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Another year, and another #Instagram #BestNine Here you go....👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Cheers everyone... Let's all have a safe & healthy 2022 😊🤗🤗 #Instagram #TopNine #2021

James Tolkan has died at 94. "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash." - Top Gun (1986) This scene is a masterclass in movie shorthand. In seconds you get Maverick’s attitude, his history, how he flies, and the entire setup. And Tolkan absolutely nails it.

WTF! I've just realised it's Easter next weekend!! ARGHHHHH! Where the fuck is time going! 😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪

Your soundtrack for the rest of the week. Click & listen to the latest @LBBOnline Radio Playlist Curated by Jack Wyllie & Will Ward of @19__Sound Click below 👇🏾👇🏾 to tune in 🔊😎 lbbonline.com/news/Radio-LBB…

And this afternoon’s rehearsal is done! 👍🏾 Time for a 🌞 🍻 😎💛😄 @AnnaFiorentini @stageandthecity #SATC #ActingEnsemble #Charity #Acting #Quiz

With $33.1 million on Friday (including $12 million in previews), Amazon MGM Studios’ $190 million, Ryan Gosling-led #ProjectHailMary just broke the (unadjusted) record for the biggest opening day ever for a live-action “just a movie” offering. (Friday #BoxOffice trivia)

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our brother and son, Nicholas Brendon. He passed in his sleep of natural causes.

Oh man! Chuck Norris, Walloping Star of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger,’ Dies at 86 😞😞😞 The martial arts master also was a big-screen action hero in 'Lone Wolf McQuade,' 'Missing in Action,' 'The Delta Force' and more. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chu… #MyFilmYear #FilmX

New work from the team @19__Sound for Sea Beyond, a collaboration between Prada & UNESCO #SoundDesign & mix for all films featured in this campaign by Will Ward. Music Composition by Simon Porter

New work from the team @19__Sound for Sea Beyond, a collaboration between Prada & UNESCO #SoundDesign & mix for all films featured in this campaign by Will Ward. Music Composition by Simon Porter

Prada Ambassador Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the first of a pair of films created by National Geographic CreativeWorks, collaborating with Prada as storytelling partner for the fourth year to explore the real-world impact of the SEA BEYOND project across the globe. Just two hours from Tokyo, the waters around Japan’s Izu Peninsula teem with marine life - shaped by powerful ocean currents and dramatic geology that create a uniquely rich and dynamic underwater environment. As of July 2023, 1% of the proceeds from the Prada Re-Nylon for SEA BEYOND Collection benefit SEA BEYOND. Discover more: tinyurl.com/mtk88hdh #PradaReNylon #Prada #BenedictCumberbatch

Booze! Drugs! Sweary lawyers! Egg in the buff! Ricky Gervais' big break! It's 30 years today since #ThisLife arrived on our TV screens and BBC4 are rerunning it tonight at 10pm. I wrote about how it discovered a generation of talent and changed TV drama theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

#OOTD At 19 Sound, 🫶🏾🎶🔉🇬🇧

Gentle reminder that we’re only 3 years away from this timeline.

In 1993, a local Chicago reporter covering the St. Patrick's Day parade spotted Tommy Lee Jones filming a movie amidst the festivities and stopped him for a quick interview. The movie was THE FUGITIVE 🔥

Sir Lewis Hamilton becomes the first driver in Formula One history to have a podium with McLaren, Mercedes, and Ferrari. 🐐

Funkin-soulful-disco Friday 🎶🎶🪩🪩💃🏾💃🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 #TheFatbackBand at the 229 Club 😎👌🏾🤩😍 @229london

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One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.