Eric Addison

Hi, everyone... So many of you have, for so many years, supported "5-25-77"... with not much return beyond the finishing of the film itself! So, I feel genuinely mortified to ask for your help, once again, now... But, we've just been informed that if we don't sell another 55 tickets to the Smodcastle Cinemas screening of our film, it might very well be cancelled. I know that a great many of you don't live within a convenient distance of Atlantic Heights, New Jersey... But... should you be willing to buy tickest and attend as FORCE GHOSTS... I will personally apply your name tags to the theater seats AND will make sure you are added to the end credits of the film when we do the Special Edition Blu-ray for the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars in 2027! Either way, thank you all for your support. smodcastlecinemas.com/movie/52577%5F…

James Cameron’s advice to filmmakers making their first feature film 🎞️ (via Filmmkrs | IG)

The Best 'Exposition Dump' in Film History. In 5 minutes, Spielberg lays out the characters, mythology, locations, artifacts and the entire narrative engine of the film. The audience discovers everything alongside Indy + each detail pays off later. A masterclass in storytelling.

@EricAddison Which 6 states are you referring to? (...keeping in mind that my comment on Texas was because there is a clear -majority- of Democrats...and yet, almost all red.)

Every time I see a complete red Texas map, I am reminded that they've somehow created this map in a state with partisan voter registration of: Democrat: 8.1 million Republican: 6.6 million Other/independent: 2.7 million Democrats are 46.5%...

If you read comments, the feedback to most journalism is now "why isn't your reporting helping my party's politicians?" It's a reminder that many Americans - and particularly partisan political junkies - literally have no idea what journalism actually is or supposed to be.

Steven Soderbergh on George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015): "Interviewer: You never storyboard? Soderbergh: No. The ability to stage well is a skill and a talent that I value above almost everything else. And I say that because there are people who do it better than I’ll ever be able to do it after 40 years of active study. I just watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead. I could almost see that’s kind of possible until the polecat sequence, and then I give up. We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically. And each one is a real shot where a lot of things had to go right. I’m going to keep trying; I’m not going to keep trying in the sense that I’m going to volunteer to direct the next Mad Max movie. I’m going to keep trying in the sense that when I have sequences that demand a certain level of sophistication in terms of their visual staging, I’m going to try and watch the people who do it really well and see if I can climb inside their heads enough to think like that. But he’s off the chart. I guarantee that the handful of people who are even in range of that, when they saw Fury Road, had blood squirting out of their eyes. The thing with George Miller, it’s not just that, he does everything really well. The scripts are great, the performances are great, the ideas are great. He’s exceptional. I met him once for about 30 seconds at the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the year of Fury Road. But you don’t want to say that stuff to somebody’s face; it’s embarrassing." (Steven Soderbergh's interview with Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 2017) P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) premiered in Hollywood, California.

@timothyjkolb @greendragonhq So...as one who lives in CA, K-12 education sucks, higher ed pulls that ranking up. Owning a home is out of reach for most, gas is way more expensive due to state taxes, state taxes are high, homeless situation is really bad, & state can't afford it's many programs.

@greendragonhq Can only repost once...which is unfortunate.

Scott Jennings is from Kentucky. Let’s see how these two states stack up… Murder rate (per 100,000, FBI 2024): 🔵California: 4.5 🔴Kentucky: 6.1 Life expectancy (at birth, CDC 2022 latest state-level): 🔵California: 79.3 years 🔴Kentucky: 73.6 years Obesity rate (adults, CDC BRFSS 2024): 🔵California: 27.1% 🔴Kentucky: 37.2% Educational ranking (U.S. News Best States, ~2025): 🔵California: #20 🔴Kentucky: #32 Healthcare ranking (U.S. News Best States, ~2025): 🔵California: ~#7 🔴Kentucky: #45 GDP (total, BEA ~2025): 🔵California: ~$4.25 trillion 🔴Kentucky: ~$307 billion GDP per capita (BEA ~2025/2024 data): 🔵California: ~$108,000 🔴Kentucky: ~$66,600 Teen birth rate (per 1,000 females 15-19, CDC 2023): 🔵California: 9.1 🔴Kentucky: 20.7 Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births, CDC 2023): 🔵California: 4.1 🔴Kentucky: 6.58 Poverty rate (official, Census ~2023): 🔵California: 12.0% 🔴Kentucky: 16.4%

@timothyjkolb Gas rose under Biden when the Ukraine/Russia war started and we started the embargo on Russian oil. Pretty sure that's what the OP was referring to.

COVID (well under way by the time Biden took office) caused a lot of economic churn as the economy righted itself... Trump started a war that cut off the world's access to 20% of the planet's petroleum supply. Sorry...hardly comparable, but thanks for playing.

"I wish I was there... These are amazing scenes." An emotional Tom Hiddleston reacts to Arsenal reaching the #UCL final 🥺🏆

@twainrichardson What a match today!!!

Let's go!!!!

@vashikoo Oh to be ten again seeing that movie for the first time on a giant screen.

Escalation is the engine of great action set pieces. Each step makes survival less likely. Tension compounds. The audience can’t relax because resolution is constantly delayed. That pressure creates anxiety and momentum.

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@MichaelAudio Needs more voices like you. Don't be a stranger!

@EricAddison I came back and stuck my head in the door and it was dark! Been away from the ol' twitter for a while - I might hang out if there's any interaction.

There used to be a very active and engaged #production & #postproduction community here. Feels like most of that has left. Just sending up a sign to see who's still here... #postchat

Imagine the hype if, I don't know, they'd made the ticket prices even remotely affordable for average people to attend. Imagine all the possible new fans the sport could have picked up.

@comebackshane The short film I made to get into film school (in the '90s) was shot Super8, transferred/telecined to SVHS, and edited to Hi8 at my buddy's place with a Sony basic edit controller. I don't miss that tech/process at all!

The first feature length film I edited was done tape-to-tape on betamax tapes...completely linearly, in 1999. All the footage was shot on Hi8 and transferred to Betamax. Yeah, it was VERY shoestring. And if we wanted to change something we had to go back and redo everything.

Two masters in MARTIN SCORSESE and STEVEN SPIELBERG talk about shooting a scene and the ever-present question: where do I put the camera?

@GoonerInCali Have to hold the lead for the 2nd half.

Man I love watching this team play!

@jasonbullocktv Nope - you're not alone in that.

Am I the only one who spent a good amount of time watching Turner Classic Movies & AMC when it was all about classic movies?