Welp, the inevitable has happened: now with $224m at the box office, Obsession has outgrossed the entire 2020–2025 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition lineup combined. That includes box office and streaming acquisitions. One horror film beat 68 carefully-curated prestige movies. Not Bad.
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"Art director making $300 a day is a livable wage."
One thing people don't understand about the film business is it's feast or famine. You may not work for weeks or months so that money has to be saved and amortized.
Then the Obsession crew lives in LA, so they're paying the highest rents, highest gas, highest utilities, highest insurance (to be fair they keep voting for it, but that's another story).
A 14 hour day doesn't account for 1 hour of traffic each way. Indies can routinely go 12-18 hours.
Art department is an especially brutal crew. They are the first to get on set, the last to leave. No set, no shoot.
Then crew heads don't really get paid for their time. Reading the script? Free. Thinking about it? Free. Talking with the director? Free. Creative discussion, creative obsessing, detail planning on weekends. Free free free. The time on the clock is not the time on the job.
$300 a day on an 18 hour day, before gas or any other expenses, is $16 an hour. The off the clock work is double that. So $8 an hour. Now save that to survive the next actor/writer strike.
Is it a livable wage? Sure. In Iowa if you're a mid level stripper. Not a film crew in LA.
Anthony Bourdain not only had a love affair with Chicago, but it was also his ideal Utopia.
And so it is for many of us as well.
RIP Chef.
#ChicagoHistory ☑️
This is the TSA agent who got annoyed that I opted out of facial recognition, then scanned me anyway. Officer Nemec, I filed a complaint. I’m not holding my breath for consequences, but I will make sure the public sees you ignored my rights. 🖕
Spokane airport. Checkpoint A.
This is amazing? This 10-year-old mocks ICE and calls for Trump to be put in detention.
“If they are so big and bad, why don’t they take their mask off? Why you so scared?”
“How about we make a deal with Trump. The deal is let’s lock them up.”
REMINDER: just over 10 years ago Spencer Pratt and his wife went bankrupt after blowing $10 million preparing for a zombie apocalypse.
This is not satire. It really happened.
These people are dirty fucking grifters that are unfit to manage their own finances, let alone one of the biggest economies in the world.
Are they going to blow the entire Los Angeles budget on a doomsday bunker and plastic surgery?
⛔️The famous Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes: Hitler has triumphed; he has turned us Jews into nationalist, barbaric criminals who kill women and children. I am eighty-three years old, and I have never felt shame for Israel as I do now‼️
Imagine being the head of the FBI and helping to orchestrate a false flag to save the president’s political career but it just results in your girlfriend getting dicked down in a supply closet and reported on national television
I am a Canadian. Yesterday I heard an American hockey player taunt the German players after defeating them in an Olympic game by saying" that's for Pearl Harbor". I have much respect for the German people and now, a lot less for some Americans, especially the dumb ones.
🇨🇦🧐🇺🇸Trump Demands Guaranteed Canadian Wheat — Carney Confirms 4 Million Tons Already Redirected from the U.S. ⚡
The demand was made publicly — but the response revealed the deal was effectively already done. After Donald Trump called for guaranteed access to Canadian wheat, Mark Carney confirmed that 4 million tons had already been rerouted to buyers in Europe and Asia amid rising trade tensions. Grain markets were jolted, U.S. millers scrambled for alternatives, and food producers warned of tightening supply just weeks before key purchasing cycles.
Ottawa insists the shift reflects stable, long-term contracts — not retaliation. Supporters frame Trump’s demand as a move to secure American food security; critics argue the leverage vanished the moment shipments sailed elsewhere. With bread prices and farm incomes at stake, did Washington miscalculate its influence — or trigger a pivot that won’t be easily reversed?
JUST IN: A woman set a Kansas City warehouse on fire that was going to be turned into an ICE detention center.
After the fire the property owner said it won’t sell the building to the government.
The rich only listen when their capital is threatened and shit is set on fire.
BREAKING: 🚨 According to internal documents, the Forman family will NOT be reopening the HISTORIC Cinerama Dome. They keep extending/delaying the building permit blaming it on COVID. They are stonewalling the reopening! We need @KarenBassLA@MayorOfLA@CAgovernor to step in!!! https://t.co/PUSa4sFxUE
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.