
A forbidden movie led Daril Fannin toward Hollywood. A Netflix deal got him inside. Now the KINO co-founder is working on what happens after the credits - and who gets paid.
He built a company around people asking about their futures, then made films about people trying to find one. Jason Freeland’s route from psychic hotlines to independent cinema runs through an Oxford friendship and a long attachment to California.

Max Read is a Brooklyn-based journalist, media critic, and newsletter writer who runs Read Max, a Substack publication covering tech culture, internet phenomena, AI, and digital media with acerbic wit and analytical depth. Former Editor-in-Chief of Gawker and founder of New York Magazine's Select All vertical, Read is one of the sharpest observers of how platforms reshape human behavior - a thinker who treats the internet with the seriousness of a literary critic and the irreverence of someone who has watched it eat itself alive.