Ricky Flicks

movies changed my life… and now I get to share that with the world it’s not what I do, it’s who I am 😊

🚨🚨 NEWS ABOUT THE ONE PIECE ANIME REMAKE FROM THE CEO OF WIT STUDIO! George Wada: “The reason we decided to produce a remake of the One Piece anime comes from a reflection by the author, Eiichiro Oda. He pointed out that the work has become very long and rich in detail, and since it began a long time ago, the new generation—used to modern productions—does not necessarily feel the same enthusiasm toward the older animation. He felt a certain regret about this and wanted younger audiences to be able to discover and follow the story. This motivated me to recreate this legendary tale using modern techniques, adapted to today’s audience. The goal is to use modern animation technologies to bring the work back to life and make it accessible to a new generation of fans around the world. Our studio is not just remaking panels—this remake will be dense and impactful, without unnecessary stretching. It will combine visual enjoyment, strong storytelling, and flawless pacing. During its original broadcast, the series aired on Sunday mornings at 8 a.m., which is considered a children’s time slot. At Wit Studio, we are proud to produce remarkable works such as Attack on Titan, Spy x Family, and Vinland Saga. These are very distinctive creations. We want to approach One Piece with the same strength and level of quality, while fully respecting Toei Animation and their remarkable work. The greatest challenge in creating a work like One Piece lies in the vastness of its fanbase and in surpassing their expectations. Over the years, fans have built their own vision of the story, and we want to create something that goes beyond that imagination. 🔥 The most important thing is to understand what the original author, Eiichiro Oda, wants, and to find the best way to present what he wishes to show or express. By collaborating with him, we will achieve the final result. This work is very dear to Oda, and he knows it better than anyone—his vision will guide us. With Netflix, we now realize that our works are followed worldwide. We are no longer just competing within the Japanese market—we are competing with global giants like Hollywood and Disney.”

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.

bad bunny beating taylor swift with a spanish language album from 4 years ago, oh un verano sin ti you will always be famous

Ludwig Göransson is a 3-time Oscar winner for his musical scores: • ‘Black Panther’ (2018) • ‘Oppenheimer’ (2023) • ‘Sinners’ (2025) See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

I’ve said this before, but if Sentenced to Be a Hero wasn’t airing in such a stacked season, it’d be way bigger than it already is. Though it’s already pretty successful.

• Faye was controlling multiple mythologies • Kratos will be a boss in the middle of the game • Other Norse gods will be bosses including Thor • With the Axe you can freeze rivers and lakes? • The Greek remakes are huge on scale with each game releasing separately

Christopher Nolan says that the ‘SINNERS’ river dance scene (“Rocky Road to Dublin”) is “the most spectacular musical inversion since Kubrick's “Singin in the Rain” from ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’

Ryan Coogler becomes the second Black filmmaker to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars He joins Jordan Peele, who was the first.

Full performance of 'I Lied To You' from 'Sinners' at the Oscars

Ryan Coogler accepts his first-ever Oscar to a standing ovation “To my parents who are here, thank you for making me believe in myself… Memories are all we have. I hope we give you some great ones.”

Eiichiro Oda has written the secret behind the ONE PIECE Treasure on a piece of paper sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Once the series ends, the truth will be revealed.

No quiero volver a escuchar ninguna otra comparación con bad bunny jamás y nunca. No tiene competencia. Nadie pero NADIE más podrá hacer 4 BILLONES en la HISTORIA DE LA MÚSICA. Muy buenas noches 🇵🇷🐐❤️‍🔥

‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ is officially getting an IMAX release 🎥

The fact some people are actually mad about Faye possibly being the protagonist in the next God of War project is insane to me - and I feel like it proves what people have been saying for years about misogyny in gaming. Faye isn't just a random side character being forced to the front. She's a giant. She defied Odin, protected her people and set pretty much the entire Norse saga in motion. She chose Kratos and raised Atreus. The last two games happened because of her choices. But to some people, none of that matters. It doesn't matter how justified she is, how central she is to the lore or how much narrative potential she has - she isn't a grizzly man with a beard, so it's "pandering". These are the same people that claim to care about the integrity of a story whilst ignoring the character who is arguably the foundation of it. If the rumours are true, I'm personally excited to see it play out and get deeper context for the decisions she made before everything unfolded.

given the political climate i truly believe bad bunny gave the greatest halftime show of all time.

Bad Bunny performing "El Apagón" at the #SuperBowl.

“PORQUE LO SOÑÉ MIL VECES DENTRO DE MI HABITACIÓN, ABUELA BENDICIÓN HOY METÍ OTRO GOAL, ME FUE CABRÓN NO SÉ SI ME VISTE EN EL SUPER BOWL” – Bad Bunny lo soñó, lo manifestó y hoy lo va a cumplir ❤️‍🔥🇵🇷

¡Benito la rompió! Es la resistencia. Por el orgullo de ser latino y cantar en español 👊👊👊

BENITO. 📸: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

God Bless America. God Bless Puerto Rico. That was one of the most emotional / beautiful things I’ve seen. #SuperBowl