can anyone in web explain how the amc ticketing system allows certain people to get tickets but feeds other people error messages for 3 hours straight?
is it just totally arbitrary?
This is an incredibly narrow view of the cap/floor debate.
As baseball revenues and profits continue to skyrocket, owners will weasel their way out of growing the cap proportionally by lying about baseball revenue (as they have always done). It happens in all capped sports
The Greta Gerwig Narnia date change feels like a result of the industry's move to 45-day PVOD windows instead of any quality issue with the film. I know nothing, but I presume that exhibitors had real leverage here against Netflix. 7 weekends before Netflix debut
That window is technically into SVOD here, which is maybe the bigger issue industry-wide, so I'm verrrrryyyyy curious what the results will be. Major precedent-setter at minimum — any Netflix big budget movie could and should ask for this — and major game-changer at maximum
This has been known for a decade-plus. The original script is out there somewhere (I’ve read it). First act is more or less the same. The rest is vastly different, though Jonah wrote the video call scene at the end and Chris moved it to the middle
Steven Spielberg "was involved with #Interstellar for a year" before dropping out: "I became fascinated with it."
“I actually hired Chris Nolan’s brother [Jonathan] to write the first and second draft for me, but it didn’t stick. Jonah actually said, ‘If there comes a point where you decide not to make this movie, I can tell you who’s gonna grab it. He’s already bugging me about it. And that’s my brother Chris.’ He was absolutely right. The second I decided not to make it, Chris jumped on board, probably the next day. ‘Interstellar’ was a much better movie in Chris Nolan’s hands than it would have been in mine.” (via Empire)
https://t.co/ei2E4Zd3v2
Still kind of reeling with how PHM de-emphasizes problem solving from book to movie. Feels like taking a Nolan movie and saying “let’s take out the theme of time” or taking a Sorkin script and saying “let’s cut back on the dialogue.” Like… huh??? Cracks in the foundation!
“Oh yeah the book by Andy Weir, the former software engineer who’s famous for hard sci-fi and who wrote a 15+ page treatise on the realistic physical biology of Rocky… science schmience! What if they had a room w/ a bunch of screens of nature and someone karaoke’d Harry Styles!”
Pluribus. There has been a lot of art set during Covid, but Pluribus is the first thing I’ve encountered that’s taken the incredibly alien and crushing mental state of Covid as inspiration for something non-literal and new
Question for the group: has there been any great art about Covid? Any incredible literary novels or films?
I can't think of anything off the top of my head but my cultural knowledge is not limitless.