Blake Howard

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We desperately need @ArrowFilmsVideo to use that Warner Bros. license and release the full NC-17 cut in 4K. (We’d take the theatrical on a 4K disc and the uncut on a Blu-ray.)

Gonna try my hardest not to blow Glen off the screen with my sexual dynamism

the changing of the guard

At WBUR this week I reviewed PROJECT HAIL MARY, in which Ryan Gosling is so charming you can watch him talk to a rock for two hours and 36 minutes. wbur.org/news/2026/03/1…

wait lmao I only JUST now noticed why this specific shot looks so off

Hey @OneBlakeMinute the people want Bill Forsythe

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

one thing about OBAA is it’s so nice to see Eric Schweig on screen again. he was so magnetic in Last of the Mohicans and is even better here.

Our beloved sensei.

have any of you ever considered liking two movies

The Oscars In Memoriam ignored him but I cannot. He was my friend. I put him in five films. In early January I buried James “PJ” Ransone after he committed suicide… He was a complex, funny, talented, and undeniably reckless person. He was wildly alive and deeply loved. I know he said some infuriating things online, but the last time I saw him, he cried with regret for all of that. “I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings,” he said. Please don’t trash him here. He is dearly missed.

Kürt Köbajnsson

This is actually the actress I thought of when ONE BATTLE won best casting. So many great pops in small roles

Amy Madigan and Ed Harris in 1986

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from SINNERS with one of the best versions of The Rocky Road to Dublin I've ever heard

I will shamelessly share this clip every time it comes across my TL