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Will You Pay For the Tyler Posey App?

Former Teen Wolf Tyler Posey joined the ranks of Disha Patani, Kajal Aggarwal, and former porn star Sunny Leone in launching his own app through a company called EscapeX LIMITED. The app basically aggregates Posey’s social media feeds into one app and then offers “live updates and videos” for free. However, if you’re willing to pay through the app, you also get to “Boost your comments with Superstars, become a Top 3 Fan, and be seen by Tyler Posey.”

It is a typical Skinner Box app with a freemium model designed to keep people coming back for more and shelling out roughly $5 a month for the privilege of extra content. Here’s their pitch to celebrities - '“In the ever-changing world of social media, the only constant are the people at the end of the channel. We are profoundly passionate about creators, and putting them front and center has been our driving force from day one. So, we’ve set out to build a different model: to reimagine social media where control is in the hands of creators, not platforms. Where those driving engagement are compensated, not the networks they use. Where communication is direct, no intermediaries. Where everyone can be seen.”'

The company’s selling point is cash for internet influencers, but it’s hard to nail down exactly what they’re promising. According to their own social media accounts, “An influencer with 2 million Facebook followers earns $15,000 a month on the excapeX app.” Of course, just a month prior, they claimed: “escapeX influencers with 1 million active social followers earn an average of $3000 per month.” From the little research, I was able to do on the company, they have about 80 “celebrities” involved. I didn’t recognize many of the names because they’re celebrities in India, Central America or Asia and I’m simply not familiar enough with those spheres. The only top-line names that jumped out as “celebrities” in the US are actor Niecy Nash, singer Marc Anthony, YouTube star Bart Baker, singer Prince Royce, and Mexican rapper C-Kan.

If you’re willing to pay the fee to see “and be seen by Tyler Posey” the app will cost $4.99 a month. That price seems to be set by the “celebrities” themselves. For example, the Niecy Nash app costs $2.99 a month and the one for former porn star Sunny Leone is just $1.99 a month.

Even if you just sign up for the free content – for which you’ll need to provide them with another social account sign-in like Facebook or Google -  you are giving up all the same private information you give up to just about every other app.

If you dive into the user agreement legalese, you’ll find the bog-standard data collection scheme that makes the internet profitable for so many. They collect every click and swipe and may or may not share your personal information depending on a complex set of internal rules and only on days that end in Y.

That’s all I could find out about the app. I’ve been on it for about a week and really haven’t seen anything much different than we get following Posey’s regular social media accounts. If you’re interested, here’s the link - https://www.escapex.com/app/tylerposey

Dylan O’Brien Breaks Even

Dylan O’Brien’s American Assassin is doing moderately well in the US and international box office in its third week of release. It remains in the top ten in most countries that report including the US and will top $50 million in worldwide ticket sales this week against a budget of $33 million. Of course, you have to add how much they spent on promoting the film, so that budget was probably closer to $35-$36 million. Still, American Assassin is tracking right about where the folks who track these things expected.

For example, Tom Cruise opened American Made this weekend at $16.7 million compared to O’Brien’s $14.8 million opening on September 15.

AM cost $20 million more than AA to make, and they spent WAY more promoting Tom Cruise so, at this point, AA is still the more profitable film. In fact, compared to everything but IT, Kingsman 2, and LEGO Ninjago, American Assassin is tracking with or well above every other movie released in September. As I said in my initial review, American Assassin is a run-of-the-mill CIA black ops flick with some interesting phycology motivating the main characters. It’s not the BEST MOVIE EVER, but it was fun to watch and worth a trip to the cinema.

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Crystal Reed Returns to Series Television

<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a disclaimer up front, I probably won’t see Crystal Reed’s performance on Gotham because I don’t watch Gotham. I watched the first season and then part of the second before giving up. Watching the show became a test of my considerable eye-rolling abilities, and it felt more like an obligation than something to look forward to each week. <p class="MsoNormal">That said, it is great to see Crystal Reed return to series television in her first role since leaving Teen Wolf in 2014. Reed will be playing Sofia Falcone, daughter of a crime boss and possibly a criminal in her own right. All that remains to be seen since Gotham characters on the TV show diverge significantly from the Batman comic book versions.

<p class="MsoNormal">In the comics, Reed’s character was a total badass. She was designed by creator Jeph Loeb to parallel Sonny Corleone from the Godfather movies. Her stint in the comics was brief, she only appears in two Batman story arcs, The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. She becomes a villain known as The Hangman in the latter comic, but, again, the show doesn’t follow the comics much.

<p class="MsoNormal">Reed will begin her eight-episode (at least) run on Gotham this Thursday, October 5.

<p class="MsoNormal">'Also of note – Holland Roden’s next show is LORE,'' It hits Amazon Prime on October 13. We’ll have more on that show next week.'''

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf Auction Highlights

<p class="MsoNormal">The first of the Teen Wolf Auctions from ScreenUsed ended last week with fans all over the world snapping up some amazing stuff from the show.

<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to all those big-ticket items, fans were able to grab some of the props they love for much lower prices. Out of the 300 or so items up for bid, 58 went for less than $100 and 7 sold for less than $50 meaning at least a few fans of meager means were able to snap up some memorabilia without emptying their bank accounts.
 * The largest single item also pulled in the highest bid, Scott’s dirt bike went for $2,280.
 * Second place was no surprise really, Stiles’ Lacrosse outfit commanded a final bid of $2,160.Teen_Wolf_Stiles_lacrosse_Jersey.jpg
 * One surprise (to me at least) was a telluric currents map of Beacon Hills they used in the Season 3 episode Currents. It went for $2,040.
 * The jacket Stiles almost died in during Weaponized in Season 4 brought in an astounding $1,920.
 * Rounding out the top 5 winning bids was $1,800 for Stiles metal bat, which is guaranteed to give you a false sense of security while actually protecting you from very little.

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Another Chance to Own A Piece Of Teen Wolf

<p class="MsoNormal">The auction that just wrapped up included props and costumes from Seasons 1-5. ScreenUsed just launched another sale of cool stuff included set dressing pieces like the bulletin board and stuffed animals from Lydia’s bedroom as well as the big cryonic chamber from the Argent Bunker where they froze everybody and Stiles’ FBI intern badge.

<p class="MsoNormal">You’ll also find a ton of costumes and other paraphernalia that would be extremely cool to own. All bids start at $5.00 so, if you can afford Posey’s app, you can afford to at least bid on something.

<p class="MsoNormal">Check out the details, get registered, and grab something cool! LINK- http://www.screenused.com/index.cfm?ag_id=5246