THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is the best Wes Anderson film since GRAND BUDAPEST.

I loved every moment.

You know, all you need is one great film every decade.

Not exactly sure what the plan is for companies — but overnight AI has gotten *so good* that we cannot tell what is real or fake…which means people will use it to lie to us.

The good news is I know that real life around me — is real.

So maybe it’ll just make all of us hang out there more.

I don’t know what AI will do to cinema, but I do have a sense that real people doing real stuff (i.e. Tom Cruise hanging off a plane) will become a premium for Hollywood.

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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: the final reckoning

Convoluted. Melodramatic. AND the best 3-minute stunt I’ve EVER SEEN, literally worth the price of admission.

THE MOVIES: for those we love…and for those we’ll never meet.

I sold a series to Universal. :)

In mid-2022 I had an idea to create a doc-series about the creation of EPIC UNIVERSE, through the lens of the entire history of Universal. I created a pretty awesome deck & teaser, and over 9 months annoyed my way to a meeting with an SVP at Universal Theme Parks.

With AI taking over writing for most tasks in the near future…..

I feel like The Written Letter will make a comeback. It will quite clearly say, “I spent actual time on this, because I care.”

It could also become a status symbol. That’s funny.

I have started writing by hand again, for fun.

Movie studios not fighting tooth & nail to keep the theater experience the *main* distribution point for movies —

is like the NFL giving up on stadiums.

The internet was at its coolest when it was living side-by-side with the real world.

The internet started sucking when it began killing the real world.

Humans take what God has done, & regurgitate it — a copy, or remix, of what’s already here — into art, math, vast hardware & civilizations.

AI (currently) takes what humans have done (our words and designs), and regurgitate that — now a copy of a copy.

In time everything fades.

Even the Beatles are fading from the collective consciousness.

It’s strange to see things that were meaningful and important to an entire planet…….become simply, the past.

A memory of when they were a big deal.

For Thanksgiving, take a look at this film I made: “The Thank You Project”

It's about a Mother finding all the people who saved her son's life — to thank them all, and throw a big party.

Happy Thanksgiving. :) Share if you like it.

Went to a screening of INTERSTELLAR in 70mm tonight, and ran into Jonah Nolan while waiting for the bathroom.

Watching the one episode I could find of “Pete & Pete” for my 2 boys.

What an opening song. The kids love it.

Anyone have a started pack of directors, producers, screenwriters and DP’s that we all followed on Twitter?

I like that, for now, BlueSky is just a completely filmmaking focussed experience.

In my algorithm, at least.

If I may: The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of the most beautiful and haunting scores I’ve ever heard.

I absolutely loved THE CREATOR.

Go see it in a theater, I think you’ll love it too.