This is terrific. Not everyone will remember that a lot of people (critics AND audiences) weren't at all convinced Keanu could act back then. SPEED helped change that perception, and this explains how that happened.

This is the raw bar at Universal’s post- #Oscars party. The studio appears to have plundered the ocean with the vast riches generated by Oppenheimer

admittedly, I have one of those too-expensive A24 candles. but I thought this piece from Chris Lee about how Neon is strategizing counter to A24 and charting a path after all their PARASITE oscar wins fascinating. justice for FERRARI! at Vulture:

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.NEON and @a24 are 'indie upstart' rivals, now tied with 7 Oscar noms. Neon CEO Tom Quinn talked to me through his post- #Parasite game plan vis a vis A24's hipster cult of personality: 'I'm not going to sell a $60 candle. That feels insincere' tinyurl.com/2pmwedax

Sure premiering Aggro Dr1ft at a Hwood strip club seems like signature Harmony Korine weirdo fuckery. But it fits into a strategy by his content farm EDGLRD to become the next Supreme. A look at their plan to bridge art, sk8boarding, fashion + film by me tinyurl.com/3mz96ch3

1. Masked Harmony Korine dancing along to a chopped and screwed version of Phil Collins’ “In the Air at Night” at the second LA premiere of Aggro Dr1ft (at Hollywood’s Crazy Girls strip club). 2. Masked little person +dancer. Insane.

#AnyoneButYou underwhelmed over its Xmas debut. But thanks to TikTok, tabloid infatuation with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell + girl-group viewings it's become the biggest R-rated romcom in a generation. My look at ABY's funky path to blockbusterdom: tinyurl.com/55r3w69r

I talked to Iron Claw writer-director Sean Durkin about the A24 film's deliberate Von Erich erasure: why a 5th wrestling bro Chris--who took his own life--was left out: 'The movie just couldn't withstand another brother's death' tinyurl.com/42buedz5

I previewed the #Sundance '24 slate and talked to the fest's director, programmer and CEO about what to look out for: K-Stew + Steven Yuen as a satellite and buoy in love, a buddy-road trip doc about Will Ferrell's best friend transitioning, +Freaky Tales! tinyurl.com/uv75tupp

Elemental ranked as one of 2023's most crushing film failures--until it quietly defied the craptacular reviews and ignominy as Pixar's lowest open of all time to crack the year's top 10 blockbusters. I talked to director Peter Sohn about its comeback tinyurl.com/mr289e7c

Studio execs, ent lawyers, top agents and corporate consiglieres talked to me about post-strike Hollywood's identity crisis-cum-day of reckoning: how showbiz 'needs a new stasis point' + the industry is going to be cheaper, smaller and nastier than before tinyurl.com/y5hzxcp5

BREAKING: Walt Disney Pictures’ VFX Workers voted unanimously to unionize in a labor board election. The vote was 13-0

These workers become the 2nd dedicated VFX unit to unionize with us, with the other being the unanimous election of Marvel Studio’s VFX workers just last month.

Richard Linklater has been implicitly shitting on Netflix since it bungled rollout of his last film. So why sell his festival smash Hit Man to Big Red? Why stream it? 'Distributors are skittish about theatrical at the moment for all but the biggest movies' tinyurl.com/4s4kxr68

Not so fresh: Rotten Tomatoes algorithmic review crunching is glitchy, hackable, effectively bullshit. Publicists PAY basement bloggers to thumbs-up bad movies--something I have been hearing for years that had never been pinned down. 🫡@lanebrown tinyurl.com/mm5s558u

New ep! What to watch this fall, ft Jen Chaney Chris Lee AND Sam Fragoso of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
LISTEN HERE: link.chtbl.com/intoit?sid=stw

BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) crews at Walt Disney Pictures have filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to unionize with backing of vfxunion.

This marks only the second time in history VFX pros have joined together, with the first being earlier just this month.