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NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU on Hulu! SKULL ISLAND on Netflix! COCAINE BEAR on 4K! I am napping!

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@BrianDuffield
Brian Duffield
2 years
"I have a message for Germany."
@Variety
Variety
2 years
Anya Taylor-Joy couldn't be at #TheMenu screening for its #TIFF22 premiere, but she beamed into the Q&A anyway.
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What are we even talking about, why was there a bullet in the gun
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
3 months
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed testified that during Alec Baldwin's firearms training session on 'Rust,' he spent time texting, FaceTiming, and having his assistant shoot video of him with the gun for Instagram
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When people wonder why movies look worse in general now, it’s because our time has been cut down *so* dramatically.
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Cinephilia & Beyond
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It took Owen Roizman and his crew two days and nights to light this iconic shot from THE EXORCIST #OwenRoizmanRIP
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For those keeping track at home, this was less than 5 years after the end of THE FABELMANS.
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The funniest thing the new SCARY MOVIE could do is cast Melissa Barrera and just carry on the SCREAM series that way.
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10 months
Do you think Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge ever talked about the fact that she’s the Millennium Falcon
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If the viral marketing for SMILE and M3GAN has taught us anything, it’s that we need to send a sleuth of bears hopped up on cocaine to the NFL playoffs.
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The oldest I have ever felt is twitter discovering Jennifer Connelly.
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THIS IS INSANE BEHAVIOR WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO HIM
@Variety
Variety
11 months
Four years ago, Taron Egerton revealed on “Watch What Happens Live” that his celebrity crush was Rachel Weisz. So surprised them with the clip during their #ActorsOnActors conversation.
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He should also make Macbeth.
@TheAVClub
The A.V. Club
2 years
Ethan Coen is now making his own solo movie, apparently
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3 years
How it started / how it's going
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Margot Robbie now appears in two best pictures nominees with Ryan Gosling where someone in voice over refers to her as Margot Robbie.
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DUNE 2 pushing out of last year’s Oscar race gifted OPPENHEIMER like 4 or 5 Oscars jfc
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The Razzies fully avoiding Sound of Freedom is extremely funny.
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(It was not made with an intention of making a profit in theaters)
@Variety
Variety
1 year
#AirMovie has earned $41.2 million at the domestic box office. Those are decent ticket sales for a comedic drama aimed at older audiences, but “Air” cost Amazon $130 million to make and market, so it’ll struggle to turn a profit in theaters.
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The official Twitter Day rankings are as follows: 1. Trump Gets COVID 2. The CATS Trailer Drops 3. Biden Wins / Four Seasons
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I think people still don’t quite grasp that Cameron was supposed to fail with Titanic, then delivered the biggest movie of all time, then disappeared for a decade, then was supposed to fail with Avatar, and then delivered the biggest movie of all time AGAIN.
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We need people who love movies and the Oscars to be in charge of movies and the Oscars.
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“I am amazingly grateful for this moment,” says Danny Glover, accepting an honorary Oscar for his political activism from Alfre Woodard
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To me, cinema is Shea Whigham looking annoyed and Tom Cruise running like Tom Cruise behind him on the roof.
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The fun thing about WEST SIDE STORY is that Spielberg proves why he deserves Best Director with the first shot and then does it like 2,000 more times.
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It's really wild how AI was not the dominant issue going into these negotiations and then once the guilds sat down with the studios instantly became the biggest issue of our lives.
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11 months
When the WGA finally gets invited back to the table, they should add penalties about tax write offs for shows and tv. The other residual fights won’t matter if this shit happens once the studios know something isn’t a blockbuster.
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I'm not kidding, have Costner host. There was so much punching down at movies tonight. It felt so tacky. The show should be about why we love movies.
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I’m sorry but Doug Liman’s story about Cruise being annoyed at how bad he was at doing the dishes is all time for me.
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Again, when the WGA goes back to the table, just getting better streaming residuals is meaningless when a streamer will just delete a movie instead of paying.
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
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‘CRATER’, starring Mckenna Grace and Kid Cudi, has been removed from Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons. The film just released on Disney+ on May 12.
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Hey look at this shit I made that I spent zero time doing and holds absolutely no meaning wow everyone is a creator now
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The trailer to this movie is how my children found out kids can die, which was a phenomenal way to start PAW PATROL 2.
@Variety
Variety
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After two weeks on the big screen, Hilary Swank’s inspirational drama “Ordinary Angels” has collected $12 million.
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I still say the Oscars would get a huge ratings boost if trailers premiered during the commercials. Like it felt insane that BEETLEJUICE 2 didn't debut after Keaton and O'Hara presented!
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A MAN CALLED OTTO quietly waltzing past $40m should be getting talked about a lot more.
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Remember when the Oscar hosts called Power of the Dog boring?
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3 years
Studios every two years about The Terminator
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(I still don’t really get why The Last Jedi is that controversial.)
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Can't believe Spike Jonze hasn't made a movie in 9 years.
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King Affleck
@vulture
Vulture
1 year
Though, on the last day, Ben Affleck told Convery: "We’re not going to arbitrate, we’re going to give you sole credit" #AIRMovie
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NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU starring Kaitlyn Dever on Hulu Sep 22nd! Updated trailer! Now with logos and a match cut! 17 days to go! Aliens! Dever! Hope you dig it! Log it on Letterboxd! Just let it play repeatedly on Hulu! I don't get any residuals from that but lets pretend I do!
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Isn’t that how very episode has been treated?
@IndieWire
IndieWire
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"Black Mirror" Season 6 is in the works at Netflix, with each episode reportedly being treated as a standalone movie. It's been three years since Season 5 premiered on the streaming platform. (Via @Variety )
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HOLY SHIT
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It's so clearly the best marketing campaign we've seen in years.
@neonrated
NEON
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Sweet: Part Two LONGLEGS 7.12
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I feel like DUNE should have a little kickstarter bar that shows the progress in real time to hitting the specific number that greenlights part 2.
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They just don’t let anyone see the stories they tell because they’re so pure
@DiscussingFilm
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Warner Bros say they are the “only pure storytelling” company in the movie industry.
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Showing the child Ron Howard’s Grinch movie and this shit is so insane I’m sure if the A24 logo was in front of it you’d never stop praising it.
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I mean if we're being honest, HBOMax treated all their directors as if they were just screenwriters.
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I had absolutely NO idea the new Linklater movie was on Netflix right now.
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3 Body Problem 😔
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Honestly, filmmakers being more publicly upset about HBOMax going day-and-date during a pandemic than movies and shows being completely thrown out is an embarrassing moment for the industry.
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One if the funnier Oscar fuck ups is when Warners had no idea CREED was God-tier until it opened.
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@cogman_bryan Everyone is losing their minds
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Keaton: Yes Kilmer: No Clooney: Yes Bale: No Affleck: Yes
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Absolutely fucking insane
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This year really shows that people have absolutely no idea how to engage with movies or tv.
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@JoshRaby If anything Baldwin is highlighting the destruction the accident has caused to those who loved her.
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Cannot believe anyone is upset about this quote. Ridley Scott, two hundred years old, could slap my mouth and call me his little bitch and I'd be like, yeah makes sense.
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
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Ridley Scott Pins ‘The Last Duel’ Bombing on Apathetic Millennials
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Movie theaters are great, but no great movie was ever less great because you saw it at home.
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The MAGNOLIA tribute in GLASS ONION, also A+++.
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A few years ago I had a general at one of the studios and the exec literally just had the studio's imdb open and scrolled through decades and was like "wanna remake this one? wanna remake that one?" and they had clearly never seen or knew what any of them were about.
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DADDY’S HOME
@Variety
Variety
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Steven Spielberg will likely make his next project a UFO film based on his own original idea. David Koepp is writing the screenplay, sources say.
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The New Yorker calling The French Dispatch the best movie of the year is incredible.
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Thanks to the WGA jury for the WGA nom for writing NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU. I love writing, I loved writing this movie, I love the WGA, and I love being nominated for shiny things.
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Brian Duffield
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How is this not an I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE sketch.
@JennyENicholson
Jenny Nicholson
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This has got to be the most embarrassing way to be found guilty of murder
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I’m not a Snyder hater and there’s going to be 900 Batman movies and shows during our lifetime so who cares but it’s also really funny how much he doesn’t get it
@OneTakeNews
One Take 🎬
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Zack Snyder says that DC enforcing Batman's no-kill rule makes the character irrelevant. "You're protecting your god in a weird way, right? You're making your god irrelevant if he can't be in that situation. He has to now deal with that. If he does do that what does that mean?…
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Brian Duffield
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Filmmakers need to refuse to shoot anywhere abortion is banned. You either care about keeping your crews safe, or you don’t.
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The Olympics are trash and should be ignored, pass it on.
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Damn, maybe that blank notepad bit was a bad idea.
@AmerJournalNews
American Journal News
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Under questioning by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Amy Coney Barrett is unable to name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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GONE GIRL, no joke, would be an incredible musical. Get Reznor that EGOT.
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Another thing we have to address: the “let’s start marketing something 2-3 weeks before release” has been a disaster and hurts both streamers and individual films/tv shows.
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
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‘CRATER’, starring Mckenna Grace and Kid Cudi, has been removed from Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons. The film just released on Disney+ on May 12.
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They tried to tell us BATGIRL wasn’t good enough to be released. This shit looks so stylish and fun!
@SonyPictures
Sony Pictures
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On the run: Bad Boys-style. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back in #BadBoys : Ride or Die - exclusively in movie theaters June 7.
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I think a lot of people remember movies because of great lines haha
@Variety
Variety
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Denis Villeneuve says "movies have been corrupted by television.” “Frankly, I hate dialogue. Dialogue is for theatre and television. I don’t remember movies because of a good line, I remember movies because of a strong image. I’m not interested in dialogue at all. Pure image and…
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There's a lot of insanity from Whedon in that article, but just to carve out something I haven't seen mentioned too much here - a good director would never call an actor they've worked with bad.
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I've given it a lot of thought and have come to the conclusion that the Oscars are CANCELED unless they nominate Ke Huy Quan. This is NOT a drill.
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LET ME BE FRANK by Aaron Sorkin (31 votes) - Follows the week leading up to production of Kevin Spacey’s fourth annual Christmas Eve video, while flashing back on the events that brought him to this point.
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It's very upsetting that Marilyn Manson is who our parents thought he was.
@TheAVClub
The A.V. Club
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Marilyn Manson to surrender to authorities on New Hampshire assault warrant
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James Gunn release Batgirl challenge
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Taylor Swift re-recording everything just to fuck Scooter Braun remains absolutely unparalleled god level fuckery.
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Brian Duffield
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@cogman_bryan My favorite critiques of THE FABELMANS are when they act like Spielberg is portraying himself as some sort of boy genius and I don't agree with that reading but also... he was.
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WONDER BOYS cost $55m. We used to have it all and we blew it.
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@DEADLINE
Deadline Hollywood
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20th Wins Bidding War For Imagine's Survival Thriller 'Whalefall'; Brian Duffield To Co-Write & Direct
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Brian Duffield
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I can’t wait for FEAR STREET but it is undeniably funny that Netflix is like “what if there were EPISODES and we gave you ONE A WEEK?!?!”
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It still remains funny that we act like POTD is some unknowable mystery when characters state exposition every five seconds.
@Variety
Variety
2 years
#ThePowerOfTheDog director Jane Campion reflects on losing the best picture Oscar to #CODA : "It was an easier film to understand and, you know, that’s the way it went and I’m happy for them."
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Ben Affleck in THE LAST DUEL is an unquestionably good performance. Fuck the Razzies.
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
2 years
Razzie Nominations: WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ben Affleck, "The Last Duel" Nick Cannon, "The Misfits" Mel Gibson, "Dangerous" Gareth Keegan, "Diana the Musical" Jared Leto, "House of Gucci"
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It still can’t be said enough how insane it is that WATCHMEN worked.
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That bit was so awkward and bad and then Glenn Close made it great, which is a perfect encapsulation for her entire career.
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Still don't get why the Oscars don't do a nice primetime special announcing the nominees.
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It feels like the "you need to rapid test but there are no rapid tests and the rapid tests don't really work and you need to wear N95 masks but there are none of those but wear normal masks but they may not work anymore" vibe isn't too sustainable.
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Truly an absolutely iconic piece of acting.
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Thanks to everyone who has already reached out about watching SPONTANEOUS on Amazon and Hulu today. In case you missed it, here's a folder I uploaded today with the first and last draft of the script, boards, letters, statements and look books. Enjoy!
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It’s not a question of will they make DUNE MESSIAH, but a question of which studio will release DUNE MESSIAH.
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Brian Duffield
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On JANE GOT A GUN a crew member sat me down and told me my rewrite pages for the new director were beneath my usual standards. I looked at the pages and saw pages I did not write. This was how I found out I was fired.
@Dave_Horwitz
dave horwitz🪣
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what’s the worst professional rejection you’ve ever gotten? I was dropped as a client by my first manager who ended the call with “I remain a fan.” Turns out that is not fan behavior!
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Do you think DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE will be meta enough to credit MI2 for its existence
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Brian Duffield
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What Beto did was cool as hell and should in fact be what we all do to these dumb fuckaroos every day of their lives
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Shyamalan is the ultimate example that if you put another filmmaker’s name on his movies most of film twitter would act like it was a masterpiece and if you put his name on another movie they all acted like they loved they’d call it a piece of shit.
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Brian Duffield
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@gregmottola People blame it on the cameras but it's because movies are shooting for *checks math* 60 days less on average.
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One of my big takeaways from MAVERICK was how good it was to see actors in their 50s flirt and be sexy together and how that should happen in big budget movies all the time
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Brian Duffield
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Judging by this image we get to see the origin story of how Spielberg became Batman.
@camwallen
Cam
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First official image of The Fabelmans in the Tiff Programme Book! #Tiff22 @thefilmdrunk @expert_oscar @NextBestPicture
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Brian Duffield
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Also regardless of what you thought of the movie, absolutely no A-lister, let alone a legacy star, agrees to do that movie and that portrayal of his character but Keanu Reeves.
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Brian Duffield
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I am fascinated how the screenplay for LUCKY was so bad that it led the film's producer to think the rapist was innocent and then actually prove it.
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There’s only one acceptable answer to this in television.
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It’s just so nice to see an expensive movie that feels expensive
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Gonna teach a whole class on how blockbuster filmmaking changed from Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 to No Way Home.
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