Last Voyage is in August and is a Dracula movie from the studio relasing a Dracula movie in April. Would make a lot of sense for there to be a trailer for it in April. "Hey audience at a Dracula movie, you're not going to believe this..."

I really like Sound and Fury on Netflix. It's animated. Basically one long music video.

It's hilariously creepy. It would be silly to see your face on a balloon but then you'd realize you'll not only have to evade it for the rest of your life but also hope for no one to shoot at it because it will also kill you. The story was also rather brutal with young people getting hanged quickly with no warning. The dad was an idiot tho.

Thanks for this super detailed answer. Really interesting stuff!

Oh ya. I guess you’re right. It’s still a banger though.

Phone Booth (2002) is a good one IMO. Unique plot too.

He did say off the record.

Bias.

I loved Source Code.

RIP Duncan Jones’ career.

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COVID compliance was way more than testing and masks.

But first, PCR tests are not cheap. Antigen/Rapid tests are fairly cheap but were only approved by unions last summer--and only for a narrow set of low budget productions. Generally, a PCR test costs $150--$200 depending on the vendor/region and availability of labs. The mandated testing frequency of a normal sized union crew results in about 400 tests a week so that low end estimate is 60k a week for the swab & lab alone.

That's also just for the core crew. If you've got 50 extras working for one day, you've got another 50 tests, and 50 to 100 pre-employment tests (depending on your local situation) and paying them for their time to show up for the tests.

And that's just the cost of testing. You also need to hire staff to administer testing, enforce compliance, and sanitize. Add 1k each week for each production assistant. Then another 1500-2000 for each Admin, Supervisor, and Manager. It's easy to hit 100k a week for COVID department alone between testing, labor, and supplies. 5 Weeks of Prep with a 6 week shoot is a minimum of a million dollar COVID budget.

The first iteration of the RTW agreement also included a stipend for union members who tested. So add another $200 fee for every test, every crew member higher than a production assistant who tested. Subsequent deals reduced that to a fee for pre-employment testing only--which is more reasonable but still quite costly as you are adding another 200-300 days of labor across your production.

Then there's a dozen other issues and tangents that cost money. Like needing more hair and makeup artists, and more trailers for them to work in in order to maintain social distancing. Or, needing to budget more time for fewer workers to prepare cast in limited space. More drivers to transport fewer cast & crew members per van. Similar issue with locations, three days to prep, shoot, and wrap a location turned into 4 days to sanitize, prep, shoot, and wrap. There was also a practice of carrying more staff so that if one got quarantined or had inconclusive results you still had the minimum number for each department to operate.

To give you an idea of how complicated it all is: A big issue for awhile was catering. The longstanding Union agreements required lunch breaks to give all members equal access to catering facilities for the break period. Because social distancing requirements made "equal access" impossible, nearly every union member was also being paid penalties for not having a 'proper' break. Many productions converted to walking/rolling lunches. This mostly ended with the availability of vaccines (and union members needing a real break more than the penalty dollars).

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When Christian sings “Your Song,” in Moulin Rouge.

“Tiny Dancer,” in Almost Famous

“Build me up Buttercup,” end credits from There’s Something about Mary

1:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lgRkMyW_J5U

2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_qW9wqUI4Lg

3: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDa4UamvZAk

A Last Voyage of thr Demeter trailer playing with arenfiled would be pretty funny honestly.

Been waiting on that movie in various iterations for damn near 20 years!

For years, I kept throwing my movie stubs in a dresser drawer and gave them no more thought. My mother in law gave me a box that hangs in the wall to keep concert ticket stubs in. Since all my concert stubs were already in an album, I started using it for movie tickets. As I went through that drawer, I had stubs dating back to 1997 when they released Star Wars.

Watch Garden of Words, an anime movie that takes place in the most beautiful park ever — shinjuku gyooen in Tokyo.

For live action, Good Time with Robert Pattinson is a fast paced and visually pleasing movie. Very dramatic lighting and lots of action

How old are you if you don’t mind me asking?

Phantom

Guilty pleasure topics. Then you have people listing classic or blockbuster movies and they feel guilty for liking them? Doesn’t make sense.

For example, I love Road to Wellville, I think it’s hilarious and well done. But it was a flop and not regarded as a good film by any means. It’s my guilty pleasure to always enjoy it.

Hero is the perfect movie to watch on edibles

Baraka is great but no real story, just amazing visuals and music.

Along the same lines is the Koyaanisqatsi trilogy of films. The visuals tell the story of nature and humans without any dialogue or plot. Look them up and that description will make more sense

I hate most live action atttemps these days but I would trust Jake J to do that well.

How can you say any movie deserved to win before EEAO before even seeing it?

My point is, I don't think Scorsese is particularly avoidant of the story implications of texting. He's made period pieces since then but most of his films in the preceeding g 16 years were also period pieces. Not much of a change for him at all.

I’d look at it as you collecting that stub caused the pandemic like an alternate timeline fiasco