More media consolidation is terrible for our industry. Warner Brothers is an iconic company, and I hate to see it folded into another behemoth conglomerate. It means less opportunity for every union, every filmmaker, every actor, every screenwriter, and every crew member.

Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love

I know there’s so much going on, but I can’t believe everyone is ignoring the biggest story of the day. WVU absolutely owned Pitt.

The thousand yard stare of someone who works at The Grove during the holidays.

Shoutout to the ADs and PAs of Plur1bus. It’s not easy to get background actors in sync like that.

Mood. Technicolor Christmas trees and black & white movies.

I loved loved loved Roofman and I’m so glad it got made. Everyone involved crushed it. Buuuuut it feels like a bleak sign for the industry that it took 7 production companies to get a modestly budgeted movie with huge stars across the finish line, right?

I thought working from home as a writer with no real set schedule messed up your concept of time, but it's nothing compared to retail. What do you mean I just worked two 8-hour shifts and it's Monday?

The world is bleak, my country is breaking in half, my industry is falling apart, I'm working 4 jobs to survive, but hey basketball is back!

We all know True Grit is not the Coen Brothers’ best movie, but what this post presupposes, is maybe it is.

We are failing our kids and ourselves.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

A couple years ago, I was on The Black List with a script that’s in development with an amazing producer. After that, I signed on to write & produce two projects with fantastic, talented teams. This year, I pitched a movie with cool IP, a director of a hit film, and a great actor attached to star.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

“I hear the Democrats should be blamed, I hear the Republicans should be blamed. I actually think the president should be blamed if there is a shutdown. I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States.” - Donald Trump, 2013

Whenever there's an election or proposition, the side running the most ads is inevitably the absolutely wrong side. California, vote #YesOn50

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Not to brag, but I protested at the Disney lot today, so you're welcome.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I promise to continue never having gone to Disney Land.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Boarding a train with a bouquet of flowers because my life is a 1950s movie I guess.

"It's going to be a hard year to be a WVU fan," he said for the 10th year in a row.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed

WGA Friends! It's election season, and with negotiations coming up again next year (yaaay), it's an important one. Don't forget to vote! I've endorsed some candidates I believe in, which you can see on the official site. If you want to chat about your vote, feel free to reach out! #scriptsky #wga

Paul F Tompkins’s Werner Herzog Trader Joe’s Yelp review isn’t crushing with my family in rural Tennessee like I thought it would.

Visiting my family, and my nephews said I was like a little kid in a 25 year old body. 25?? Hell yeah.

What do you call mass hysteria but that is the opposite of panicking? Mass wishteria?

Long Story Short is funny, emotional, and deeply human, three things Raphael Bob-Waksberg seems to be very, very good at.

🤫 #scriptsky

Ugh. I put the movie show time in my calendar wrong and got to AMC 20 minutes late. So I only got to see 25 minutes of trailers and ads. :(

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

The new season of King of the Hill is pretty excellent. Yep.

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

It was weird being the only person wearing a mask at Eddington. Did they think I was cosplaying?

"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] — and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫡

Has anyone noticed James Gunn has Alan Alda voice? (Complimentary)

We absolutely should not become numb to this

The president’s giving immunity to a convicted perjurer, sexual abuser and trafficker of children for his own political purposes. But sure, centrist Dems, things’ll bounce right back to normal once we have Congress!

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

During the strikes, I mostly marched outside Paramount. I'm feeling better and better about that choice.

It’s hard being in a long distance relationship (Hollywood to Beverly Hills).