BWAOOOOOOOOooooo

Next up: Martin Scorsese’s Kool-Aid.

Totalitarians are thin-skinned and paranoid as a rule.

I watched it. The plot really only served as an extended middle finger to Warner Bros. After I finished it, I just thought, what a waste. It had promise, but it didn’t try anything new or expand the world in any way.

Why it matters:

It doesn’t matter. Doc Bacon is not representative of Republicans. He is from a split district that voted for Biden and Harris by about 5 points each.

When they shut down all the asylums 50 years ago, they decided to keep one last one open in DC

This is the setup to a Bond movie

Pacific States of America

I would also accept the answer

California and Cascadia

It’s a UK paper. They don’t do all-caps for acronyms (meaning abbreviations readable as words), they just capitalize the first letter.

It was apparent to anyone who was paying a lot of attention that he was a narcissist [1] who was willing to lie and break the rules to satisfy his own ambition. There were also subtle indications of this as well.

[1] It apparently no longer exists or is impossible to find now, but prior to the Democratic primary the NY Times did a profile on Adams in his Brooklyn brownstone. It was extravagant, and his comments in the article gave me a strong narcissist vibe. I was already leaning against him, but that pushed me into the “anyone but him” camp. The photo used in the second link is from the photo shoot they did for that article.

The rights are reassigned after 25 years, so I don’t really think the theatrical release is a concern in this case.

They don’t have to do anything. Licensing companies will come knocking with a briefcase of money, and all they have to do is sign. It will likely result in better availability, not worse, because it’s not bound to studios. Studios can hold back releases because they want to release them later, or tie them into a remake schedule, then the remake gets canceled and they never get around to it, etc.

(And although it’s just a hypothetical, in my system above, the rights holders would always be known.)

Look at it this way: movies will be around in 100 years; studios may or may not be. The goal is movies.

Is there value in a system that isn’t essential? Writers are essential. Actors are essential. Directors are essential. Camera equipment and marketing are essential, but equipment rental companies and marketing companies exist. Investment is essential for anything larger than a student film, but startups do it every day through the VC system.

Studios consolidate all of that under one roof and streamline it, but that’s not essential. It’s convenient. And no VC demands 100% ownership of the company, so why should studios get that? The execs aren’t the ones working 16-hour days to create something.

The way that it should work is everyone involved in producing the movie should get shares in the enterprise, sized according to their role, down to the best boy. The investors should also get a big cut of shares as well, to make it worthwhile. The holding company that’s created to hold the film’s rights should be run by the biggest shareholders in order to determine future licensing deals. This should all be set out up front in contacts.

Then each worker can build a portfolio of shares and trade them on a market—not alongside companies on, like, Nasdaq, but a separate market, although I could imagine a mutual fund of movie rights appearing on the regular market as well. If the investors or creatives want to buy up worker shares, they can compete to offer up a fair price.

Or they can keep them for the dividends (residuals).

This is also how it should work with video games.

More importantly, the government minder is there at all times. Even during the handshake, Garcia is looking at him, not the senator. The body language is clear: he’s afraid.

I’m sure he was informed prior to the meeting about what he was expected to say and the consequences for not doing as he’s told.

This first round of industry layoffs are most likely the companies that were already going to lay people off using the tariffs as cover for their own mismanagement.

The next round will be when the real tariff layoffs begin.

$150 billion is the target for FY 2025, not what they’ve actually saved.

And as the article says, we already know that their “receipts” were mostly wrong or bullshit, so even that number will be inflated.

Too much hypocrisy should be terminal—a build-up of toxins in the bloodstream or something.

I’m sure these photos were a condition of seeing him. Nothing to see here, folks! Definitely no torture happening, go back to sleep

One of several theatrical projects still in development from Lucasfilm, including films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi and a new trilogy by Simon Kinberg, Levy’s film — Star Wars: Starfighter — will star Gosling and go into production starting this fall.

Time for SEVEN new Star Wars movies, because they’ve learned nothing.

I guess they think six years from the last cinematic debacle was enough time, especially considering the MCU ran ashore.

Calling it now, Trump will appoint Larry Kudlow from Fox Business News as Fed chair next year.