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@aakashgupta So you are advocating more $200 million productions? Completely unrealistic

$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again. Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene. The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence. This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic. After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it. Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel. Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now." The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history. The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

@fiago7 Be nice if you actually knew the name of the league

Is the MLS really that bad? 🤔🇺🇸

@Sanchez_Reports @SportingTrib Mikey is responsible for them not being ready for the high press. He knew it was coming and now every MLS club will use that formula. Just watch. @SanDiego_Futbol @SDFC_Nation @DarnayTripp

Duran Ferree was tested early and often against Toluca. Mikey Varas was pleased with his performance despite Ferree’s mistake on the first goal versus a high press. A learning lesson for the 19-year-old GK. @SportingTrib

@kylesheldon @newyorkcityfc That Cincy stadium is every bit as good as what they are building in Queens. Club is better too. Probably fans also. So you have zero to stand on here

@kewlsocr @newyorkcityfc Truly, you think a stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio is more significant that a stadium built in New York City? (And I love Cincy - I lived there as a kid!)

Will there be a stadium built in MLS history that is more significant than @newyorkcityfc’s new building?

@kylesheldon @newyorkcityfc Miami, St Louis, Columbus, Cincinnati, LA, Minnesota,

@kewlsocr @newyorkcityfc Name 'em

@bgtennisnation @DanWolken Republicans 100% control this. They could pay them all tomorrow. They control Congress & White House

@DanWolken This is insanity what’s going on airports, shouldn’t be a republican or democratic situation, get the staff needed asap, absolutely pathetic that it is political situation

I’m supposed to fly to Chicago on Wednesday and am legitimately considering whether to drive. This ain’t it.

@DSmithShow Lots of road teams play there and have success. So how? They have the same altitude issues. Toluca hasn’t always been #1

Estadio Nemesio Diez 🔥

@alex_westry Who? Does he play?

San Diego FC’s Anisse Saidi has been called up to Tunisia’s senior national team. There is a real chance that he could be on their roster for the upcoming World Cup 👀

@sandiegofc @DSmithShow @TUDNUSA @VIX So this match is starting at 9pm in Toluca at 8000 feet, one of the highest club fields in the World, and we think we’re going to play an up tempo aggressive style on 4 days rest? @SanDiego_Futbol @SDFC_Nation @DarnayTripp @troyhirschfox5 @BenHigginsSD

¡No te lo puedes perder! 🆚 @TolucaFC 🏟️ Estadio Nemesio Díez ⏲️ 8:00 PM 📺 FS2, @TUDNUSA & @VIX 📻 @TUDNUSA

@NicoSchira We’ve known this. Why isn’t he signing to get a chance at World Cup roster? Even if a pay cut he needs to be playing not sitting out 6 months

Hirving #Lozano is no longer in #SanDiegoFC’s Plans and he is ready to leave after the World Cup. #transfers

@SoccerInsider Completely insane to play that late. Will get zero coverage and no casual fans who’ve all moved on to NFL

MLS Cup moves to a Friday this year, Dec. 18, hosted as usual by the finalist with the most regular season points, the league announces. This is the last winter final before MLS changes its calendar starting in 2027-28.

@Andy_Deossa Why is that? Will a new stadium in Boston fix it?

the juxtaposition of the Boston Legacy attracting 30K fans to Gillette Stadium yesterday to the few that are there today for the #NERevs home opener says it all. sad state of affairs

@DarnayTripp How will they fare better in PAC12 or is the system to far broken?

San Diego State among the First Four Out. Mountain West a one big league for the first time since 2017.

@FelipeCar Was he in goal?

An embarrassing debut for James Rodríguez. This result will not go down well in Colombia.

@BenHigginsSD Utah State was just a better team all season. Zero debate there @DarnayTripp

I worried that I was overreacting early in the season when I said the Troy State loss could easily be the one that keeps SDSU out of the NCAA Tournament. But it’s the loss that will keep SDSU out of the NCAA Tournament.

@sdut Central Park in NYC has NO free parking even for city residents.

Opinion: Balboa Park should switch to Central Park model of governance sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/13/opi…

@pkedit A Wednesday night 8:30pm start had over 20k, so it can be done

Not good on #CCC front: Two big games on Thursday night but crowds of only 12,446 and 9,257 in Vancouver and Cincinnati. socceramerica.com/concacaf-champ…

@FelipeCar You’ve got Chucky sitting at home doing nothing

Losing Malagón was a blow but Marcel Ruiz’s ACL tear is much worse. Ruiz is a unicorn. He’s not your typical Mexican midfielder.

@Svengoolie @FreddyInSpace @kevinbacon @kyrasedgwick

Get ready for the Sven Squad to bring home the Bacon ( Kevin, that is ) when they hit the campground for murder and mayhem- it might be Saturday night the 14th on MeTV- but it’s definitely “Friday the 13th”! See where it all began- 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central time!