JR

Writer/Director | 🇭🇹

[Jason (U mad) @EmperorTChalla]

Why did the success of Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' not send "Hollywood" running for original or adapted Black African fantasy, sci-fi, horror?

I know the answer is afrophobia.

[kin𓃬 @snoopybutches]

need to see this happen for a young Black director

[Thomas Moore @TomAandTom1]

Yes I’m frustrated that POC don’t get the opportunity or mentorship to make their own ‘Obsession’ or ‘Backrooms’

But POC also have to make a film that the general audience wants to see

It works two ways

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Deal Lethargy Forces Hollywood Writers to Leave Money on the Table. That Needs to Change https://t.co/xY2CWDckau

[Mark Phillips @SupremeDreams_1]

CINEMA ON THE WAY

[erin @Y0ROZU]

"Jujutsu Kaisen does not ask us to choose between tradition and innovation. It asks something far more uncomfortable: whether we still possess the ethical imagination necessary to carry tradition without turning it into a great curse."

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE!. VERY INSIGHTFUL!

[DRIZZI @Ragnar_AY]

THANK YOU MAPPA FOR MAKING CULLING GAMES PART 1 PHENOMENAL

[Re:animated @ReanimatedYT]

My genuine message to MAPPA

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Warner Bros. spent $1.2 billion to make all eight Harry Potter films. The new TV series reportedly costs $100 million per episode, which would make it the most expensive TV show ever produced. Amazon’s Rings of Power cost $58 million per episode. House of the Dragon, $20 million. Game of Thrones started at $6 million.

HBO has planned seven seasons, one for each book, eight episodes per season. That’s 56 episodes. If the per-episode budget holds, the total production cost lands around $5.6 billion. Nearly 5x what all eight original films cost to make, and roughly three-quarters of what the entire franchise has earned at the box office ($7.7 billion) across 25 years.

Three weeks ago, Paramount Skydance signed a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $31 per share, valuing the company at $110 billion including debt. Netflix was bidding too but walked away in late February. Harry Potter sits next to Game of Thrones and the DC Universe as one of the most valuable assets in that deal.

WBD has about 132 million Max subscribers today and is projecting 150 million by December. The original films returned almost 7x their production budget at the box office. Generating that kind of return through monthly streaming subscriptions requires a completely different scale of audience, sustained over a decade.

They’re reportedly building a “mini city” in the UK specifically for filming, with a price tag around $1.3 billion. A school is being constructed on-site for the child actors. Hans Zimmer is scoring the series. Over 30,000 kids auditioned for three roles.

The average Harry Potter film cost $144 million to produce. A single episode of the new series reportedly costs $100 million. Warner Bros. is betting over $5 billion that a streaming franchise can match what a theatrical one did.

[The Ankler @TheAnkler]

"Whatever the hell you need to do" is how to sustain a career as a director, according to Barry Jenkins.

"I worked at Banana Republic for three and a half years while I had a deal at Focus Features and an agent at CAA," the Oscar-winning 'Moonlight' director and co-writer told fellow director Anu Valia ('We Strangers').

See more: https://t.co/ZLKPGEVuwd

Sponsored by IW Group in partnership with the Directors Guild of America

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Stuff like this is why I hope y’all get yalls chance. There is so much talent out here.

[Jay Wells 🎙️ @TheLegacyOfJay]

A Black Woman

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

someone’s gonna win

fuck it

it might as well be you

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

One the of the little talked about things they teach you to pitch in Hollywood is connect your pitch to something white people recognize.

[JR @JR_directs]

https://t.co/3vYSHNAoqc

[wale @olawale2_]

when they took off Baelor’s helmet

[JR @JR_directs]

So cold 🥶

[westerosies @westerosies]

THIS CAMERA SWITCH INTO DUNK’S POINT OF VIEW IS INCREDIBLE

[JR @JR_directs]

😂

[jimmy toots @futtywap]

Ser arlan of pennytree if he was a hooper #AKOTSK

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

It’s The Trial Of Seven Day

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Ryan Coogler opens up about his regrets while working alongside Chadwick Boseman:

"I was about 30 years old, stressed, completely out of my mind, sleep-deprived, convinced that the movie wasn’t going to work. I robbed myself of truly enjoying that privilege — even of sitting there and enjoying the countless Chadwick Boseman takes, because he didn’t have a bad take. So when he passed, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, how much stuff have I not allowed myself to enjoy because I was in my own head — feeling like I was unworthy?'" https://t.co/oGgX1mGonH