Alan

💨 “Wind Breathing- Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind”💨

[CR7STIANISMO🇪🇸🇵🇹 @Cr7stianismo_]

Cristiano Ronaldo baja a campo propio a recibir y arrastra la marca del rival

El burro de Bruno Fernandes en lugar de iniciar la contra se va para atrás

EL ÁRBITRO ya había salido hacia adelante

Imagina que un árbitro tenga más IQ futbolístico que tú😭

[ShenronZ ® @ShenronZ_]

Japón juega con ventaja este Mundial

[El Inmortal 🇪🇸 @ElInmortal____]

El Barça anuncia a Villa el día del debut de España en el Mundial 2010.

Prensa: ☮️🕊️silencio🌈🦄

El Real Madrid anuncia a Cucurella el día del debut de España en el Mundial 2026

Prensa: 😡😠 EL MADRID SIEMPRE DESESTABILIZANDO. ¿NO HABÍA OTRO MOMENTO? VERGÜENZA 😡😠

Doble vara

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@Araujismooo Eso seria el Barça alias Team Negreira FC capullo. Ahora a llorar a maternidad.

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@Luiz_Fernando_J And yet Masters of the Universe is a bigger flop…..🫠 let’s see how it does on D+ and VOD

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@ChampionsRM16 2011/2012 Los colores del Madrid deberian ser blanco y dorado. Que jueguen a los colores en las alternas.

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@RSVLTS Finally!!!!!🦖😬

[Dominik @kenobi_domi]

This may be my new favourite pic of Din and Grogu.
#TheMandalorianAndGrogu

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@MultiversoTM 8.5 Buena aventura y entretenidisima.

[Padme’s Order @PadmesOrder]

this poster is everything

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@StarWarsDaily_ Some interesting visuals, utter trash of a story.

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@acrossthestars Did not know it included all seasons ,pre-ordering now!

[Alan @AMtoMD]

@madrid_total2

[Noah @keldorjedii]

Here’s a thread on Din Djarin’s arc in #TheMandalorianAndGrogu, and why he develops more as a character than most people think.

Buckle up, it’s a long one🧵:

(Spoilers ahead)

[Alex Evans @Part_Time_Hero]

Been a while since any new production stuff from #JurassicWorldRebirth surfaced, but the final screenplay is finally available to read courtesy of David Koepp!

https://t.co/I1LiyxPJpQ

Some interesting tidbits! Both Kincaid endings, the Juvenile Rex and a DOB for the Mosasaur.

[GunnerPulse @GunnerPuls]

🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Spain leaving Real Madrid players out of the World Cup squad:

🗣️ “Some decisions in football stop making sense when politics enters the game. You cannot convince me the biggest club in the world suddenly has no players good enough for Spain. But football always exposes people in the end.”

“Meanwhile, Barcelona fans are celebrating call-ups like trophies… it’s been over 10 years since they last touched a European Cup anyway.” 😭🏆

Football heritage always speaks in the end. 👀🔥

[Matt Jarbo @mjarbo]

I think people are looking at The Mandalorian & Grogu box office in the wrong way.

It is expected to open with around $102 million domestic over the four-day Memorial Day weekend and $165 million worldwide.

Is that huge by Star Wars standards? No. It is not anywhere close to what the sequel trilogy opened with.

But this movie was also not made like one of those movies.

The reported production budget is around $165 million. On top of that, Disney received more than $21 million in California tax credits for making the movie there, which brings the actual production cost closer to $145 million.

And then there is the marketing conversation.

Obviously marketing is not free. Disney still spent money promoting the movie.

But those marketing expenses also come with tax benefits, and more importantly, Disney was not just advertising a movie. They were advertising Grogu.

They were advertising toys, clothing, LEGO sets, collectibles, Disney+, theme park tie-ins, and an entire merchandise line built around a character who was already making them money before this movie was released.

More than 13 million Grogu toys were sold in his first two years alone. The Mandalorian franchise has reportedly generated over $1 billion in merchandise sales.

So the idea that this movie has to earn some giant Star Wars number at the box office before Disney can consider it successful feels a little ridiculous.

This is not Solo, where Disney spent a fortune trying to convince people to show up for a movie the audience clearly was not asking for.

This is a lower-cost theatrical movie built around the most marketable character Star Wars has introduced in years.

Does it still need to hold well after opening weekend? Of course.

But with a production cost closer to $145 million after tax credits, a $165 million worldwide opening weekend, marketing that supports an already profitable merchandise brand, and Grogu continuing to sell damn near everything Disney puts his face on...

Yeah, I would be shocked if we do not get another Mando and Grogu movie.

[Kyle Katarn @Ky1eKatarn]

The Mandalorian And Grogu is #1 movie in the world right now? But I was told it was a total disaster flop by a guy whose paycheck depends on it failing 🤔

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

They didn't kill the cancer. They told it to go home.

A team of Korean scientists at KAIST just pulled off something that sounds like science fiction.

Instead of nuking colon cancer cells with chemo or radiation, they convinced them to turn back into normal, healthy colon cells.

No killing. No collateral damage. Just a quiet U-turn at the cellular level.

Here's how it works.

Led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho at the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, the team built a "digital twin" of the gene network that controls how a normal cell becomes cancerous.

They ran simulations. They hunted for the exact moment a healthy cell flips into a malignant one.

Then they found the switches.

Three master regulator genes — MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2 — were the keys to the whole transformation.
Flip those switches back, and the cancer cell stops behaving like a cancer cell. It starts looking and acting like a normal enterocyte, the kind of cell that lines a healthy intestine.

No gene editing. No permanent rewiring. Just the body's own natural signals, used in reverse.

The team confirmed it in molecular experiments, cellular experiments, and animal studies. The malignant cells stopped multiplying out of control and went back to doing their actual job.

The research has already been handed off to a company called BioRevert Inc. to develop into real-world treatments.

This isn't a cure tomorrow. But it rewrites the entire playbook for how we think about cancer.

You don't always have to destroy the enemy.

Sometimes you just have to remind it who it used to be.

Source: KAIST / Advanced Science (Gong et al., 2024) via ScienceDaily and OncoDaily

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

It’s wild watching the trade press and certain corners of film Twitter cover The Mandalorian and Grogu this weekend. Audiences are showing up, families are loving it, and the vibe leaving the theater is pure classic Star Wars fun. Yet, if you read the trades or the critical breakdowns, you’d think the sky was falling because it isn't hitting $200 million on a modest, highly responsible budget.

There’s a very specific reason Hollywood and critics are so invested in wanting this movie to fail, and it has nothing to do with the actual quality on screen.

For the past several years, the narrative has been that "the theater experience is dying" and that streaming platforms ruined the prestige of cinema. The Mandalorian and Grogu represents the ultimate test case: taking a massively successful streaming show and turning it back into a theatrical feature film.

If it succeeds, it completely upends the traditional Hollywood hierarchy. It proves that streaming can be an incredibly effective farm system for big-screen blockbusters, and that audiences will buy a ticket to see characters they’ve already watched at home if they love them enough.

But traditional trades and critics don't want that to be the future. They want a clear, rigid line between television and movies. So, because the film is tracking for a solid, profitable Memorial Day weekend instead of breaking all-time historical records, they’re framing it as a "diminished galaxy." They are treating a win like a loss because a win for Mando and Grogu means admitting the industry's old playbook is officially outdated.

At the end of the day, Din Djarin said it best: "I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold." Right now, audiences are bringing this movie in warm, no matter how cold the trades try to play it.