Roy Price

Saw streaming early. Helped make it happen. 16 patents. 14 Emmy/Globe-winning series. Ex AMZN VP & head of Amazon Studios. Building something new.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

New piece in the NYT today

How to Save Hollywood: Make Fun Movies

https://t.co/vSYMGSyjFj via @NYTOpinion

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@kjh1138 @jpodhoretz Could be either. I think it would just be less thorough than storyboards. Just trying to convey the vibe rather than getting every shot.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

Will become increasingly common.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971) didn't have a traditional screenplay. It had the first example of a CINESCRIPT: an amplified screenplay that combined text and printed visuals to communicate the intended visual language before production began.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@AmandaMilius @dpinsen What studio has it?

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

Lots of credit grabs around Hollywood for the breakout success of BACKROOMS, but at the very beginning, one lowly assistant clicked on a Reddit link and saw a potential movie. The full backstory ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/pBiuFVGcfX

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

If the execs were focused on the bottom line, they would not have made any of the choices they made. Instead they got obsessed with politics and destroyed billions of dollars in value.

Same thing happened at the same time at Marvel, Disney Animation, and at Amazon w Lord of the Rings.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

Marilyn Monroe would be 100 today.

Has anyone ever had a better year than Marilyn in 1953 (at 27)? Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

AMC Entertainment, $AMC, saw the highest attendance for May since 2019

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@Mcclainseanm Definitely. The lesson people took from it was that the musical was over.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

This does feel like a 1969 Easy Rider/Paint Your Wagon turning point.

[Variety @Variety]

Box Office: 'Backrooms' Stuns With $81 Million Debut, 'Obsession' Has Another Unprecedented Jump, 'Mandalorian and Grogu' Suffers 70% Drop https://t.co/rsgPxCV5eg

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

I don’t think people appreciate how much effort has gone into eroding Hollywood’s overall brand and the value of IP like Star Wars. It took a lot of work, over years, to lose the audience’s confidence.

I saw the first forty minutes of Mandalorian yesterday. It was uninspiring. And every single trailer before the film was uninspiring. That’s a real accomplishment, of a kind.

[Jason Blum @jason_blum]

Blumhouse-Atomic Monster has the #1 and #2 movies in the country this weekend, both made for almost no money. Theaters are packed. What a time to be making scary movies.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@ThatChrisGore @mattmaisto We can still do it! I was setting it in DC…

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

Great guy. Amazing movies that will be remembered.

[Variety @Variety]

Yoshihiro Nishimura, the director behind films like “Tokyo Gore Police” and “Welcome to Japan,” has died in Tokyo following a nearly two-week hospital stay for liver disease. He was 59.

https://t.co/PSlMY4Ukql

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@mattmaisto @ThatChrisGore I developed the sequel to TGP: “Gore Police USA”. We talked about making it here.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@beneverard Amazon. Integrate theaters w retail.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

@GigiLevangie @RonColeman Amazing!

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

Legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis demos his favorite kind of lighting. The "Prince of Darkness" lives up to his nickname!

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

The CINERAMA DOME on Sunset Blvd under construction in 1963.

It marked the first new major motion picture theater in Hollywood in 33yrs, took just 4 months to build, and opened on November 7th ‘63 with “It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World.”

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

In 1972, there were only two comedies in the top 20 films.

In 1974, Blazing Saddles was #1 and The Bride of Frankenstein was #4.

By 1978, 10 of the top 20 films were comedies.

Things evolve. They can evolve now.

[Roy Price @RoyPrice]

This is pretty brilliant actually. I think it’s Colbert’s best night in years

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.