Breh. What just happened?
A fashion blogger presumably being interviewed about such, is suddenly asked about nuclear Iran, gives a thoughtful critique, is told she doesn't sound like an American, gives thoughtful response, and then we're back to fashion.
Focus on Joaquin.
Pull focus to window.
Gaga draws perfect smile.
Pull focus back to Joaquin.
Joaquin moves head.
Joaquin smiles perfectly.
You are in the hands of fucking professionals.
You’re 14.
Your first film is a Jordan Peele film that makes $250 million, and your secondary role steals each scene without talking.
Your follow up is a Disney film, which will make $500 million, and your primary role is Little Beyoncé.
You’re Shahadi Wright Joseph.
Imagine if she had convinced herself that she wasn’t the demographic TikTok was for, and didn’t teach herself how to use it.
Universe really said, like so, like that.
ME, when I see a small child stumbling around and I don’t immediately see their parents near them, so I become that child’s watchful guardian with my eyes, until their parents re-appear.
Tik Tok copied Vine, one of Twitter’s biggest failures.
Instagram copied Tik Tok, by making Reels.
Twitter copied Instagram, by introducing Stories, which Instagram stole from Snapchat.
Something I really like about Beyoncé.
She often doesn’t explain anything. It’s very much in the key of
“Y’all know who the fuck I am and y’all know what the fuck this is.”
"Brittany describes Danielle as her little sister, recalling a time when Danielle almost tried to test her. The result was Brittany grabbing her by the hair and reminding her she was really from the hood. From that day forward, Danielle had learned her lesson."
Black Excellence.
My usual barber took the day off. So, went to a random barber tonight.
He threw in a beard wash, a beard massage and face massage.
I see what y’all women be talking about when you realize you’re in a toxic relationship and see better for yourself.
Luca Guadagnino’s recent four films:
1. A coven of witches die in a death orgy.
2. A love story of cannibals on a road trip.
3. A female-centric love triangle between tennis players; and
4. A queer, 1940s historical drama set in Mexico City.
Man is different, lmao.
I’m watching Euphoria and there’s a really smooth practical effect for a fake reflection.
Camera starts on Cassie, slowly pans to incorporate the back of Lexi’s stunt double, then shoots through an empty frame at Lexi and Fake Cassie
Then, pushes to Lexi.
This really is a small talk master class:
1. Introduction.
2. Make an Observation-Question.
3. Ask a Follow-Up.
4. Share an Opinion on the Question.
5. Make an Observation.
6. State a Follow-Up.
7. Exit Gracefully.
His timing is perfect. You really could teach this.
Kept thinning about Barbieland and how perfectly Greta created a unique but familiar world.
Led me to her production designer, Sarah Greenwood, and her set designer, Katie Spencer.
Thought this was fascinating.
They figured out that Barbie is 23% bigger than her space.
The art film--Moonlight.
The thriller--Get Out.
The blockbuster--Black Panther.
Three distinct watershed and water cooler movies about race.
I wonder what media company is going to host a fireside chat with them so I can spend $100 on a ticket.
This thread is for people who are curious about some film basics.
This is a low, Dutch angle two-shot.
That probably doesn’t mean much.
But, here’s why this image feels like it does.
Randall Einhorn directed a bunch of episodes for The Office, a bunch of episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a good amount for Parks and Rec.
and is the main director for Abbott Elementary.
Quinta’s not fucking around.
Each month that goes by, I like really need the Harvard Business School case study on exactly how a small budget, coming-of-age film about a queer, black boy with no stars made $65 million, won Best Picture and set its distributor up for a multi-billion dollar valuation.
Hi, I’m me.
And when I found out film scholars announced today that they restored an **1898** microfilm they believe is the earliest cinematic depiction of African-American love
did you fucking think that I *wouldn’t* immediately score it using IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK?
My apartment building just sent an e-mail about rent.
“In order to provide as many practical solutions as possible, we have made the decision to suspend
the fee associated with credit card payments.”
I’m on Episode 3 of Swarm.
And again asking that some publication hosts a video roundtable with the young, black actresses of television.
They’re clearly having a moment and it would be nice to hear a conversation between them.
I saw a tweet where the animation on the left (from Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ Soul (2020)) was getting a ton of love.
One of the animators on Soul was Frank Abney, the director of an animated short film on Netflix.
It’s called Canvas and it’s incredible.
If you told Killers from the Osage perspective, the non-Osage audience would directly identify with them.
By keeping Burkhart as the protagonist, Scorsese prevents this.
Then, using the old Cowboys-vs-Indians structure, Scorsese indicts us to show who the actual savages are.
The thing I like about earthquakes is that it’s a rare moment where Mother Nature reminds us that she could air this whole bitch out at any given moment.
"A former sharecropper, Richard saw a tennis match on TV and was shocked at the size of the check handed to the winner. So, he taught himself to play. He then wrote a 78-page plan, scrounged a shopping cart full of balls and taught his two youngest daughters the game as well."
This ad made me laugh very hard.
A few days ago he gave a heads up that he had to do some ad work soon and he needed us to hold him down with the likes and retweets.
This feels like watching your best friend give a class presentation after telling you not to laugh.
I saw Get Out (2017) on opening night.
Three months later.
I took a 50% pay cut to leave corporate law for entertainment law so I could learn the business before trying to somehow become a creative executive on movies like it.
It took seven years.
But, it happened today.
I was on this date once and this girl asked me how I liked dating in the city.
I said it was pretty fun, actually. You get to go to nice dinners, meet a bunch of new strangers and have interesting and funny conversations.
She said.
That’s because you date women.
Was looking up old Serena clips.
and stumbled across this classic.
I really don’t think there’s a human being on Earth with this level of humor, singing and musical talent in their body other than Jamie.
"Such adorable designs you've developed for young brown women DO YOU PLEDGE LOYALTY TO STARS AND STRIPES YOU SECRET ISIS FUCK. Let our viewers know where they can find more of your work!"
I remember when Philip Seymour Hoffman died and it wasn’t just the loss of a kind and talented man, who had more to offer.
But, the loss of our access to an actor whose face and abilities carried our humanity in a way you can’t ever replace.
Oppenheimer cleared.
Dune 2 cleared.
Yorgos’ next film on the way.
Ari Aster’s next cast is stacked.
Gosling has another hit.
Monkey Man reviews went crazy.
Streets saying Civil War is a masterpiece.
Is that that 90s feeling I feel?
Yeah.
So, I bought 35 screenplays to some of the best black movies of the 90s.
A golden era for black cinema.
I’ve read most. But, I want to release them all for free because I believe this collection should be a birthright for black writers.
Here:
Day 20 of self-isolation.
I am simultaneously in bed, at work, and hanging out with friends.
Distance has become meaningless.
Time...has become meaningless.
*reads about how nipsey created multiple sources of income, and provided for his community*
*watches how beyonce rehearsed for 8 months so that her coachella performance would be perfect*
*recommits to working hard so i can achieve the goals i want out of life*
I don’t understand how I missed this?
In 2014, the co-director of The Blair Witch Project directed a feature film.
It’s a found footage horror movie about Big Foot and it’s called Exists (2014).
I just watched it and it is one of the best horror movies I have ever seen.
Man.
The Photograph is streaming, Lovebirds dropped on Netflix and the reviews are hitting, Insecure has brushed by all of its past criticism and seems to be headed towards its best critically-received season.
Yeah.
You gotta stop and acknowledge when someone is going crazy.
Steve Pamon, the man Beyonce hired to run her company, is an assassin.
April 4: Beyoncé announces Adidas deal.
April 17: Beyoncé releases Homecoming with Netflix, along with an album.
April 23: Lemonade available on all platforms.
One month. Zero hiccups. All execution.
Last night, at a holiday party, a gay man complimented me on my skin and asked what me what my routine was.
As a straight man, I never thought this day was possible.
Hold up.
Turned on Halle Berry’s Bruised (2021) and am seeing Danny Boyd Jr.
11 years old with six acting credits.
Four of which are Stranger Things, Watchmen, Underground Railroad and Halle’s directorial debut.
Little legend.
Man.
Last September, at Harper’s Bazaar party, Cardi B threw a shoe at Nicki Minaj. According to some, this would be the end of Cardi’s inclusion in fashion.
This March, she covers Harper’s Bazaar March issue and one photo winks at that fight with a Cinderella allusion.
LOL
I saw a tweet suggest that if the Squid Game Business Card was handed to any black person, we would’ve immediately said no.
As if we didn’t go through a whole month of our own voluntary Squid Game.
I loved Nope (2022) and thought it was Peele’s most personal film and felt like him wrestling with the burden of becoming an Event Filmmaker.
A film about the ethics of capturing the horrific, of exploiting one’s trauma for spectacle.
A devil’s deal with a literal Monkey’s Paw.
When I think of how racism has impacted Black actors, my mind doesn’t first go to our superstars.
It goes to those forgotten actors that I always really enjoyed watching. But, we’ll never know what could’ve been.
Glenn Plummer.
Hi.
I want to talk about this woman for a second.
The woman you’re seeing is Linda Fairstein, who ran the sex crimes unit responsible for the case known as the Central Park 5
and is a key character in Ava’s “When They See Us”.
Buckle up.
Yeah.
So, Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey (available on Hulu) is one of those movies where come Monday.
Execs are going to start wondering if it should’ve been a theatrical release.
Because it probably would’ve made a quarter of a billion dollars.
@WrittenByHanna
If my grandmother knew that hopping into a stranger’s car to go sleep at a stranger’s house for a weekend and have a stranger come to my door and hand me food that I then ate, was a thing.
The hatchet job on Meghan’s earrings is what sold me.
I remember when one of the royals wore a blackface brooch to meet Meghan and later apologized and said she simply had no idea it was offensive, lmao.
Get they asses, Harry.
My Color Purple (2023) thoughts:
1. Taraji P. Henson should have one of the highest acting fees.
2. Danielle Brooks will win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; and
3. I now see how Clark Kent’s glasses concealed his super powers because.
What the fuck is this?
In 1997, Kristen Welker began an internship for the Today Show on NBC.
In January 2020, she was named co-anchor of NBC’s Weekend Today.
23 years behind this moment and she didn’t fumble once.
The serendipity of a Black woman writing and directing a debut film, starring a brilliant, underused Black actress, with a title and premise that the world is googling, and releasing it on this week’s anniversary, with key art of a crowned Black woman
is honestly ancestral.
Issa having her Emmy watch party in the middle of the field at the empty, Rams stadium, in Inglewood, as her and her Insecure team win their first Emmy
was the most inspirational thing I saw tonight.
Quiet as it’s kept, Donald seems to be putting some formerly blackballed folks in position for bags.
Katt Williams in Atlanta.
Now, Mo’Nique in his spot for Adidas.
Issa Rae’s run from Awkward Black Girl to the final season of Insecure has been so phenomenal.
If I had to look at the landscape of young black creators, and guess which one will replicate her path, it’d be Mark Phillips.
I call this
a brief lesson on the discomfort around Jordan Peele saying he’s going to only make black-led movies,
which (befitting his latest film) happens to also include a murder.
Goddamn.
I’d love to see the emails of Taylor Swift’s lawyer in reaction to this Cetaphil ad.
If you do nothing, every brand in the world is about to try some form of this.
If you do something, what do you even say?
My client owns the idea that she goes places?
Just added a provision to a client's contract (black actress) that the Studio must receive her approval for any hair changes that require the application of heat, and that they must repay to restyle her hair at the end of the production.
That is fucking awesome.
Cece Hall, the sound editor for Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986), said that actual jets sounded somewhat wimpy.
So, she used the animal sounds of lions, tigers and monkeys, to literally give them their roar.
Unfortunate to hear the news about Cassie and Diddy breaking up.
Not sure what her lifestyle has been like.
But, if she’s looking for a guy with a one bedroom apartment, 30 days of paid vacation, 0 investment properties, 0 jewelry, and occasionally orders takeout
In Harlem, there’s often bodegas across from bodegas.
I remember first seeing that and being stunned. But, you end up learning that each bodega is unique, each can thrive and the neighborhood needs all of them.
That’s how I feel about “shows about four black women friends.”
The cost of losing is so asymmetric.
What have Donald’s supporters actually lost?
No one is going to surveil their places of worship, mandate abortions, limit their martial rights, take their firearms, call their home countries shitholes or demean their favorite athlete.
Scorsese’s longtime editor.
Thelma Schoonmaker.
Raging Bull.
Goodfellas.
Cape Fear.
The Departed.
Shutter Island.
Wolf of Wall Street.
Killers of the Flower Moon.
She’d understand pacing, structure, character and what’s unnecessary better than almost anyone.
Let's try this a bit differently: If you could listen to anyone alive who is not a screenwriter or director talk about screenwriting and the future of film, who would it be?
I am prepared to be shot with arrows.
But, watching this clip, watching how he carries his body, hearing his voice, his eyes, his eye contact, his measured speaking style and
if we’re doing these Freddie Mercury and Elton John biopics
I think Andre Holland can be Prince.
Alright. Here goes.
If you go down the rabbit hole, I think there’s an unending amount of theories.
So, I’m going to stay on the surface a bit.
But, if you read them together, I think Get Out and Us represent the horror of double consciousness.
NEW: Surveillance footage proves white woman who called 911 on a young black child claiming he groped her - was wrong
@PIX11News
#CornerstoreCaroline
Full story at 5
This is legit interesting to me.
Her first look is “girl, he’s fine” and her second is “help me”.
But, blown away by how readable and vastly different nearly identical microexpressions can be.
Leaving your first network, getting a huge overall deal with a new studio and, as a result of that overall deal, putting up numbers like this with your first at-bat
is some G shit.
No other way to put it.
Heard the other day that MBJ’s love of anime has been influencing how fight scenes are being shot for Creed 3.
I’ve said it before. But, whoever figures out how to bring black culture’s love of anime into large scale filmmaking
is going to win very big.
Man.
Congrats to Quinta, man.
Had an idea for a lighthearted comedy about teaching little black kids and ended up creating a vehicle to bring an Emmy nomination to Tyler, Janelle, Sheryl Lee and herself.
Right out the gate.
This will go unreported. But, just so everyone here knows.
Tish James, New York’s new Attorney General, is bringing unpardonable cases against the President and his criminal organization.
Judge Emmet Sullivan is in charge of Michael Flynn’s fate.
Both are Howard Law graduates.
1. Unattended small children.
2. Watching a stranger’s stuff because they asked if I could watch it for a moment while they ran somewhere.
I don’t know why.
But, those are probably the only two times I’d actually kill someone.