Bong Joon Ho says "sh*t on me if you didn't like" #Mickey17, not the studio.
"Director’s final cut was part of my contract and everyone at the studio and at my agency tried their best to protect me. Of course, during post production, there was lots of discussions and a lot of opinions going back and forth, but it wasn’t ever like someone was forcing something on me or giving me pressure. And so luckily, all my films have been released as my director’s final cut, even a movie as big as 'Mickey 17,' and all the good parts of that film and all the bad parts of that film came from me. I take full responsibility. So shit on me if you didn’t like it!"
https://t.co/6pGZOsmPn2
‘Train to Busan’ director Yeon Sang-ho has directed a new zombie thriller titled ‘COLONY’.
The film follows survivors trapped in a Korean high-rise amid a zombie outbreak.
Premiering at Cannes Film Festival in May.
People are really complaining that Tubi has ads? They’re literally giving us all this great content for FREE. What’s wrong with a few little ads? You should really be more graceful
Paramount is now expected to own the following assets & film rights:
Assets:
• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network
Film Rights:
• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
Last tweet before I go to bed:
Now that Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is out and already sparking some…..spirited online discourse, brace yourselves for next month. Another adaptation of a very old source material, another female filmmaker, another Warner Bros. release, and another round of online discourse that’s somehow both exciting and insufferable at the same time.
For God’s sake, I hope Maggie Gyllenhaal pulls this off.
Most people see this and think “dogs are good for you.”
The actual mechanism is more interesting.
Three minutes of petting your dog triggers oxytocin release in both you and the animal. Your cortisol drops. Your heart rate decreases within an hour. This happens every single day you own a dog. Twice a day, three times a day.
The loop: physical touch → oxytocin release → HPA axis downregulation → lower cortisol → reduced neuroinflammation → preserved brain volume.
The study everyone’s referencing had only 95 participants, which is small. But it replicates. A longitudinal European study tracking adults 50+ over 18 years found pet ownership associated with slower decline in executive function and episodic memory. Baltimore Longitudinal Study data showed the same pattern across multiple cognitive tests.
Why dogs specifically? Cats showed similar effects. Fish and birds didn’t. The difference is tactile interaction frequency. Dogs demand contact. They interrupt your doom scrolling. They force you outside. Dog owners in the research showed higher physical activity levels, lower BMI, and lower incidence of hypertension.
The brain age gap in this chart isn’t about dogs being magical. It’s about dogs being a delivery mechanism for consistent nervous system regulation that most people fail to achieve on their own.
Human connection does the same thing. Most people just don’t have a human who wants to cuddle them twice a day and force them on walks.
A sad day for the great Montana Bison.
Interior Secretary Doug Bergum, at the request of Little Greg Gianforte and the corporate zombie Montana Senators/Reps, has ended conservation grazing permits for Bison on the great American Prairie, a huge section of restored Bison land in central Montana. Make no mistake, the decision by Bergum is an extension of the nepo-baby, grifting cronyism that currently plagues our federal government.
But this time, the victim is the great American Bison.
Credit: Author Michael Hodges.
EXCLUSIVE: Alamo Drafthouse is getting rid of pen-and-paper food orders and is switching to mobile.
“We continue to evolve, as we must, to protect the Alamo movie-going experience as the entertainment landscape shifts around us."
https://t.co/Vln1Mm5eA6
You can thank awful (ev!l) Ronald Reagan for college being so expensive. Ruining the future of scholars. Making things so difficult to get a higher education.
Even if you don’t think socialism works, if you don’t think it’s a gorgeous idea for people to have their basic needs met and to reap the benefits of their own labor you’re probably just a cunt.
When asked if Netflix is destroying Hollywood, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said “No, we’re saving Hollywood.”
“We’re in a period of transition. Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows … It’s an outdated concept.”
(https://t.co/RgoWwJUX70)