I wish people talked more about Arlecchino after Sandrone’s death. I understand she’s pretty closed off and distant most of the time but she lost Rosalyne, Columbina went missing and no one knew if she was dead or alive and now she’s lost Sandrone. It must also be hard to be the-
A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.
Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.
Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.
So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.
Then the gatekeepers showed up.
When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.
Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.
$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.
The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.
Quick translation for I-ARMY: Ocesa(LIVE NATION) / Ticketmaster had a press conference today and they claim that they don’t have any relationship with resellers AND are blaiming BTS/HYBE for MX high prices (Mexico is the most expensive country to see BTS in this tour btw)
@Mich_Apurple@Ticketmaster_Me@ocesa_kpop Desde que vi el lugar dije, bueno... habrá otras oportunidades. Pero no hay que comprar de revendedores!! No dejen que se aprovechen de ustedes!
Difundan mutis, aún si no son de México, necesitamos hacer aún más ruido. Hoy sufrimos una injusticia aún más grave que antes, army no admite injusticias y no pensamos quedarnos calladxs
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_MEXICOCITY#ARMYNoCompraReventa#BTS_WORLDTOUR
as a mexican army i ask armys around the world to help us, more than half of the tickets released on presale are being sold on reseller sites at crazy prices, they were being sold even before armys could access the presale #BTS_WORLDTOUR_MEXICOCITY
looking back, the way bina mourned rosalyne then and sandrone now has always intrigued me..
at first glance, I thought she showed so little reaction when her dear sandrone was..let’s say, broken. but she had mourned rosalyne similarly back then. quiet, distant, almost untouched.
I wrote this album in a very uncertain time in my life. Since then, so much has changed and some things have stayed the same. It was clunky and timid at first, but eventually I grew to love and embrace the saga that followed. This album was meant to earmark the possible conclusion to my career. Here’s what happened instead: I challenged myself. I shared my journey, I met thousands of people in similar shoes. I went on the biggest tour of my career, and I’m writing this from the road on a SECOND tour! (One that celebrates my origin story, what poetic justice) It felt like a slow eternity while it was happening, but now I can say the year flew by. There are new trials and new triumphs. But I’m happy for the girl in this video, who needed faith that life would return to beautiful form. I was impersonating someone with that faith, for much of this year. I’m happy to say I don’t have to anymore. It’s for real. If you are someone who connected with or appreciated this heavy, hard, and honest album, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. What a gorgeous occasion.
Love,
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