For this famous scene in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick took a bit of inspiration from the silent era.
(The Phantom Carriage 1921 and Broken Blossoms 1919)
“There is no cinema and television, there is no entertainment, there is no profundity of storytelling without what writers do.”
Collin Farrell and Michael Kelly out on the Times Square picket line in solidarity!
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THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect…
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I never thought the robots would be replacing writers and artists, but I really should have expected it. Ppl have such contempt for creators. They watch the movies we write, and enjoy the pretty things we make and think the act of creating is as effortless as consumption
I'm striking because once in a general meeting a studio exec got interrupted by a FaceTime from her decorator and was asked to choose between two different tiles for the floor of her pool house and I looked up the tile and it was $90 per square foot.
The ongoing Writers Guild strike “could be costing about $30 million a day in lost studio output,” according to WGA East Vice President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who said in a message sent today to WGA members that that’s “based on prior estimates” https://t.co/oqHeiH7FmP