While shooting CUTTHROAT ISLAND in Malta, I brought my 16mm camera to make a black-and-white short film. When the production blew up the pirate ship, I captured the massive explosion. This was one of the last big-budget studio films to rely almost entirely on practical in-camera effects and stunts. Regardless of its initial reception, making this film was the adventure of a lifetime.
This is from a recent scan of my original camera negative.
A guy worked at Disney's streaming division for 3 years before leaving in 2024. He still uses Disney+ every day for himself and for his kids.
He told me: "Most Disney+ subscribers use about 15% of the platform. They open the app, scroll the homepage, pick whatever Marvel or Star Wars title is being promoted that week, and press play. They've never opened the Extras tab. They've never used the hidden collections. They've never adjusted the content rating to unlock the full library. They don't know that Disney+ includes Hulu content inside the same app now. And most of them are paying for a plan that's wrong for how they actually watch."
"Disney+ has over 150 million subscribers. Most of them are watching a narrow slice of what the platform offers because the homepage is designed to promote Disney's newest releases, not to help you find the content you'd actually love. The library is massive. The homepage shows you maybe 5% of it. The other 95% is there organized into collections, hidden behind search terms, and buried in menus most subscribers have never opened."
"The people who know how Disney+ actually works watch better content, pay less, and use features that most subscribers don't know exist."
Here are the 10 things he does that most Disney+ subscribers have never tried:
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Three thousand years ago, in the space of a single lifetime, every great power in the eastern Mediterranean collapsed at once. Almost every great city on earth was burned to the ground within a few decades, writing itself was forgotten, and no one has ever fully worked out why...
We call it the Late Bronze Age Collapse, and to understand how strange it is, you have to see how advanced the world was before it. Around 1200 BC the eastern Mediterranean was a connected web of superpowers: the Mycenaean Greeks, the world of Homer's heroes. The Hittite Empire in Anatolia. The wealthy port kingdom of Ugarit. Egypt at the height of the New Kingdom.
They traded metals and gold across thousands of miles, sent letters back and forth, married into one another's royal families, and ran vast economies that had held together for centuries.
And then, within roughly two generations, nearly all of it was gone...
The cities burned: Mycenae, Pylos, the Hittite capital of Hattusa, Ugarit, and dozens of others were destroyed by fire, many never rebuilt. The Hittite Empire vanished so completely that its capital was lost for three thousand years. In Greece the palaces fell, the population dropped, and the Greeks forgot how to write, plunging into a dark age so total that literacy did not return for roughly four hundred years.
No one has ever agreed on what caused it, only a list of overlapping catastrophes that struck at once: waves of mysterious searaiders the Egyptians called the Sea Peoples, decades of drought and famine, earthquakes, and the breakdown of the trade routes that every kingdom depended on.
What should make us reflect is that these were the most advanced civilizations of their age, and they never saw it coming. Once it began, they could not stop it. As the historian Robert Drews once wrote: "Within a period of forty to fifty years at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, many of them never to be occupied again."
The people who lived through it did not know they were living at the end of an age. No one ever does...
Ich kaufe jetzt schon seit Jahren immer mal wieder Filme bei Apple, vor allem wenn sie gerade mal im Angebot sind. Ich dachte, dass ich mir die dann ja auch noch in ein paar Jahren immer wieder anschauen kann! Weit gefehlt!!!
Leider muss ich immer wieder feststellen, dass gekaufte Filme nicht mehr abrufbar sind! Es handelt sich um keinen Einzelfall! Es betrifft ungefähr 5% meiner Bibliothek!!!
Die Cover der Filme erscheinen zwar noch in der Bibliothek aber Apple bietet sie einfach nicht mehr an, obwohl ich sie nicht gemietet, sondern gekauft habe! Ich habe auf “KAUFEN” geklickt @AppleTV!
Kann es sein, dass ich eine andere Auffassung davon habe, was es bedeutet etwas zu kaufen??
Sowas ist echt unverschämt!!! Für mich ist das Betrug! Auch wenn das irgendwo versteckt in den AGB steht! Wenn ein gekaufter Film aus dem Streamingangebot genommen wird, sollte man automatisch den Kaufpreis erstatten!
Bitte teilt das, damit Apple antwortet!
An engineer that built this 400m-running humanoid robot explained the wild form:
▫️initially designed it with human arm swing
▫️but swinging arms too much put heavy load on shoulder joints, led to overheating (and robot couldn’t finish 400m)
▫️robot invented the new running style on its own (hands held up near face to reduce shoulder load while legs could keep trucking)
▫️per Global Times, “in a simulated learning environment…the team gave the robot continuous rewards, and through repeated iteration on the data it gradually settled into a posture that suited it better.”
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Full read here (fascinating): https://t.co/hfd7PCRIqM
Lionsgate and other film buyers are absolutely furious after Amazon Prime Video leaked Jason Statham’s new action-thriller, Mutiny, online ahead of its theatrical debut. Amazon attributed the disaster to a backend glitch that mistakenly published the entire 95-minute movie on a page meant only for trailers, allowing subscribers to stream it for free. Adding insult to injury, tech-savvy users quickly ripped the pristine footage, which is now circulating widely on piracy websites. Ultimately, this is a multimillion-dollar catastrophe. But even if Amazon cuts massive settlement checks to smooth things over, they have severely damaged industry trust, and that is something money simply cannot buy.
Menos mal quedó grabado sino nadie iba a creerle !!
Una escena impresionante se registró la tarde de este martes, día 18, en el centro de Bauru, en el interior del estado de São Paulo.
Dos autos chocaron en el cruce de las calles Marcondes Salgado y Antônio Alves.
Por la fuerza del impacto, uno de los vehículos salió despedido hacia un concesionario de autos.
Pero lo que llamó la atención fue cómo terminó todo.
El auto entró por el estacionamiento del establecimiento y se detuvo perfectamente encajado entre dos vehículos que estaban en exhibición, sin chocar con ninguno de ellos.
Parecía incluso que la conductora simplemente había entrado al lugar para estacionarse.
A pesar del fuerte choque y de la impresionante escena, nadie resultó herido.
Las dos conductoras se encuentran bien y el incidente se saldó únicamente con daños materiales.
De: Extra News Mundo