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@JuddgyOne @AnishA_Moonka ...and...guess who loved it!!!

@AnishA_Moonka @Cherelynn Not just the ending, but the beginning too No spoilers, but as someone who has read & listened to the book many times I will tell you Martian was made for public consumption, whether read the book or not. PHM was more made for those who read the book. You’re going to LOVE it!

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.

SpaceXAI will offer a Multipass

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Hello to the 50% of LA voters who remain undecided! I am a native Angeleno, and the change agent you are looking for to clean up this city. I would love to earn your vote before ballots drop on May 4. Learn more at mayorpratt.com

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

My team, myself & @camhigby were just violently assaulted on Skid Row, my camera crew were punched in the neck and face, we were pepper sprayed, but thankfully just escaped. Some members of our team had to run 10 blocks to get out. We were in the heart of Skid Row confronting the petitioners who @Savsays and my team caught on tape illegally offering drugs for ballot signatures. Please share this video to understand what we’re up against.

@markocantdunk Just wait til you read how it ends. *chef's kiss

I got 160 pages of the book left and a showing at 7 PM tonight let me lock in

Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience Chuck Norris can divide by zero Chuck Norris was and is a legend and will be missed. God speed healing to his family. Rest in peace Carlos Ray Norris

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

The man who built the hospital he was born in has passed away. May Chuck Norris rest in peace.

Friday morning Already faced off death

@cvpayne I lived this dream - and it was good!

I still dream about this commercial

If @spencerpratt isn’t the next mayor of LA, we will all be running for ‘the hills’

@JosephKahn Such a subtle burn....

You know why CGI in movies looks bad even though they spend hundreds of millions with infinitely better tech? After 15 years of digital cinematography that takes no skill to shoot, we have a new generation of filmmakers and artists that think flat lighting is the new normal.

@JackHenryPaxton Agreed!

@Cherelynn this is such a solid workflow tbh. storyboarding first then feeding into video gen keeps everything way more cohesive. been doing something similar and the quality jump is real when you plan the scenes out visually first

AI-Driven Mood Boards for Sunny Adventure Plots (2) As the summer of 2026 heats up, storytellers at Lions Rest Studios are turning to AI for vibrant mood boards that fuel adventure narratives. Tip #2: Employ generative AI like Runway to be part of your integrated video tools to create visual blueprints. Begin with prompts such as "Vibrant beach escapade under blazing sun, with turquoise waves and golden sands." Lately, my prompts have included referencing fave film scenes for mood and feel. Workflow: Compile a digital story board , then transition to video gen by feeding board elements into your fave ai video generator for animated sequences. Add creativity by incorporating thermal imaging effects—AI algorithms that overlay heat signatures on characters to symbolize tension. Steps: 1) Curate inspirational images via semantic search. 2) Use AI upscaling for high-res assets. 3) Prototype short clips, iterating based on emotional resonance. This method accelerates pre-production, turning abstract ideas into tangible summer epics. How do you visualize your next adventure? Let's connect!

If a politician gets mad about fraud being exposed They aren’t working for you, they are working against you That is all you need to know about them

Throwback Thursday to HumanX in Las Vegas! The app is now open and ready for scheduling. Who's joining me in SF?

In order to reduce that tax burden, we need to first eradicate all the fraud & waste. The city must be responsible with your hard-earned tax dollars. Karen Basura and the city council are so bad at managing your tax money, the LAFD has to petition for their own sales tax hike just to fund the fire department. Cut the fraud, cut the tax burden, cut the Basura.

They saved $100M in 4 days making this… Higgsfield Original Series just launched an actual AI streaming platform and Arena Zero is the first drop this is the moment AI filmmaking stopped being “experiments” and became real cinema