Nick Paskhover

[Nick Paskhover @nickpaskhover]

Directed by me with @flikai

[Flik @flikai]

We gave tonight’s Game 3 at MSG the full cinematic treatment.

Directed through the Flik agent with strong creative direction and zero manual prompting.

#knicks

[Cristóbal Valenzuela @c_valenzuelab]

I’m a big proponent of doing the complete opposite. If you extrapolate current adoption and progress, you quickly realize we’re heading toward a future where almost all video is AI-generated. In that scenario, labeling videos as AI-generated would be like trying to determine whether water is wet. Instead, we should focus on labeling videos that were actually captured by cameras.

[The Moonlight Warrior 🌙 @BlackMajikMan90]

A $750 Thousand indie horror movie dethroning a $160 Million Star Wars Movie at the box office (even for a day) is currently sending shockwaves throughout all of Hollywood.

I can tell you for a fact that studio executives are taking notice at what Obsession is doing right now.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

🎥RAIDERS SHOT DESIGN🎥
Spielberg turns a cramped living room into 96 seconds of continuous cinematic choreography. A single moving shot gives Indy and Brody close-ups, wide shots, movement, exposition and visual variety without a single cut. Super elegant visual storytelling.

[Chris Manning 🏀 @LD2K]

NEW Lakers Hype Video: "DOOM"
Who will you be when the end is near?
#LakeShow #Lakers #LakersNation

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

LeBron’s game tying three is even better with Titanic music 😭🔥

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

The studios decided they are tech companies. They chased after Netflix or more importantly, Netflix's stock valuation. They purposely blew up the theatrical window to promote their streaming apps. They knew they were sacrificing theatrical profit for streaming position and they had to do it very fast. Since covid, they have trained the audience to believe the thing they are selling, portions of time, should be a close to free experience. They tried to hook the audience on their streaming apps by pushing their biggest movies at unreasonably low subscription cost, which was just a drug dealer trying to hook a customer. It was at the expense of the artists who make these movies, who depend on distribution revenue.

The product is only as valuable as the rarity of it. The studios are traditionally in the "distribution" business, controlling the windows of rarity and setting the value of access. What has happened is distribution is not the primary business now, subscription is. The studios are in the app business. They are no longer selling movies, they are selling apps. The movies are there to advertise the apps.

The audience loves movies. They do value theatrical experience. It's a fundamental part of humans to share stories in a communal space. You're not killing concerts, or churches, sporting events, political rallies, bars, clubs, or movie theaters. But you can train an audience to devalue any of these things if you make them believe sitting alone at home is the best way to experience anything. That is what studios are telling everybody by cutting the theatrical window short as possible to get the app in your phone.

If the studios reanalyze what they are, realizing the distribution is as important as the app, they would widen the windows. I think it's already happening by the way. They need a Hail Mary.

[techbimbo @jameygannon]

”You're not gonna win, there's no fighting AI”

Diplo's take on AI is spot on, and he's ahead of 99% of creatives, across all disciplines

> it's inevitable, and you're dumb if you don't use it
> it's a tool, just like many other things before it
> taste and references matter A LOT

amazing interview by @DanielSWall

[Screenplayed @Screenplayed]

‘Project Hail Mary’ screenwriter Drew Goddard shares advice every writer and filmmaker needs to hear.

Watch or listen to the full episode: https://t.co/X2nOxicro4

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Spielberg's blocking and framing in WEST SIDE STORY is of the highest level.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Seth MacFarlane says they used AI to make him look like Bill Clinton in ‘TED’ Season 2.

“It's an interesting example of how AI can be used as a tool... We tried prosthetics, we tried traditional CGI, everything else just looked terrifying”

(Source: @AP) https://t.co/g4v2rZaFmd

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

In the NBA, the tanking phenomenon and the Bravo sports fan phenomenon—the fact that so many fans skip regular season games and listen to pods for player-movement gossip—are two sides of the same coin.

They’re both a reflection of the fact that Who Lands the Next Top 10(ish) Player is just way way way way more important for most teams than Who Won Last Night’s Game. The low value of the games and high value of potentially acquiring a star makes it hard to take the regular season seriously. It drives up both interest in trade rumors (for fans) and the expected value of tanking for top draft picks (for non-elite teams).

These problems can’t be fixed with small tweaks. They’re sort of systemic. No rule is going to reduce the value of a Jokic/SGA/prime LeBron player. The relatively low value of each game is also kinda baked in. The NBA season is so long, and two-thirds of the league makes the playoffs/play-in anyway, and the playoffs are ALSO months long, and home court advantage is diminished which reduces the value of seeding…

The NFL is the opposite: individual players are less valuable (Sam Darnold won the SB!) and individual games are more valuable, so attention is pulled toward the outcome of the games rather than some meta-game focused on player acquisition.

But basically, I think any sport with a small number of players, a smaller number of elite players, and a large number of games is going to evolve toward a system where lots of people realize that, for most teams, personnel management is more important than the regular season—and what you get is both general managers and fans spending all their time thinking about how their teams can snag a star.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

RIP Robert Duvall

An all-timer and a one of one

Godfather 1 + 2
Apocalypse Now
Great Santini
The Natural
Network
MASH
Tender Mercies
The Apostle
Guilty pleasures like Days of Thunder & Gone in 60 Seconds
One Oscar, 6 noms

Will always wish Duvall/Coppola figured out Godfather 3

[Nick Paskhover @nickpaskhover]

It’s far from his most perfect film, but I’ll never forget sitting in the Ziegfeld during the video message scene, hearing the whole audience tear up.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

There is also a possibility that 'Interstellar' was so bad that half the people who watched it, hated it...

The movie gave me so much trauma... I didn't visit theatres for a while after watching it on the first day. 🤣

[Nick Paskhover @nickpaskhover]

As impressive as the AI gains have been, these all fall apart the second you see a real human face.

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

There's no way Hollywood won't be affected by this.

Insane 2-minute fight scene made with Seedance 2.0 🤯 We are not ready for this.

The Cambric Explosion of content has already started!

[Doctor Frusna @doctorfrusna]

El maestro #Hitchcock explica cómo romper con la narrativa tradicional del cine y estirar el suspense con la ayuda del uso "no convencional" del montaje, a través de su película #TheBirds (1963) 🙌🏻

[TCM @tcm]

Congratulations to Steven Spielberg!

He makes Oscars history today as his latest project HAMNET (2026) received a Best Picture nomination – his 14th nomination in this category, he now holds the record for holding the most Best Picture nominations as a producer.

[SPACE AUTHOR 🪐 @mr_innovationss]

This should be treated like the crisis it is

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

Nora Ephron once asked Reiner for advice about how to direct, and he told her, “Making a movie is like having a party. The director is the host who invited all these people to come to the party, and it’s up to the director to make sure they have a good time.” This was Reiner’s general approach to everything.

@HadleyFreeman on Rob Reiner in @TheFP:

https://t.co/7QQr6CHYeZ