Dan Carrillo Levy

Raised by stories. Part writer. Part director. Full movie junkie. Movies are my love language.

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

#Tuner is one of the best films I’ve had the pleasure of watching in theaters this year.

[Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg]

TENET was so confusing to him that he said, “Trust but verify”

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The author of Project Hail Mary wrote his first book (The Martian) on his blog, and publishers didn't want it.

Backrooms made 100 million this weekend, and it was created by a YouTuber.

The old gatekeepers of culture are falling away.

Now's the time to go make something.

[nick wright @nickbeest9]

man of tomorrow filming at the fox theater in atl #manoftomorrow #nicholashoult #dcu

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘STUNTMAN: HOLLYWOOD’.

The game allows players to perform major stunt scenes from iconic movies like ‘Back to the Future’.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

J.R. Tolkien and Adolf Hitler fought against each other at the Battle of the Somma in 1916.
Live now with this information.

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

Movies are magic. This makes me so happy.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

AMC had its highest May theater attendance since 2019 🍿

[N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S @scottderrickson]

Hollywood repeatedly learns the wrong lessons from surprise box office successes.

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

Agree

[Hurc @hurc_hv]

007 First Light and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are similar in that they both continue the legacy of iconic characters and franchises in faithful, entertaining ways.

We should do this more often instead of movie remakes and sequels😌

[Variety @Variety]

Michael De Luca Warns About the Danger of Hollywood Cutting Development Funds for Original Material: 'If You Cut Too Deep Your Pipeline Dries Up' https://t.co/Uh9yqcJjZ7

[Stacey Russell @stacewrites_]

Invest in originals. Invest in emerging* writers and filmmakers. Make money. Repeat.

*and not to sound like a fuddy duddy but emerging doesn’t necessarily mean “young”. There are some of us for whom this is a second career and we also have incredible stories to tell.

[Jake @OldTVReference]

Backrooms (2026)
Dir. Kane Parsins

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Meta Instagram Reels is currently doing $50B of run rate revenue

Just Reels alone makes more revenue than Netflix, Nike, Coca Cola, Visa, Spotify, Uber and Airbnb

Let that sink in

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

NEED THIS @philiplord @chrizmillr

[🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤 @VHSDVDBLURAY4K]

Coming to 4K UHD via MGM on 8/11

Project Hail Mary (2026)

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

@officialDannyT You know, you did believe in me on my first film set at age 14. So thank you.

[spencer @tanosully]

george lucas is hilarious and evil

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Legendary Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes has spoken plainly about “an orgy of antisemitism overtaking the West.” https://t.co/j5LMtD461u

[Dan Carrillo Levy @DanFilm]

There’s an amazing film playing in theaters this weekend. #TUNER. A must-watch.

[𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢 @OfficialVizeh]

Fuck it, just drop a 210 Nation World Cup Battle Royale and see what happens