Bent Hanlen

At my heaviest I was surrounded by women. Now not so much. I blame 2020. Chicago food got me. Moved to LA and improved. A combo of elliptical, diet, no more soda and following @DDPYoga. Thank you @RealDDP I’m running 5k’s. Our priority investment should be in ourselves! 🖐🏻🤚🏻💥

@BrianRDJames Ozempic and an elliptical. The microwave of fat burning.

But not til later, I need to find a treadmill

@DaneCook Enough to pay for your backstage meat and cheese tray?

Guess how much money I made exactly this month on X? One guess. I can’t believe it either. 2.4 million followers don’t forget.

@kevin_nealon Can I get a 5 minute guest set?

YouTube Premiere January 27

@grok make me look like I’m on steroids.

@realscottyriggs That’s really cool !

blessed to be together again

Just saw probably the coolest Halloween film made with AI today, insane stuff 🎃 It was created by Simon Meyer, who broke down the whole process: Veo3 for the core scenes, Nano Banana & Higgsfield Popcorn for the wide shots, close-ups and cutaways, Enhancor & Magnific for the upscales, Kling & Seedance for the animation, Artlist for the music, ElevenLabs for the voiceover Seriously wild workflow 🔥

@earthcurated @SiriouslySusan @CrispeThe

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

Any chance these empty Starbucks locations can be turned into @qdoba ? Specifically Los Angeles area.

@THEVinceRusso do you think Bobby Heenan could have done a one hour HBO stand up comedy special?

WEAPONS is one of the best movies of the year. But what does it have to teach us as writers? Zach Cregger along with Jordan Peele is now one of the leading voices in horror. Is it a coincidence that they both come from the sketch comedy world? Horror and comedy are both about the element of surprise and the unexpected. Both create an uncontrollable visceral reaction in the viewer whether that's laughter or fear. And this movie can be very funny. Films that are unrelentingly grim can get boring fast. Paint with all the colors on your palette. This movie shows that having a solid logline with a high-concept hook is always a great starting place. When I first saw the trailer for this film I was already thinking about where did the children go and why? I actually think the movie gets off to a slow start. There's a lot of table setting before the characters dig in to solving the mystery. Having this kind of hook gives you a certain grace period to set up your story. That feeling of anticipation can create a kind of suspense for the reader but don't push it. Horror is great way to break in to the biz because it's often shot on a relatively small budget and does not rely on big name stars but you have to have an affinity for it. Don't just run off and write one because everybody's doing it. Remember you're already two or three years behind the curve when you start in on a project. I do not think that horror is going away anytime soon but there's also a perception that they've flooded the market. On the other hand the new CONJURING movie – the ninth in the series – just had the best opening weekend ever for a horror movie. Go figure. There's a lot of symbolism in the film. It can be fun to think about and discuss what it all means. The running theme of alcoholism and addiction is I'm sure no accident. But too often in these online discussions I see debates over what the filmmaker did or didn't intend. Nothing wrong with that per se but films are not a puzzle to solve with only one correct solution. When something is left ambiguous maybe even the writer themselves don't know the answer. People used to ask the great David Lynch what this or that meant and he would never say. Not because he was being coy but because he wanted to leave it up to the viewer to interpret. Some horror has a certain dream logic – often literal nightmare sequences as in this film – that comes from deeply within the writer's subconscious mind. What I'm getting at is that you can leave room in your own writing for this. Sometimes you'll even discover what you're really writing about halfway through the process or even after the fact. Every creative person relies on the ability to tap into their subconscious. That's part of what it means to have an open mind. The most interesting thing I read online is a Vanity Fair interview in which Cregger gave Amy Madigan, the actor playing Aunt Gladys, a choice of two backstories but didn't care if she told him what it was as long as SHE knew. Writer-directors can be such control freaks so I love that he left it up to her. Both this film and BARBARIAN had a nonlinear timeline which really worked for those particular stories. Would WEAPONS have been as effective if it had only one main protagonist, say Justine or Archer, and told the story only through a singular point-of-view? I'm curious if he started out trying to write it that way or he always had this in mind. PULP FICTION could have told its story in chronological order and followed Jules or Vincent from start to finish but Tarantino made a choice. Same with MAGNOLIA and SHORT CUTS. If done badly this kind of thing can come off like a cheap gimmick but to be honest I rarely see scripts that do this anymore – way less than I used to, but it could be just me. Of course no matter what it always has to serve the story. But most of all this film inspires us to think: maybe it's stop playing it so safe and start taking some big risks.

Everyone thinks losing weight means eating less. But this is a lie. Here are 8 foods you can eat until you're full and still help lose weight: 1. Eggs

AI is killing Hollywood.. the same guy who shot the iconic Sydney Sweeney x American Eagle campaign just made a full Jack Daniels commercial using Higgsfield Seedance Pro it used to cost 1 million, now $20 with AI let's break it down:

Monday night which was last night, I had fun. Thank you for the stage time UBG!

@realscottyriggs Are you making a beeline to In n Out? I’ll try to be at the show tomorrow!

LA bound

@zimranjacob Yes please

WRITERS OF TWITTER: I have compressed all of the topics I used to teach at UCLA into a PDF. It includes how I got into multiple writers' rooms, how I pitch, and how I got multiple literary reps. If you are interested in this document, please reply here or DM me!

I've got an extra copy of the #Jaws50 Anniversary Edition 4K release, which includes the new documentary Jaws at 50: The Definitive Inside Story. Everyone (US only) who re-tweets this tweet will be entered to win, and I'll select a winner on 6/23!

Back then, I remember watching this moment and having a panic attack 😭 I’m sure I saw video and it was Orton who yelled something to get him out the way. Crazy 💀

Professor learns to speak Gen Alpha for his class. This is fantastic. 🤣

So how DO you break into the industry? That's the billion-dollar question, isn't it, and the one I get asked the most. Sorry to say there's no magic bullet, one weird trick, or corner-cutting shortcut. But there are some tried-and-true methods that have worked for folks in the past and can for you too. Better yet, they won't cost you a thing. There are also some things to definitely NOT do – that make you look like an amateur or might piss people off. Stay tuned... P.S.: This is NOT a sales pitch. I have nothing to sell you. No courses, subscriptions, or seminars. I'm just gonna share with you what little I know, knowing full well some of you aren't gonna like it.

It’s nice to walk away from this every so often.