Ozzie Figueroa

[Warner Bros. Entertainment @WBHomeEnt]

The fall begins #DCAnimated

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

Doomsday arrives December 18th.

Experience Avengers: Doomsday on bigger, brighter, & more immersive screens. Tickets are now on sale exclusively for Infinity Vision certified theaters: https://t.co/2HHPv9pj8t

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Biggest global openings of Christopher Nolan's career 💰

1️⃣ 'The Odyssey' — $264.1M
2️⃣ 'The Dark Knight Rises' — $249M
3️⃣ 'The Dark Knight' — $198M

[taylor umphenour @taylorumphenour]

Projectionist POV: The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm. Spent the last 96 hours projecting this epic 11 mile film print.

[IMAX @IMAX]

Them: I'll just watch it on my phone
Me:

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

Cleveland, thank you for opening your city to us. #Superman

[Ozzie Figueroa @Keepingupwithoz]

LFG!!!

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond confirms that Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ will be shot entirely in IMAX, a first in cinema history:

“Chris called me up and said If you can figure out how to solve the problems, will make [Odyssey] 100 percent in Imax. And that’s what we’re doing. He forced us to rethink that side of our business, our film recorders, our film cameras.”

The new Imax cameras are reportedly 30 percent quieter and substantially lighter. Gelfond said new film scanning and processing techniques will allow a faster turnaround for dailies.

The new film cameras are reserved for Nolan for now, but after he wraps The Odyssey, Imax will begin renting them out to other directors.

(via @THR)

[Michael Uslan @MichaelUslan]

The final fulfillment of my dream to make serious Batman movies, restoring the darkness and dignity to Batman, occurred today with Batman becoming the first super-hero to ever have a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For so many decades, Batman played second-fiddle to Superman, but today he arrives on Hollywood Boulevard first!

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

#RIP dad 💔

[Rob the Bat @BobTheRatReborn]

This is the best Batman edit of all time

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

“I know it was you…”

[Shawn Levy @ShawnLevyDirect]

Like the rest of us, I’ve been addicted to @RealHughJackman’s “Logan” ADR video for years. Today I proudly submit the next installment of this legend at work. Sound UP!

[Ozzie Figueroa @Keepingupwithoz]

🎥 @Keepingupwithoz
Benjamin Bill - Tattoos Ft. Ripp Flamez
https://t.co/NN3vmgc74S

[Ozzie Figueroa @Keepingupwithoz]

I wouldn’t be a filmmaker without these films 🙏

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Keanu Reeves gets emotional when reflecting on ‘THE MATRIX’ following the film’s 25th anniversary.

“The amount of people I’ve met who have said to me and been touched by ‘The Matrix’ in such a positive way… it’s the best”

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Gorgeous tribute poster of Christopher Nolan by @RicoJrCrea

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

On this day in 1939 ‘The Bat-Man’ debuted in Detective Comics 27 in ‘The Case of the Chemical Syndicate’ by Bill Finger & Bob Kane. Happy 85th Anniversary, #Batman!

[Austin @AustinPlanet]

The Strike Is Over.

GTA 6 announced.

Shrek 5 announced.

Omegle shutdown.

The Boys S4 news.

Avatar: The Last Airbender news.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer.

“Dad what was November 8th, 2023 like” https://t.co/1PrSXGGQin

[UAW @UAW]

Check out some of the details of the tentative agreement at Ford... 🧵

#StandUpUAW