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Nichols: He really thought that he was going to collapse the Iranian regime and then walk through the streets of a free Tehran while they were dedicating a statue to him. He was on a sugar high from toppling the president of Venezuela. His popularity was cratering, the economy was going in the wrong direction. And I think like a lot of autocrats, he said, a splendid little war in the Middle East where I emerge the hero will be great. And now he's admitting they blackmailed me with the international economy, and I'm paying the blackmail because I have to.

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'OBSESSION' JUST MADE HISTORY The low-budget horror film about a shy clerk and a cursed toy has crossed $370M worldwide, becoming the studio's biggest hit ever. - It surpasses 'Sinners' tomorrow as the highest grossing live-action original of the 2020s - It already passed 'The Exorcist' to become a top 6 horror film of all time in the US - A 26-year-old director made it on a fraction of a blockbuster's budget - Weeks after release, it's still climbing on pure word-of-mouth No IP. No stars. Just an idea that worked.

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Tom Hanks shares a great backstory on voicing the original Toy Story in 1995. Says it only happened because Robin Williams smashed it with Aladdin a few years prior. Hollywood realized a big star could sell an animated film (give something for parents). So, Hanks and Allen tried to do the same improv style. They made 80% of a film but just weren’t on Williams level (Hanks says Williams was the Picasso of Improv). Pixar threw it all out and then Hanks, Allen’s and everyone else worked off a script. *** Full interview here:

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Affinity [2025] Director: Brandon Slagle Another gem that was shown over at BIG BAD FILM FEST starring and written by Marko Zaror. Which drops on September 30th on Digital & Physical from Well Go USA Entertainment This film with a former Navy Seal who suffers from PTSD and living his life in Thailand with his military buddies definitely took a wild turn into Sci-Fi territory. Marko script tackles many themes, which I found very ambitious for an 80min film, but he made it work to a certain degree, and I attribute that to budget. I wish the film had Brooke Enge featured more, because she was great in this and Louis Mandylor stole the film for me. Overall, I'm looking forward to Marko doing more writing in the future because this one shows he has one creative mind and looking forward to what else he is cooking. Because I had a lot of fun with this film.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals he never even auditioned to play the Terminator “It was a total coincidence because I didn’t even try out for Terminator, I was trying to be Kyle Reese, and during the lunch when I met with James Cameron the director and the producer John Daily, I kept talking all the time about the Terminator” “I said to Cameron, whoever is playing it I just want you to be clear, he has to train himself to disassemble weapons and to put weapons together and to shoot and to load the weapons often blindfolded, totally blind, because a Terminator can never ever look down at his hand at what he’s doing because he’s a machine, he’s a robot” “When he walks he has to have a certain walk, when he scans and looks around he has to have a certain scan, it has to be absolutely clear at all times that this is a machine with no human behaviour” “This went on like this for an hour and James Cameron looked at me at the end of the lunch and he said so why don’t you play Terminator, you understand him so well, this is exactly what we need, and I said no no no Jim please, I’m an actor, I counted the amount of lines this guy says, it’s 27 lines, then Conan I had 128 lines, so I’m not gonna go backwards, you can give it to someone else, I want to talk a lot, I want to perform, I want to be the leading man” “He says I will make that guy the leading man, it’s called the Terminator, I will shoot it from below up, you will look heroic, and don’t worry about killing all those people because you’re a machine, no one is gonna blame Arnold, you’re a machine”

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Independent horror film "Backrooms" generated $82 million in ticket sales on its opening weekend in a shock to Hollywood. The film had a budget of $10 million and was directed by 20-year-old YouTube star Kane Parsons.
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Independent horror film "Backrooms" generated $82 million in ticket sales on its opening weekend in a shock to Hollywood. The film had a budget of $10 million and was directed by 20-year-old YouTube star Kane Parsons.

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My friends and I made an animated short film in a week, it was a lot of fun to work on and I think it turned out great ! Please check everyone that worked on it in the comments.
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My friends and I made an animated short film in a week, it was a lot of fun to work on and I think it turned out great ! Please check everyone that worked on it in the comments.

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Seems the "pianist vs. 'CCP'" story made it to Chinese social media, so one of the people involved released her side of the story. Summary: 1) They were there to film Chinese New Year Greetings for a company 2) They were waiting to use the piano to film next to it and waited for over 40 minutes for the pianist guy to leave 3) Due to a non-disclosure agreement with the company, none of the footage of their CNY greeting could be published to the public 4) They did not know he was live-streaming (for profit) and even before his live-streaming started he filmed videos of all of them and during this time they told him they were Chinese 5) Even though he knew they were Chinese he kept insisting they were Japanese (perhaps to provoke them because content) 6) He provokingly plays a discriminating song on his piano (related to Ching Cheng Hanji meme) 7) They decided to politely ask how long it would take for him to use the piano 8) After realizing he is probably a content creator she asked if he could delete the video because their content was non-disclosable and could not be made public in advance 9) He posted content with them in online anyway without their permission 10) They found out he's a YouTuber with over 2 million subscribers and so according to the police he will likely not be allowed to play the piano there without a permit since he is making money from it

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Seth MacFarlane was 23 years old when Fox gave him $50,000 to make a cartoon. that cartoon has been running for 26 years and made him $300 million. before that, he graduated from art school and made a student film no one was supposed to see. someone forwarded it to Hanna-Barbera. they hired him. he spent two years doing work he found boring. then someone passed his shorts to a Fox executive. they offered him a deal on the spot. he built Family Guy around a joke he'd been making for years. Fox cancelled it after season 3. DVD sales were so strong they brought it back two years later. on September 11, 2001, he was supposed to be on American Airlines Flight 11. his travel agent gave him the wrong departure time. he was hungover. late to the airport. the plane hit the north tower 15 minutes after he missed it. he went on to create American Dad. The Orville. Ted made $549 million on a $50 million budget. not a bad outcome for a student film and a wrong departure time. save it and watch tonight

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According to Jennifer Grey, there was also a long-running contest on the set of "Dirty Dancing" (1987) to see if anyone could come up with the new title for the film as they thought the title 'Dirty Dancing' was never going to last. Many thought that in the eighties, it sounded too scandalous to be able to reach its mainstream target audience and even the Censorship officers assumed it was a p0rn film. "Dirty Dancing" had an extremely low-budget production, and there was a very real possibility that passionate dedication of the crew wouldn't be enough to save the movie from an embarrassing B-movie fate. The $4.5 million budget came from Vestron, a home video company based in Stamford, Connecticut, that had never before made a movie. The schedule for the shoot was impossibly tight & the movie had to be shot in 43 days. ("Out of the Corner: A Memoir", Jennifer Grey, 2022)

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