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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026

The Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger By The Numbers theonion.com/the-paramount-warner-b…

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If Walter White had been a teenage girl whose meth dealing meant they missed their boyfriend's state championship game without an explanation, I PROMISE you the audience would have no trouble spotting her failings.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, if you want the audience default to be against your protagonist, make them a teenage girl who puts her feelings ahead of the males in her life. You will never have the audience on your side the way they are with a meth dealer or corrupt cop

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who knew the secret to getting fans of a show to defend the absolute worst eps was having the lead actors start a podcast where THEY complain about bad episodes? When this happens, every ep somehow becomes a precious gem that the audience finds unassailable

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John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Let's be honest, Final Draft would get 60% of the way there, crash, erase all its work, and have to start over fresh killing everyone again.

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16mm Inferno @16mminferno.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the great Doug Bradley, turning 72 today! He was born on September 7, 1954, and he's best known for giving life to one of the most iconic Horror characters ever created: PINHEAD! WE HAVE ETERNITY TO KNOW YOUR FLESH 💀 #Horror #16mmInferno #DougBradley #Pinhead #Hellraiser

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can’t wait to read this. Back in 1992, there was no other cartoon like BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. It was brilliant at bouling down the mythos to their essence. It’s also always my rebuttal to “fans” who insist, “The only truly accurate Batman would HAVE to be R-rated!”

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And COVID killed my otherwise healthy father in November of 2020

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16mm Inferno @16mminferno.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🎬 Total 80s cult Horror gem "The Blob" premiered across US and Canadian theatres 38 years ago today (August 5, 1988)! Directed by Chuck Russell and starring Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn & Candy Clark. Photography by Mark Irwin. TERROR HAS NO SHAPE! #Horror

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

so i’m doing this podcast - @mpotpod.bsky.social - and here is the biggest lesson i have learned from systematically rewatching a bunch of 80s summer movies…

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As a showrunner you can survive almost anything but a bad line producer.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

i love how every facet of the Entertainment Industry is a massive money printing machine and across its every tendril the people who actually make that money wind up broke and unemployed

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James Stoteraux @jstoteraux.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is an awesome project from one of my fav people. They're sooooo close to making their goal. Only three hours left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyl...

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Civil Disobedience

Stories of Resistance

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Ryan Nemeth @ryrynemnem.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They let me shoot a late night show to hype up TNA SLAMMIVERSARY! It's fun, funny, it has wrestlers, movie stars, booze, burping... Six mini episodes. Posting tall he clips here! Enjoy :) @tnawrestling.bsky.social

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Also, Hollywood.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Father’s Day, the 5-page Superman story I wrote in tribute to my dad, who passed in 2020 from COVID. Art by Tom Grummett and Norm Rapmund.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

THE ROCK turns 30 today! Celebrate by reading this chapter about it from my book, MICHAEL F-ING BAY: THE UNHERALDED GENIUS IN MICHAEL BAY’S FILMS thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com/2016/06/mich...

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James Stoteraux @jstoteraux.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Years ago my brother found my mom's calendar from June 1985. 41 years ago June 7 was a really great day. "Schl ends. Goonies. Get tickets"

Calendar from June 1985. June 7 entry reads: School ends. Goonies. Get tickets.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

When I'm stuck for a new TV or movie idea, I now think, "What's something I really don't like about something I love?" And a decent amount of the time, that leads me somewhere interesting. It's a great way to make something your own in a genre you're afraid might lead to cliches

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Douglas Trumbull and the Tyrell Building model for Blade Runner (1982)

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My wife Erica Berger is in THR for the incredible work she and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond are doing in casting THE PITT! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

There are few shows that have been as successful in introducing new faces as HBO’s medical marvel The Pitt. In what they described as “the great experiment,” because of the show’s unprecedented single-shift format, casting directors Cathy Sandrich Gelfond and Erica Berger — who won an Emmy for their work on season one — were given carte blanche to cast more than 250 roles in the fictional Pittsburgh ER.

Even with a proof of concept, Sandrich Gelfond admits that casting the second shift, which also featured more than 250 parts, was no less intense. For any given role, Berger estimates that their team receives between 2,000 and 5,000 submitted headshots and résumés. They ask at least 40 actors to submit self-tapes for a guest-starring role — and significantly more for recurring and series regular parts — and then they send five to seven tapes for producers to review for further callbacks, either via Zoom or in person in executive producer John Wells’ office.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

35 years ago today this was the box office opening day lineup. What a time to be alive.

Original theatrical move poster artwork for BACKDRAFT, HUDSON HAWK, THELMA & LOUISE and ONLY THE LONELY.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

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Brendan Hay @bhay.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Star Wars Movie Ranking: 1. The one you saw the most as a child 2. The one you saw first as a child 3. The one you caught in the right mood as an adult 4 - 10: The other ones 11: The one you caught in the wrong mood as an adult

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James Stoteraux @jstoteraux.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I remember this like it was yesterday. 20 minutes before it started, my neighborhood street went eerily silent as everyone went inside to watch. It's astonishing how much power it still holds. A desperate warning against a future we were barreling towards.

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Andy Bobrow @andybobrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Stop calling something the world's longest of that thing when it's just a lot of those things laid side by side. This is the hill I will die on. I don't care about any other issue more than this.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/04/2026

“My eyeline implies that the stage where the people I’m looking at is, like, 30 feet high.”

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16mm Inferno @16mminferno.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The fearless and iconic Jane Badler in "V" (1983) 👽 #JaneBadler #Horror #16mmInferno

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Add me to the list of people who would rather get an expensive streaming miniseries based on “The Devil’s Candy” instead of a new version of “The Bonfire of the Vanities”

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

One of the great wounded movies is on Prime: THE 13TH WARRIOR. A film that bears all the scars of reshoots and recuts (the opening 2 minutes,for example, are an obvious hash of a much richer prologue). And yet it’s also one of the most savage, gorgeous, crazily rousing actioners of its decade.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Congratulations to Amy Madigan for FINALLY winning an Oscar for the school board scene in "Field of Dreams."

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Bring back Apartment 3-G as a monthly book and make it absolutely fucking insane

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12/03/2026

Anyone who argues that AI can do your research for you was not the one who did all the work in the group project

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

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Derek Haas @derekhaaswriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Circa 2005, I had a meeting with Kevin Spacey to discuss adapting a book to which his company owned the rights. He had recently taken over as artistic director of the Old Vic theater and I had been there to see a play in 2003. As you do in meetings like this, it started with some small talk...

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In the summer of 1998 I was absolutely convinced that these people could save the planet.

Publicity still from DEEP IMPACT (1998) featuring the crew of the Messiah: L to R: Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, Ron Eldard, Mary McCormick, Alexander Baluev, Blair Underwood.

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Ryan Nemeth @ryrynemnem.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I paid like $800 for this new graphic, come see me live! • Feb 12 Zanies in Nashville • Feb 13&14 @ThisIsTNA in Nashville • Feb 20 Petty Cash Studios in Hollywood

I drew a little stick figure of myself in a notebook to advertise my upcoming comedy and wrestling shows

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Marc Guggenheim @marcguggenheim.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“Uncanny Valley Forge”

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Tell y'all what, sometimes the best teacher for how good movies work is a movie that should be good but somehow isn't. Honestly might be my favorite kind of review to write because I just figure so much out along the way.

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James Stoteraux @jstoteraux.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

30 years ago I saw this opening night with a film school classmate I barely knew. I absolutely loathed it. As the credits rolled my classmate remarked, “That was really great.” I thought, god what an idiot. Anyway, @chadfiveash.bsky.social and I have been writing partners ever since.

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