Negatively judging a book by its cover is so awesome & fun because the two outcomes are
A. You get proven wrong and are pleasantly surprised when a person or thing is better than you expected
Or
B. You feel vindicated by the fact that something sucks and you knew all along.
For anyone needing help with their protein goals, I just saw these solo cups next to the chicken I made and idk I think chicken cup could really be a big hit. Leave your thoughts in the comments below
Apple's AI pitch: You can either figure out a way to collect and pipe all of your personal context info into an LLM with dubious privacy controls to get answers that are anywhere near accurate for you OR you can just go to the place where your context already (safely) lives - on your devices - to get those answers. #wwdc
The insane success of this movie is making me have so much hope for the future of Hollywood.
Now we wait for our hopes to be dashed by studio execs thinking the lesson to learn here is to make an “Obsession Cinematic Universe”
a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made.
Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history.
now look at what the industry spent that same money on:
- Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline.
- Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month.
- The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession.
Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill.
the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.
There’s a mom watching Backrooms with her 10 year old son this weekend just thinking “I should not have let my autistic boy loose on the internet unsupervised”
i lowkey fuck with how there’s no jobs and rent is infinity money and food is infinity money and fun activities are infinity money and every kind of side hustle is completely flooded and everyone’s angry and mean all the time