000 in video equipment; and a $60,000, month-long Panavision film or digital equipment rental to one winner worldwide.

Oh, and freshen up: Edward Norton is judging. To learn more, visit Firefox Flicks (https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org/en-US/creative).

A few short weeks ago, the world was swollen with the #stopKony chorus. Twitter enigmas like @iamDiddy and @Rihanna threw their followship behind the cause, lending to the nearly 90 million views of Invisible Children’s epic viral vid: #Kony2012.

Variations of the little meme that could exploded across social media then came to a screeching halt when its sunniest co-founder was TMZed in the buff, pacing a public curbside and shouting at the sky.

With that simple camera phone capture, #Kony2012 The Sequel, broadcast this past Thursday without the charismatic leader, seems doomed upon arrival. The compulsion to care, so “suddenly” won overnight, is hard to find ‘cross these ‘net waves now that there’s no omniscient leader to burden with more accountability than we’d hold ourselves to.

But who exactly is to blame for such willing dismissal?

Psychosis? (Social) Media? Or a dumbed down America?

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