• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, October 29, 2008

The inspiration behind online video empire Evil Global Corp. was the stuff that Hollywood dreams are made of â€" and then immediately crushed into dust. It all started a few years back when Evil Global founder and CEO Hayden Black was a TV promo writer pitching studios on his own pilot scripts.

He pitched on about two time-traveling hitmen, which got him a meeting, but when one of the studio execs asked him if he could make one of the hitmen a “dog,” he said he took a pass.

“I really wanted to be my own creative boss,” he said of his lightbulb moment, “but how do you do that.”

“Thankfully,” he continued, “Al Gore invented the Internet.”

And the rest is history of course. About ten years or so of it, in which a new micro production marketplace has emerged â€" the kind embodied by Evil Global’s pure-play, online video productions, like faux nightly newscast “Goodnight Burbank,” or an hilarious serious about a 13-year-old girls named Abigail, portrayed by none other than Hayden Black.