It’s taking longer and more out of me to make these videos each year, but I don’t think I’ll ever stop. It’s my annual love letter to the movies. Here is A Year in Film 2023. In 4K.
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Ben Affleck really endured years of memes and spilled Dunkin’ Donuts to come out the other side passed out on a boat married to Jennifer Lopez. Incredible.
Hollywood silencing voices calling out genocide when three of its biggest award season films this year are Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Zone of Interest is fucking insane to me.
I fucking love this stupid little video because they gave the AI a prompt and it followed absolutely none of it. Alien not blending in, doesn’t look like New York City, doesn’t look like a paranoia thriller, doesn’t look like 35mm film. Incredible stuff.
thinking about this dumbass alien from "signs" (m. night shyamalan, 2002) who was allergic to water & got beaten to death with a bat by joaquin phoenix
Netflix will stop green-lighting “expensive vanity projects” such as ‘The Irishman’.
“This tendency to do anything to attract talent and giving them carte blanche is going away,” says one source.
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This is Nia DaCosta. She is the director of Candyman. Jordan Peele is not the director of Candyman. He is a writer and producer for Candyman. Thanks for your time.
“Serial killer Josh Hartnett takes his daughter to a concert but it’s a sting operation to catch him” is such a sick premise. No one’s doing it like Shyamalan.
J****y D**p propaganda is unreal. Every YouTube video being recommended to me is pro-D**p (I've never clicked on anything related to the trial) and all my real-life friends are defending him with maniacal glee. This is the most insane, most successful psyop I've ever seen.
Controversies aside, I’m convinced that the Fantastic Beasts franchise would have made billions of dollars if it was actually about capturing goofy magic animals instead of Grundlefly’s misdemeanors or whatever the hell it is now.
Having to choose between starring in either one of the best movies of the last decade or another one of the best movies of the last decade is crazy. Dream career trajectory.
Jesse Plemons dropped out of Jordan Peele’s ‘NOPE’ due to scheduling issues with Martin Scorsese’s ‘KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.’
Steven Yeun replaced Plemons in the role shortly after.
They tried to set Brie Larson up twice and she didn’t take the bait either time. Nice to see these are the caliber of journalists that get access to Cannes.
Watching Oppenheimer literally vibrate as he hallucinates putting his foot through a charred corpse: “I don’t know what this movie is trying to say about the bomb.”
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever.
Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer.
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Anthony Mackie on filming with Harrison Ford for ‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD’:
“He’s everything a movie star should be. He would say, ‘Let’s shoot this piece of shit.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah, let’s shoot this shit.’”
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Belongs in a museum. Not just for how good it is (and it is), but for its “cast has gone missing” marketing that can never be replicated again. Wild stuff in 1999.
This movie paid for its entire crew’s salary during a seven month COVID shutdown without shooting a single scene. That fact should be inextricable from any reporting of its box office, but everyone just keeps ignoring it.
‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING - PART ONE’ will sadly end its theatrical run earning less than $580M globally.
The movie carries a $291M budget. Is the 15th most expensive movie ever made.
“Who will be our next oppressors” cutting to Paul, Bene Gesserit plot completely spelled out, Paul’s ascension scored like a horror movie, the most unsubtle cuts to Chani’s disappointment, and it’s still sailing over heads. Dune Messiah is going to be rough for some of you.
"We shot an ending where you actually saw John Wick at the end of the movie. So it was very clear that he was still alive. The audiences we tested with absolutely preferred the ambiguous ending."
It’s wild that this kind of interview is so common now. These actors are supposed to be promoting their new superhero movie but instead they’re saying shit like: “The entire industry is a hellscape, everything is fucked, my soul is in shambles.”
Dakota Johnson says "it’s really f*cking bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening."
“The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode. It’s really heartbreaking. It’s…
Godzilla Minus One cost around 1/15th the production budget of The Marvels and is one of the best-looking disaster movies I’ve ever seen. We are absolutely rinsed when it comes to making these kinds of movies.
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
Henry Cavill says he’s “not a fan” of sex scenes:
“I don’t understand them. I’m not a fan. There are circumstances where a sex scene actually is beneficial to a movie, rather than just the audience, but I think sometimes they’re overused these days.”
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Bradley Cooper says he is comfortable walking around naked at home because his dad was “always nude”:
“My dad was always nude, and always took showers with him.”
I’ve never seen a trailer for a movie this obviously nuclear-level bad in my life. Completely radioactive. This is the type of dreck that ruins careers, and I can’t believe no one said “no” at any time during the entire production.
Film Twitter going on for a year about how Tom Cruise is the last movie star today only for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 to flop will always be the funniest thing to me
Over $1 billion for Lord of the Rings, over $300 million for Citadel, over $200 million for Secret Invasion. Hundreds of millions of dollars for shows no one will remember five years from now. The entire streaming apparatus is beyond cooked. The collapse is coming.
Incessantly asking directors like Scorsese and Tarantino for their opinions on superhero movies and stomping your little feet when the answer is basically: “They’re fine, just not for me.” It’s not enough that these movies have a stranglehold on our culture? You’ve already won!
People saying “worst Oscars ever” when just two years ago they built the whole ceremony around a posthumous Chadwick Boseman win only for Anthony Hopkins to take it, and he wasn’t even there. And then they just ended the show.
“He’s the only one that’s verbally come out to me and said ‘you’re a very strong actor, follow your instincts,’ and I’ve never had anyone say that to me, and he did. I get that type of encouragement from him.” - Dave Bautista, on Denis Villeneuve
Calling it “The Multiverse Saga” is so funny because so far we’ve seen exactly one alternate universe in the movies and its main difference is that red means go and green means stop.
Second time this month a white critic has called an Asian-led film “exhausting.” Not an issue by itself, but it goes hand-in-hand with ignorantly glossing over specificities that make these movies resonate. That “Chinglish?” Not a flourish. That’s how my family spoke growing up.
First trailer for Sony’s
#MadameWeb
has been released.
Starring Sydney Sweeney, Dakota Johnson, Adam Scott, Celeste O'Connor, Emma Roberts and Isabela Merced.
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Creed III came out this month and has already made three times its budget. These rushes to streaming are the most obvious unforced errors in the business yet they keep doing it.
Vin Diesel, The Rock, and Jason Statham all having clauses in their contracts not allowing them to lose fights is the stuff of losers. All the best action stars get their shit rocked on screen.
Overlooked part of Top Gun: Maverick is that they let Tom Cruise be short. No apple boxes, no lifts, no tricks. There are shots where he’s dwarfed by Miles Teller and Glen Powell and they don’t hide it. Short guys can be lunatic pilots, too.