Surreal how this is a Disney film. Even for the era, in which they were titans of innovation, this artwork is stunningly captivating to the degree that it's hard to believe human hands can craft and control something so beautiful. A crowning achievement to art and culture
The fact Zaslav had this movie shelved for a tax write off, only for it to escape his greedy bullshit and come out with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time.
This right here is a genuinely awesome story of animation overcoming corporate greed.
And I just know that Zaslav is probably throwing the biggest tantrum right now in his office, lol.
I can’t believe this has to be explained but
½ - worthless / offensive to movies itself
1 - same but has one charitable thing
1½ - dogshit
2 - bad
2½ - mid
3 - decent
3½ - good
4 - great
4½ - almost perfect
5 - masterpiece
the clips of OPPENHEIMER circulating the TL are such a welcome reminder that it is probably the cinematic achievement of the century. total lightning in a bottle.
Nolan built a 35-foot, 8,000-pound Trojan horse, sank it into a Moroccan beach, and had 250 actors drag it out with ropes. And that wasn't even the hard part of shooting the fall of Troy without a green screen.
The hard part was the fire. IMAX film stock needs far more light than digital sensors, and a city-sized set full of open flame is both a fire hazard and too dim to expose properly. So the production built over 1,000 custom 4-foot LED panels called Pyrohedrons, each programmed with natural flame-flicker profiles, capable of illuminating set pieces up to a mile away.
Read that again. To film a real city burning, they had to fake the fire.
The set itself was real. Troy covered 110,000 square feet, held 60 structures and 2,000 extras, with a full recreation of the temple of Athena inside the walls. Nolan built multiple Trojan horses and submerged one in the Atlantic so waves would tear pieces off it before the cast hauled it over log rollers.
There's a technical reason he refuses digital effects, and it's math, not nostalgia. Adding a digital effect to film means scanning the original negative at reduced resolution, compositing, then printing it back. Every effect permanently degrades the image. Shooting practical is how you keep native IMAX resolution end to end.
And the bet paid off in 3 days. $250M budget, R-rated, no franchise, no superhero. It opened to $264M globally, Nolan's biggest launch ever, with premium formats driving 53% of domestic sales and 70mm showings at 3am selling out. The craft is the marketing.
You all BETTER see this film in theaters. Especially after the amount of mountains and loopholes this film had to climb just to get released. This film needs to make K-POP Demon Hunters level money.
GO. WATCH. THIS. MOVIE.
The cinematic universe of Christopher Nolan.
FOLLOWING (1998), MEMENTO (2000), INSOMNIA (2002), BATMAN BEGINS (2005), THE PRESTIGE (2006), THE DARK KNIGHT (2008), INCEPTION (2010), THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), INTERSTELLAR (2014), DUNKIRK (2017), TENET (2020), OPPENHEIMER (2023)
Christopher Nolan received his first Oscar nomination for MEMENTO for Original Screenplay, followed by nominations for INCEPTION and DUNKIRK. He earned his first Oscars for OPPENHEIMER, winning Best Director and Best Picture; the film went on to win seven Oscars overall.
AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY - the final full film I had the honor of leading as Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios.
This illustration commemorates that journey & reveals the characters & their looks for the first time.
#AvengersDoomsday
@CinemaTweets1 For me, OPPENHEIMER truly is his magnum opus. So—
1. OPPENHEIMER
2. INTERSTELLAR
3. THE DARK KNIGHT
4. INCEPTION
5. MEMENTO
6. THE PRESTIGE
7. BATMAN BEGINS
8. DUNKIRK
9. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
10. TENET
Yet to see INSOMNIA and FOLLOWING.
Disclosure Day: STAY THROUGH THE CREDITS!!!
There’s no post-credits or anything but this could be the last time we hear new John Williams music in a theater.
Forget Dune 3.
Forget The Odyssey.
Coyote vs. ACME is the most important movie for you to see in a movie theater this year simply because David Zaslav tried to take it from you.
Show the CEOs good movies of ALL shapes and sizes are worth fighting for.
The success or failure of Coyote vs ACME is something that film studios are going to keep a very close eye on.
If it succeeds, studios will be hesitant to shelve movies going forward and could try to find audiences for all of them.
But if it fails, studios will almost never listen to those vocal campaigns ever again.
There is a lot riding on this film and everyone who campaigned for this movie to be released better show up and show out.