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[tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... @dphbjs]

benoît jacquot's EVA. a conversation that plumbs the moral depths of the world of the rich and the beautiful. a masterpiece.

[jennie @hwjh333]

i’m so hungry i could eat jihoon scratching his head when he’s nervous

[chart data @chartdata]

Bebe Rexha earns the biggest US pure sales week of her career with 'DIRTY BLONDE'.

The album marks her first independent release.

[chart data @chartdata]

Billboard 200: #1(new) @oliviarodrigo, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love 485,000 [218.41 million on-demand streams | 273,000 pure sales].

[chart data @chartdata]

Robert Smith earns his first ever entry as a soloist on the Hot 100 this week with "what’s wrong with me" with Olivia Rodrigo.

He previously charted 14 songs with The Cure.

[Carlotta Films @CarlottaFilms]

Breaking news !
Voici l’affiche toute belle tout neuve de ce 1er chef-d’oeuvre de Lino Brocka : TINIMBANG, dont la 1ère mondiale est demain au Festival #IlCinemaRitrovato @cinetecabologna. Dans la sublime salle Modernissimo, demain mardi à 16h15

[himbo in training @jelle_deh]

god announces bible will contain both an old and new testament

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

THE COMPLETE KUBRICK 📕 Thirteen films, one singular collection. https://t.co/1ACK3GTiaD

Introducing THE COMPLETE KUBRICK: an unprecedented box set bringing together Stanley Kubrick’s entire directorial output for the first time. A titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Kubrick created an unparalleled string of masterpieces. Over the years, his body of work has been collected on home video only in partial form, never as a whole—until now.

[Warner Bros. Clockwork @clockwork_wb]

For the first time ever, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS.

Pray for us all. In theaters 10.16.

[Olivia Rodrigo @oliviarodrigo]

truly never felt more excited to share a piece of news with you all. i’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years and i am so ecstatic its finally coming true!! Daisy Chain Fields features an all-women lineup and 100 percent of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls. the lineup is truly insane and full of my heroes and friends. i firmly believe that joy, community, and music can be the drivers of meaningful change and I’m hopeful this festival will be just that. I absolutely cannot wait to scream and dance and sing with you guys August 29th!!!!

sign up for presale access at: https://t.co/jd8JDYlIug

follow: @daisychainfield

[Carly Rae Jepsen @carlyraejepsen]

It’s a double album baby! You guessed it right. Day and Night arrives September 18th and I couldn’t be more proud. We kick things off this Friday w our first single On Wires. https://t.co/VNC5tO6zhB

[수철이 @hey_sucheol]

고양이들ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ넘 양아치 아니냑오 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

dog turned 15, so her Family decided to throw her a quinceañera to celebrate

[່͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ @bcgged]

coraline ft maggots for brains theres so many layers to this

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Social Network got made because Sony owed Mark Zuckerberg nothing. No studio can say that about Sam Altman anymore.

That gap explains why a finished Guadagnino film, Andrew Garfield playing Altman, can't find a buyer. The script makes Altman a pathological liar and Ilya Sutskever the idealist his board tried to protect. Strong material. The reason no one will touch it sits off the screen: the subject is now the biggest customer in the building.

Amazon developed the film, then walked months after wiring $50B to OpenAI for AWS compute. A24 passed, and A24 sits behind Thrive Capital, which holds an OpenAI board seat. Netflix, Focus, and Warner's Clockwork all carry AI bets of their own. The buyer pool maps cleanly onto OpenAI's cap table, and no one can premiere a hit piece on the company underwriting their cloud roadmap.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Vertical integration promised control: own the studio, own the pipe, own the model. The bill arrives now. A film industry fused to its own infrastructure partners cannot finance criticism of them. The merger logic became the censor.

The historical rhyme is almost too clean. United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin and three fellow artists to escape exactly this kind of studio capture. That label now sits inside Amazon MGM, the company that just dropped the film to protect a tech deal. The release valve built a century ago got swallowed by the thing it was built to escape.

So Mubi and Neon are the only names left, and it has little to do with taste. They took none of OpenAI's money, which leaves them the only distributors free to tell the story of what that money does. A film about a mission captured by capital is being orphaned by capital capturing its distributors. The industry is re-enacting the plot it's too compromised to release.

[Carly Rae Jepsen @carlyraejepsen]

We were swinging from an air balloon all summertime

Philippines, May 24, 11:45am

[not rati ꕤ @notkylemuel]

the concept of boys boys boys being performed on ph national tv enejejskjd

[こおじさん 孤高の民 @darkpoor]

勘違いしないで下さい♡
彼はチームメイトや球団スタッフに対しても「みんな自分の家族だと思って接している」と語るほど家族思いなのです