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Well look at the director. You have been graciously gifted $5M to produce a 3 character drama about the life of a mute one legged yak farmer who reflects back to the quiet intimate moments of his life. Doug fights hard for a chance to direct it you allow him and 2 months later Doug flees the set and hides behind his agent because he fucked up your movie so catastrophically it’s going to take $200M to fix it

@TheWrap Pretending a bitcoin biopic would cost as much or more than Avatar without using AI is such a stupid lie.

We visited the set of Doug Liman's $70 million AI-made movie 'Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi.' - It stars Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, Pete Davidson and Isla Fisher - AI is being used to fill in the backgrounds, sets and even lighting - There were traditional wardrobe and props departments, and production employed 107 cast members, 100 shoot crew and 54 non-shoot crew - Producers say the film would have cost $300 million if made traditionally Much more — including photos — in our exclusive set visit: thewrap.com/creative-conte…

Ok..so apparently with the help of the adderal I took to get some other work done, I decided to do a side quest and write you a novel about the plight of up and coming actors on television. I think…l literally can’t remember what the point I was trying to make so I’ll just leave with: …And this is why I am always right. …and that’s why what you said makes you a terrible person. Shame on you. …and in the end its the friends we meet along the way …why is it always the Jews with you. ….Happy birthday. One of those should wrap up the point I made above. Have a good night! 😂

Not particularly, no. Things flipped a few years ago once it was clear network TV was in its final stages of death. Back in the day, with 24 episode seasons, insane packaging fees, and hundreds of millions to be made on syndication, an up and coming actor on a hit show had almost no say in how to maneuver their career. Their agents weren’t letting them go anywhere, especially if the show was nearing or past the life changing 100 episode syndication mark. A 24 episode season took 6 to 7 months to shoot, then a couple months of downtime before prepping the next one. Enough room to squeeze in an indie or a supporting role. Not enough to headline a tentpole, which needs 4 to 5 months and a star who isn’t contractually owned by someone else. So if lightning struck and an actor landed a career changing movie role, network lawyers swooped in with the exclusivity clause. The network wasn’t going to cut a breakout character from next season over a movie. The role went to someone else. The streets are littered with Tom Sellecks. Cast as Indiana Jones, the network said no, and it went to Harrison Ford. NBC told Michael J. Fox he couldn’t do Back to the Future. He begged, promised to shoot both at the same time, and worked himself into the hospital for exhaustion. Jessica Biel nearly got Angela in American Beauty. 7th Heaven was horrified and forbid her from taking any outside work, even family friendly roles. She lost out on one star making role after another until she did the one thing she knew would get her fired: broke her morality clause and went topless in a men’s magazine. They cut her loose, she jumped straight into Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and became a star. For most of that talent, it wasn’t that they wanted to leave the show that made them famous. TV was a steady paycheck and most would happily come back after a hiatus shoot. They were being forced to turn down every advancement the industry offered them because the network refused to compromise on anything. Then the actor would get resentful and leave, and as a parting gift, the network would plant “difficult to work with” stories. Anyone who was about to take them to the next level reads the trades, sees what their last employer said, and moves on. That’s why most of the up and comers from that era faded out. Very few broke through. Now, with 10 episode seasons, no syndication money, and residuals that barely register, an actor who becomes the next big thing on a show immediately puts one foot out the door. Any pushback on outside work and they’re gone. $100K a season or the lead in a $200M movie? A shot at an Oscar, or stuck shooting season five of an HBO hit still playing Cindy the ditzy slutty cheerleader who can’t keep her top on. Yes, the role made her famous. But how many chances in a life do you get offered to play Harriet Tubman? Some shows figure it out. Game of Thrones worked around Emilia Clarke and she came back happy every time. Most don’t. Most are still set in their ways and genuinely shocked when the actor walks, agent holding the door, because TV doesn’t pay the way it used to and, folded into influencer culture, they take their entire fanbase with them. Ironically, once they leave, they still face the same backslide into obscurity the old guard did. The leverage flipped but the landing didn’t. They get one or two shots to live up to the next big thing crown, and if those don’t land, they’re out.

Having seen none of Euphoria I do respect the cast less for returning for season 3. You’re movie stars now, going back to TV is like visiting your old high school teachers when home from college. Zendaya needs to study Katherine Heigl’s exit from Grey’s Anatomy, burn some bridges

@XXRRPP123 @Provokatov Every sentence in this post is breathtaking in its lack of self awareness

@Provokatov Stop simping. She's a whore. She doesn't know you so why are you even wasting your energy. Her cheekbones are underformed. If she didn't have big tits she would be a 4 at best. What is wrong with men these days

Sydney Sweeney is hotter than 99% of anybody you know, so saying she’s ‘ugly’ is like saying the people in your life are some of the ugliest motherf*ckers you’ve ever laid eyes on.

@Biancaworlddd Oh they don’t want to hear that. They made up a villain in their head and got mad at it - any evidence to the contrary will be waved off as they eagerly wait to watch his next movie.

Again Sean baker has done nothing but make movies about sex work and bring awareness to it yall so sick in the head ….every female that has worked with Sean baker has praised him

@rslavenmarriage @TwinkTheory Red rocket is a hard to classify as positive or not. It’s a light hearted sex comedy about a porn star trying to manipulate a young woman into joining him in the porn industry

@TwinkTheory I was thinking this too but i’ve only seen Anora and Florida Project but there’s no way Red Rocket is sex positive right haha

Idk about Sean Baker but i thought Sam Levinson is clearly not being sex positive in Euphoria? The OnlyFans with Cassie is clearly making fun of the idea and archetype of women who do succumb to easy money with OF

You just brilliantly created the next hit tv series and just casually just tossed it in the replies. Ozarks meets Heated Rivalries - add in murder and a blonde cocaine addicted pop star named Chardonnay caught in the middle. Write your pitch, walk this shit to HBO, Hulu and I guess Netflix and make your millions.

@Bull_Junk_ @beyoncegarden Thanks for the translation, I wasn’t quite following and thought he meant Defensive Linebacker and that he was a money guy for the Mexican Cartel. I was way off.

this is actually kinda crazy omg😭

@Tee30925367 @MatthewFerrari You totally just learned what an algorithm was today didn’t you? 😂 Just sitting in the bushes waiting for the right post to pounce on and show off what you learned

did Euphoria start the recent trend of self proclaimed fans of a show hating every aspect of the show they watch every week

😂 it literally makes no sense. It’s like - Sydney takes off her top White men stand up and cheer Chad: oh my god it’s like the 90s again! Sydney plays a character on a tv show who dates and has sex with a black man. Sydney takes off her top Paul: this is just…degeneracy. Fatherless behavior Brad: it’s the Jews. They’re forcing her to whoredom. Daniel: Beautiful blonde white women with very large breasts should not be exposing themselves on film and television.

@hayasaka_aryan You just crowned her as based like last year cuz she had them cannons out and now yall talking about Jews

Sam Levinson ✡️ the creator of Euphoria constantly humiliates the blonde blue eyed woman by making her have sex with black men and making her get raped, the show is also based on an Israeli show about having sex with minors

@Alest22 @OtmShank84 @hayasaka_aryan No unfortunately it is not. do you not believe white women are responsible for their own choices?

@OtmShank84 @hayasaka_aryan It’s a perfectly coherent point

Honestly it was probably the best possible way to close that chapter and move on. There’s really no story to continue on 1. Kill off the character. If it was recent it would loom heavy over the show and constantly need to be addressed if it was in the other 4 prior years in the time jump people would have mourned and moved on and would be odd to be like Lexie: guys remember when Fez died Rue: omg Lexie, that was 4 years ago. girl move on 2. The Stanford Blanch: the sex and the city sequel “and just like that” had a popular supporting character who the actor portrayed him died IRL. The show opted to keep him alive by saying the reason he is gone was one day out of the blue he left his husband of a decade and moved to Japan to manage influencers then later in the series became a monk. Each time he wasn’t brought up was followed by someone showing a picture of the actor with badly photoshopped Japanese landmarks behind him. I think no one wants the “I heard from Fez!” followed by bad photoshopped pictures of Angus waving to the camera being chased by the police Fez in jail for 30 year from the events of the last season makes the most sense character wise because death or jail was his enviable fate. and probably the gentlest way to respectfully close all his character arcs and the character himself 🤷

@PopBase Thirty years is such a lazy, disrespectful way to handle his exit. It feels like they just gave up on finding a meaningful way to honor the character. This is bottom tier writing and a total slap in the face to the fans.

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 reveals that Angus Cloud’s character Fezco is in prison for 30 years.

This was so dead on. I love Stockard and had always been curious what her take of Lois would be. I can see why it came down to her and Margot and I totally can see why they went with Margot. Now we just need to see the opposite end of this and find the notorious Bo Derek audition 😂

I like her, but I think her personality was so strong that it would have overwhelmed their relationship. Our Lois was strong, too, determined, focused, but she saw something sweet in Clark. Their chemistry was different, more believable. Stockard Channing was a no nonsense power house. Her Lois could never have been with someone she considered tame.

Stockard Channing almost played Lois Lane in SUPERMAN. This is her screen test with Christopher Reeve.

@ChaseMit @ImKingGinger It’s always the ones who would not survive a single day working BTL on an actual film set who believe what they think about unions needs to be shared or holds value.

@ImKingGinger “I hate when people get paid fairly for their labor” See how fucking stupid that sounds you dumb bitch

Unions are the worst thing to happen to Hollywood. Every time SAG-AFTRA or IATSE negotiates, they come away with higher day rates, bigger health and pension contributions, stricter overtime. I get why workers want that stuff. Better healthcare, more money. Sounds good right? But someone pays for it. You do. The subscriber. Union labor costs go up, production budgets go up, streamers raise prices. Netflix went from $7.99 to $22.99. Disney+ started at $6.99 and nearly tripled. The content didn’t get three times better. The labor costs went up. A massive chunk of that is union negotiations. I’ve been building LOOR for five years. I’ve sat in rooms with producers who literally cannot make what they want to make because the second you go union, your $500K budget becomes $2M. Same script. Same locations. Same shoot days. But now you need a union crew, union rates, union overtime, union pensions, union health fund, and paperwork that gets its own line item. What happens? The mid-budget film dies. The creative risks stop. Everything becomes franchise IP because that’s all that justifies the overhead. The union system doesn’t protect creativity. It kills it. It makes filmmaking so expensive that only massive corporations can play. The future of filmmaking is a punk rock garage band. Five people with cameras and AI tools. No permission. No $350/day minimums. No forced turnaround penalties. No trust fund you’ll never see because you didn’t hit enough hours. The best music ever made came from garages. Kids who couldn’t afford studios. People the industry said weren’t good enough. Same thing is happening in film right now. The tools exist. Cameras are cheap. AI fills gaps that used to need six crew members. Distribution is a URL. The free market is doing to Hollywood unions what Spotify did to record labels. Not overnight. But slowly, making them irrelevant because creators realized they don’t need the gatekeepers or the bureaucracy. I’m not saying union members are bad people. The system itself has become a cost disease that makes content worse and more expensive for everyone. The people who suffer most aren’t the A-list actors with residual checks. It’s independent filmmakers who can’t afford to start because the barrier to entry is artificially inflated by labor rules written for a completely different era. The future is non-union. The future is small teams. The future is creators who own what they make and don’t owe a percentage to an organization that doesn’t even know their name.

@Raymoondo16 @aakashgupta Ah. Ok. I misread what you wrote then had me “nuh uh” and I had me flashing back to 2010 casting lore sit you down and like some old man to tell you the 4 hour story what REALLY HAPPENED 😂 That was actually my bad.

@ericpereira @aakashgupta We all know how the original first audition tapes go. What she stated was this was her first audition WITH Martin in person. Of course its not the first time he saw her.

The 22-year-old in this scene made $347,000 for the entire film. DiCaprio made multiples of that. Her audition was supposed to end with a kiss. She slapped DiCaprio across the face instead. The room went silent. She thought she'd be arrested. Scorsese called it a "thunderclap" and offered her the role on the spot. She almost quit acting after this movie. The fame disoriented her so badly that she told interviewers she reconsidered the entire profession. Her mother talked her out of leaving. Instead of leaving, she started a production company. LuckyChap Entertainment launched in 2014, one year after Wolf of Wall Street. She co-produced I, Tonya, which earned her first Oscar nomination. Then Promising Young Woman. Then Saltburn. Then she walked into Warner Bros., told them Barbie would make a billion dollars, and they laughed. She hired Greta Gerwig, took the lead role, held backend producer points, and the film made $1.44 billion. Her personal take was $50 million. Highest-paid actress in Hollywood that year. Three Oscar nominations. A production company with more critical hits than most studios. A net worth that went from a $347K Scorsese paycheck to $75 million in 12 years. The girl in this scene figured out something most actors never do: showing up on screen is a depreciating asset. Owning the thing that puts you on screen is the only durable position. She built the escape hatch before she needed one.

No I just know a lot of the behind the scenes details because I worked at a film studio when The Wolf of Wall Street was being made, and the entire production was constant industry talk in Hollywood, from how NC-17 they were going to l make it to the casting to the mess involving its biggest financer. I wrote all of that because that is the truth of how she was hired. She went through hell to get that part. Apparently I made the mistake of thinking the real casting story was more interesting than what her PR team feeds her to say. And that my bad.

@ericpereira @aakashgupta Homienyou wrote all that just cause I told you what shebpers9nally said about the audition on a podcast. . You're going way too deep on a story she confirms thay she was hired on the spot

That’s a nice story and all but that not the reality of how she was cast or how $100M movies cast female leads to an A-list actor. Every hot blonde actress in Hollywood wanted that role because being the female lead in a Martin Scorsese movie can do amazing things for you career wise and Martin casts with a wide net he as a knack for seeing remarkable talent in unexpected or unknown actress. The reality is Margot self taped, was selected from the pile and offered an audition with the B-actress selection which were actresses selectee from the self tapes who were unknown or had only few credits. She won that round and tested with the big talent agencies up and coming actress submissions like Amber Heard, she won that round then leveled up and had to audition against the name/famous actresses the producers and financiers wanted. She won that round and every round after until she was in the top 6 and from there they had to do chemistry reads with leo and that’s when the slap happened from there it was the top 3. Then Blake Livley dropped out and it was down to her and another actress who was an up and comer. Casting, Martin and Leo loved her but the producers and financiers kept pushing for a name because it’s a $100M because do you want the girl people have heard of and made a couple of successful movies or the unknown Australian soap opera actress whose network show was a expensive disaster but is clearly perfect for the role. She had to do a final audition for the producers and financiers with Leo and let Martin go with his gut and she was hired. All that ☝️ This is not an exciting story to tell about your big break. Telling a story about the chemistry read slap and making it sound like her first audition is way more exciting. At some point in the process it was clear to Marty the part was her’s but Wolf was an independent movie where leverage is on the producers and financiers so he had to entertain round and round of auditions where as with a studio movie he gets blank checks to do and cast who he wants with no push back

@ericpereira @aakashgupta She confirmed on Smartless that she was hired after the first audition with Scorsese. The "slap" audition. Leo was doing quite a bit of improv and she decided to let it fly and ended the scene with the slap They caught her in the elevator, called her back in and was offered.

I noted that. Though the story of the robe is PR softening. It was already a nude scene in the script but Martin respectfully gave her the option of how she wanted to be filmed and she chose to do the scene as it written on the page. Margot being offered to do the scene in a chaste modest robe that she rejected was just creative re-telling of the story so it sounded empowering and not sleazy as the reality of it the options offered to her were sexy lingerie to topless.

@ericpereira @aakashgupta Martin Scorsese said she could wear a robe but Margot insisted on the nudity

There’s a few but the best one was a 11 episode podcast because it’s the most honest and balanced and deep dived in full detail what happened, how it happened and the aftermath save for one HUGE omission which strangely no documentary or even this podcast brings up and probably the biggest scandal that came out of the whole thing: In 1984 Vanessa Williams (yes that one) won the title of being the first black Miss America. It was a huge deal when it happened then a couple months into her reign a photographer found the negatives of a softcore girl on girl photoshoot he took of her while she was in college. Playboy and Penthouse magazine had a bidding war for the pictures, Penthouse won and published them in their magazine and the whole was a huge national scandal. Everyone was talking about it. It was in the news for months. Vanessa was stripped of her title and the issue of penthouse magazine that had the pictures was (and remember this) the most sold issue of any magazine (including people and time magazine) in history and this record still holds to this day. Something like 10M copies of the magazine were brought by the general public. People were that fascinated by the Miss America scandal. Most people brought the penthouse issue for the novelty of it so they didn’t really care who was that issues Penthouse Pet which like Playboy and their Playmates were the magazines main centerfold. The centerfold was Traci Lords. 15 year old Traci Lords. Penthouse unwittingly sold child pornography to MILLIONS of people. When it came out 3 years later that Traci was underage the world was completely shocked to hell but because time and the fact most of the people who brought the Vanessa Williams issue had didn’t really care who the penthouse pet was in the issue they had no idea or connect that they unknowingly had cp. Even worse fearing all the lawsuits that would happen Penthouse never did a public recall of the issue just quietly scrubbed anything to do with her. So the public had no idea until 7 years later after the story broke what they had and probably still had (that issue was considered a collectors item because of Vanessa Williams) in their house and could have been legitimately arrested for having. You would assume something like that would be huge but it’s completely bizarre it’s the one thing save for a few articles no one brings up. Here’s the podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/2cPBbj…

@ericpereira @Saveydro dawgggg wtf this shit is insane actually. is there like a documentary or something on this???

A buddy of mine was at a convention w Traci Lords and said a dude in line brought her a stack of VHS to sign and most of it was her underage work. He was arrested on the spot

Oh dig deeper into the story Wikipedia doesn’t even scratch the surface. it’s one of the most insane stories you will ever rabbit hole down. Shit like: - The FBI was fully aware she was underage and spent 1 year building a case and 2 years sweeping it under the rug because she didn’t have a “fake ID” but an actual legitimate government issued drivers license and passport because she used the birth certificate and social security number of the woman whose identity she stole that because the woman had a passing resemblance to Traci, she was able to update a license and passport with her picture. So everyone who hired her legitimately had no idea she was a minor and the case would fall back on the governments sloppiness and mishandling when it came to issuing identification documents and caused a top to bottom change and restructuring of the DMV and passport issuing divisions that’s still in effect to this day - the guy she was dating at the time had a nervous breakdown because in the 2 years they dated he was under the belief he was dating a 22 year old woman and not a teenage girl who just turned 18 - when the scandal broke out most distributors threw away and buried anything to do with her in the deepest dumpsters they could find but there were several who still tried to cash in. Because several of her biggest movies were funded by the mob as a way to launder money the last thing they wanted was the government to start connecting them to what happened. So mob issued one warning for them to stop. The distributors and owners of the places stocking her movies ignored them and soon bodies were turning up in trunks of cars. After 4 or 5 hits all that grinded to a halt. Even beyond that her films are considered cp there are 3 of them for years that would probably get you killed for having or selling. And it gets even crazier from there. The whole thing changed the porn industry, parts of the government, ran the mob out of porn, changed FBI investigation standards, put on blast the IRS and their weaponizing tax evasion, the laws on hiring 1099 independent contractors and adult and mainstream world wide film distribution and legalities.

@Saveydro i just went and learned who that was and what happened with her after reading this now i want to fucking kiII myself