Jon R Buchanan

By day, GEICO Dispatcher. By night, writer extraordinaire. Also a fan of Super Sentai. :)

[Jon R Buchanan @BuchJon]

@anishmoonka Knowing that makes the shot 10 times more impressive than it already was :D

[Aadil Maqbool @Aadilpktm]

@anishmoonka "This movie proves that the hardest special effect in Hollywood isn't CGI—it's getting competing companies to agree on the same screen."

[Litterbox Comics @LitterboxComics]

A comic about learning new things!

NEW BONUS panel below! 👇

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Steven Spielberg wanted to put Star Wars in this movie. Disney told him no. He is maybe the most famous director alive, and he still spent three years just getting permission for everything else you can see in this shot.

Almost every character in a picture like this is owned by a different company, and a lot of those companies are rivals. The woman in the goggles up front is Tracer, from the game Overwatch. Beside her, fist in the air, is Chun-Li from Street Fighter. Those two games come from competitors who fight over the same players, and someone had to talk both into sharing one scene.

That someone was a producer named Kristie Macosko Krieger. Getting permission for all these characters was her whole job, and it ate up three years. Spielberg said so himself. The writer, Zak Penn, joked the team should win an Oscar just for the paperwork, and that what they pulled off would get taught in film schools.

Plenty of doors stayed shut. In the book this movie comes from, the hero turns into the Japanese superhero Ultraman for the big final fight. They could not use him at all. His rights were stuck in a lawsuit nobody could sort out, so they dropped in the Iron Giant instead, a robot Warner Bros already owned. The huge metal monster the villain climbs into at the end, Mechagodzilla, is on screen only because a Japanese studio called Toho agreed, and even then Toho made them build a brand new version from scratch.

Spielberg did something a little funny with his own films. He left nearly all of them out on purpose, so his work would not hog attention from everyone else's. His crew kept trying to sneak them back in when he was not looking, like a Gremlins face painted on a wall, or a diner copied straight out of The Goonies. He caught most of them and cut them before the movie came out. The one he let stay was the DeLorean from Back to the Future, since he only produced that film, he did not direct it. A dinosaur from Jurassic Park slipped through too.

The guy who wrote the book, Ernest Cline, spent years sure nobody could ever film it, because no studio would get that many rivals to say yes at once. The movie cost 175 million dollars and made more than three times that worldwide. It does look as good as people say. But the thing that nearly killed it before a single frame got drawn was a fat stack of contracts, and the most powerful director in the business still lost a few of those fights.

[💫𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸💫🪐 @Demo4fhs]

My manager had a favorite line:

“If you don’t like it here, there are 100 people waiting to take your job.”

Every team meeting. Without fail. Budget updates, project reviews, check-ins—it didn’t matter. The speech was always coming.

After hearing it for a year, I figured I should take the hint. So I started applying elsewhere.

Last month I accepted an offer paying 35% more than my current role.

When I handed in my notice, my manager looked genuinely shocked. Then he asked why I never came to him if I was unhappy.

I just thanked him for the opportunity because there really wasn’t anything else to say.

He spent 12 months reminding everyone they were replaceable, then seemed surprised when someone acted accordingly.

Funny enough, it turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to my career.

Anyone else have a bad manager who accidentally did them a huge favor?

[Walt Disney Studios @DisneyStudios]

The herd is back 🦣🦥

#IceAge: Boiling Point comes exclusively to theaters February 5, 2027.

[👑 @coffeededo_o]

He had the domino affect 👍

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Raul Julia's final role was the villainous M. Bison in Street Fighter (1994), a film he made while battling stomach cancer.

He accepted the role because his children loved the Street Fighter games, and he wanted to be part of a movie they could enjoy.

Despite his declining health, Julia gave a memorable performance that later became one of the film's most celebrated aspects. He passed away on October 24, 1994, shortly before the movie's release.

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

The cameraman knew exactly what he was doing. Andrew Garfield lost Emma Stone in every universe.

In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Andrew Garfield's tears for Emma Stone was 100% real, uncontrolled and went on for hours. Weeks before filming Gwen Stacy’s death. Garfield told Emma,

“I don’t want to see you! When you come into that scene, you have to pretend like you are dead to me.”

VFX supervisor Jerome Chen recalled, “It was very quiet. A totally closed set. And I just remember Andrew coming in and just crying uncontrollably. It was hours of that. That was grueling but powerful.”

Emma Stone purposely kept her eyes tightly shut during filming because looking at Andrew would have broken her composure. She revealed,

"I couldn’t open my eyes to see Andrew... I could feel him, but to see his face, it’s so heartbreaking."

So Seeing Emma Stone thanking Ryan Gosling while the camera cuts directly to Andrew Garfield's reaction is the real-life La La Land ending we never asked for.

[Movie Moments Analyst @Movies_analyst]

While filming Batman Begins (2005), Christian Bale said the Batsuit cowl gave him constant headaches, but he embraced the discomfort as method acting:

“When you get a headache, you feel fierce anyway... I just said to myself, ‘Use it,’ and I just put up with it.”

[𝙻𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚜 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚝 @LeviticusRott]

Cats Don’t Dance (1997)

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Nicholas Galitzine, who stars as He-Man in the upcoming live-action film, has officially recreated the iconic meme.

[Elijah The Cartoonist 🔥⭐️ @ElijahTheCarto1]

Reminder that this came out the SAME year as The Boss Baby, and somehow that movie got the Oscar nomination and not this one.

Not just speaking as a childhood fan of the books, but this is literally one of my favorite movies ever.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New look at ‘RAY GUNN’, directed by Brad Bird (‘The Incredibles’)

The film follows a private inspector drawn into a case involving aliens & murder all in the alternate futuristic city Metropia.

(Source: @empiremagazine)

[Catsuka @catsuka]

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

[Imran @herelies_imran]

Just remembered Jerome Chen (VFX supervisor for TASM1-2) is the VFX supervisor for Spider-Man: Brand New Day