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Roxanne Benjamin

1 year

I cannot even process what a compliment this is coming from the person whose work inspired (and terrified) me as a kid in PA 30 years ago all the way to a director in LA today, @StephenKing thank you so much for watching

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I want to know everyone’s mom’s top 10 movies

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

5 months

Someday peeps will remember that Brad Miska was not the sole producer of the original V/H/S series, right? I’ve watched my name get erased from the birth and history of this franchise so many times. V/H/S (2012) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

V/H/S (2012) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

The new episode of the Revisited video series looks back at the 2012 found footage horror movie V/H/S, the start of a popular franchise

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Am I allowed to say yet how much I haaaaated Promising Young Woman? Like, an unnatural, visceral reaction to this movie that just filled me with rage

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Hello film critics rather belated entreaty from me - but if you’re calling out my kid actors in a negative way - know that anything you’re faulting comes from the direction, not their talent, so please express it as a failing on my end. Also meet me in the fucking parking lot.

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Pet Semetary II is criminally underrated

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

I had a meeting with a producer this morning and told him I think his 3.5 mill budgeted movie is more like 8 mill on paper and asked for more details on the production plan and he got offended and hung up on me.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

My episode of #PLLOriginalSin Dead and Buried airs tonight at midnight on @hbomax @PLLonMax who’s ready for some horror mayhem in Milwood?!

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

5 months

I was sitting on his couch when I came up with the fucking NAME for chrissakes. And this public erasure over time DOES matter. It mattered when I was trying to be an indie producer, and it still matters as I keep trying to get stuff developed as a filmmaker.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

The new John Wick goes hard and is also bananas AF and I am here for it Stahelski and Keanu can do no wrong #SXSW2023

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Ti’s new NEW @A24 movie Pearl is so goddamn good it makes me angry. Mia Goth is mesmerizing. Her commitment to the character is truly next level.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

There needs to be more space horror dammit.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

And I’m obsessed with this poster

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

5 months

I don’t want to get into why I wasn’t involved with the new batch, it involves crossed wires, bad timing, and me asking to get paid and get points this time around.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

5 months

And nothing against this publication and journos in particular, the info has practically been erased from online. I just hate that this still affects me. I hate claiming credit for ANYTHING. Imposter syndrome for life y’all \m/

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@rox_anne_b

5 months

But that’s all in the past. It was my first time producing, I didn’t know any better, and I made sure it didn’t happen again with Southbound. I was just happy to be making movies with my friends. And I’m happy that other filmmakers get to have that experience this go ‘round too.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

. @ChandlerLKinney always finding her light even in between takes ❤️ #PLLOriginalSin

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@rox_anne_b

5 months

But not once did any company involved approach me about the revamp. I was one of the creator and producers, but I didn’t hold any rights. I never even had a contract. I was also the only one involved in any way shape or form producing the overall series who didn’t get backend.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Truly had so much fun with this gang making @PLLonMax ep 9. @WriterRAS and @Lindsay_C_Bring made such a fun series! even got my own director grave in Millwood cemetery lol 🪦💀🔪❤️ #PLLOriginalSin

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Trailer for my new movie is out! Check it out at the link -

'Midnight Mass' star has kid trouble in horror film 'There's Something Wrong With the Children'

Zach Gilford and Alisha Wainwright discover that the kids are most definitely not alright in trailer for 'There's Something Wrong With the Children'

ew.com

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I knew someone who used to take a laser pointer to screenings and hit peoples phone screens with it if they took them out during the screening.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

What do you watch after Con Air? What could possibly follow it and not just be a letdown?

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

7 months

Spent my 21st recovery birthday watching The Abyss with 1400 other movie-lovin’ SOB’s and James Cameron at @BeyondFest , not too shabby

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Can men just like. Stop.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

@EmbryEthan @elonmusk I read this mid-chomping a carrot stick and laugh-snorted it halfway up my nose

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I’m surprised you all haven’t blocked me yet for just talking about my movie endlessly. I can always talk more about Battleship.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

4 months

A reminder from my past as we head into the new year. Directors come from many different departments, take many different paths. It’s not a linear journey.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Does anyone else just think it’s highly bizarre that we have to eat EVERY SINGLE DAY. Like how are we at the top of the food chain with this low of an energy efficiency ratio. Bears. 3 months. Crocodiles can go a YEAR. Tardigrades: 30 YEARS. 30!!

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Update: her list took so long because she WROTE IT OUT BY HAND.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Why did we decide on jeans. Like as a culture.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

My next feature comes out in 244 hours and 37 minutes….but who’s counting.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Orphan First Kill and Prey in one month? the horror gods are giving this summer

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

4 months

Twelve whole years ago V/H/S got into Sundance. Holy shit time flies. Love me some tv directing but I’m SO itching to direct another film this year. I also miss the camaraderie of anthologies. It was a great time.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I want to make more evil kid movies working with kids in the horror genre is fun as hell

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

It’s my birthday. Here’s some dogs ready for battle.

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

@NilstheHirsute ‘Love the idea of a magical babysitter’ is a great reason

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Movies need more explosions. Just like across the board. Rom coms. Dramas. Doesn’t matter. 3 explosion minimum, new rule.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I could watch an entire feature of #MissionImpossible BTS. Just the sheer joy on @chrismcquarrie and everyones faces when they pull this off. Also was @TomCruise just born without the fear gene or what holy hell. As a director I heart this franchise so much

Tom Cruise

@TomCruise

1 year

So excited to share what we’ve been working on. #MissionImpossible

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

My own personal hell is the cringe feeling of watching someone ‘shooting their shot’ during a big movie q and a. Also what selfish assholes are people that do this and make everything about them.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

About to marathon all Robin Hood movies. I don’t know why I’m telling you all I just feel like someone needs to know in case of emergency.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Some performances just live in my head full-time. Barry Keoghan saying “Well there goes that dream” comes top-of-mind at least once a week.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

This is humbling 🙏

No Filmmaking Challenge Can Scare Roxanne Benjamin

Working with kids? Horror feature on a TV schedule? No filmmaking challenge scares the "Body at Brighton Rock" director and V/H/S producer.

www.indiewire.com

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I hope I don’t come off as a dick posting any negative feedback for the movie along with the positive - I try to do so in fun and also bc I’m fascinated by how films are received and perceived once they’re out in the world, and what people connect to or reject.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Is my pain tolerance high? Well, I took a nap with my contacts in, so yes, I’m basically a cenobite now.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

7 months

Last night in Noho after the strike ending news came out and the WGA captains converged on Idle Hour #wgastrong

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Question. Say someone took a bunch of cbd oil about 2 hrs ago & it maybe had unexpected THC in it (it’s me I am someone high as a kite). 2 issues - I haven’t been high in literally 20 years. and 2- I’m about to get picked up to for a 12 hr international flight back to U.S.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I haven’t gotten to explode enough stuff on camera. Heads. Def. Lots of heads. But not like, buildings and cars. Next movie I’m writing gonna be much more explodey.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

I want to make another movie. which means I have to write another movie. which is just CRUEL.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Does anybody else microwave the same cold cup of coffee seven times a day or

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Something in the Dirt is a really fun watch, especially for anyone obsessed with conspiracy theories, or high, or both. @AaronMoorhead @JustinHBenson @DavidLawsonJr it’s out now on VOD!

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

My negative RE review is in! (truly they have eviscerated every movie I’ve ever made - solo or anthology) It’s a release tradition! Idk why they even watch em at this point, but as always, I am grateful to have any movie I make seen as worthy of commentary.

RogerEbert.com

@ebertvoices

1 year

Parenting horror story THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN keeps faltering due to its shoddy execution (via @Brian_Tallerico )

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Through having a break in movies at Beyond Fest, I am inadvertently sitting across from the premiere of an anthology film franchise I helped create, and it is a truly surreal and bizarre experience. I wish all the writers and directors well.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

5 months

Remembering that time a line producer told me I should be more warm and motherly like their other female director. Thankful to the people in this genre film culture who can commiserate and laugh with me about these moments so that we don’t all end up in jail for attempted murder.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

My new movie comes out on vod January 17th, can’t wait for y’all to see these talented creepy kids terrorize @zachgilford and co

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Did I ever tell you guys about how I wanted to remake Ski School as a horror movie?

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Sometimes I think about the reviews for Brighton Rock that were aggressively annoyed Wendy did so many stupid things in the woods and then think about how I did all of them IRL. Got lost. Fell down a hill. Jumped at my own shadow. Dropped a phone off a cliff… the list goes on.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

did I tell you guys how I wanted to make 'There's Something Wrong with The Children' branded condoms and no one would let me

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Guys I’m on the plane! I am no longer in the airport!

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Apparently I’m ‘explaining-to-a-cast-born-in-the-2000s-what-“selling out”meant-in-the-90s’ years old now.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

When I’m in prep and have to do zoom meetings I like to have a bunch of search windows open in case I have to share my screen, that say things like “how to direct” “what is a gaffer” “what do lenses do” and see if anyone notices

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

In other news, I’m running out of apocalypse movies to watch

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

@HeatherCTR Been waiting to see a Steel Magnolias in these lists!

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

@Johnny_Kassh Don’t worry I’m sure the Oscar-winning commercial success will be just fine without my praise lol.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Writing a directors statement is kinda like writing a book report on your own movie. Just lookin up $10 words and increasing my side margins nothing to see here move along

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

guys I did it. A director's statement. It is done. It does include the phrase 'Jesus H heart attack'.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

I fucking LOVE when scientist nerds try to warn peeps in disaster movies and get ignored and then the oceans boil or the sea beasts go crazy or whatever and then they get picked up in a helicopter to talk to the president all discombobulated to explain their little research paper

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Sometimes I forget how rural I grew up until I mention something like ‘the living room shotgun rack’ and get very concerned looks

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I hope everybody gets a nice long chill break for a couple weeks, without worrying about what they should be writing or doing or producing or where they ‘should’ be in their career. Just like, a nice couple days with a book and a blanket and a cat or something.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Gotta say, if there is an award for best scream in a tv show, @BaileeMadison is winning hands down in EP 9 #PLLOriginalSin

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

I talked about my love for Howard the Duck on @ScarredPodcast out this week and I don’t care what anyone says that movie rips

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

@Death_Bow my first coffee table was a giant wooden cable spool tipped on its side that I dug out of literal mud. Now they’re ‘reclaimed wood’ but back in th’day you’d get em at like industrial or lumber yards

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Letterboxd reviews are feeding my soul rn be it the love or the hate for the movie they’re freaking hilarious. Also my DMs go from ‘you’re the worst I hated this movie please choke and die’ to ‘you’re gonna get an Oscar I loved this movie’. People are a fuckin bop y’all.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Emma Seligman made one of the tensest movies with Shiva Baby, and now one of the funniest with Bottoms. I haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in years. What a fucking talent. #SXSW2023

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

4 months

I keep forgetting I had a movie come out this year ‘cause January 2023 was like two years ago

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Prepare for my onslot of review tweets as they come in, and as always, the negative as well as the positive. These guys haaaated the movie on truly every level. Enjoy!

Arrow in the Head

@arrowinthehead

1 year

There’s Something Wrong With The Children Review

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

I love seeing friends do well it’s a very happy feeling

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

As it should be

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

Cancel every fucking student loan that exists.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

I want to go out I just don’t want anyone to be there when I do

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Man, Guillermo’s Pinocchio really fucked me up. Animation is also amazing.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Photos of Bong Joon-ho playing with Oscars never get old

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

@elleschneider This x’s 1000

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

1 year

Time= Money= FX or prosthetics.Heavy extras scenes. Car work.Ensemble casts. Night work. Location work. Action heavy set pieces. Location-heavy scripts. Choreography and anything with music syncing. Oh man, where my production peeps at, what am I missing?

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

The Crow Arachnophobia Scream Bram Stokers Dracula Jacobs Ladder Event Horizon The People Under the Stairs Sleepy Hollow Interview with a vampire Tremors

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Is there a name for that period in like the early to mid-aughts where every action movie was either aggressively over-saturated or under-saturated?

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@rox_anne_b

2 years

Got to ask @WilliamFriedkin about Sorcerer and creating tension in scenes so my life is complete now goodbye

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

A very mom response

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

I have both pity and empathy for people online who find fault in every comment, who take every attempt at understanding and twist it to their own negative narrative. It must be so emotionally and mentally exhausting and isolating.

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@rox_anne_b

2 years

What would we do without movies and dogs?

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@rox_anne_b

2 years

Who wants to adopt my foster puppy? LOOK AT THAT FACE

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Idk if I can watch EO bc if anyone is mean to that donkey I’m going to be devastated for weeks

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Okay how many stories about people you don’t know did your moms tell you this holiday vacation? And how many times removed are you from knowing the person in the story?

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

@TomAandTom1 14 years working in a specific genre will do that to you. But I’m always open to learn more, hence why I wanted to know what the production plan was to come in that low. But my presumption is the budget was not done by a line producer and without an AD’s actual schedule estimate.

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

I keep writing the fun scenes first and then getting bored. I have so many 2/3rds scripts laying around. Or I gotta find a way to not be bored by scenes where like, nobody kills anybody and things don’t explode.

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Everyone go ask ur mom what her favorite movies r

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

All directors says this, but I was lucky to work with such an amazingly talented group on TSWWTC. It could be melodrama in the wrong hands and they brought so much nuance to their character’s changing relationships to each other throughout the movie. Glad it’s getting called out!

Mike McGranaghan

@AisleSeat

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Director @rox_anne_b delivers plenty of jolts, but also a little substance, with the creepy kid chiller THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN. It's on digital and On Demand this Tuesday. My review:

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Roxanne Benjamin

@rox_anne_b

2 years

I want what every woman wants, to make a movie with explosions and car chases and knife fights and horses. Bc girls like horses duh

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@rox_anne_b

2 years

Today I learned there are way more Halloween movies than I knew existed, but I’ve seen Season of the Witch so what more is there really

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Look I just want to make Con Air with blue collar ladies fighting nationalists is that so hard to imagine

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@rox_anne_b

1 year

Oh that reminds me, I have a question for my fellow filmmakers/writers/producers/actors out there. Complete this sentence: I make movies because _____________________.

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