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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Short film script call out. Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers. Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short. Under 15 pages would be preferable. #filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I watched this today. I can safely say my life has changed. There was a time before a Hard Ticket to Hawaii. I barely remember it. And now I live in a post Hard Ticket to Hawaii world.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sky's new docudrama The Wargame saying the show contains AI generated action scenes. Get to fuck with that shit. I was already unsure about watching due to the questionable casting, but the AI factor easily makes for a quick turn off.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Quite. They think they're in some twee Ealing comedy when really it's written by Iannucci.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah, I felt S2 of The Gentlemen convinces you he'd be a great Bond in the Pierce Brosnan mould. I think he'll be a Clive Owen type, a wonderful what if scenario.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Click the link to view the poster for Each Coming Night. A short I produced earlier in the year. We've been trying to get this made since October '22. And this weekend we're having our cast and crew screening! www.short-stuff.com/news/exclusi...

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EXCLUSIVE: Poster reveal for Dakota Blue Richards’s directorial debut ‘Each Coming Night’ — Short Stuff

24 Aug 2026 | By Molly Lipson

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Universal's brief Dark Universe. One terrible film and a press release photo.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The one he just wrapped in Malta, "Jason Statham Stole My Bike" must be a comedy.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The original Treasure Island films, with greatest, deepest respect, were terrible, and were always made for kids, with a lot of "arrghh me hearties" and eating the fucking scenery. This is not going to be like that." Ridley Scott speaking to Empire. Making a no fun/adult take on Treasure Island.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's like the inverse of 90s Trek. This time, the first 2 seasons are good and everything from S3 onwards is hit and miss.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If it's any consolation, watching Reacher makes me feel old.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think it might be a generational thing. Cos with Reacher, every season I'm recognising actors who were big in teen shows and films that I watched as a kid/teen.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The writers themselves have said the script could be divided into 6x30min eps, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms style. So they either sold a spec feature or a spec mini series.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I agree. With The OC, it took 9 eps for the leads to have their first kiss. With Sterling Point and Off Campus, you're getting love triangles resolved in under 8 eps when these things used to fuel 44 eps.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I strongly second this. Just finished the novel, and I think it's the best ultra-dark L.A. noir since peak '80s-'90s James Ellroy. The plotting is sensational; the writing is electric.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yep, the last cut off point to shoot this was 2017 when Mel was riding the Hacksaw Ridge success. They could have released it March 2018 where it only had to compete against Tomb Raider, Death Wish and Pacific Rim 2. Or early June before Jurassic World 2 dropped.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Same with the previous instalment Everybody Knows. Kinda love it though.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have soft spot for teen dramas/coming of age stories, I highly recommend Sterling Point on Amazon. Created by Megan Park (writer/director of My Old Ass) and produced by Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage (The OC). It has a wonderful blend of drama and comedy that evokes the old WB shows.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Still love the opera sequence. And apparently that was meant to be the location for the climax before the rewrites began.

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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I know the context is that there was a test screening and that’s where it came from (also; fuck test screenings) but given that pretty much every straight woman I know is foaming at the mouth to watch Olivia Coleman get pounded by a sentient wicker basket maybe just let the material speak for itself

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Same Gen Z test audiences that wanted a kiss cut from Twisters.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Dealing with Sky customer services is truly taking years off my life.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I highly recommend this brilliant novel. It picks up story threads from his previous novel Everybody Knows, but it works equally well as a standalone thriller. But this feels like Harper's Empire Strikes Back. Not since Don Winslow's cartel trilogy have I wanted the next instalment so badly.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It got released a week early in the UK. They get "drunk" but there's nothing horny related. Progress. Basically Ortegas and Scotty do their version of The Hangover on Not Risa.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think we have our in for the GOT remake.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Bruce Willis cameo blew my mind as a kid. Watched it again recently and there's Denise Richards basically playing an extra.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you're in the UK and access Paramount+ through Sky/Now TV, you actually get to watch episode 3 instead. And if you access it through AppleTV, you get to watch episode 4.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tickled that the guy behind Mobland is basically doing Yellowstone: Scotland for Paramount+. Kinda annoyed I didn't think of it myself. www.joblo.com/laird-greenl...

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Joe Wright and Kenneth Branagh team for Paramount+ drama Laird

Paramount+ has ordered Laird, a new Scottish Highlands drama starring Kenneth Branagh and directed by Joe Wright

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wouldn't worry. The similarities may in fact help it, especially if Other Mommy is a success. Past few years we've had plenty of "my live in android is gonna kill me": Wifelike, Megan, Subservience, TIM, Soulm8te. Some exec might go get me the next Other Mommy. And you're good to go.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've read articles on previous shows that factor in the international viewership in terms of a show being a success (as well as completion rate). Lockwood and Co played well in the UK but not globally (got the axe). 13 Reasons Why went as long as it did cos it was so hugely popular over seas.

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Rick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This has been retweeted into my feed by two different people. What a brilliant logline! Sounds fantastic.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Shocked to discover this is the 8th version of this film since the original in 2020.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And when Frank and Taylor-Joy wanted to reunite for another project, Netflix said no, there wasn't an audience for it. Madness.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So dumb. If the creative arts aren't a priority, then they'll run out of things to offer to the AI companies.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Driver's Ed just dropped on Amazon. Plays very much like a Gen Z take on Road Trip. And you can tell it's Gen Z cos there's a scene where 3 characters discuss how environmentally friendly their car is... as opposed to having a scene where Stifler gets his prostate milked.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I feel like it's a Gen Z thing, but now I've seen directors using it and also Dwayne Johnson. It's like, you guys know better.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Same. I would say the quality of the feedback has declined quite considerably in the last 5+ years or so.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Look, if you really need to squeeze money that badly, just hire a cheaper CEO and elimate executive bonuses. That's a bigger windfall than nickel and diming the lower ranks and telling everyone to reuse paper clips and post-its.

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 20/06/2026

I haven’t seen the movie, so this is not a comment on the quality of the movie; but I don’t have any interest in seeing a Robin Hood movie where the marketing tagline is that Robin Hood wasn’t a hero. It’s like marketing cheesecake by saying “this cheesecake is no dessert”

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Looks like Anakin used to have the high ground.

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Calum Chalmers @calchal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Anon, In Time and maybe Gattaca could potentially fit into this.

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