“Mark Berman”

national reporter @washingtonpost // “all you can do, you know, is write the stuff and put it out where people can get at it” // signal: markberman.25

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

i love opening this busted app to find the newest ways it has been degraded and sanded down. you open the app and it's like, okay now links no longer work. okay now every third tweet appears in aramaic. okay now if you post a tweet with a gif your phone begins to smoke somehow

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

@nthjohnwilliams incredible idea for a series [immediately peeks to see if she arranged by color or not]

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

1. Nevada has a “turnover trident”
2. A member of the band for the opposing team took it
3. And threw it at the players
4. Best sport in America no questions asked

[Colton McWilliams @ColtonBMc]

Update to the story: The band member took the Nevada's Turnover Trident and threw it at the players. @SickosCommittee @RedditCFB @nocontextcfb @edsbs @SplitZoneDuo

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

Oppenheimer, a three hour biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, has made more than a bunch of MCU movies and Twilights and Pixars and Fast and Furiouses and Bond movies and more, and will out-earn more of 'em soon. Christopher Nolan has historic levels of the juice, my goodness

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

lol this is genuinely the craziest thing in Movie Box Office Stuff in decades. Oppenheimer, a three hour biopic released in the middle of the summer, has made *$850 million* goddamn dollars. it's one of the 100 biggest movies ever made (not adjusted for inflation).

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

i am late to this by @dankois but i genuinely cannot imagine how good it must feel to begin an interview with that question. i'd be levitating for a week https://t.co/CpVfPRekjg

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

what if they remade that godawful regal promo with all the movie quotes and replaced it with the most powerful force on Earth: Michael Mann reciting lines from his movies, on a loop, for approximately 20 minutes before every screening of FERRARI

[wint @dril]

blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

@SamuelAAdams what an insane decision. It’s only been out four weekends so far! It still made $33 million last weekend! There’s so much time left!

At this point in its run last year TOP GUN MAVERICK had almost *a full third* of its domestic box office still ahead of it

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

@JFrankensteiner lol oh my god

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

The Kansas judge who OK’d a police raid on a local newsroom had:

-previously been a top county prosecutor
-gotten two DUIs while in that job
-in one, while running *unopposed* for reelection, reportedly drove a judge’s vehicle into a school building

https://t.co/f2yzHGJyJP

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

When counterfeit money printed for To Live and Die in LA got into circulation, William Friedkin was contacted by the Secret Service and a DA to come in for questioning, Friedkin basically told them to go fuck themselves and then immediately spent more counterfeit money lol

[Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs]

there will never be another William Friedkin -- he was the definition of an iconoclast, told it like it was and was decidedly stubborn down to the bitter end

he leaves behind a career of great films, even a few bonafide masterpieces, but also a lot of perfect interviews

RIP

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

RIP to William Friedkin, one of the best to do it and an *incredible* interview — as seen here, when he makes sure people will see the story before he says a big fuck you to some of the studios over “Sorcerer” rights issues https://t.co/UmGkJ71wPu

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

best thing i've read so far about all the conference realignment stuff: the most powerful (and rich) schools + conferences are reshaping the sport and a lot of it will be fine but these schools are sanding away a lot of what makes college football great

https://t.co/xNvxBdBUwi

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

obviously if you go to the movies and use/check your phone without going over near the lights along the steps or just stepping out of the theater you should have to pay for everyone’s tickets and be publicly shamed

https://t.co/VID6FhQ41x

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

@farhip Paul I have such vivid memories of you telling this story to a bunch of us at Post Pub later that night, marveling that it stayed quiet

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

[climbs atop nearest table]
[clears throat]
their group chat is called OPPENHOMIES

[Jada Yuan @jadabird]

The “Oppenheimer” cast has a text chain called “Oppenhomies” that’s been going since the film. They used to use it for carpooling. Now they use it for #SAGAFTRAstrike.

David Krumholtz was with Olli Haaskivi. Jack Quaid, Devon Bostick & Christopher Nolan have all been spotted.

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

alright that’s it, movie of the year, I’m calling it in July

[Siddhant Adlakha @SiddhantAdlakha]

There are at least two shots where Oppenheimer is framed as sort of an atomic nucleus: when a bunch of students are orbiting him early on like electrons, and after he “suits up” and huge particles of dust seem to get tossed in all directions, as if he’s part of the chain reaction

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

amazing headline because it makes it sound like a person whose job is to be the president’s official Dog Commander was running around biting people

[TMZ @TMZ]

President Biden's Dog Commander Allegedly Bit 7 People https://t.co/0FNsUQnOuH