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Oops, I was right about @JamesGunn. Again.
Superman *barely* hit. Supergirl flopped. Peacemaker was mid. Creature Commandos exists. And now this, more from Superman. Oh, and Man of Tomorrow …a Superman movie, is on the way, too. And Clayface, a movie about a mid-grade DC villain for a Batman who hasn’t been cast.
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I am profoundly glad I collected absolutely zero of these films. I hated everything Gunn did, deeply.
James Gunn steps down as CEO of DC Studio. How would you rate his tenure?
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Kinda blows my mind that this is Creed Bratton from The Office (and the band The Grass Roots). He slips completely into this character’s ugliness and it’s such a remarkable, chilling performance.
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God tier cinematography. Like Paul Anderson’s Magnolia mixed with Michael Mann’s Manhunter
I love how orange Primetime is
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The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan’s epic as it was meant to be seen!
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By all means, lay off the only division that’s made you any god damn profit this year. Great call, Disney!
Disney is laying off several hundred people across the entire company. The majority of the layoffs on the studios side is at Pixar. (Source: variety.com/2026/film/news/p…)
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A brutally bad trailer. Like, depressingly so considering how hyped I used to get for these. Doomsday spells out a dark, apocalyptic and unfun narrative with a bunch of disjointed characters we barely know standing in gooey CG environments. It all feels shoehorned in and cloying.
Doomsday arrives December 18th. Experience Avengers: Doomsday on bigger, brighter, & more immersive screens. Tickets are now on sale exclusively for Infinity Vision certified theaters: fandango.com/avengersdoomsda…
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The entire multiverse saga should centered on Deadpool realizing someone was destroying timelines. He starts popping up in every movie until he collects everyone into one timeline once he’s zeroed in on the threat. That’s your anchor to the multiverse saga right there!
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These movies cost $200 million+ but are shot to look like lifeless stage plays with an expensive backdrop screen. Any movie that stages a scene this bland deserves to bomb.
The LED Volume might be the worst thing thats ever happened to filmmaking
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RIP Sam Neill. One of the greatest to ever do it. Watch Possession tonight and be taken by how damn great he will forever be in that mesmerizing film, a wild drama about a deeply tortured relationship. He gave it everything. He always did.
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Superman *barely* hit. Supergirl flopped. Peacemaker was mid. Creature Commandos exists. And now this, more from Superman. Oh, and Man of Tomorrow …a Superman movie, is on the way, too. And Clayface, a movie about a mid-grade DC villain for a Batman who hasn’t been cast.
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Tatro is in talks to join the live-action ‘Superman’ spinoff series ‘DC Crime’ in the role of Gorilla Grodd, sources close to production tell Deadline. The news arrives before the Jimmy Olsen series has officially received a greenlight. More details here: deadline.com/2026/07/jimmy-t…
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We are witnessing the single greatest multi-billion dollar fumble of IP in real time. It’s catastrophic, really. Upsettingly so. Like, all that they are gonna have left is Batman by the time James Gun is done fucking DC with his bad decisions.
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I’ve seen a lot of home media people dunking on the 35MM film print preservation community. Shame on you! 35MM prints have value to film history as they present the film as it played in theaters. They contain a version of the movie — a way to be transported back in time.
I thought Toy Story’s animation aged poorly but 35mm scans show it was mostly the render for digital that was botched, this movie is actually gorgeous wow clearly crafted the lighting and colours with a film transfer in mind. the toys actually look tactile. so beautifully done!
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Unless you live somewhere where film prints regularly play in your cinema, this is the ONLY WAY to experience a movie on film. The only way to see what something looked like in its era. Yes, it’s not the most perfect version. That version typically exists on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K
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It’s like they’re giving fans everything EXCEPT what they want.
FREDDY THE 13TH. From Dan Trachtenberg. Animated horror-comedy for the whole family. Uncle Buck becomes the boogeyman. Trachtenberg writes on Instagram, “I’ve spent most of my career making movies that parents probably shouldn’t show their kids. Finally making one they can."
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Tenet (2020) Directed by Christopher Nolan
He walked backward so perfectly, the world looks reversed [📹 robinchanning]
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This is too real.
empire strikes back if it were made for disney+
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Something any film pundit saw coming. It’s a shame because the film is pretty great. But dropping a Masters of the Universe movie in 2026 is like releasing a Howdy Doody movie in 1986 — the audience just isn’t there. That and the film, while very good, is 20 mins too long.
Power outage. The bomb of the summer has arrived. MGM’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE—which cost a reported $200M to produce—is estimated to debut with less than $30M this weekend.
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When the edible hits but you gotta do the interview anyway.
Anna Faris is having a full-circle moment at the ‘Scary Movie’ premiere. 🥹
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People shit on AI as if it’s all created equal. It’s not. Using AI to storyboard, pitch ideas, brainstorm or even for VFX in low budget films/ads isn’t just logical, it’s a game changer. This is why you’re seeing the greatest filmmakers embrace it. They’re smarter than you.
Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs. He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center. We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
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The flaw of Disney Star Wars is that it all flows through Disney Plus now, which about 14% of the total population has. So a big opening weekend was guaranteed, but the film having legs was not. If you don’t have D+, you may only have a cursory knowledge of these characters.
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Sometimes I randomly think about this insane moment in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Harrison Ford (or his stunt double) absolutely concusses himself for this shot.
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