Avishai ✡ Weinberger
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Screenwriter (PRECIPICE, DRIFT OFF etc) Director (THIRD DATE, BLANK). Nicholl Top 50, 2x QF. Orthodox Jew. Horror. He/him.
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Some quick thoughts, with totally locked replies for reasons I hope you can all understand.
The events of this past weekend have been impossibly hard to process. And I'm realizing it would be better for my psyche to put my thoughts into words than to keep them bottled.
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Wait what the fuck is NANCY DREW about
The special effects here are insane!!🔥
The “Sin Eater” Portrayed by twistytroy for the tv series:
@NancyDrew
season 4. Makeup produced by
#mastersfxstudios
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Sculpted and designed by
#chrisdevitt13
#nancydrew
#horror
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@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan comes out in strong opposition towards… (checks notes) parents caring for their children
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Since this is apparently gonna continue being a thing, gonna say something I hope you already agree with
What Libs Of Tiktok does, her entire operational purpose, is evil. Full stop, red line. If you know what she does and condone it, you are condoning evil. Full stop. Red line.
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“Hey, Mando?”
“Yeah boss?”
“Take that helmet off for a sec?”
“Sorry, can’t.”
“Why?”
“Religious reasons.”
“But the other Mando hire never wears a helmet.”
“...sigh. Listen, I’m Orthodox, he’s Reform, we observe differently.”
“But you’re both Mandalorian?”
“Yes, Jeff, we are.”
The Mandalorian's Helmet Rules Create A Star Wars Plot Hole -
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TITANE is on Hulu. Watch it. It is family friendly. Watch it with your parents and children
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Anti-art people should ideally not be in charge of the creation and distribution of art
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If SOLO were a 4-6 episode series on Disney+, everyone would be losing their shit over it.
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When Lucas couldn’t do Flash Gordon, he made Star Wars. When Spielberg couldn’t do James Bond, he made Indiana Jones. “I can’t get the IP so fuck it, new thing” is a Hell Yeah for me and something we should encourage
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Fuuuuuck.
It’s been clear since for a while that TV’s evolution from linear to digital was not going smoothly. Since February,
@LaneBrown
and I have been digging into the story of how it all went awry, why those who make TV are so angry, and what comes next.
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To me, the real overarching promise of the original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is the idea that America is fucking vast, with so much hidden horror beneath the surface, and if you look under the wrong rock, you will find a nest of spiders
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(To the people calling for Amber Midthunder to do a Marvel thing, check out LEGION, it’s a Marvel thing and she has a sword)
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The ENOLA HOLMES lawsuit is extraordinarily dumb and I need you all to see it
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This book about the making of FURY ROAD is incredible
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Blade: (pours gasoline on Morbius and lights a match) “More like the living campfire”
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Guillermo Del Toro saying he might be able to do IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS for Netflix, but would want to rewrite his existing script because that was written as a blockbuster to survive the studio process and now he feels free to be smaller and more esoteric: Music to my ears.
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The two best American animated films of the year prominently feature trans allegories
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@Alison_0410
(I too am Jewish and related to Holocaust survivors…
To answer your question,
1) you're thinking of the Warsaw uprising
2) also there was a war
3) this is not the time to be doing this)
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I understand why Drew Barrymore is doing this. 100%. Her show employs people, and those people are suffering. I sympathize.
Yes, And.
We can’t allow exceptions.
If there’s one, there’ll be more. We haven’t fought this long, suffered this much, to let the wall crack.
@WGAEast
With a heavy heart, I guess I’ll be picketing Drew Barrymore tomorrow? What a world
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My DRIVE MY CAR showing was damn near sold out. That’s 110 seats.
I doubt most would’ve shown up if not for the Oscar noms.
That’s how the Oscars can be important for movies, and why major noms shouldn’t be wasted on obscenely popular mainstream blockbusters.
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If I read another anonymous exec quote like “what the writers don’t understand is we simply don’t have as much money in streaming” I’m gonna have an aneurysm
Even if it’s somehow true— You’re not a charity! If you can’t afford to pay for labor, you’re not entitled to it!
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I don’t know what’s funnier: Greta’s response, or Tate’s reply to it
Dude disintegrated
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Years ago, I was at a one man show whose second half was a seminar on how to do physical comedy. The guy made a point I never forgot:
How do you play a drunk character? By acting like you’re desperate to convince everyone you’re sober.
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@Alison_0410
Imagine if, after the Holocaust, we had nowhere safe to go, just our old towns in the Europe. Imagine if we then spent generations in Europe, with the non-Jews drafting laws against us and having cops kill us regularly and in such a way that non-Jews could deny it's happening.
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The AMPTP aren’t “the producers”
THESE are The Producers, and they stand with SAG.
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Last year, I wrote up a Screenplay Story Questionnaire. It's a disposable tool to help screenwriters get unstuck. I've posted it before, and here it is again because 🤷
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@Alison_0410
Black people's Holocaust ended in the 1860s but they've been facing systemic disenfranchisement and murder ever since. Hence protests.
Hope this clears things up Alison!
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In honor of the WGA strike being over, I’m once again sharing my Screenplay Story Questionnaire— a disposable tool to help you get unstuck in your script. Enjoy.
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every day I wake up in̸̬̗̞͂̎̔̔̀͂̿̈̇ ̸̢̪͖͓͇̪͊̾̽̿t̵̝̳͈̀̈́̌̇̆̂̈́̇͆̕ḧ̵̜͙́̓̋̒̚͠͝ì̸̼̹́͑̅̎͊͌̀͗̕͝s̷͕̗͎̮͓̹̓̋̈́̅͆͝ ̶̢̣̺̪̜̥̟̩̦͐͒̆͂̎̐͊̏̕͜h̸̢͍̞̖͋͊̉̓̋͆̿̿̕õ̵͓̩͍͔͐͌̌̀̊̚͜ͅù̵̙̘̞̟̱̍̉̿̑̇̊̕s̵̡̨̲̘̯̟̪̗͓̤͔͂ë̶̡̠̳͈̦͍̦͛̀̅̓̓̀̐̕
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@Gahostan
My defense for the giant chunky computers in ALIEN is that if a computer part malfunctions in space, you want the pieces big and modular enough that you can manually swap out and fix the component
You’re not finding an Apple Store in deep space
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@thediegocrespo
That interview where he's like "I made this boring movie about pilgrims" and the interviewer says "it's not boring" and Eggers says "yes it is, it's boring as shit"
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WGA strike: Day 133
SAG strike: Day 60
My 39th day picketing
Today we picketed Drew Barrymore, who’s producing her show while her own writers are on strike. Sorry Drew. But also, what the hell are you doing.
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The great thing about the FEAR STREET movie trilogy is that it feels like horror for kids whose parents don’t want them watching it. The kind of illicit deep-end-of-the-pool gateway horror that kids secretly watch and fall in love with, the kind that treats them like adults.
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Leaving a steady job that personally disrespected you couldn't be easy. Especially when the field is competitive and the position looks good on a resume.
I respect the hell out of these writers for standing up for their dignity.
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Yesterday, two heavily armed men were arrested on their way to kill Jews in New York
Last night, a shooter attacked an LGBTQ club in Colorado, killing 5 & injuring 18
And there are people who think bigoted speech and jokes are “just words” that don’t have consequences
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@orensoffer
@INEJSKNlVES
This is me doing a quick and dirty adjustment with my iPhone’s photo app. It’s not *good*, it’s basic filters. But it reads as night, there’s clear contrast between the silhouetted characters and their setting… The values were there, the right color grade could have worked
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If SAG-Aftra go on strike, that doesn’t *just* shut down Hollywood
It means publicity. It means big stars TALKING— to gossip mags and social media and the like. HUGE anti-studio PR boost
AMPTP really doesn’t need that lol. If they’re smart they’ll give the actors everything
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One of the writers of season 1 attended the WGA awards with a negative bank account balance, because the streamers refuse to correlate residuals with viewership numbers
According to Hulu, ‘THE BEAR’ Season 2 saw a 70% increase in total hours streamed in the first four days after its June 22 launch compared to the first season stats over that same time period.
It is the most-watched premiere of any FX series on Hulu.
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Two observations.
1 - The fact that she's using her position to call upon the *studios* to end the strike as opposed to the unions is further evidence the AMPTP has lost. Another public humiliation for them
2 - "Ma, who is also a member of SAG-AFTRA…" hahaha yessss yesssssssss
California Treasurer Fiona Ma calls on Hollywood studios to end writers' and actors' strikes
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Not posting any other photos after this because tbh you should all just read the book
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I have to imagine plenty of execs are thinking “let’s wait til the writers get tired and the picket lines fade, then we’ll shoot our TV shows”
Thing is, we ain’t gonna get tired. Some folks today were marching since *5am*, and there ain’t no high like killing a day of production
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The Slaughter family doesn’t strike me as a mythic group of horror legends the likes of which the world has never seen
They strike me as the tip of an iceberg
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With a heavy heart, I guess I’ll be picketing Drew Barrymore tomorrow? What a world
The
@DrewBarrymoreTV
Show is a WGA covered, struck show that is planning to return without its writers. The Guild has, and will continue to, picket struck shows that are in production during the strike. Any writing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” is in violation of WGA strike rules.
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Man. If I knew it had such a big horror component I’d have watched from day one
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Remember when the Weinsteins produced a movie about the Weinsteins and they didn’t know it and it was called SCREAM 3
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@mattzollerseitz
JJ critiquing TLJ by saying nobody wants to hear that what they care about doesn’t matter, then going on to make a movie where nothing matters, is really something
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@LPNational
“Nothing I do or want has consequences and I have no responsibility to others, don’t tell me otherwise”
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The SUCCESSION screenwriters just told the rest of us that we only think we’re screenwriters
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ANDOR, a show that dares ask the question: What if Star Wars had, like, really good dialogue
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I re-share this every so often.
Avishai Weinberger’s Screenplay Story Questionnaire: A disposable tool to unstick your script-in-progress.
Use what works for you, burn the rest!
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Being a screenwriter is like, “Hello. I have found the thing I’m good at. I’m good at it maybe once a year”
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A screenwriting thing you learn from physically creating short films: Making sure all the characters in any given scene have activities to do
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We only know about these ones because we stumbled into their home
Imagine the homes we haven’t stumbled into
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Imagine running unopposed, still losing 25% of the vote, and bragging about it
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A recent movie with a depressed main character who’s played as consistently gloomy, without any false front, has me thinking about this
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"Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them"
Some sort of gas has been set off. I’m not sure by whom. Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them.
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Saying again:
@sagaftra
has been on the
@WGAEast
picket line every single day since this thing started. Incredible solidarity. And if they vote Yes on a strike authorization vote in overwhelming numbers, that would be the best solidarity of all. VOTE YES, ACTOR FRIENDS!
SAG-AFTRA National Board Unanimously Agrees To Send Authorization Vote To Members
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The AMPTP would rather delay the Emmys for the first time since it was delayed by 9/11 than pay their employees a fair wage
The Emmys is officially being delayed as studios continue to refuse to pay actors & writers fairly.
(Source: )
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Leatherface is cool, but if he’s the only such monster in his world, then that feels relatively safe to me
All you gotta do is avoid his neck of Texas
Whereas the original is saying you’re not safe anywhere because can you really trust your quiet shut-in neighbors
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By the way, something we should hammer home: The studios didn't just leave the table. They left it EARLY.
The WGA expected to negotiate to the final minute. The AMPTP cut it short with hours to go.
To anyone who says "The WGA needs to come back to the table"… THEY DIDN'T LEAVE
Something I’m not sure everyone outside the writers’ bubble understands is that the AMPTP didn’t just offer a subpar deal. They didn’t just reject terms.
They insulted writers.
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@baddestmamajama
Bad enough they’re taking the side of the killer, genuinely insane they’re putting so much effort into it
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Screenwriting tip:
Scene not working? Add a swarm of bees
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Reminder to those who apparently need it:
The studios aren’t a charity! If they can’t afford to pay for labor (or they say they can’t), they’re not entitled to it! That’s not even socialism, that’s literally just capitalism!
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While the Act doesn't quite federalize Obergefell, it goes about as far as the federal government can, and contains within it a lot of vital protections. This passing is a good thing.
BREAKING:
The Senate has voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation to codify federal protection for marriages of same-sex and interracial couples, 61 to 36.
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Elon Musk realizes, to his horror, that he actually just bought 9.2% of Screenwriter Twitter
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@kumivenarts
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Pennywise is such a flamboyant extrovert. Baba is going through an emo phase, but damn you should see his art books
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Hearing from a friend that their low budget indie film was pirated straight onto youtube, where it has thousands of views
This should go without saying, but if you're gonna be a pirate, at least don't pirate these. It's hard enough for them to break even as it is. Come on.
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They should do a TENET tv show just so at the end of each episode they can do “Next time on TENET” and it’s clips from the previous episode
And then each episode starts with a “Previously on TENET” and it’s clips of the episode you’re about to watch
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The writers of 2020 are starting to pay off some setups huh
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If your instinct is "better no movie than a bad movie", you're not ready to be a screenwriter
If your instinct is "a bad movie is better than no movie", you're ready to be a screenwriter
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A little over 2 years later, this kid is still putting himself way too close to creepy dark holes in the ground
#LockeAndKey
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Paramount's stock is at its lowest point since a very brief moment in April 2020, and, before that, Feb 2010
to save the company, they plan to… (checks notes) never make anything new again.
Huh. Not a strategy I'd have taken, but that's why they don't pay me the big bucks
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