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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

But until then, Hollywood should prob not get rid of their competitive advantage: real people, doing real things, on the grandest scale imaginable.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Long-term, AI will probably lead to a READY PLAYER ONE type world. The differentiator will be the platform/world building, and real life stuff will be less of a premium there.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Hollywood mixing in AI isn’t necessarily a bad thing — but if they go FULL AI, there will literally be nothing differentiating them from YouTube, in the short term.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I can’t believe this happened, and it was So Damn Hard to make it happen. :) I’m so excited for you to see it — it’s 3-part series, and it comes out on JULY 24 on Peacock. You are welcome to binge it, and I think you all will love it. :) EPIC RIDE: the story of Universal Theme Parks

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

She loved the concept, and with her as the champion of the project — 9 months later I was officially brought on board as an EP, and developed it together with Universal & Peacock.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

And a new notebook that I like too.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

‪Like musicians giving up on live concerts.‬

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

(Feel like the symbiosis worked well until around 2012 or 2015, just around when Facebook went public.)

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

& probably carrying a virus that could bring down our computer. I’d probably trust AI more if it were *also* just copying what God made, rather than copying our human recreations of it.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

But whereas God’s creation, or the universe, is pretty perfect, even just mathematically — we are not. Our copies of perfection, we warp to use for both good & evil. So by copying our degraded version, AI is now like a crappy version of a song downloaded on Napster —

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The digital world, which we once hoped would help things last forever — has instead become a daily seashore, washing away all memory of anything from the day before.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In my naïveté, I thought they’d be one of the few that made it. But maybe in the end, only institutions actually last. For a little longer at least.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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.

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A Mother Finds the Heroes Who Saved Her Son – The Thank You Project

YouTube video by Jon Strong

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Watching the one episode I could find of “Pete & Pete” for my 2 boys. What an opening song. The kids love it.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I like that, for now, BlueSky is just a completely filmmaking focussed experience. In my algorithm, at least.

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I absolutely loved THE CREATOR. Go see it in a theater, I think you’ll love it too.

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