thom

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

RIP Saruman the White, you would have loved Palantir Technologies

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

peak game

[Durag Rebel @DuragRebel]

You guys don’t understand how ass it is to be ass at golf. I hate the man I see in the mirror

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

George Lucas next to General Grievous’ wheel bike at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

[@realWokeism @realWokeism]

Karl Marx failed to consider the Steam Summer Sale

[sono✖️🌗 @sosonosonosono]

white people be like "yeah i'm waiting for the steam summer sale"

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘OBSESSION’ may become one of the only films in history to earn $100M+ on a budget of less than $1M.

The film is expected to earn more this weekend than it did in its opening weekend, a rare feat.

[Benn Beckman @BennBeckmanofc]

Sair do cinema de noite, depois de um filme que você gostou muito é uma sensação do krlh mesmo

[Zweil @somethings_awry]

Every time I really get along with someone

[ava @zeldevil]

it’s always “you’re autistic” and never “thank you for telling me everything you know about the legend of zelda”

[leah @evenstqrs]

“matthew mcconaughey…will star in park chan-wook's next film”

[ELDEN RING @ELDENRING]

The live-action movie adaptation of #ELDENRING, produced by the studio A24 in partnership with Bandai Namco and filmed for IMAX, is slated for release on March 3, 2028.
Production will begin in Spring 2026, and the full cast has been announced. Learn more: https://t.co/WyyyXMkiUF

[MeekMill @MeekMill]

I need a GitHub too! Is it like that or nah?

[adi 🍎 @fynori]

IM NOT CRAZY I PROMISE

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again.

Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene.

The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence.

This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic.

After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it.

Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel.

Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now."

The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history.

The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

Hans Zimmer cooked 🔥