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Making the Wheelchair I made a specialty prop for my new short film The Pretender. Took a great team to get it done! youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_l9W…

@HadrianHarker I hope your life gets to the point so it can end soon.

@aakashgupta I’m not sure that a 22-episode season necessarily has more depth than an eight-episode season. There’s something to be said for a focused story instead of padding it out.

Streaming platforms would rather cancel your favorite show at its peak than renew it for a full season. The economics explain exactly why. A single season of prestige TV costs $15 to $25 million per episode. At 8 episodes, that's $120 to $200 million. At 22 episodes, the old network standard, you're north of $400 million for one show. Netflix adds roughly 8 million subscribers per quarter. Each pays $15.49/month. One hit show that drives even 5% of those signups generates about $75 million annually. The show doesn't need to retain them forever. It needs to get them through the door. Retention is someone else's problem next quarter. This is why Netflix cancels shows that existing subscribers love. A show with a passionate fanbase of people already paying $15.49/month is worth exactly $0 in new revenue. A mediocre show that gets 2 million new sign-ups is worth $370 million over a year. The 8-episode season is a direct consequence of that math. Every dollar spent on episode 9 through 22 is a dollar that could fund a second show aimed at a second audience segment. Two 8-episode shows acquire more new subscribers than one 22-episode show retains. The only people who lose are fans who want depth. And they keep subscribing anyway.

@outonparole @MuseZack It sounds like a huge mismanagement issue they couldn’t green light anything.

@deadsparrow @MuseZack Nothing. Bad Robot's trajectory matches the pullback in streaming. They signed their deal back in 2019 when the space was flush with cash, then they couldn't get anything made when costs became a factor. BR's enormous headcount depended on HBO cash flow, now they have to resize

The Bad Robot building in Santa Monica with its green roof, chef, soundstage, workshops & 3D printers was the closest Hollywood got to a fancy Silicon Valley or SF tech headquarters. So seeing it sold off feels like a "bursting of the dot com bubble" moment for Los Angeles.

@TheMG3D They demand to control black people no matter what. #digitalblackface

It doesn’t matter how “real” it looks it will always be AI slop. There is no good reason why this should be able to exist at all, it will be only be used to spread misinformation or scam people.

@SKithiyon56925 Turn yourself off bot.

Ryan Coogler turning Animorphs into another Disney+ teen drama exposes Hollywood's creative bankruptcy. The original books had sharp body horror and moral weight about losing humanity to alien control. This watered-down version focused on relationships, curfews and high school chaos will likely strip out the darkness for safe identity-friendly messaging and predictable coming-of-age tropes. Another classic IP sacrificed on the altar of modern reboot formula.

EXCLUSIVE: An "Animorphs" TV series is in early development at Disney+ with Ryan Coogler executive producing. The series will be written by Bayan Wolcott and "follows a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School." wp.me/pc8uak-1lGYyn

@mtflipper Don’t feed the bots

@Diana_European The US has defended Europe - over two world wars, the entire Cold War, and continues to. The cognitive dissonance Europeans show for not reconciling current events being THEIR fault is astonishing. You’re better off on your own and never dragging us back in to your bullshit.

If Trump withdraws the US from NATO, Europe will quickly realize that it never needed it. The US was never going to defend Europe. They just want Europe to buy weapons and their stuff so they can continue controlling it.

@pharmdancer @JamesTate121 Hey bot. Go disable yourself.

@JamesTate121 Do the parents have same tax obligations as Americans? NO. Do the parents sign up for draft as Americans? NO. So, they are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

Kentanji Brown Jackson is too good for this court. I don’t have a transcript yet but she basically asked: “Didn’t they put birthright citizenship in the constitution in order to avoid this type of debate over who gets to claim a domicile?” And Sauer just stuttered. And then Sonia Sotomayor comes in with the “doesn’t this open the door to the government withdrawing citizenship from people who were born here?” More stuttering.

@NextBestPicture Promotion. Get you aware and interested in the show

And why would they release this before the actual show premieres??? Hmmm....I wonder

@Deep_Cut_Films Got to meet people in the real world. Stepping outside is good for real connection

I have made more real film connections in a year of owning a horror themed coffee shop than I have in 25+ years of being a screenwriter. So, just, food for thought.

@mikeastahl In the end he had In The Mood For Love which is a pillar of the genre in tone and aesthetic that will be counted among the classics.

Wong Kar-wai showed up to shoot "In the Mood for Love" without a finished script. He improvised with his actors for 15 months. Scenes were shot, discarded, reshot. The ending was not written until he found it in the hours and hours of footage they shot. Most of us will never have the time or money to do this. He did it his way. I prefer to have a map. What's your way?

@LL108 @smc429 Willfully ignorant.

@deadsparrow @smc429 Uh yea…and tons of people in detention centers in deplorable conditions and dying thats all them too….how is she not knowing?

Would MAGA kill their fellow Americans if Trump told them to?

I’ve watched this at least 20 times today

at Seattle #NoKingsDay 🤣

San Diego just raised the bar. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Dallas. St. Paul. DC. San Francisco. London. Tel Aviv. Scotland. Now San Diego. 7 million Americans. Counting. Every coast. Every state. Every timezone. Across the Atlantic. Across the Pacific. No Kings doesn’t need a permit to go global.

"No Kings" human banner at San Francisco's Ocean Beach on Saturday 🎥 Adam Pardee/for SFGATE

@S51890S Take a break bot. You’re tired.

@MarcoFoster_ How many were paid? The biggest bunch of sore losers.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in Boston, MA for a No Kings Day protest against convicted felon Donald Trump and his corrupt regime

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in Chicago, IL for a No Kings Day protest against weak failed president Donald Trump and his fascist regime

Hundreds of Thousands at the No Kings Rally in Boston. They Fucking Hate Trump!

No Kings Times Square, New York City