Packrip Ewing

it’s Friday night in 1997 your three best friends are over and you have four N64 controllers a fresh cheese pizza and two liter bottle of Cherry Coke is on the kitchen table you just unlocked Oddjob as a playable character life is good

Today is the one year anniversary of my dad passing away from cancer. It is also my birthday. Anyone who's lost a parent knows it doesn’t really get easier. You become stronger, you learn to live, but it doesn't get easier. In some ways, it's been a great year. Donate is pushing forward, I'm healthier than I've ever been, and I'm feeling optimistic about the industry I've given my life to. In other ways, it’s been the worst: trying to mentally cope with the loss of my father while remaining present for my family and team has been harder than I anticipated. I don’t know if everything happens for a reason. Maybe we just retrofit meaning in times of sadness in order to find solace in the helplessness of tragedy. Or maybe life really is random and things just happen because they happen. For my birthday today, I am running a fundraiser on Donate for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. My relationship with St. Jude and the people there has been a blessing, and I will always do what I can to help them. It's been the honor of my life to be part of this community, this platform, the friendships, the spaces, the conferences, just everything. Without you all, I would not have been able to make it through this year. Here’s the link to contribute donate.gg/campaigns/leap…

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@PackripEwing @NextBestPicture You lost me when Green Book wasn’t last place

How would you rank the last ten #Oscar Best Picture winners? 2016: Moonlight 2017: The Shape Of Water 2018: Green Book 2019: Parasite 2020: Nomadland 2021: CODA 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once 2023: Oppenheimer 2024: Anora 2025: One Battle After Another

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There's a reason Dune 3 looks like nothing else out right now. The first two movies were shot on digital cameras (same basic technology as your phone, just massively more expensive). Dune 3 was shot on actual, physical film. Here's what that means. For Parts One and Two, cinematographer Greig Fraser captured everything digitally, ran the footage through a physical 35mm strip, and scanned it back to digital. It was a three-step workaround to make a digital image feel more organic, more textured. Fraser himself said the process "hasn't really happened before in commercial films." Villeneuve tested real film cameras for Part One and rejected them because the footage looked "too nostalgic" for sci-fi. Digital was too clean. So they split the difference. For Part Three, they threw that whole system out. New cinematographer Linus Sandgren (Oscar winner for La La Land, also shot No Time to Die and Babylon) replaced Fraser after Fraser committed to shooting all four of Sam Mendes' upcoming Beatles biopics. Sandgren loaded actual 65mm film into the cameras. 65mm means the strip of film running through the camera is about 3.5x larger than standard movie film, so it captures way more detail and has a natural depth that digital sensors struggle to replicate. Some sequences were shot on full-size IMAX film, the largest format that exists. One exception: the desert. Villeneuve kept those scenes on digital IMAX because, in his words, he loves "the brutality" of digital in sand and heat. So the interiors and ceremonial sequences have the warmth of real film grain. The desert stays harsh and unforgiving. Two visual textures inside one movie, and that contrast is a big part of why the trailer footage feels so different from the first two. The whole thing started as a scheduling accident. Fraser left for the Beatles project. Sandgren walked in, pushed for real film, and Villeneuve, who'd rejected it twice before, finally said yes. The franchise's best-looking entry exists because a cinematographer was pulled away to work on a biopic about a band that broke up in 1970.

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Fun fact: The trailer releases for Dune 1 & 2 both happened at the bottom of bear markets. Bitcoin went on to have bull runs that led to new all time highs and lasted for years each time. The trailer for Dune 3 released today. Run it back turbo.