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PROJECT HAIL MARY in IMAX 70mm, taken by projectionist Taylor Umphenour. This is what the movies were made for.

Kirsten Dunst's casting in ‘MINECRAFT 2’ is a full circle moment.

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.

I’m having a stroke

The way the “e” is designed across the three Dune movie logos is such a nice detail.

@maxp26 On est vraiment censés attendre comme ça jusqu’à décembre là ? 😰

Très bien, faisons comme ça, on sera là 🔥 #Dune

Are you ready? #DuneMovie Be the first to see the teaser, live on TikTok. Tomorrow at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

⚫️ L'acteur Bruno Salomone, bien connu des téléspectateurs pour son rôle de Denis Bouley dans la série familiale "Fais pas ci, fais pas ça" sur France 2, est décédé dimanche à 55 ans "après s'être battu contre une longue maladie", a annoncé son agent au nom de sa famille.

Le match a une gueule à se terminer sur une pénalité réussie de Thomas Ramos à la 82e.

Finally saw the new Disclosure Day trailer…I’m starting to actually believe the Close Encounters rumor.

Selon la Bibliothèque du Congrès, 75% des films américains réalisés durant l'époque du muet (1912-29) ont disparu. Parmi ceux-ci la mythique 1ère adaptation de Gatsby le magnifique, réalisée par Herbert Brenon (1926) à peine 1 an après la sortie du roman de F.Scott Fitzgerald.

First wave of people to see a new horror film: IT'S THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER MADE AND IT WILL CHANGE YOU. 2nd wave of people to see a new horror film: Eh, it's honestly not that great. Final wave of people to see a new horror film: It's quite possibly the worst movie ever made.

The thing is, you can only capture shots like this if you intentionally light your set in such a way that some things are lit and other things are in shadow, and possibly involve color. A lost art.

THANK YOU for loving #Hoppers this weekend! 💞 To celebrate, here's a 2D animation test we did back in 2020 for inspiration (by Lorenzo Fresta) 🦫🦫

Howard Hawks on the reason why he made "Rio Bravo" (1959) "'Rio Bravo' (1959) was made because I didn’t like a picture called 'High Noon' (1952). I saw 'High Noon' at about the same time I saw another western picture, and we were talking about western pictures, and they asked me if I liked it, and I said, “Not particularly.” I didn’t think a good sheriff was going to go running around town like a chicken with his head off asking for help, and finally his Quaker wife had to save him. That isn’t my idea of a good west ern sheriff. I said that a good sheriff would turn around and say, “How good are you? Are you good enough to take the best man they’ve got?” The fellow would probably say no, and he’d say, “Well, then I’d just have to take care of you.” And that scene was in 'Rio Bravo'. Then I said I saw another picture where the sheriff caught a prisoner, and the prisoner taunted him and made him perspire and worry and everything by saying, “Wait till my friends catch up with you.” And I said, “That’s a lot of non sense, the sheriff would say, ‘You better hope your friends don’t catch up with you, ’cause you’ll be the first man to die.’” While we were doing all this, they said, “Why don’t you make a picture the other way?” And I said, “OK,” and we made 'Rio Bravo' the exact opposite from High Noon and this other picture, I think it was called '3:10 to Yuma' (1957)." ("Hawks on Hawks", Joseph McBride, 1982) P.S: On this day, 67 years ago, "Rio Bravo" (1959) premiered in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

📺 Quel avenir pour la (potentielle) fusion entre @paramountplus et @HBOMaxFR ? Je suis repassé chez @bfmtech_ pour démêler tout ça avec les collègues Clement Lesaffre et Charles Martin👇

movies with trains are so fucking cool

Harrison Ford, known for his rugged dignity, just gave one of the most touching acceptance speeches I’ve ever heard. Just a man, reflecting on the incredible blessing it is to be able to do what you love and find your place in the world. I cried.

There are film entrances and then there's this moment where John Wayne changed film history. See STAGECOACH as Oscar goes West this afternoon during our day full of westerns.