Ryan Coogler, Emma Thomas, Brad Bird, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jason Reitman and Celine Song are forming the Filmmaker Leadership Council.
The council will serve to provide “meaningful support” for theatrical exhibition.
(Source: https://t.co/mmC4r8vrhg)
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has “potentially damaged” the relationship between PlayStation and Xbox
A ‘Halo’ trailer was expected to drop during the PlayStation State of Play last week that Sharma pulled
(via: Bloomberg)
Netflix film chief Dan Lin has reaffirmed that they will not work with directors who want theatrical releases.
“There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical. Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with.”
(Source: https://t.co/ROFi7nYgEZ)
Martin Scorsese is now a partner and advisor for a generative AI startup
He says he's using AI during preproduction to help storyboard projects
“I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and seeing how that can push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences ... cinema is a young medium ... we have to be open to how it can evolve"
(via @nytimes)
Every actor instantly said yes to Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ except than Robert Pattinson who asked to read the script.
“You want to read it? Everyone else just said yes,’ Nolan replied.
(Source: https://t.co/TwF6prfrdg)
There is a theory going around that Kane Parsons did not really direct *Backrooms*, and that the movie was secretly directed by Osgood Perkins or James Wan.
And I am sorry, but that feels like people trying to take this away from the kid before the movie even opens.
Kane Parsons is officially the director of *Backrooms*. James Wan produced it. Osgood Perkins produced it and served as a mentor during production.
That is not some conspiracy. That is what happens when a 19-year-old filmmaker gets handed his first feature film and experienced people help him navigate the process.
Especially when the entire reason the movie exists is because of Kane Parsons.
His Kane Pixels YouTube channel has more than 3 million subscribers with only 51 videos. His original *Backrooms (Found Footage)* short has over 78 million views. He made that video when he was 16 years old, and it was so good that Hollywood came calling almost immediately.
He did not randomly get handed somebody else’s movie.
He created the version of *The Backrooms* that people fell in love with.
And from everything Kane has talked about publicly, he was deeply involved in bringing that vision to the screen. He modeled the environments in Blender, helped design the massive 30,000-square-foot set, and described the movie as completely connected to the story he was already telling on YouTube.
Could James Wan and Osgood Perkins have helped him? Of course. They were producers. That is their job.
But there is a pretty big difference between mentoring a young filmmaker and secretly directing his movie for him.
And the really wild part is that *Backrooms* is currently tracking for a $20–30 million domestic opening weekend.
For context, *Civil War* currently holds A24’s biggest domestic opening at $25.7 million.
So there is a very real chance that a 20-year-old YouTube creator, adapting the weird little horror universe he started building as a teenager, could open one of the biggest movies in A24 history.
Maybe the movie works. Maybe it does not.
But let the guy have his movie before inventing a conspiracy that somebody more famous must have made it for him.
‘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.
They're putting this documentary right after the movie's sucess to leech off it.
There's nothing left to say, leave Michael rest in peace already. MJ's Innocent