Mark Clark
@markclark.bsky.social
Writerly. Actorly. ADHDly. Currently adapting Melvin Burgess’ The Ghost Behind the Wall.
Human beings are apparently incapable of spotting potholes... AI innovation is important but Starmer sounds like a cross between a magpie and Howard Hughes wearing tissue boxes for shoes. Plus NHS data siphoned by AI comps sounds like a recipe for disaster. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Human beings are apparently incapable of spotting potholes... AI innovation is important but Starmer sounds like a cross between a magpie and Howard Hughes wearing tissue boxes for shoes. Plus NHS data siphoned by AI comps sounds like a recipe for disaster. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Muschietti isn't wrong regarding blockbusters and the 4 audience quadrants, but this analysis seems a little flat where The Flash is concerned. It's not a bad film, but you can see how a succession of choices and factors added up to a less than satisfactory outcome. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
‘The Flash’ Director Andy Muschietti Says the Film Flopped Because ‘It Wasn’t a Movie That Appealed to the Four-Quadrants. It Failed at That’
"The Flash" director Andy Muschietti has his own thoughts as to why the $200 million tentpole was a box office dud.
variety.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Muschietti isn't wrong regarding blockbusters and the 4 audience quadrants, but this analysis seems a little flat where The Flash is concerned. It's not a bad film, but you can see how a succession of choices and factors added up to a less than satisfactory outcome. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
“I remember during the first makeup session, as we’re putting this makeup on, this sweet, charming young guy began to disappear and somebody else was coming in. He transformed within the space of four hours into this very dark character.”, David White www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
How ‘Nosferatu’ Hair and Makeup Teams Transformed Bill Skarsgard From a “Sweet, Charming Guy” Into Count Orlok
Around 60 prosthetics were used on Skarsgard to render him unrecognizable for Robert Eggers’ reimagination of the 1922 film.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“I remember during the first makeup session, as we’re putting this makeup on, this sweet, charming young guy began to disappear and somebody else was coming in. He transformed within the space of four hours into this very dark character.”, David White www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
A career and a half. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Phyllis Dalton, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Costume Designer, Dies at 99
The two-time Oscar winner also worked on 'Oliver!,' 'The Princess Bride' and three Kenneth Branagh films and knew the importance of "having the mud in the right place."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A career and a half. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
@manmademoon.bsky.social Nice to see you here Mr J. I’m just off to watch Mute for the 5th time. Or it could be the 6th. Possibly 7th. After 4 who’s counting.
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
@manmademoon.bsky.social Nice to see you here Mr J. I’m just off to watch Mute for the 5th time. Or it could be the 6th. Possibly 7th. After 4 who’s counting.
“The unemployment office is full of crew”: UK workers still struggling post-strikes www.screendaily.com/features/the...
“The unemployment office is full of crew”: UK workers still ...
Production on high-budget US films in the UK is not expected to pick up until spring 2024.
www.screendaily.com
December 5, 2023 at 10:20 AM
“The unemployment office is full of crew”: UK workers still struggling post-strikes www.screendaily.com/features/the...
Jason Bateman’s airport security ‘hot socks’ is a total crack-up, plus you get Taika Waititi - what more could you want? #smartless podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
SmartLess: "Taika Waititi" on Apple Podcasts
Show SmartLess, Ep "Taika Waititi" - 27 Nov 2023
podcasts.apple.com
November 29, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Jason Bateman’s airport security ‘hot socks’ is a total crack-up, plus you get Taika Waititi - what more could you want? #smartless podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Keeps on script more like… ‘Robert De Niro Goes Off Script at Gotham Awards After His Speech Was Edited Without His Knowledge’ www.thewrap.com/robert-de-ni...
November 28, 2023 at 11:42 AM
Keeps on script more like… ‘Robert De Niro Goes Off Script at Gotham Awards After His Speech Was Edited Without His Knowledge’ www.thewrap.com/robert-de-ni...