Kyle McCachen, DGC, BFA

@aakashgupta Your anaylasis is not even close to all the elements done in post. Sound, editing (a ton of re-edits), dialogue, SPFX, music licensing, reversions for different aspect ratios, and tonnes of creative discussions about marketing materials. Some films don’t even have VFx.

Seven days ago Netflix walked away from an $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. The stock jumped 12%. Wall Street cheered the discipline. And the very first move Netflix makes with its newly preserved balance sheet is buying a 16-person AI startup that's been in stealth mode for four years. That's the signal. Netflix looked at two paths to competitive advantage: spend $83 billion to acquire a legacy content library, or spend an undisclosed sum (almost certainly sub-$100M) to acquire technology that changes the economics of every piece of content you produce going forward. The math on InterPositive is what matters. Netflix spends ~$20 billion a year on content. VFX and post-production typically run 20-25% of a production budget. That's $4-5 billion annually flowing through color correction, relighting, environment work, and continuity fixes. If InterPositive's dailies-trained model can reduce even 10-15% of that post workflow, you're looking at $400-750 million in annual savings that compound across every title in the slate. And Sarandos already told you the strategy in 2024: "There's a better business and a bigger business in making content 10% better than making it 50% cheaper." InterPositive lets Netflix do both. Train a model on a production's own footage, use it to fix continuity errors, adjust lighting, handle environment work. The filmmaker stays in control. The post-production timeline compresses. Quality goes up. Cost per title goes down. What Affleck built is also strategically different from what every other AI company is doing. Sora, Runway, Kling, they all generate video from text prompts. InterPositive trains on a production's actual dailies and works within the existing filmmaking pipeline. That distinction matters because it means Netflix can offer this to creators without triggering the "AI is replacing artists" alarm that nearly shut down Hollywood in 2023. Netflix just walked away from the biggest media acquisition in history. Its first acquisition after? A 16-person team that could reshape the cost structure of a $20 billion content machine. That tells you where the leverage is moving.

You’re fine. Block, light, rehearse, shoot. Easy. Just don’t screw up.

Dudes will see this and say hell yea

I changed the way I direct actors after this conversation with Sarah Dugdale (Virgin River, In the Shadow of the Moon) youtu.be/oZOkQvHb-e8

@RhettReese That looks like shit, though.

Watch that AI fight choreography video. Now go rewatch the bathroom fight scene in Mission Impossible Fallout. We'll be okay.

@RhettReese given your status maybe you’re a good leader to help humanity and art survive with AI… instead of giving up. Hero’s don’t give up. Act accordingly.

Hollywood has long been a gatekeeper that keeps young/poor people away from creative levers. When a young person with no capital sets out to impress Hollywood, they will use tools like these. And young Chris Nolans will be among them. And amazing stuff will result.

> Skiers are usually type A personalities hyped on ambition and precision and perhaps a bump or two of the white stuff (not the snow, mind you). > Boarders are nomadic potheads in oversized pants, shredding the gnar and letting the vibes flow as they drift through the slopes. Society only functions if there is Pareto distribution of skiers to snowboarders: 80%-20% Any more than 20% of boarders means civilization collapses

Thinking about the Jurassic Park (1993) stop motion test where velociraptors hunt Barbie and Ken in the kitchen. Somehow scarier than the actual movie.

After 29 years of writing screenplays professionally, here is my rewrite process for every action line. 1. What emotion do I want to evoke from the reader? 2. Does the line evoke it? 3. If not, rewrite it until it does. 4. If no emotion is intended, is it as succinct as possible? 5. If not, rewrite it until it is. 6. If the line is not emotionally or visually needed, cut it. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹: clarity of intent and emotional truth. Never sacrifice either one.

@Tablesalt13 @dsimieritsch Just search the guidelines for any Canadian film or TV grant and you’ll be shocked by how much DEI is required for Canadians to get the grants. They require your sexual orientation, submission to dei training etc etc. it’s astonishing. And they manage $ billions

and according to @dsimieritsch CPAC scrubbed this footage!

🚨HOLY CRAP EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS Reynolds Mastin, President and CEO of the Canadian Media Producers Association Tells Mark Carney -- "The Prime Minister knows that the 180,000 people that work in this (media) industry have your back, just like you have ours!"

@EricRStPierre I never understood it. I’m Canadian but dad is American raised and I always thought USA was like a partner. My fellow Canadians baffle me

Question of the day: Why do so many Canadians maintain a superiority complex in regards to America?

The inciting incident isn't just about the plot. And it's certainly not just about the page count. Design an ordinary world that is uniquely disrupted by this event. What did the protagonist expect they would get, and how does the inciting incident give them something else? Make sure it leads us to the dramatic question. Most of all, make it emotional. Evoke in us the same emotion the protagonist feels. Do it right, and it goes beyond plot; it's a trampoline bounce of dramatic momentum and emotional pull that launches us into the story.

It's the story that matters. Know what it is. Define it. Whether you're writing a horror film, a comedy, action or suspense, make it personal. Make it emotional. Ideas are great. But don't get trapped in them. We don't need more intellectual ideas. We need more humanity.

@ShaunRickard67 wondering if there is hope? I honestly can’t believe how many people are happy to cozy up to communist CCP. What’s your thoughts on Alberta?

I've lived here in Canada for 38 of my 58 years, and for the first time in my life, sadly I have reached the realization that the majority of Canadians are retarded and incapable of critical thinking skills. It is imminent that Canada will go to war, be it with itself or the USA

Prep is invisible when it works.

You don't want the audience waiting for what happens next. You want them in anticipation of it. They know a result is coming. They need to know it; they just don't know what it will be. This means controlling the narrative momentum, stakes, and tension. It's your job to keep them engaged. Don't ask for their patience. Very few of them will give it.

Characters sounding the same in your screenwriting is less about how they speak and more about how you've defined them. Give each character a clear WANT. Give them a distinct POV. Let them react truthfully. Do this, and the problem of sounding the same takes care of itself.

Cassandra Naud has nothing but good words for Emily Tennant. Both stars of INFLUENCERS airing in two days on @AMC+ and @Shudder

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