Steven Spielberg calls for a return to 120 day theatrical-only first run release windows at Universal’s Cinema Con presentation.

OMG @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Did you know you can go to the USC Cinematic Arts Library and thumb through the 1st AD's production reports for this film? Each one has a full call sheet, and on the back they've typed out minute-by-minute summaries of the shoot day.

Has anyone ever encountered a non-supportive ChatGPT response? Something like “yeah no this isn’t good”! Feels like a participation trophy but voiced like that teacher you always wanted approval from. Which is exactly what the tech-bros were lacking I guess.

Science is good. We should fund it.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched How did THERE'S STILL TOMORROW not break through over here? Wonderful surprise of a film.

I can't get enough of these photos from Artemis II. That's home. That's us. Taken earlier today by one of the crew. Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

Make The Troubles Great Again

Was recently telling a coworker about a project I worked on in 2007. They said they were in 7th grade then. I could only reply: “Yeah well I saw RETURN OF THE JEDI in the theater so….”

Looks cool but also reminds me very much of Danielewski's HOUSE OF LEAVES.

TIL in an interview with Ryan Gosling that Dr. Ryland Grace's wardrobe in "Project Hail Mary" was inspired by Val Kilmer's brilliant character Chris Knight in "Real Genius" and that makes me oh so happy.

The last five government shutdowns all happened with Trump in the White House and Republican control of both houses.

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Who's excited?

If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

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OMG I forgot about this but yes it was a whole nationwide thing.

Yep, entered this life stage a few years ago. Have a dedicated cheap pair I keep by the controller.

why would i watch anything a robot generated when i can watch tarsem singh's The Fall

Gee, I wonder what kind of thing might sway King TinyHands' favor? Cash? Gold? Crypto? Renaming DFW? Renaming the Cowboys' stadium? The actual Dallas Cowboys?

Ummmm, is that an AI-generated Claire Danes?

Hail to the king, baby.

Remember when they claimed the radical left wanted to get rid of your steaks and burgers?

Reagan cut the top tax bracket's rate from 70% to 28% in the 1980s. In 2010, SCOTUS decided in Citizens United v. FEC that rich people and corps could give unlimited money to politicians via SuperPACs. In 2024, 7 billionaires gave over $1B to the GOP... and $1500 to Dems.

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This is the only Coen Bros film I haven't seen. Seen the rest of their films many times over. I don't know how to explain it, other than as long as it stays unwatched there's a "new" Coen Bros film out there that I still need to watch.

Masterful Troll, TCM.

It's the scene in 2001 when HAL pleads "What are you doing, Dave? Stop, Dave." while Dave slowly kills him, but we've made it so it's HAL that is slowly killing us.

This Noah Wyle moment from #ThePitt feels like it should be added into the reaction gif lexicon.

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An "ooops AI deleted my wife's photos" but on a classified defense server sounds fun

A producer once told me about a studio executive that never read the scripts, just read coverage and met with the writers to make decisions. She was horrified, like "most of the writers I meet are awkward as hell in real life but their scripts are brilliant!"

Trying to think of some random ones. *batteries not included ('87) SUPERGIRL ('84) MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME ('85) BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND ('85) FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR ('86) many times! WRATH OF KAHN ('82) THREE FUGITIVES ('89) not so much a flex as very random STRICTLY BALLROOM ('93)

Put a bag over your head, you absolute idiot, and tell me how great CO2 is. It's not the CO2 itself, it's the AMOUNT OF IT. The dose makes the poison, too much of anything can kill you. We need water to live, but drink too much at once and you die. We need oxygen to live, too much and you die.

I taped this off the TV and wore out that VHS. Can still hear the music, the voices, the ZOO theme music.

Are there such games today?

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This movie is nuts and I kinda love it.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

10 years ago today he came in 2nd in the Iowa Caucuses, blamed it on 'fraud', and demanded a nullification or a new election. Back then it was transparently pathetic to everyone.

All day long.

"What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?" - anonymous senior Republican official, Nov 2020

A reminder that she was in her early 20s when she completely upturned the world of sketch comedy, creating literally dozens of characters and inhabiting dozens more celebrities with her look and voice.

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