Above the Fold is happy to be giving away a massive prize package for the new film, The Runaways featuring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, which opens this Friday [03.19.10]. The lucky winner of the prize pack will get:

• A Runaways t-shirt
• A poster from the film
• A copy of the book that inspired the film: Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway
• A copy of Joan Jet and the Blackhearts Greatest Hits CD
• A copy of The Runaways film soundtrack featuring original recordings from Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning
• A copy of Joan Jett’s upcoming photobook with Todd Oldham

***Winner must live in the continental US***

For more information on The Runaways please go to the film’s Offical Web-site or Myspace Page

To Win Prize Pack:

• E-mail contests[at]above-thefold[dot]com with the subject line The Runaways. In the body place your name, address, and how you heard about the giveaway.
• To be entered twice into the contest Re-tweet the following message: RT @atfmpls The Runaways Prize pack giveaway! http://bit.ly/atfrunaways

The Runaways will have a showing at the Walker on March 13.

ATF’s friend, David Chakur, was apart of the East Lansing 48/5 Film Contest. The competition requires you to make a five-minute film in 48 hours using three required elements and a randomly assigned genre. David’s film Family Recipe is a mini-musical about two sisters who have grown apart. Family Recipe received third place in the competition. Congrats David! Watch the film above.

The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Have To is the debut novel from writer/actor/rapper DC Pierson (Mystery Team, Community). This novel features your run-of-the-mill teenage plot development. Isolated, awkward high school boy loves to draw. Awkward boy meets extra-awkward boy who is equally isolated. They bond over love of science fiction. They become best friends. Awkward boy falls in love with girl. Best friend ends up taking girl. They fight, they make-up. The End. Oh wait, somewhere in there, extra-awkward boy admits he can’t sleep and has never been able to. Awkward boy becomes determined to test the bounds and limits of such a power/ability (or lack of ability). It turns into a fast-paced adventure when their greatest fear (The man in the suit) finds out and tries to capture the ‘never-sleeper.’

Pierson’s novel is  full of charm built on the basis that growing up is hard no matter who you are. Throw in an abstract ability like not having to sleep and its bound to complicate the already tough high school lifestyle. The characters drive this tale, which goes past analysis of teenage culture to add evocative moments on top of brooding science fiction action. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To is a novel that provides entertainment, humor, and adventure that works for anyone, young or old.

***ABOVE THE FOLD is giving away TWO COPIES of Pierson’s new book! E-mail contests[at]above-thefold[dot]com with DC Pierson in the subject line for your chance to win a copy. Winners will be chosen February 17.***

Purchase the book HERE

Pierson took some time to answer a few questions about what his new book means to him, his own high school experience, and more: lanjut →

Copyright Criminals takes a look at the idea of sampling as a means of creating music and the legal dispute that is has caused. The film features local act Eyedea & Abilities as well as many  legends including Chuck D and George Clinton. It will premiere on PBS on Tuesday at 10/9 Central.

Donald Glover might be one of the hardest working up and comers in the entertainment industry. To mainstream audiences he is best known as Troy, a loveable doofus jock on NBC’s new slamdunk comedy Community. To internet audiences he may best be known as Donald from comedy troupe Derrick. To music audiences he may be known as mc DJ or Childish Gambino. If you know him from any of these ‘hats’ there’s a good chance you are already a big fan of his work.

Glover is a graduate of NYU’s writing program. It didn’t take long after he exited school for him to get his first writing gig for a little show called 30 Rock. The young comedian has also been apart of a comedy group called Derrick who has built a massive internet following with hilarious comedy shorts posted to Youtube. They have spent the better portion of the last year promoting their new/self-produced film Mystery Team, which follows a group of childhood ‘crimefighters’ who grow up to try and solve real life mysteries. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year.

This Fall, Glover became an integral part of NBC’s new comedy Community’s fast success. His character Troy adds a stroke of genius to the dimwitted character cliche’.

In a rather amazing feat, on top of those responsibilities on his plate, Glover still finds time to produce music tracks under the moniker Childish Gambino as well as putting together tasty remixes as mc DJ. Luckily for us, he just released a new remix mixtape titled The Works as mc DJ, which features the likes of Gnarls Barkley, Spank Rock, Gorillaz, Belle and Sebastien, and Broken Social Scene to name a very few.

Listen to a few of the tracks (including his remarkable remix of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, which absolutely kills it with a drumline beat).

Download the entire mixtape HERE

Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (mc DJ Remix)

Spank Rock – Put That P***y on Me (mc DJ Remix)

Dem Franchize Boyz – Lean Wit It (Belle and Sebastien Remix)

Watch Community on NBC on Thursdays at 8 P.M./7P.M. (Central). Check for showings of Mystery Team HERE

Young@Heart Chorus was founded in 1982 and features performers from the age of 73-89. The performers range from previous professionals to people that didn’t step on stage until the age of 80. The PBS documentary above takes a look into the inspirational group.

Up in the Air is set to premiere in Minneapolis at the Uptown Theater on Friday.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has proven himself to be an acting talent far beyond his years time and again. He spent most of his adolescence on our TVs in 3rd Rock from the Sun. (if you want to go back even further remember this movie?) He acted steady through the run of the NBC show and after, but his first stand-out role was his take as a sharp-tongued outcast in the 2005 indie classic Brick.

Since that time, the 28-year-old actor has been busy building a healthy resume, which now features a breakout performance in last Summer’s 500 Days of Summer and a role in the recent blockbuster G.I. Joe. With the buzz surrounding his current work, Gordon-Levitt was thankfully given the nod as host of Saturday Night Live this past weekend. It was one of the most refreshingly genuine performances I’ve ever seen. His stage presence is out of this world. Take a look at his opening monologue, which shows the host breakout in a showstopping rendition of Singing in the Rain’s Make ‘Em Laugh:

Full Episode of SNL and More Joseph Gordon-Levitt after the jump: lanjut →