Roger Avary

Director, producer, and Oscar™-winning screenwriter. CEO of General Cinema Dynamics Corporation.

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When faced with reckoning and crisis, do we obey, rebel or redeem? https://t.co/fhHtghxn4f

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@WillyB_303 💯 and another 💯

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How does this statement make the stable of big shot filmmakers who have taken a bite from Netflix’s poisoned apple feel?

[Reel Updates @worldofreel]

Netflix film chief Dan Lin tells @nytimes that if any director asks Netflix to give their film a theatrical release, they will be shown the door.

“There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical. Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with.”

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@WillyB_303 You don’t know how dead on accurate you are.

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I’m not a fan of sickeningly sanctimonious Sean Penn, but this hilarious quote is reeling me in: “It’s the Holocaust grandmother and her 6-year-old paraplegic wheeling over? It’s a hard no."

[Variety @Variety]

Sean Penn says he decided to stop attending award shows (including this year’s Oscars, where he won Best Supporting Actor) after being bombarded by people asking for selfies at the Golden Globes.

"People should not do selfies ever with anyone. It’s bad for you; it’s bad for everyone. It’s a soul-sucker,” Penn said. “It’s the Holocaust grandmother and her 6-year-old paraplegic wheeling over? It’s a hard no."

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[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

The SAG rule that you can't show extras faces is retarded. I have background performers sitting on chairs with their backs to camera for 10 hours. Isn't the point of this job to get camera trained and get discovered?

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@KlutchWelcometo True, but I said it was the “ultimate acceptance.”

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We can thank MTV Cribs for the ultimate acceptance of Scarface. When touring a crib it became de rigueur to pull out one’s copy of Scarface and hold it up to the camera as proof. Every crib had one.

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

Scarface is widely regarded as a classic today, but when it first came out, the reception was brutal. Steven Bauer, who played Manny, says it was so painful that for years he and Al Pacino barely even spoke about the film. He explains…

“Scarface is great to be a part of now. For years, it was dismal - like everybody associated with Scarface was a leper - people got very wimpy about Scarface really quickly. As soon as the reviews were out…

Our peers came to see the movie in the premiere, right? There were two premieres, one in New York, one in LA, and people came to see it and they were like, ‘Wow, what a movie….

The next day, the reviews are out, and all the papers — this is before the internet, okay? - so you get just the conventional news media outlets - and 90% of them gave Scarface a horrible review. Like horrible, really, really insulting, injurious stuff. Personal attacks on Pacino and Brian De Palma, the director, and on Oliver, the writer...

It was really, really mean because the country was going through a politically correct sort of thing - they were like, "This is like a new wave of violence in the movies, oh!"

It’s nice because when I see Al - we can finally talk about it, because...for years, we couldn’t even talk about it. We’d be like, “Oh yeah, Scarface, yeah, yeah...” It was so sad! Because the movie was so great! And then it was like this thud, and it lasted like 10 years…

Anywhere I’d go, it was like, ‘You’re that guy who was really good in that really terrible movie.’ And I’d be like, ‘How could you say that?’ And they’d go, ‘Well, you were good.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, but I don’t care. What about the movie?’ And they go, ‘Oh, come on, you gotta admit it. It was like way over the top. It was like so exaggerating,’ blah, blah, blah, blah.…and I’d be like, ‘You’re a pussy!”

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Don’t know about that, Ben. It basically is a thesis on the dangers of uncontrolled migration (the Mariel boatlift of 1980). It’s also about how such events pervert the American dream. The very same can be said about the 1932 original film by Hawks, which was also known as The Shame of the Nation.

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@Martinsomebody No self-respecting home theater was without.

[Cristóbal Valenzuela @c_valenzuelab]

Join me on June 11 at Lincoln Center in NYC for a conversation with Ron Howard about film and AI, and on June 18 at the Broad Stage Theatre in Los Angeles for a conversation with Roger Avary and Gala Avary about storytelling and technology.

4th Annual AI Film Festival.

More surprises coming soon.

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@HighSierraMan @gaby_kantor But are we really voting for them?!

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

What going on now in LA and CA is the electoral equivalent of the Palisades fire. Same people too. If they want to burn your world, they will burn your world. And you will have to apply to them for a permit to come back and visit the ashes.

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@X_Ray44 We saw it together, at the SBIFF. I was personally underwhelmed.

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The Rip was a Netflix title. Never bite the hand that feeds.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Quentin Tarantino recently told Sight and Sound magazine that he considers the current decade the worst period for cinema he has ever experienced.

The director said that many contemporary films leave him with a sense of "contempt" for the medium and admitted that he has lately found greater pleasure in reading books than watching movies. Here is his full statement:

“I loved going to the movies. These days, however, the concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the ‘80s seem like the ‘30s. I’ve seen movies I’ve liked since then — “West Side Story (2021); “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 & 2,” a few others, but nothing that really held me in its grip, and swept me away fo to the magical land of enjoyment that I used to visit and was the reason why I loved movies above all artforms. These days I’d rather read a book. However, a new movie has now come out that did grab me and held me for its entire duration: Joe Carnahan’s “The RIP,” starring the dynamic duo of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.”

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@LowkeyCinema @elon

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This is The Odyssey that most of us want. But a trailer is a far cry from a feature film, which has to sustain drama. @elon would be wise to start StudioX and hire some notable filmmakers to utilize his tools to produce a slate of feature films as proof-of-concept (DM me, dude).

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Iliad (Troy) trailer made by Grok Imagine 1.5, which was just released

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@poormanscaviar @elon Special credit for writing with an accent: A+

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@Derrah @elon You *could* do that, Michael, but why don’t you? It’s Paradise Lost, by the way, not Dante’s Inferno.

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@Superneal @elon 💯