Neal Edelstein

🎥 Movie producing: Mulholland Drive, The Ring, The Straight Story, Haunting Melissa, Fractured, The Invisible, etc…

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

Ya'll, this is nuts.

Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.

They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.

https://t.co/7Un9Deyly7

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

In Minnesota, the USPS offices are inside mosques

The people who handle mail-in ballots..

What are we doing America

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

Netflix’s movie program was never good, but the real problem was their sharp decline in original TV — from having 1-2 big new hits per year to 0, for years.

Not sure why people are focused on movies as a cure all. And this has all been apparent for years now.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

Add LED screens and there’s no need to be there. It was born of outdoor stages and analog film labs and labor walking to the lot. It’s done now. It’s all going goggles and holograms. The digital consumer doesn’t not care where it’s made, like video games, they just want the product. Once the analog lab was removed from the process LA ent industry was cooked.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

It’s the computer chip. You don’t need to move to LA to learn a craft, you can buy a great camera for under 3k and make a film with great lights for under 1k and cut it with free software. It’s DIY film making because of the computer chip. Other factors have accelerated the geographical demise but the ole computer chip is the main reason from my perspective.

[Los Angeles Magazine @LAmag]

Hollywood’s latest wave of layoffs may be a sign of something much bigger. As Netflix, Universal Music Group and Skydance undergo major restructuring, experts point to shifting viewing habits, growing competition from platforms like YouTube and productions moving overseas as forces reshaping the entertainment industry.

With thousands of jobs potentially at risk, what does the future hold for Hollywood and Los Angeles?

Read more at the link below. ⬇️
https://t.co/xqTn9ABix0

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

Very true but as you water down content the audience quality meter lowers and the details become less important. Scarcity drives excellence. You would think the unions and protectionists in H-Wood would be happy about the democratization of cheap gear but they aren’t, they won’t to protect their paychecks. Proving what I’ve always suspected.

[James Higgins @15Higgins]

October 21, 1975. 51 years ago today, Carlton Fisk hit one of the most iconic home runs of all time. He waved it fair to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series in the 12th inning for the Red Sox. One of the greatest moments in baseball history.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

Also the anticipation of waiting, that wait is crucial for building interest and Investement in time. If you know another episodes drops once a week you used to schedule your life around that window. That momentum is gone for film and TV and that is one of the reasons why it's unraveling.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

In the noir films of the 40’s/50’s LA was defined. Also the cheap shooting solution for the B movies. But the real reason the lite camera systems, no analog anchor and craft union skilled jobs one can learn on YT with easy to purchase gear. The mystification of how it all works can be learned anywhere with cheaper cameras and overall gear. Thus no need to transplant to H-Wood.

[edgarwright @edgarwright]

With the late, great Oliver Reed currently wowing 2026 audiences all over again with his incredible performance in the restored version of Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’, I wanted to share this amazing clip of him from 1985.

The rather low-res clip comes from ‘In at the Deep End’, a BBC series in which presenter Paul Heiney tries his hands at a profession he had zero experience in. For this episode, Heiney was preparing for an acting role opposite Michael Caine in ‘Water’ and went to Oliver Reed for some pointers on how to play a villain.

Please enjoy what happens next.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

@gregsilverman Disney is the only way out Greg.

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

@OpenRoadOpenMic @GMFWashington And the old anchored schedule forced the show to get better.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Greta Gerwig said Christianity makes her uncomfortable. Then Netflix gave her a $280 million budget to direct Narnia, an explicitly Christian allegory where Aslan is literally Jesus.

She gender-swapped Aslan with Meryl Streep. Made it a rock opera. Changed the timeline. Blew up the pub where Lewis and Tolkien used to meet.

Test screenings have been described as disastrous. Netflix fired their head of film and head of content.

[Around Liverpool @aroundliv]

Someone sent me a post that said this on it about the murder of Liverpool’s Ken Bigley:

“These are the last images of Ken Bigley.
Moments before he knew his head was to be hacked off on camera.

I was sent the video years ago.
Not because of murder porn but as a warning of what will come if we don't stop it.

It changed me as a man.
Mohammed Yaseem took his time.
Smiled at the camera.
He took his time removing Kens head while still conscious.
Thats the idea.
The same as the videos of Jewish women having their breasts cut off and thrown around like a ball as she lays there screaming knowing whats coming next.

They kept him in a cage for hours telling him his inevitable fate.
Unimaginable cruelty.
His crime.... being a westerner.
His killer Mohamed Yaseen

Mohammed Yaseen is also responsible for setting fire to women and girls in cages for not submitting to Islam.

He burned them alive.

Laughing and shouting Allahu Akbar.

God is great

Setting fire to children and women and slowly removing another humans head whilst praising a sky wizard.....

Have a wild guess where he lives now????

Windsor.
Seen shopping in the Co Op

We know he's not working so your paying his rent, utilities and food bill.

Our government won't deport him or lock him up.

Where's the fuckin morality?”

It is truly terrifying what we are allowing our government to do to us.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A French woman says that the rioters and looters broke into her building and threatened her with rape while she was holding her child in her arms.

“That’s collateral damage” responds the feminist activist Bettina Zourli who holds a Master’s in gender studies and focuses her work on gender norms, motherhood, reproductive rights, and voluntary childlessness (“childfree”)

She describes herself as “feminist, childfree and Antifa”

Zourli also says that all the stores getting looted also constitute a case of collateral damage and that the revolution, which she supports, must be violent.

She has lectured in gender studies, including at the University of Lille and Université Rennes.

[Peter Garrett @pgarrett]

Very pleased to be joining another independent festival lineup this summer with my mates in the Alter Egos. We’ll be heading to Golden Plains on Wadawurrung Country from 6–8 March 2027.

Come and join us at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre in VIC.

https://t.co/DKeGjxMdUM

[Frank L. DeSilva @desilva_frank]

Just a Reminder:

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

This is the first time I have felt that the best picture should be a doc. Even if you don’t love documentaries you should see it.

It’s the first film for several years that I think will be a “classic” film. Kudos to Nathan Fielder and @A24