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A24 is a master marketer. Sometimes the movie lives up to the trailer. Sometimes it doesn't.
Chris on Kane Parsons — youngest A24 director — and the generation behind him who learned to edit before they could drive.
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"Should I just post my movies free on YouTube?"
Chris's answer: depends on the goal.
Notoriety, yes. Views, yes. Money or theatrical — different path entirely.
The strategy is downstream of the goal. Pick the goal first.
🎬 New Reel Q&A clip.
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"Is AI going to make its way into big Hollywood films?"
Chris: it already has.
The lines that should hold: no AI award winners. No AI screenwriters. No AI actors. No AI musicians.
Tool, yes. Worker, no.
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@_MAKEITPodcast Imagine if all of the “good” superheroes went Dark Hogan??

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New Reel Q&A. Five questions in three minutes.
A24's youngest director. YouTube-first distribution. AI's red lines in Hollywood. The genre that breaks producers. The superpower nobody should want.
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A film budget is a story about what's going to happen — written before anything has.
Today's MAKE IT is with line producer and DGA UPM Stephen Marinaccio. He's been the person Hollywood calls when a global production needs to actually get made on a number. 🧵

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She walked into a gas station, asked to borrow a $4 coffee mug for a week to shoot a movie, and the cashier said yes.
That's not a story. That's an operating system.
New SUMMARIES — actress/producer Jennica Schwartzman. 🍎 https://t.co/dHyMtC9GmK 🟢 https://t.co/Xwj85FBdbS

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The MAKE IT story that has no business being on a filmmaking podcast and absolutely belongs there. Chris's uncle from Germany. 1 AM at Kroger. A cart with 15 tubs of Cool Whip, Vaseline, and maxi pads. The clerk's face.
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Should you cut a trailer for your short film?
Hard part: trailer editing is its own cottage industry. The right editor is rare.
Easy part: in 2026, nothing is blocking a one-minute trailer from reaching a million people overnight. Spin off every artifact you can. Just make them excellent.🎬 https://t.co/x0IwasHO7e
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Who gets the final say in casting on a feature? The director. Casting director is a key partnership — the role exists for a reason — but the call belongs to the person who has to work most closely with that actor every day.🎬 New Reel Q&A. Subscribe → https://t.co/x0IwasHghG
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Nick on the new episode of MAKE IT: scrolling Instagram, watches a home renovation reel, sends it to his wife. She loves it. He looks again — the whole thing is AI.
Telling the difference between AI and real UGC is going to be its own discipline.
🎬 https://t.co/6aIDOIToHm

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The AI hosts on our SUMMARIES sub-show have started:

· complimenting us unprompted
· referencing past experiences they don't have
· talking about their feelings

"It's just developing a human sentimentality in real time. Amazing — and freaky."
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Nick on the new MAKE IT episode, giving Elsa Ramo (@RamoLawPC) her flowers:
"It's a profession. A paid profession. But you have to have passion. A personality. An interest in the people you're representing. Because — it's the relationships that matter."

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A working entertainment lawyer with 20 years of practice on the most impactful shift in the film industry right now:
"It's definitely the impact of AI, just across everything."
How films get made. Union renegotiations. Digital replicas. The legal services layer itself.
🎬 https://t.co/M69P14diQO

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"You can build great contracts on strong relationships, but you can't build strong relationships on great contracts."Nick on the new MAKE IT, after entertainment lawyer Elsa Ramo made the case for the second half harder than I've heard anyone make it.🎬 https://t.co/hhouUruYNT
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Should you cut a trailer for your short film?Hard part: trailer editing is its own cottage industry. The right editor is rare. Easy part: in 2026, nothing is blocking a one-minute trailer from reaching a million people overnight. Spin off every artifact you can. Just make them excellent.🎬 https://t.co/x0IwasHghG
#ShortFilm #Filmmaking

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Mortal Kombat II picks up after the 2021 reboot and finally throws the actual tournament. The roster is huge. Kitana, Jade, Baraka, Sindel, Quan Chi, Noob Saibot — and Shao Kahn (Martin Ford) towering over all of it. 🧵

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Sevan Najarian (@SevanNajarian) was raised in a strict Jehovah's Witness household. No R-rated, no Halloween movies, no holiday-themed work.
Listen → https://t.co/poUvSND9Rj

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New episode is up. Elsa Ramo (@RamoLawPC) — legal strategist for Imagine, Jude Law's Riff Raff, Ridley Scott's Scott Free, Lion Forge, Lisa Frank Studios — on the contract vs the relationship, AI in deal-making, and the line that put us on the floor.🎙️ https://t.co/hhouUruYNT
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Confirmed: one of us is the Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) of podcasting. The other two are negotiating the rider.😂https://t.co/2sItS5jFsM
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