#GoldenGlobes
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#Minari
will not be competing in the best picture categories, instead it will be considered in foreign language film because it is primarily in Korean
every writer should do their research, not only because it makes your writing better, but because it can lead to finding things like this New Yorker cover ft. chubby Pikachu with a huge sack of cash
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the writers and actors going on strike in Hollywood are not being “realistic” with their expectations: "It's very disturbing to me."
On its 25th anniversary,
@IllusiveKen
returns to Meet Joe Black, the ridiculous, lengthy movie (that cost $20M more than Saving Private Ryan) where Death takes over Brad Pitt's body for shenanigans:
Gonzo from Muppet Christmas Carol you have to stop. you narrate too tough. your Wonka hat too different. your chicken wife is too bad. they'll kill you
I’m glad the A-list Jeremy Strong defenders have decided to finally kill the actor profile as a form, so that the only insight we’ll have into artists’ craft will come from their episode of Hot Ones
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
there’s just not really a modern equivalent to TCM. Streaming can’t replicate flipping through channels, being struck by a handpicked classic, feeling curiosity consume you, and having that curiosity fed by informed curators
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic over a cable tv network, if TCM goes, a huge chunk of our shared cultural heritage might as well be chucked into the abyss.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos mentions a handful of inclusive projects in his memo about Chappelle.
A Netflix employee: "You can’t do a carbon offset for bigotry"
If you're getting increasingly fed up with seeing uncannily animated nightmare fish on your timeline, I went long on the tech-bro mindset that's encouraging this terrible era:
IP obsession has killed the mid-budget movie, it’s killed the movie star, and it’s coming for the rest of the industry.
@JacobOller
writes about the venture capital philosophy poisoning Hollywood:
There was only ever one animated edition of ABC Movie of the Week, but boy, did it make it count.
@chlopinions
looks back on Fred Wolf and Harry Nilsson's The Point:
Spike Spiegel is basically just Yusaku Matsuda in space and if you don't think John Cho has already been out here serving these looks, then idk what to tell you