David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 28/09/2026This pretty much tracks with what I’ve always believed: Starcruiser’s financial performance was about in line with what was expected (huge projects like that take years to earn back their initial investment), but Iger had a chance to get a tax break and a dig at Chapek by killing it. 230
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 26/09/2026As for The Hanging, the show has always sucked, but it’s especially tiresome now that the last five iterations of it have centered on bitching about the two years they were forced to go dark. A thrice nightly, thirty minute show that’s basically just this dril tweet. 100
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 20/09/2026Yet again, Apple weirdly burying essential features inside of options menus. In iOS 27, Apple Maps no longer automatically surfaces the “leave by/arrive by” buttons. Instead, they’re hidden behind a non-obvious route options button. 140
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 06/09/2026Some photos from last night’s Lucas Museum Founding Member Opening Party. 040
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 05/09/2026After missing the last two years of his annual Hollywood Bowl concert, John Williams made an appearance tonight during the encore to conduct “The Imperial March” at 94. 031
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 27/08/2026Effectively sitting inside the screen at the COYOTE VS. ACME premiere. 170
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 19/08/2026This year’s Scary Farm line up seems pretty exciting, but it’s enormously disappointing to see Knott’s go full AI slop for one of their new maze logo treatments. Feels like an insult to all the artists who work hard to bring this event to life. 292
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 28/06/2026Caught I CONFESS at the Academy Museum with a guest lecture by Guillermo del Toro. What struck me this time is how much this would make for a great double bill with WAKE UP DEAD MAN. 030
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 08/06/2026Spare a thought for Karen Bass, who might actually be having a worse night than Spencer Pratt right now. 191
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 08/06/2026Nithya now officially ahead of Spencer Pratt in the La Mayor race! 0100
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 02/06/2026Get outta here with this nonsense. Trump is gonna crow about rigged elections no matter what. Hilton getting locked out of the general can only be a good thing for California. 4225
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 26/05/2026Amazon and Walmart are basically the last retailers standing for selling movies on Blu-ray, and Amazon now routinely can't even deliver pre-orders on time. 161
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 23/05/2026I’m sure someone else must have done this already, but I’m not digging through 5,000 quote posts. 010
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 23/05/2026Thanks, cops, for sending me this handy list of everyone I definitely will not be voting for! (There is actually one candidate here I was planning on voting for and now I’m having serious second thoughts!) 030
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 20/05/2026Given the entrance to the tunnel, they should have recreated this mess of signage: 141
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 04/05/2026Hey kids, you’re now looking at a Lucas Museum founding member. 091
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 03/05/2026NORMS now serves pie. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE vindicated! 060
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 15/04/2026Name another theme park that prominently features Nancy and Sluggo. I’ll wait. 2201
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 16/03/2026Now that this year’s Oscar’s are done, I’m going all-in with my prediction for next year’s Best Picture 121
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 21/02/2026THE LAST JEDI played today at the Academy Museum. Still just the greatest. Hopefully we get more screenings before the 10th anniversary next year. 180
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 21/02/2026Presidents’ Day, Oscar catch up, and stuff I missed last weekend. 000
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 16/02/2026Loser nerds reacted to the end of MASS EFFECT by harassing devs. Meanwhile, Gore Verbinski shows the correct response to art you find frustrating: wait 14 years then make a weirdo movie starring Sam Rockwell that wrestles with similar ideas but arrives at a different, more hopeful conclusion. 020
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 15/02/2026Channeling my inner @mattsinger.bsky.social by indulging in the GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE tie-in menu at NORMS. 140
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 02/02/2026Catching up with the Oscar nominated documentaries. Was not expecting to find the Russian @hbomberguy.bsky.social in MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN. 000
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 20/01/2026Finally cleared out my 2025 watch list, so here’s my Top 10 movies for last year. (Honorable mentions: Avatar: Fire and Ash, Black Phone 2, Bring Her Back, Marty Supreme, and The Testament of Ann Lee) 030
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 16/01/2026Kennedy also effectively calls Iger and Bergman cowards who are too chickenshit to greenlight any Star Wars projects that are not safe, cookie cutter choices (referring to HUNT FOR BEN SOLO as well as projects from Mangold, Waititi, an Glover). 1253
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 16/01/2026As is my solemn duty to report, here is the latest news on Rian Johnson’s long-dormant STAR WARS trilogy from Kathleen Kennedy via Deadline. deadline.com/2026/01/kath... 2200
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 09/01/2026I did. I believe Los Angeles was one of these test markets based on my experience. 100
David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 09/01/2026Yeah, people should get out of Hakeem Jeffries’ Bluesky mentions and go do something useful instead, but also why are you intent on being this guy? 030