I'm violating the cardinal rule of the holiday and experimenting on Thanksgiving: Every Substack interview I've done is available to free subscribers through November 30. Enjoy. franklinleonard.substack.com youtube.com/shorts/Ssvp6qc…

This is, and I mean no hyperbole, on par with The Beatles 8 years.

We’re living in an unprecedented time in which legendary filmmakers are making their largest scale movies past the age of 75.

Actors and Directors often get 95% of the credit, but movies are actually made up of dozens of people’s fantastic ideas

ANDOR S2 E8 is better than 99% of the movies I've seen this decade.

Stellen Skarsgard on the the growing presence of AI in the movie industry: "For thousands of years, people have been very much interested in people. Describing people is what theater does, what film does — and what we do best. In film — even better than in television — you can

as good as it gets. I don’t have many heroes, but he has been mine since I was 7.

Biggest take away from the Oscars for me is that finding people you love and making art with them is a worthy, integral and noble human pursuit, no matter the odds or outcomes.

I'm gonna be more like Ryan Coogler. Never seen that guy complain about anything, or get annoyed about anything. Dude just locks in, works hard, uplifts his people, makes cool stuff, and thanks his wife.

I think the reason Minnesota is so left is cause living here is the most obvious example of the right wing just outright lying Every day you’ll see right wingers trying to say it’s a hellhole here and then you just….leave your house and it rocks

If you are using the earth as a reference frame, the moon is actually doing a close flyby of Artemis II.

The amount of one liners that Wright drops in every interview is remarkable.

The people responsible for this are politicians who've offered generous tax incentives in New Jersey, Georgia, the UK and beyond.

what a wonderfully reimagined version of this song

Hollywood needs to enter this phase. Limited edition collectibles that are available only if you show up opening weekend of a release.

a painful and strange lesson you have to learn early on if you have a tv show is that your online diehards are not the audience and don't really represent them at all.

WOW. Finally! I remember reading this 20 years ago when it was titled slightly differently as "The Brigands of Rattleborge." One of the best scripts I've ever read. And Park has been on this since 2012. Proof a great script never dies and what a cast! Cannot wait to see this...

Josh O’Connor on a great note from Spielberg

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