Alexander Stuart

Haptic and virtual reality currently involve suits and headsets like this. Hopefully not forever! Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin. When Mike White interviewed me for The Projection Booth podcast about my work on the early scripts for Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, we talked some more about other topics - and Mike was kind enough to feature a bonus interview with me. You can listen here (it's about 27 minutes long) or at The Projection Booth (Bonus Interview: Alexander Stuart) Download the Episode   The Projection Booth Bonus Interview: Alexander Stuart (27 minutes)  I talk about Silicon Valley and tech, which I love, about how I see entertainment evolving - including virtual reality and haptic reality, which involves touch, but hopefully can evolve quickly past body suits and headsets - and about the epic (in terms of my life) novel I'm writing, Chinatown Nights.

It's fantastic that Chinese actress/director/singer Zhao Wei , about whom I blogged repeatedly in 2013, is now a billionaire, according to Forbes.   Her directorial debut, So Young , about a group of college students, was a huge success, earning $118 million in mainland China alone and making it the fifth highest grossing Chinese movie of all time when released.  (I wrote about the film's opening week success in a post titled Zhao Wei's So Young So Successful In China. I also posted video of Zhao Wei on the set of her directorial debut, So Young .)  As Forbes reports, it is Zhao's shrewd investments, as much as her huge success across many fields of entertainment, that have earned her the nickname, "China's show-business Buffet." In particular, Zhao acquired a 9.18% stake in her close friend Jack Ma's company Alibaba Pictures in 2014, for an investment of $400 million. Ma had invited Zhao to invest, in order to add so