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🇺🇸 Using social media to offer ‘80s slashers, cult, B-movie & good bad movie recs between rants, philosophy & humor.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

Something any film pundit saw coming. It’s a shame because the film is pretty great. But dropping a Masters of the Universe movie in 2026 is like releasing a Howdy Doody movie in 1986 — the audience just isn’t there. That and the film, while very good, is 20 mins too long.

[Exhibitor Relations Co. @ERCboxoffice]

Power outage.

The bomb of the summer has arrived.

MGM’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE—which cost a reported $200M to produce—is estimated to debut with less than $30M this weekend.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

When the edible hits but you gotta do the interview anyway.

[Entertainment Tonight @etnow]

Anna Faris is having a full-circle moment at the ‘Scary Movie’ premiere. 🥹

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

Remember when GoPro threw gobs of cash at Peter Jackson so he could put an awful GoPro shot in The Hobbit?

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

GoPro says there is ‘substantial doubt’ it will be able to stay in business over the next year 📷

• Sales are down

• Costs are up — particularly memory chips, driven by demand from AI data centers

• Net losses have totaled over $500M in the past two years

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

People shit on AI as if it’s all created equal. It’s not. Using AI to storyboard, pitch ideas, brainstorm or even for VFX in low budget films/ads isn’t just logical, it’s a game changer. This is why you’re seeing the greatest filmmakers embrace it. They’re smarter than you.

[Black Forest Labs @bfl_ai]

Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs.

He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.

We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

The flaw of Disney Star Wars is that it all flows through Disney Plus now, which about 14% of the total population has. So a big opening weekend was guaranteed, but the film having legs was not. If you don’t have D+, you may only have a cursory knowledge of these characters.

[Variety @Variety]

Box Office: 'Backrooms' Stuns With $81 Million Debut, 'Obsession' Has Another Unprecedented Jump, 'Mandalorian and Grogu' Suffers 70% Drop https://t.co/rsgPxCV5eg

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

Sometimes I randomly think about this insane moment in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Harrison Ford (or his stunt double) absolutely concusses himself for this shot.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

Filmmakers are dimensionally seeing where AI makes sense. They are embracing AI not as a replacement for filmmaking; they simply see it as the next big tool, akin to photoshop. Which it is! Veo alone is a game changer for low budget VFX integration, test shots and brainstorming.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Gareth Edwards is excited about AI filmmaking

"It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera"

He says AI has 'no taste whatsoever' when it comes to generating human stories, but is a 'fucking genius' at helping filmmakers organize ideas, test concepts, and produce images

“I view it like having a second-unit director who is a billionaire on acid”

He eventually wants to make a hybrid generative AI film

(via @THR)

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

I’m all for immersive entertainment but watching what looks like a Blu-ray blown up on a warped dome screen featuring mediocre CG that engulfs the director’s frame like ants eating a dead bird is not the immersion effect I’m looking for.

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

WOW! I watched Harry Potter @CosmLosAngeles! It was incredible! It was in 10K resolution which is higher than IMAX 70MM. Everyone must visit!

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Rambo
Rambo: Last Blood
And John Rambo

The titling on this franchise will never not crack me up.

[John Rambo Film @JohnRamboFilm]

JOHN RAMBO – Only in theaters June 4, 2027.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

@Terrasolo @screenrant Guess we’ll see

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

@starwars Looks like a bullshit PS2 boss. Ugly design. Jabba is slithering in his grave.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

Also, this …thing ….is ugly as sin. It looks like a PS2 boss. If you can’t pull off with CG what was once done practically, don’t fucking do it. It’s that easy, folks.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

I seriously hope Lucas pulls a Chipotle and buys Lucasfilm back from Disney because jeebus. I thought they’d make great films, not slop that says nothing, sold to subscribers of Disney Plus, who only represent about 2% of the population, and less than 1% of all Star Wars fans.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

I do not actually already know the name and this is sort of the problem with trying to center this entire franchise on a cartoon only a fraction of the fanbase watched and the weird characters one guy in a cowboy hat is obsessed with

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

To release a Star Wars film — a series about fighting evil fascists — that effectively says NOTHING in the middle of one of the single greatest plagues of fascism the whole world has ever seen is beyond damning.

A Star Wars film that says nothing deserves to bomb.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

IGN giving this film a 5 is downright apocalyptic.

[IGN @IGN]

The first new Star Wars movie in seven years gets caught almost immediately in a feedback loop of self-satisfied nostalgia which it seldom pulls out of.

Our The Mandalorian and Grogu review: https://t.co/XT9w0ix8j4

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

One of the greatest trailers of all time right here. That shot of Bond barely flinching as a spark from a bullet impact nearly hits him in the face. Hardcore. I was IN!

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

@JenLawrence21 Your face is melting

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

@pastormarkburns Bullshit, calf worshipper! Enjoy burning in Hell for all eternity.

[𝐑 @rlshafferwrites]

HFS! The world really is ending because I never thought we’d see this release again.

[Warner Bros. Clockwork @clockwork_wb]

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS.
The Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered.
In Theaters October 16.