Brian William Pachinger

Mad all over again. I doubt they’ll revive it. But Jesus is this a bad look for Iger and Bergman and such a misread.

I NEED EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET TO KNOW I GAVE MY 3-YEAR-OLD TYLENOL BEFORE BEDTIME!!!

A ★★★★ review of Caught Stealing (2025) It's like Aronofsky found a lost Guy Ritchie treatment from 1999 and went ape shit to make it his own (complimentary). A fascinating study in a director pushing themselves in new directions and yet st...

CAUGHT STEALING: It's like Aronofsky found a lost Guy Ritchie treatment from 1999 and went ape shit to make it his own (complimentary).

Went longer here.

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Never change.

Warner Bros. Discovery announces post-split companies will be 'Warner Bros.' and 'Discovery Global' Warner Bros. Discovery announced the corporate names and leadership teams of its two companies for when the company separates in mid-2026.

David Zaslav will be CEO of the new, Discovery-free "Warner Bros."

He traded reality TV to become the mogul of Hollywood's most storied studio.

And all it took was a failed $43b merger, the loss of half the company's market valuation, and thousands of jobs.

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Points for truth: The title is DEAD CENTER but all you have to do is look at the cover picture to see that he's on the right.

A ★★★½ review of Superman (2025) I’m a lifelong Superman fan, and I’ve always loved the Big Blue Boy Scout. Representing the best and most vulnerable parts of humanity. And on that front, this succeeds. Gunn fundamentally gets that. ...

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Writing a great movie takes patience and vision from everyone involved. Becoming a good studio writer requires a lot of practice, and good partners at the studio. We need execs who know what they want and can articulate it, and are willing to pay us to try to execute.

Another core reason for screenwriting’s suffering is the complete collapse of the development system in Hollywood. Studios no longer spend time or money developing ideas and working with writers, and after twenty years of this, we are left with a studio feature industry bereft of good writing.

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

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I'm trying not to fall back into the bottomless rage I felt during Trump 1...but Jesus Christ. Can't he just rage shit himself to death and spare us all this needless chaos?

The price of eggs.

Nextdoor login screen with photo of three Black guys having a good time and minding their own business.

The Nextdoor login screen is the kind of thing that makes most Nextdoor users post.

Call me crazy but the one thing a hardcore record should do is make you feel something. Anything.

Anyways, there is a new Turnstile record out…

The motto of 2025.

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind ‘How Come I Feel Something But Don’t See It?’ Asks Department Head

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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I want to sit in a machine that'll work me out while I watch some movies. Why has this not been invented!??!?

you do not need to read or buy Jake Tapper's book to participate in the conversation about the role of journalism in a democracy.

It's gonna be wild when Soderbergh gets bored over a weekend and recuts M:I 7 and 8 into a single three-hour masterpiece.

The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.

The guy has already decided to go bowling. Once you’ve figured out “bowling” is what your kid wants, it is literally a five minute conversation with the bowling alley to plan it. You can order a cake in two minutes. None of these things are hard. Parenting your child is the hard part.

The thing that makes kid birthday party planning difficult is not scheduling or arrangements but threading the needle between what you can afford, what is available, what you want to do, and what your kid will enjoy. There will never be an AI that can suss that out.

Kinda haven't stopped thinking about something McQ said on Scriptnotes a few weeks back. "What is cinema to me? The movies that strive to walk the center line between art and entertainment. You're trying to pull art closer to entertainment and entertainment closer to art."

I probably won't get to finish ANDOR for several days. If any of you spoil anything...

The show is already solidly in profit and a week of free performances would not undo that. It would also guarantee the most exciting performances and enthusiastic audiences of the run. It's Shakespeare! If you treat it just as a bauble for the rich, I don't know why you're doing what you're doing. x

Another Bway hot take: The Denzel Washington-Jake Gyllenhaal Othello should extend a week and those 8300 tickets should be free, with a portion reserved for students. A $921 ticket doesn't just say "You can't afford this," but "You will never be able to afford anything like this." It does damage. >

If I learned anything going to school in the midwest, it's that if a Pope says he's "from Chicago," he's probably really from some suburb an hour from the city that sounds like the name of a bottled water brand.

Eedy Karn has arrived at the Met Gala.

Finally caught up with ANDOR. It really is breathtaking what Gilroy and Co. is getting to do.