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@TravLCox @valentinavee The issue is not the rate itself; it’s how they distributed each line item. Their entire production design, camera and lighting budget was equal to the day rate for DP + gaffer. That’s a problem. Either up the production value or lower the day rates.

@BlakeRemasters @valentinavee These are incredibly reasonable rates. Could you find someone for less? Probably, but you're either calling in a favor or getting someone with little to no experience.

@deltamagnet @Variety How much does a movie ticket cost you in your area of residence? How about for premium formats like IMAX?

@Variety I mean if you are going to see a movie every day it's still a good deal. Not so much if you are going once a week.

AMC Theatres is raising the price of its Stubs A-List subscription to $29.99 per month, marking a $2 increase from its previous hike in May 2025. variety.com/2026/film/news…

@aakashgupta So you’re calling Chloe Zhao, Ryan Coogler, and Taika Waititi are B-tier directors, but the Russo brothers, the directors of The Gray Man, The Electric State, and Cherry, those are A tier directors? Do I have that right?

Disney paid roughly $200 million just for Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo Brothers to come back. That's before a single frame of film was shot. Before sets, VFX, marketing, craft services, anything. The test screening results suggest that $200M bet is about to pay off at somewhere between 10x and 25x. Here's why this leak matters more than the usual hype cycle. This is a pre-reshoots cut. The version that tested at Infinity War levels is the version before they add more characters, more cameos, more fan-service scenes. Reshoots on a film testing this well are additive, not corrective. That's a completely different production posture than what Marvel has been doing for the last five years. The Russos' last two Avengers films did $4.85 billion combined. Infinity War alone cleared $2.05B. Endgame hit $2.8B. The entire Multiverse Saga since then has been a slow bleed of audience trust. Quantumania did $476M on a $200M budget. The Marvels did $206M. Eternals, $402M. Marvel was losing casual viewers at a rate that made the franchise look terminal. The Downey/Russo reunion was always the play of last resort. Downey literally refused to return unless the Russos directed. His deal includes private jets, a security detail, and a trailer compound. The Russos got $80M with escalators at $750M and $1B box office thresholds, plus their AGBO banner gets a producer credit, which is a first for Marvel. And now the thing is testing like Infinity War before reshoots even happen. If Doomsday clears $2B in December 2026, it validates something very specific: Marvel's problem was never the audience. The audience was always there. The problem was that Phase 4 and 5 shipped B-tier directors and C-tier scripts on A-tier IP. The fix wasn't reinventing the formula. The fix was paying for the best people and getting out of their way. The Russos' performance escalators kick in at $750M and $1B. If this thing does Infinity War numbers, those escalators trigger so fast Disney's finance team won't finish the wire transfer before the second weekend.

@TimNetwork @JohnnyFocal That’s because the image used is highly compressed. Here is the same image but better quality; the dust on the element is pretty apparent here. Note: I scaled and cropped the image to focus on the dirt.

@BlakeRemasters @JohnnyFocal but I don't see any clean up between the two images, just the log transform. what am I missing?

Can we stop repeating this as though it proves something? That isn’t a raw scan for a start — a genuine raw scan would still have dirt, damage and all the other lovely imperfections sitting in it. What you’re showing is just an image in log, then de-logged. Which proves absolutely nothing beyond the fact that someone knows how to apply a curve.

@JohnnyFocal I’ve supervised over a couple of hundred restorations over the past decade. So I’ll ask you the same question. Which restorations have you supervised? Context matters here.

@BlakeRemasters What restoration have you actually supervised? Context matters here.

@TimNetwork @JohnnyFocal You’re correct. There’s an assumption on Jon’s part that the image labeled “raw scan” is a post-processed image, which is not the case.

@BlakeRemasters @JohnnyFocal I would have thought raw would have meant prior to any digital clean up

@JohnnyFocal Furthermore, it is not a requirement that a “raw scan” must exhibit defects and film damage. You could make the argument that better terminology would have been “log/non-graded” and “graded/restored” but there is nothing wrong with calling the above image “raw scan.”

@JohnnyFocal So let me get this straight. The image doesn’t meet your criteria for “raw scan” because it doesn’t have a Giant film tear running across the image? I’ve already demonstrated to you that there are at least two pieces of dirt in the upper image, so what is your point?

@JohnnyFocal I think you’re getting hung up on semantics and as a result confusing your audience. “Raw scan” in the restoration community is a colloquial term which refer to images in a non-graded, log state, which is what the image on the top represents when displayed without management.

That is a post-processed image, not a RAW scan Full new 4K scan of original negatives Extensive cleanup (dust, warping, age damage) 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕🖕 Colour grading referenced against original artwork Shot-by-shot review with Disney animation team

Does the @DNC want to win in 2028? Then don’t run with @GavinNewsom on the ticket. Just DON’T. Wake up and smell the coffee, get with the times, and run a progressive candidate.

@hypertension57 @IAPolls2022 @Polymarket Laughing hyena? Ok, racist white trash.

@IAPolls2022 @Polymarket Yeah ok whatever You're assuming people are stupid enough to vote for Democrats again, knowing what the cognitive Joe Biden and his sidekick the laughing hyena Kamala Harris did to our country then they're stupider than you if they vote for Democrats

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@PhysicsBoyt @burukmann @ScottKacsmar Yeah, only best picture. Don’t know why that person suggested Clark Gable. He has starred in 3 best picture winners, but not 4 films that won directing Oscars.

@BlakeRemasters @burukmann @ScottKacsmar Did not win for Best Director, though.

I believe DiCaprio ties the record for most Best Picture wins as the lead actor. • Titanic • The Departed • One Battle After Another

@PhysicsBoyt @burukmann @ScottKacsmar Mutiny on the Bounty

@burukmann @BlakeRemasters @ScottKacsmar Gone With the Wind and It Happened One Night but what else?

@AKlay19 Cinematographers respected the cinematography of One Battle After Another, while general academy membership favored the picturesque period landscapes of Sinners, but no doubt it was a tight race.

So what the fuck happened with SINNERS at the major precursors for Cinematography?

@Carr2Alejandro @NextBestPicture Just to be clear, I am predicting One Battle After Another to win 7 Oscars including those you mentioned, 4 for Sinners. An editing win would surprise me, but cinematography is certainly in play since it won the lion’s share of prizes this year outside of the industry groups.

@BlakeRemasters @NextBestPicture Comparing this to LOTR is a stretch. That sweep was built on years of momentum, but OBAA has actually dominated the precursors this season. Predicting upsets in Cinematography and Editing over a technical powerhouse like Anderson’s film just doesn't follow the mat

SINNERS is going to have a great night this Sunday but this, I’m sorry, is just setting people up

@AcademyPicks That was a different situation though. Only foreign language committee members could vote for the winners and they had to verify they attended academy screenings. If the vote was open to the full academy like today, Pan’s Labyrinth would have likely won.

One thing giving me pause about predicting Sentimental Value over Secret Agent based on the nominations count: Pan’s Labyrinth had a lot of nominations but still lost to The Lives of Others which was a sole nominee