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During mediation this morning, i got light from Malachi 3:10-12 (NIV). To buttress that insight, the word "delightful or delightsome" will be used more to describe our new film when it debuts later this year. Save this. #S16 #AAA

Brando was paid $250,000 for this performance. Won Best Actor. Refused the Oscar. Then six years later, he used the exact same cue card technique on Superman and walked away with $19 million. Paramount didn't even want him for the role. By 1971, his last few movies had bombed. The studio said no. So director Francis Ford Coppola had to trick him into a screen test. He showed up at Brando's house with a camera, told him it was to "test equipment." Brando grabbed some cotton balls, stuffed them in his cheeks to look like a bulldog, put shoe polish in his hair to darken it, and just started acting. Coppola put that tape in with other auditions. The executives loved it. But they made Brando take a pay cut (he'd been charging $1.25 million per film since the early 1960s) and put up his own money as a guarantee he wouldn't cause problems on set. Now the cue card thing. Brando trained in something called the Stanislavski Method, which is an acting technique where you try to react as naturally as possible on camera instead of reciting rehearsed lines. His argument was that in normal conversation, nobody knows what they're about to say next. So when an actor memorizes dialogue and performs it, even if they're talented, it sounds slightly off. Brando said memorized lines had the rhythm of a nursery rhyme. So he'd read them fresh, every take. And you can actually see it in his face in The Godfather. He looks like he's thinking, choosing his words carefully. Because he was. That $6.5 million movie made over $250 million at the box office. Highest-grossing film ever made at the time. Paramount's parent company quadrupled its yearly profit off one movie. When Brando refused the Oscar, he sent an activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to the ceremony instead, to protest Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans. Then Superman happened, and the numbers get absurd. Brando's own agent described him to director Richard Donner in two sentences: "He hates to work and he loves money." So Brando got $3.7 million upfront plus a cut of every ticket sold, for 12 days of work. Twelve days. He appears on screen for less than 20 minutes in the finished movie. When the ticket money came in, Brando's total take was $19 million. Same cue card setup, just on a bigger budget. In one scene where his character sends baby Superman away from a dying planet, Brando's lines were taped to the baby's diaper. He looked down at the kid with what seemed like fatherly love. He was reading his dialogue off a prop infant. He even pitched that his character should appear as "a green bagel" with just his voice, so he wouldn't have to show up on camera at all. Meanwhile Christopher Reeve, the guy who played Superman and carried the whole movie, was paid $250,000 for both films combined. I love that Brando turned not memorizing his lines into the most profitable acting decision in Hollywood history. And both performances still hold up as some of the greatest ever put on film.

Actors, let's have it...????

Today reminds us of the price He paid for our redemption. His resurrection connotes our victory over every unpleasant situation in life. This consciousness sets us apart. Happy Easter fam! Enjoy.

Happy birthday to my nephew @macdarrow. He's the brain behind my movie soundtracks, posters and logo designs. You're a genius, dawg! I love you from the bottom of my heart. Have a good one, champ!

The sun will always rise when it's time. Nothing can stop it. Keep believing in yourself. It will happen ~ Habakkuk 2:2. #2026HarvestYear

Back to base. New week. New goals. New focus. New feathers. Gotcha! #YoungBilliMindset #2026HarvestYear

May the Lord continue to bless you @Real_Idcabasa

My name is Macdarrow. I am a Nigerian-born artist now based in the USA🇺🇸. My debut EP, ‘Love Notes’ is out now, and it’s a piece of my heart in music form. If you believe in supporting rising independent artists, I’d truly appreciate you sharing it and helping more people discover the sound. Every stream. Every repost. Every mention matters.

For the 3rd film, we will add stills to the existing mix. #FiveFilmsInFiveYears

An award-winning debut from Akinola Davies Jr. MY FATHER’S SHADOW is in theaters now in the US, UK, Canada, Italy, Ireland and March 6 in Spain. A MUBI Release.

@IAmDonawon brother, been trying to reach you. This is regarding business.

Homecoming.

@davido You didn't lose anything, buddy! Celebrating with others makes you a winner yourself. You've consistently sold out arenas, released hit tracks that will become classics and touched lives home and abroad in your own lil way. What's more to being a winner? God bless your wife.

I said baby listen we lost again let's not go she said 'Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat' we outside ✌️

I'm at a point in my life where I can make any film I like to make. But to get here though, you will make everything, knock so many doors, swallow a couple of nos and lick all shapes of asses. That's your passport to this point. Grind on! #2026HarvestYear #FiveForFive

Done with the script of our next title. Polishing it now. Going for the record. Watch me. #FiveFilmsJourney #2026HarvestYear

Happy New Year! #2026HarvestYear

Add Willis Ikedum to that list pls.

After 40, marriage becomes a necessity and not by choice or emotional state. Most times, it ends in grumpy papa or mama. Let somebody hold you this new year. Write it down. Take action. Don't let your past rob you of your future. Have a good one 👍 #2026HarvestYear

Replace capital with creative thinking ~ a wise man said. #2025NextLevel