Less (E)than Jake

You might be able to defeat me in sports—BUT CAN YOU DEFEAT ME AT A CHILDREN'S CARD GAME?!

RT @mask_bastard: somebody posted a woman reacting to the thing on discord and I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣

Some of the most disgusting FACTS about the recent WWE talent releases: ZOEY STARK: Tore her ACL, MCL & meniscus in May 2025 ( just got cleared to return, then released while still recovering.) ZELINA VEGA & ALEISTER BLACK: Teased as secret allies in Randy Orton’s storyline heading into Mania… plans scrapped after Pat McAfee involvement but both cut shortly after. KAIRI SANE: Deep in a major storyline with Asuka & Iyo Sky, building to a big babyface turn but released with no payoff. WYATT SICKS: Entire faction (Bo Dallas & crew) created as a tribute to the late Bray Wyatt but all were released.

A man in India says he made thousands of dollars scamming 'super dumb' MAGA fans with a fake AI influencer named 'Emily Hart' • Helped pay for his medical school • Instagram's algorithm would blow up his fake content daily • Tried a liberal version but it didn't work “Democrats know that it’s AI slop ... The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people ... super dumb people. And they fall for it" (via @WIRED)

RT @REDACTEDSpider:

Daredevil Born Again S2E5 proves that the original formula works. Not just the nostalgia from the old series, but making it a one to one page turner with color dynamics, tone, and symbolism to tell stories. This is what it means to be a comic book tv show.

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

A video of reentry, this is one of the coolest things my eyes have ever witnessed

NICKELODEON WAS HACKED AND THE AVATAR: AANG MOVIE GOT STOLEN - 6 MONTHS BEFORE RELEASE a hacker group broke in overnight. stole the full finished film. then posted 2 clips on Twitter to prove they have everything. Paramount has said absolutely nothing. > The movie took 6 years to make. > Was supposed to hit theaters - then got quietly dumped to streaming. > Hacker group PeggleCrew watermarked the clips as proof they hold the full film. > Clips confirmed real. Voice acting. Full animation. The whole Gaang - grown up. > Dave Bautista is the villain. Looks insane. > The full movie is NOT online - hackers are keeping it as leverage against the studio. this isn't just a leak. it's a hostage situation. and Paramount hasn't said a single word.

We need an IMAX!

RT @KantInEastt: Nine scientists have died in a span of 27 months following a pattern

RT @OoCWKUK: It’s that time again unfortunately like clockwork

try 3 years of not knowing whether trafalgar law is alive or not

Ryan Coogler declining an invitation to join the Academy, then turning around and creating his own council to help ensure more films are properly exhibited in theaters. Speaks volumes, man.

First official look at #XMen97 season 2.

Tom Holland says The Odyssey has “the best script I’ve ever read.” I looked into what actors actually give up to be in a Nolan film. Robert Downey Jr.’s last Marvel paycheck was $75 million. For Oppenheimer, he took $4 million. A 95% pay cut. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt took the same $4 million each, when they normally charge between $10 and $20 million. Variety reported they did it “for the privilege of working with Nolan.” Holland’s Odyssey salary hasn’t been disclosed. But the precedent is well documented. On Oppenheimer, every major name in the cast accepted well below their market rate. Nolan films run on this trade: lower upfront pay for the chance to be in a movie that wins Oscars and crosses a billion dollars. While these actors take discounts, Nolan has the richest director deal in Hollywood. He gets a percentage of every ticket sold from the very first one, not after the studio breaks even. On Oppenheimer, a movie that cost $100 million to make and brought in $976 million, Nolan personally walked away with close to $100 million. Roughly the same as the entire budget. Only Spielberg, Cameron, and Peter Jackson have ever gotten deals like that. The Odyssey is that whole machine turned up. $250 million budget, his most expensive movie ever, and the first one ever shot 100% on IMAX film cameras. They burned through 2 million feet of film in 91 days using custom cameras that IMAX built specifically for Nolan. Last July, IMAX put opening weekend tickets on sale a full year before the movie comes out. 95% sold in under an hour from just 26 theaters worldwide. Tickets that cost $25 were reselling on eBay that night for $300 to $500. Nolan locked up every IMAX screen on the planet from July 17 to August 14, a full month where no other movie gets shown. Oppenheimer made $190 million from IMAX screens alone. The Odyssey trailer pulled 121 million views in 24 hours. Nolan’s career total is above $6 billion, with his average film returning more than 4x its budget. When Holland calls this the best script he has ever read, I believe him. But Nolan built a system where the biggest names in the industry will work for less just to say they were part of it.

RT @LeoneStan1: Well no

- OpenAI shutting down Sora - Disney backing out from OpenAI deal - OpenAI backlash from Pentagon deal - $11.5 billion in quarterly losses - $207 billion funding gap - No profitability before 2030 The bubble is bursting

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

RT @CatastropiClara: Thoughts?

Is it just me or we come a full circle again? - Shia LaBeouf is arrested - Britney spears is arrested - Us fight middle east - Pokemon is trending - Hilary Duff on tour - Bubble skirt famous again - Scream is back in the theaters - Scary movie