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Fabulous story for the industry but the secret sauce no one is picking up on is that Ryan has an uncanny ability to identify GOOD scripts. Even his non blockbuster films are better than most everything released in a given year. It starts with the writing.

I'd like to revisit to Charlie Kirk phenomenon. Here's a guy who said, the Civil Rights Act of the 60's was a mistake that was turned into an anti-white weapon. He once said, "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified." He went as far as to called Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (a black woman) a 'diversity hire' saying she wasn't qualified to serve on the court despite her extraordinary judicial experience. He was a vile racist, who was embraced by this administration, millions adore him and he was given a National Day of Remembrance and flags were lowered to half staff. Yet, the same wasn't done for Civil Rights leader (Rev. Jessie Jacskon). I won't ask why or how Charlie Kirk was embraced this way. I already know. So when I say that everything in America is about race. This is what I mean.

Andy Weir wrote a novel nobody wanted, posted it on his blog for free, then sold it on Kindle for 99 cents. It sold 35,000 copies in a month. This weekend, the movie based on his third book opened at $141 million worldwide. Weir was a software engineer who started posting The Martian chapter by chapter on his website in 2009. Readers asked him to put it on Kindle. Within days of it hitting the bestseller list, he had a literary agent, a publishing deal, and Fox bought the film rights. The Martian cost $108 million to make and grossed $630 million. Drew Goddard wrote that screenplay. He wrote this one too. Project Hail Mary cost nearly double at $200 million. And the studio behind it isn’t Fox. It’s Amazon MGM, which exists because Amazon wrote an $8.45 billion check to buy MGM in 2021. Four years and several expensive flops later, this is the first time that bet has looked smart. Amazon MGM’s 2026 started ugly. A Melania documentary earned $16 million on a $40 million budget. Crime 101 managed $65 million worldwide against $90 million in production costs. Then Hail Mary opened to $80.5 million domestic, the second-largest non-franchise debut in a decade, behind only Oppenheimer’s $82.4 million. Here’s what makes Amazon’s math viable: 200 million people pay for Amazon Prime, mostly for shipping. Prime Video is included. Every movie they put in theaters is a marketing campaign for a streaming service their customers already have. Their distribution chief said it in 2024: if they cover marketing costs theatrically, the movie pays for itself again on streaming. Traditional studios need a film to gross 2.5x its budget. Amazon just needs to cover the ad spend. The film earned a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and an “A” CinemaScore (an audience exit poll that predicts how long a movie keeps selling tickets). If it tracks anything like The Martian, which had a similar audience profile and word of mouth, it could push past $600 million globally. Same screenwriter adapting both books, for a studio that didn’t exist when the first one came out.

@altfor_schaefer @milehighami Moving like a rabbit on meth, so fast and quick twitch reactions... That is genetics

@milehighami Football- the meta for running backs for a few years now has literally been small guys that can move like a rabbit on meth , theres definitely short and average height receivers too, not to mention qb is mostly football iq

name 1 sport thats not a genetic lottery.

If ever Sky needs to cut to the fans, it was this goal Show us the player run off, sure... But then we need to see the fans

@mattjohnson333 Nah, I agree. Just an awful lot of our fans slag him off and the boos when we did a sub in the 65th min were because he stayed on.

@WritingTed Just honest opinion. He was the one player that got me worried. Partly because he looked lively and positive, plus we had a back up cm playing right back for the first time. Keeper looked decent for you tbf.

Once again, opposition fans are saying TC is our only real threat.

@BillOReilly The US didn't get involved because Hitler was evil. They got involved because he declared war on them. Dont try and claim anything other than that

Today, Iran has replaced Germany as a frightening threat, and, incredibly, Europe still looks away, apparently not absorbing the fact that at least 50 million human beings died because evil was ignored in 1936. billoreilly.com/b/Accepting-Ev…

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

@kale_sushr90739 @altfor_schaefer @milehighami Yes, they have good genes. It's not hard to understand. The quality levels between the pros even a division apart is massive. They have a natural advantage. And give over, you rep footballers as your pic, you'd love to be a pro footballer

@WritingTed @altfor_schaefer @milehighami because I don't want to?? what is this nonsense? if a child trains since he is 5 and becomes an elite footballer, what has genetics got to do with it? you can be good while not be genetically gifted. by your logic every single footballer that makes it to the top has good genes?

@VagusInParadiso @milehighami His pace, power, and skill is genetic lottery. His knees meant he missed a big chunk of his career, but the rest is because he had won the same lottery

@milehighami Literally football. R9, arguably top 3 of the best footballers who's ever lived had a TERRIBLE genetic lottery. Knees prone to injury & hypothyroidism made it super easy for him to gain weight and injure himself. And he still made pretty much everyone look like amateurs.

@KoldoTheGoStone @kale_sushr90739 @altfor_schaefer @milehighami Not everyone can be as smart as Stephen Hawking just by studying. Same for sport. You could practice 10,000 hours and you'd never be as good as Messi etc, it's because they've been gifted by nature... A genetic lottery if you will.

@WritingTed @kale_sushr90739 @altfor_schaefer @milehighami well, training is one thing why

@kale_sushr90739 @altfor_schaefer @milehighami Why aren't you a professional footballer then?

@WritingTed @altfor_schaefer @milehighami ??? you don't need a genetic lottery to be good at football?? (soccer if you may) and you can easily develop/ increase your reaction speed you don't necessarily need good genetics for it.

@CesareMmaITA @SpacerSentinel @altfor_schaefer @milehighami Either way, football (or soccer) is still a genetic lottery. Those at the top of their sport are freaks of nature being able to do what they do

@SpacerSentinel @WritingTed @altfor_schaefer @milehighami He is saying "soccer"

@altfor_schaefer @milehighami If you don't think the latter 3 of them aren't a genetic lottery, you've clearly never played them. The reaction speed for them alone is enough

@milehighami Golf baseball hockey football

@JackMalone444 It's not a real quote

Just in time for the local elections. Call me a cynic if you want.

@g0dfr0y Don't believe everything you read on the internet - Abraham Lincoln

They’re prepping the narrative for the lockdowns right now.

Trump and Robert Mueller were born two years apart, both into wealthy families and both with private school upbringings. Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam and became a parasitic real estate baron. Mueller volunteered for service, graduated from Officer Candidate School and Ranger School, was wounded in combat, and received a Bronze Star w/ Valor for rescuing one of his wounded soldiers under intense enemy fire. And that pretty much crystallizes both the difference between the two and Trump's toxic jealousy toward Mueller.

@deirdreheenan I actually despise Laura Kuenssberg almost as much as I do the politicians she panders to. Pathetic excuse for a journalist

An indignant Laura Kuenssberg asks Communities Secretary Steve Reed. "why would Israel say something that is not true." Give me strength, where do you even start with this? #BBCLauraK

@TiceRichard Will you or your loved ones go to fight, Dickie? No? Then shut up

I told the PM in Commons 3 weeks ago that Iran is a permanent threat to UK Now truth is out that their ballistic missile range is much longer than many believed Now even Starmer must realise that Tehran has to be properly disarmed by US and Israel telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/0…