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[Frederica @GundamDoll]

This is maybe the worst looking movie of all time

[Andy Ha @AndyHa_]

This England squad:

[Adam🪲🍏🖖 is seeing the B-52s yayyy @paulmcfreaky]

George Harrison after 1966

[luca @lucam8a]

odyssey skepticism on My Timeline

[yalitza apariciosus @dunevillenuve]

facebook cinema

[no earthquake (ear flu victim) @no_earthquake]

this is what it must feel like to have lived through world war 2 and then see the movies get all of the uniforms mixed up

[elliot @deadnightagain]

something about this seems extremely hubristic, trying to directly remake one of the most lightning-in-a-bottle pieces of longform storytelling in film history. good luck to them I guess

[elliot @deadnightagain]

tired: the world you grew up in no longer exists

wired: the world you grew up in is being replaced by an uncanny, bland, focus-grouped simulcrum

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series.

Releasing this Christmas on HBO.

[Very AFK @Cromwelp]

Suburbia is so mundane it causes sensory psychosis where something normal (like riding a motorbike) drives you insane enough to run in front of one to try and stop it. There's a genuinely brilliant Sunny episode about exactly that.

[Ben 🪲🩸🎬 @The_GM_is_God]

Genuinely what on earth could make you look at this and actively want to watch it instead of just putting on the actual Moana

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[elliot @deadnightagain]

looks like a vast improvement on the previous 3 on the basis of him being in a real suit and not a rubber CGI monstrosity

[Spider-Man Movie @SpiderManMovie]

A Brand New Day starts now.

Watch the official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day - exclusively in theatres July 31.

[Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet]

DUNE PART THREE

[elliot @deadnightagain]

the ballet and opera communities been real quiet since this dropped

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘DUNE: PART 3’ has been released.

In theaters on December 18.

[Officer Martinez ➐ @CBMovieFan]

Just cancelled my ticket to the opera

[arvo färt @arvofart]

It certainly was a controversial decision for the movie to pause after this moment so Paul Thomas Anderson could walk on set, look directly at the camera, and say “I agree with Col. Stephen Lockjaw, who is real and my personal friend”

[elliot @deadnightagain]

@jonathanmb32 Mank (2020)