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Hey remember when a PG rated Disney family film showed us: a hate crime, a thinly veiled threat of sexual violence, animal cruelty, anchored by a future Oscar winning actress and all displayed in just 90 seconds? I sure do.
Name a film, preferably newish, that, while widely considered great, has you itching to get on your soapbox and shouting "DO YOU ALL REALIZE HOW GREAT THIS IS? WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT THIS IS. ALL. THE. TIME."
Yes, I just rewatched Phantom Thread.
Researching the Colorado River for a script and now I have fallen down a rabbit hole. We should be very concerned for our water security in next few decades.
Like grass lawns in Southern California should be banned tomorrow. It’s bad ya’ll!
Still don’t understand how Nightcrawler didn’t get Jake Gyllenhaal a Best Actor nomination. No explanation has ever made sense and his omission has aged terribly.
@kevin_thecritic
I think it’s one of the reasons it’s legacy has endured. It’s also an incredibly sad story when you feel back the ending and jokes. Most of the characters do not get a happy ending and died miserably in pain.
Look how many camera moves are served up here in this sequence from the og Jurassic Park. Almost nothing is static, Dean Cundey doesn’t let up. My two favorite shots are the Dolly pan & push behind Laura Dern when she closes the circuit & the reveal of the perimeter fence button.
Disney let Brian De Palma direct a PG sci-fi movie and he puts this in the opening minutes of Mission to Mars. As a kid I was shocked how brutal it was. It’s still a disturbing scene as an adult!
SAG LA Vice President Michelle Hurd explains that “you know those actors when you go ‘oh there’s that guy from that show’, you don’t necessarily know their names… those actors are working class actors who are literally working paycheck to paycheck.”
@chinchilla1970
Hannah your designs and vision literally brought my grandmother to tears. Seeing Chadwick standing in that waterfall is an image that will live on for generations he felt the power of your work. Im glsd you two were put together for this creation.
@Srirachachau
Okay but Reagan would have not supported her lol this is all Republicans hoping that they ca. rebuild the party one degree left of Trump and keep going.
People are talking about how great the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films are, & rightfully so. But beyond the spectacle, Raimi understands character. Casting Oscar winner Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben was genius. The kind of slowing down these movies need, so much said in under 2 pages.
During the WGA/SAG strikes I fell 3 months behind on rent. My landlord called me & I got halfway through explaining my situation & he said “Oh you’re on strike? Focus on that, the money will come.” Today I finally got out of rent debt. Shoutout to my pro union landlord & Apt mngr
Sent producer my reel, budget proposal, and my short “Bloody, Bloody Coda.” Now she’s sending me a contract to direct a low budget feature for early 2025.
@NeilBahadur
It must be said: Twisters was not meant to have a budget this high. Complications from strike increased its budget. It probably would’ve been about $100M without the complications
I’ve been in traffic for almost 3 hours. But I was listening to music with my window down and a man pulled up to me and was like:
“Dude is that The Mummy soundtrack?!”
“Yes it is!”
“Hell yeah!”
“You know ball!”
We fist bumped and he drove ahead. LA, can’t give this city up.
@FossilLocator
Look I golf, I like golf but the sport radically needs to change if it wants to still exist in 100 years and one of the first things they have to do is shut down egregious courses like this.
Got some really good news for my career as a screenwriter and director this weekend. Ink isn’t quite dry yet but I have to say it feels so good. Something I’ve been working on and preparing for years.
@zblay
"My dear that sweater has me positively enraptured. A woman who knows her way with such knits I presume also is familiar with dance? If you'd be so kind to demonstrate with me, I make it an embarrassing habit to seek out the most beautiful and stylish at any function."
Nearly 30 years later and Daylight (1996) still has one of the best massive explosions put on film. So many different disciplines of special effects at work here!
@persabth
The best change from the books to the movie was having her and Haymitch have a thing for one another. Because who else was homeboy going to be with? He wasn’t doing better.
As I create more and more speculative budgets for filmmakers I thought it would be cool to make an easy to view list of all 50 states & their film appeal. Info as of May 27th, 2024. 🧵
ALABAMA
Fully Refundable Tax Credit
25-35%
Notable 📽️: Big Fish, Oculus, USS Indianapolis
Genuinely the movie Free Guy has one of the best responses to the cynicism that can come with the holographic principle theory or just a nihilistic outlook on life. Lil Rel Howery is fantastic, an underrated dramatic actor, who manages to bring a real gravitas to a popcorn flick.
@Srirachachau
Oh definitely Kamala is flirting with conservatism. Sure she has some legit conservative viewpoints, she was a prosecutor after all. And her military will continue the American “empire.” But I think it’s more lip service ultimately. She won’t be more conservative than congress.
@KevCoke6
Heartbreak in your 30s just has double whammy of feeding into fear you missed the train. Last heartbreak I experienced broke me so much I just quietly accepted it may not happen for me and just had to like eat that.
Just booked a directing gig for a dark comedy pilot (with some horror imagery) shooting later this month. First rehearsal is tomorrow. Let’s get 2024 started!
In 2023:
- Directed a horror feature film
- Directed a dark rom-com short
- Won 3 awards for my horror short
- Did preliminary budgets for over 9 features
- Finished feature script & pilot
In 2024:
- Direct a pilot
- Sell script
- Direct/Write Feature
- Financial Stability
@MediumSizeMeech
I’ve been following Doug since 2019 I can’t tell you how funny his feed is. Like no matter what is going on he’s out there doing the most random side quests. International crisis? Doug was at Ethiopian restaurant, Congress in disarray? Doug was at dry cleaners. Amazing account.
@LaNoireDe
@TheNYCFilmChick
Also you can have a black man with a white woman who's attraction isnt just based on sex. Or even as Endgame couple instead of a "subtle" way to show your female protag is progressive. Or a white man with an Asian/Latina woman where her heritage isnt erased or played for laughs.
@twig_lalaland
@GianmarcoSoresi
People forget Sydney has been a working actress since she was a kid, she produced Anyone But You a movie that made over 12x it budget back. Of course she’s rich now
@scorpio8675309
@OwenBenjamin
@mike_hunt716912
Shhhh he thinks because he can tweet tech wasn’t invented until the 80s nevermind that telescopes in the 1800s could see planets there’s no way that a lens could see far away. He thinks because his cell phone can’t do it nothing else can lol
No matter how many times I see it this opening scene from Gravity gets me locked in. Steven Price’s score is so perfectly executed and I get a lump in my throat every time Sandra Bullock has to detach from the shuttle arm. Beautiful kinetic filmmaking!
@SteveMarshallll
@Variety
Stuff like that makes me really excited for what she’s going to do. I remember hearing her speak at Euphoria FYC and it was clear to me then she had much bigger designs than even what she already has. Something about her sensibility and temperament makes sense for it.
Got an email from a film producer today who signed on to work with a client I did a spec budget for. He wanted to thank me for making something so clear to work off of. This was a budget breakdown I made months ago; that seems to now be moving forward. Honestly made my day!
Had a development meeting about a feature I’m slated to direct. I felt my body do this the moment the screenwriter showed me that her script doesn’t pass the reverse Bechdel test. Meaning no two men ever have a conversation in this movie talking about anything other than women.
Dimitri Abold gave a phenomenal performance in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and hope he does not fly under the radar for long. Dude was so freaking good, the epitome of no small parts.
As a current non WGA member I’m just going to be like Effie Trinket in the District 13 bunker. I’m gonna shut up, stand in solidarity, not be a scab and try to look fly while doing so. Good luck to my WGA folks!
@stunninggun
We simply do not have the climate the support it for personal use. I get it for parks and the sort but we have got to adopt Vegas’ water policies. Like even their parks and golf courses use less water due to their recycling than the average SoCal yard. The metrics are crazy!