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Colby Day

2 months

Wrote a little “How Did You Get Your Manager / First Job and How Can I Do That Too?” piece last year for anyone curious.

How Did You Get Your Agent / Manager / First Job and How Can I Do That?

And how asking those questions isn’t going to help you.

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3 years

If you live in America one of these two men is always the president.

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2 years

marvel should be in the public domain. I want to see what high school theater companies do with avengers endgame

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we live in an exciting time for media — this is the dawn of television

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Netflix Plans to Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans

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That’s all folks.

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what room are they coming from

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if you wanna know why an old movie looks good and a new movie looks bad check out the number of shoot days

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This extremely expensive ad campaign makes zero sense unless you are paid six figures to sit in an office and think about Walt Disney Corporation Synergies all day.

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2 years

Mrs. Billingsworth’s 10th Grade English Class Presents Spider-Man

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7 months

Literally any more consolidation in any way should be illegal

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7 months

According to Variety, some on the lot believe that Universal will very likely buy Warner Bros. within the next 2 years.

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@THR Netflix has accidentally invented tv

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told you

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2 years

manifesting: I am going to have the number one movie on @netflix

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Venture Capital

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Why does it feel like every industry is having the copper wire stripped from its walls to make a quick buck at the expense of its long-term viability?

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4 years

Yeah I don’t know if it was worth it.

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It took a photographer 4 years -- night after night in snorkeling gear and weights -- to capture this image of a beaver #NaturePhotography

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10 months

I will burn my entire business to the ground before revealing how many people actually watched The Gray Man

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10 months

Can’t stop thinking about the moment in Asteroid City when Jeffrey Wright makes a speech to the little scientists where he sums up his character’s entire life story and all of modern American history in about 90 seconds

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1 year

literally tomorrow this whole strike will have been more expensive than just giving writers what they wanted.

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Variety

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James Bond fans can expect a relatively unknown male in his 30s to take over the 007 role.

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Look at how they massacred my boy

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I love this question in development because literally you don’t need anything in a movie. You don’t even need to make the movie. None of this is necessary, it’s art.

Film Updates

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7 months

Greta Gerwig fought to keep the “I’m Just Ken” dance sequence in #Barbie “There was a big meeting that was like, ‘Do you need this?’ And I was like, ‘Everything in me needs this.’” Gerwig cited “Singing in the Rain” as one of her main inspirations for the scene. (Source:…

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2 years

@nytimes Congratulations to covid-19, huge win

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1 year

Come on DGA!!!

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SAG-AFTRA National Board Unanimously Agrees To Send Authorization Vote To Members

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2 years

I wrote a piece about what goes into being a professional screenwriter with a month by month breakdown. Here's "My 2021 as a Working Screenwriter."

My 2021 as a Working Screenwriter

Or maybe a better title for this piece is “How the Sausage More Often Than Not Doesn’t Get Made.”

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3 years

Hello. I wrote this movie.

Deadline Hollywood

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3 years

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that #PromisingYoungWoman Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan has joined Netflix’s Adam Sandler feature Spaceman

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3 years

@andersleehere I do think it weirdly tracks for like the last hundred years?

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2 years

What if there were a play about a family (of mostly white people) and they have a tumultuous evening together? In it someone could yell (loudly), someone could cry (silently) and someone could share a secret (finally)?

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8 months

When you’re developing a project with producers and they want to take months “making sure it’s perfect” it’s important to remember they’re cashing biweekly paychecks while you “try to get it really solid” for them for free.

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10 months

Vin Diesel you have the chance to make the funniest / most significant donation to the SAG-AFTRA Relief Fund in history.

Dwayne Johnson Contributes ‘Historic’ Donation to SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, Says President...

SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance says that Dwayne Johnson's 'historic' donation will help thousands of striking actors.

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2 months

Hello! I’ve been a working writer since 2016 and my first major feature film as a screenwriter, Spaceman (starring Adam Sandler), just premiered on @Netflix . Ask me anything! 🚀

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1 year

brb making a movie with Rashida Jones

Rashida Jones Joins Kate McKinnon in Andrew Stanton Sci-Fi Drama ‘In the Blink of An Eye’ (Exclus...

Colby Day wrote the script that was on the 2017 Black List.

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8 months

I for one am looking forward to all the new original content that my money will be going towards! I’m sorry what’s that? You say they haven’t made anything in 4 months and seemingly have no plan to change that?

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Hulu to increase price to $17.99 and Disney+ to increase price to $13.99 on their monthly ad-free plans, starting October 12th.

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3 months

how it started / how it’s going

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10 months

A) there is no way losing money for half a year is “the strategy” B) you have to be a sociopath to say letting people lose their homes is “necessary” when you can absolutely afford to make a deal and simply don’t want to

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3 years

we do not need an iPhone 14 we need a pink clamshell e-reader

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2 years

I wrote an epic sci-fi drama, it was on @theblcklst , then we found a director who’s responsible for some of the most ambitious sci-fi ever made, and now we’re making it for @searchlightpics !!!!

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Andrew Stanton to Direct Epic Sci-Fi Drama ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ for Searchlight (Exclusive)

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There’s currently a giant video billboard for the movie I wrote playing on a loop in Times Square on the exact corner I used to hand out tickets to comedy shows. Weird life.

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3 months

I recommend writing a movie and then seeing it

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12 days

For once I just wanna see a dry alien

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New look at ‘ALIEN: ROMULUS’ (Source: @EW )

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10 months

Oh damn sounds bad. Maybe the AMPTP should try to make a deal soon

Variety

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10 months

“If there is no resolution [to the strikes], the awards movies, the big Thanksgiving films, and the year-end titles are going to be impacted and the marketing is going to suffer,” says one movie consultant. “None of this is good for the movies."

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11 months

Zaslav fired all the archival staff and replaced them with three senior volunteers.

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Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson will now help curate content at TCM. (Source: )

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10 months

He’s gay because he’s attracted to other rats. If he was straight he’d be attracted to human women.

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So they made Splinter gay in the new TMNT movie because...of course.

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1 year

@Variety think you meant “due to AMPTP refusing to fairly compensate their workers.”

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1 year

these people aren’t my dad, they’re buyers who’ve asked me to perform a service and I set the rate for the service

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You don’t ask Dad for a higher allowance the day he’s lost his job. The writers strike & the streaming landscape 👉

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3 years

ok too many people like this, something is wrong.

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1 year

Obama really made a complex, thoughtful show about labor in America today and how undervalued and underrepresented working people are and then crossed a picket line of workers begging for living wages to go promote it. The dissonance!!!

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3 months

might I recommend someone with superhero experience

Fantastic Four Updates

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Marvel Studios is reportedly interested in casting a comedian for the role of H.E.R.B.I.E. in ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR’. (via: @DanielRPK )

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11 months

@Srirachachau He knows what his mission is and always accomplishes it (friendship)

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10 months

If I were a legacy studio I would simply make my own deal and get everyone back to work and corner the film & tv market for a solid year or two as a result.

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1 month

@gwumbyverse Ohana Means Family Guy

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1 year

Hi director friends! If you are in the DGA it would be extremely helpful if you would write to your guild leadership asking them to commit to take a stand and support the WGA’s demands in their upcoming negotiations!!!

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5 months

@netflix

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1 year

@WGAWest @WGAEast SOLIDARITY! Let’s go!

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2 months

this should be illegal

Variety

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2 months

Marilyn Monroe, who died 62 years ago, has been reincarnated as a “hyper-real” AI-generated digital avatar that lets fans engage in a conversation with the late actor — who can answer questions “in Marilyn’s signature voice and style.”

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3 years

Spent the day on set for the first major motion picture I’ve ever written. Dream come true!

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2 years

Turns out a big part of being a writer in Hollywood is reminding producers, executives, and directors that being a writer is in fact a skill and one that not everybody has.

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10 months

The Looney Tunes have begun training for their next Space Jam

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there's an odd shaped baseball field right in the middle of area 51

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8 months

Imagine if having the #1 film or series on Netflix earned you any money.

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9 months

Happy Labor Day pay your laborers.

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Aaron Paul revealed that he earns $0 in residuals from streaming despite BREAKING BAD doing constant numbers for streamers. "I don't get a piece from Netflix on BREAKING BAD to be totally honest and that's insane to me." #AMPTP

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Congrats David! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more normal guy.

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2 months

in my entire career I’ve never done anything that would get me a residual and because the industry has collapsed in its pursuit of streaming I probably never will so I for one am looking forward to homelessness :)

DiscussingFilm

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Pedro Pascal says a residual check for ‘BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’ saved him from going homeless when he only had $7 in his bank account. “It literally is the reason I was able to stay in acting and not give up.” (Source: @etnow )

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9 months

God it would suck so much if we had to pay our workers

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is reportedly concerned that if they give a fair deal to writers & actors in the U.S. that it will set a precedent for writers/actors in other territories to ask for fair deals. (Source: )

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Yes I was kicked off Twitter once for making fun of the police. Now I’m a changed man. I respect the police. Actually, it is good that they kill people. USA is truly number one. 🇺🇸

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10 months

@Srirachachau He’s a particle and a wave.

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1 year

@TMROJ Field has said he works in advertising between films.

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@NicCurcio Looks like she got a movie made and that’s 90% of the battle right there

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8 months

this is that good Hollywood shit

Film Updates

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Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw have donated $1.5M in support of striking writers and actors, and others affected by the work stoppages. ()

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ideal fantastic four

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1 year

We simply must cyber bully them out of doing this

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1 year

AMC Theaters is changing their ticket prices depending on seat location. Standard Sightline - Most common seats (normal price) Value Sightline - Front row & select ADA seats (lower price) Preferred Sightline - Middle row seats (premium price) (Source: )

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1 year

what is this show about

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2 months

did you know you’re allowed to produce a film with your wife

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1 year

I’m not a CEO and I don’t get paid $35 million a year but it seems like maybe not the best business sense to completely shut down an entire industry trying to avoid something that would cost… 0.1% of revenue

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9 months

No coherent strategy from any of these great business minds.

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Weeks after Bob Iger called SAG-AFTRA and WGA demands "not realistic," the Disney CEO said, "Nothing is more important to this company than its relationships with the creative community. That includes actors, writers, animators, directors and producers."

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1 year

Real “No More Homework” student body president campaigning

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BREAKING: Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says he’ll abolish the IRS if elected President.

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2 years

@bdgrabinski whoops disrupted our way into a time honored tradition

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10 months

If you’ve ever been paid more than $30 million and you aren’t doing this…

Variety

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Seth MacFarlane Donates $1 Million to Entertainment Community Fund to Support Film and Television During Strikes (EXCLUSIVE)

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3 months

still can't believe Johan Renck made a movie I wrote that stars Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, and Paul Dano

The Hollywood Reporter

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Johan Renck on Sending Adam Sandler Into Orbit for Netflix's 'Spaceman'

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@JurassicPark2go I think I saw half of one by the bathroom.

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1 year

I look at this problem and say “put it all in a one lane tunnel.” My fans cheer, they cry, they tear their clothes and gnash their teeth. “Genius, sir!” they reply.

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

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LA traffic is the worst. I can’t imagine how much of life is wasted in a car in LA. Can’t wait for @boringcompany @elonmusk to get rid of this problem.

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@ezwrites Daughter of a voice actor!!! TRUE HOLLYWOOD ELITE STUFF

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6 months

Ah yes I would love to be ghoulishly resurrected after my demise by the Walt Disney Corporation

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26 days

The least Lionsgate could do after making over a quarter of a billion dollars on this crew’s movie.

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‘The Blair Witch Project’ Cast Ask Lionsgate For Retroactive Residuals and ‘Meaningful Consultation’ on Future Projects

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9 months

earning $50 million a year to mainly do “miscellaneous”

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10 months

no wonder these all look like shit

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When you find out that Marvel uses VFX for basic ass rooms, their $250M+ budgets make a TON more sense lol.

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This is very smart. Agents are supposed to be there to get their clients the best deals possible. We better start seeing all the agencies out here trying to get the AMPTP to finally come back to the table.

CAA’s Bryan Lourd Takes To NYC Picket Line In Support Of Writers & Actors

EXCLUSIVE: There is no deal in sight for the writers and actors with the studios and streamers, but one of Hollywood’s consummate dealmakers was on the picket line today in New York City Bryan Lourd...

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10 months

I know a lot of actors who are and aren’t union and I know we all want (and need) to work but uhhhh don’t do this.

FX's Alien TV Series Will Reportedly Film Without SAG Members

The writers' strike has already been impacting all corners of Hollywood for months, but with an [...]

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7 months

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Negative one billion dollars.

IndieWire

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Peacock lost $565 million this summer. That's nothing. The streamer is now expected to lose about $880 million from October to December.

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Isn’t the AMPTP refusing to engage with SAG or the WGA for weeks / months respectively already breaking their obligation to negotiate in good faith as required by the National Labor Relations Act? Why do we even have a govt if the only shit they’ll ever do is for corporations??

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3 years

I wrote this movie. Based on a lovely book by @JaroslavKalfar .

Netflix Tudum

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3 years

Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano & Kunal Nayyar will join Adam Sandler in SPACEMAN. In the film from director Johan Renck, an astronaut heads to the edge of the galaxy as his life begins to crumble. There, as his mind starts to slip, a creature from the beginning of time appears to him.

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If you are a famous actor and aren’t using your fame and influence to FREQUENTLY boost SAG’s fight you are prolonging a strike and actively harming a lot of people.

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8 months

Now let’s get SAG that deal so we can all go back to doing what we love… creating content for corporations!

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3 months

who’s who on a film set: Director — teacher Producer — principal First AD — daddy Crafty — mommy Star — coolest kid in school Writer — student who has been expelled and is no longer allowed on campus don’t at me I don’t make the rules

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1 year

we love an out of touch lunatic during a strike negotiation don’t we folks

The Wall Street Journal

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1 year

“This is what a recession looks like,” said one guest at David Zaslav’s Cannes party, gesturing to two megayachts in the distance. “There used to be 20 of these.”

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1 year

I wrote this month by month account of all the plates I tried to keep spinning over the year as a writer. Here’s “My 2022 As a Working Screenwriter”

My 2022 As a Working Screenwriter

Or; How I Vowed to Stop Chasing Writing Assignments and Make 2022 “The Year of Doing It Yourself.”

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4 months

Sounds cool

Netflix

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4 months

Adam Sandler. Carey Mulligan. Paul Dano. An astronaut reckons with his crumbling marriage with help from a mysterious stowaway. Spaceman premieres March 1.

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1 year

I would be so happy to have $7.5 million and I would simply treat everyone nicely and make a nice film. ☺️

Rolling Stone

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1 year

Exclusive: Crew members claim 'Euphoria' creator Sam Levinson’s new HBO series 'The Idol' with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp has been utter chaos, with firings, hidden scripts, and a wasted $75 million budget.

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this Hollywood Reporter mistake actually feels like a very good representation of how Hollywood is doing with disability