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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 22h

Was the HONEY WEST intro crafted by MK Ultra to inflame Trypophobia?

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Delighted to be part of this @imprintfilms.bsky.social box set of early/underrated Steven Soderbergh films. Provided commentary (w/@bryanreesman.bsky.social) on KING OF THE HILL as well as a short A.E. Hotchner featurette with Hemingway Society's @vernakale.bsky.social. Any KING OF THE HILL fans?

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can't believe I made it to 79. I mean, holy cow!

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's about right.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun to be at the top of Collider today with a Signature feature about the miracles Ed Douglas and his VFX team pulled off for #BACKROOMS! collider.com/hbo-max-back...

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DuneInfo @duneinfo.com · 23/09/2026

@maxevry.bsky.social's new book "Stranded on Earth" covers the evolution of Spielberg's dark & frightening alien invasion "Dark Skies" script into the warm & cuddly "ET". Highly recommended for anyone interested in Spielberg, alien encounters, or movie-making in general. Pre-order: amzn.to/46AeRJf

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/09/2026

Before Alien, The Last Starfighter, Total Recall, Aliens, Titan AE and many more, Ron Cobb was a talented cartoonist, already on target more than 50 years ago.

LET YOUR FAITH LIGHT THE WORLD (with a big explosion)
Cartoon by Ron Cobb

A child in bed is surrounded by nuclear bombs

Cartoon by Ron Cobb

A man in a devastated neighborhood is looking for an electrical outlet for his broken TV.
Cartoon by Ron Cobb

“What is ecology?” one man asks another, as they perch on top of a car in a swamp full of rats.

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Junk Fed @junkfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t hate it when folks share my art. Thanks, Max.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you SYFY for the love! STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is coming October 27. PRE-ORDER today through Amazon, B&N, or @1984prods.bsky.social!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 21/09/2026

Ron Cobb was born 89 years ago and died on his birthday, 6 years ago today. Not a day goes by without me thinking about his work.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just discovered the amazing pop surrealist artist Todd Rogers, aka @junkfed.bsky.social. Needless to say, there is some crossover with my taste…

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you had “James Remar speaking fluent Japanese while the late Larry Cohen blows his nose in the background” on your bingo card…

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James Remar Speaks Japanese

YouTube video by Kaoru Koike

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20/09/2026

E.T. (1982) "The pivot from Night Skies to E.T. is sort of foundational to who Spielberg is, which is to take something dark and turn it into something light, something positive. Some people criticize him for that, but I think that is part of his brilliance and part what makes him an artist."

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New Book On E.T.'s Unexpected Origin Chronicles Last Time Hollywood "Ever Doubted Spielberg" (Exclusive)

The origin of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is wilder than you could ever imagine.

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Rick Marshall @rickmarshall.com · 19/09/2026

If you're around Hamden, CT, stop by for this today! Max is awesome. (And I'd say that even if I wasn't cited in one of his books.) #Booksky #Dune

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the Best Video movie book fair in Hamden, CT tomorrow I’ll be giving away these stickers with Rick Baker’s aliens (Squirt, Hoodoo, Buddee, & Klud) from NIGHT SKIES to celebrate my upcoming book. Also doing a panel at 1p & signing copies of A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY from 12-5. Come on down!

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A. Damn, Robert Zemeckis, you should NOT have asked an actor to do that - or the stunt person in that car, for that matter. B. Damn, Gerrit Graham, you had nerves of fucking steel. Rest in peace, you underappreciated genius.

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meh @mharvey816.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will always love Gerrit Graham for his performance in #UsedCars ♥️ #RIP

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Robert Zemeckis regretfully says on the commentary for 1980’s USED CARS that in his filmmaking today he would never almost kill an actor like he almost killed Gerrit Graham in the shot below. 👇 Luckily, he did not. A great actor, who just passed away at age 77. RIP

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"Used Cars"(1980) Insane stunt

YouTube video by Superseven / Sandra West & More!

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talked to SYFY Wire's @joshuahweiss.bsky.social about my new book STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL! Josh is an author and produced THE THING EXPANDED, so he appreciated what me and @1984prods.bsky.social did with this OCT 27 release.

syfy.com

New Book On E.T.'s Unexpected Origin Chronicles Last Time Hollywood "Ever Doubted Spielberg" (Exclusive)

The origin of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is wilder than you could ever imagine.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got my first author’s copy, fresh off the press! Thank you, @1984prods.bsky.social! Did you pre-order your copy of STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL? Out on OCT 27… don’t get left behind!

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A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you get emotional no matter how times you see it.

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E.T. Phone Home Hug

ALT: E.T. Phone Home Hug

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Philip K Morris @philipkmorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just finished reading "A Masterpiece in Disarray" by @maxevry.bsky.social. this is an amazing insight into the 1984 David Lynch Dune film. Reading this I was constantly amazed that the film we got in the end is as good as it is, and saddened that we didn't get the film it should have been.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Drop a closed restaurant that you still miss.

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Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On September 15, 1965, Planet of the Vampires debuted in Italy.

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We Need To Talk About Kevin @kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Big deals this morning out of my 4K discs sub-reddit.

I'm posting this with a heavy heart...😔

As much as I love my 4K movie collection , it takes up too much of my time and I am struggling to keep up with the everyday basics such as cleaning and helping out around my home, so something has to give, so I will be getting rid of my life long collection.

Below is a list of what's available. Serious inquiries only please and don't insult me with your offers.

Thanks for reading and understanding...

1. Dustpan and brush

2. Sponges

3. Dusters

4. Mop and bucket

5. Window cleaner

6. Vacuum

7. Dishwashing liquid

8. Laundry detergent

9. Fabric softener

10. Laundry baskets

11. Toilet brush

12. Cleaning sprays

13. Scrubbing brushes

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our first review from @ruemorguemag.bsky.social's Christophe Gagné, and it's a rave! Pre-order STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL today! In stores OCT 27! @1984prods.bsky.social

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Two things can be true.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had a dream I was watching a little-seen Robert Altman comedy called G*R*O*W where Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland play a couple of working stiff buddies who decide to move to Mexico and start a grow op, then get into a turf war with local cartels.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 10/09/2026

Ok, ARCs arrived the night before I leave for TIFF, so let's do the most niche promotion imaginable: I'm taking one copy with me. The first person in Toronto who comes up to me and says "Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker" gets it.

Advanced reader copies of my next book, "Yippee Ki‐Yay: 'Die Hard,' Bruce Willis, and the Reinvention of the Action Movie."

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My daughter just asked me if the Cybertruck is made by ACME. I said yes.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This week’s episode of the @starlogmedia.bsky.social podcast has @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com mentioning IN SEARCH OF… which was enough to get me watching again.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

PRE-ORDERS HELP AUTHORS! For the next two days @barnesandnoble.com is giving rewards members 25% off pre-orders, which includes my OCT 27 release of STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. Use the code PREORDER25. Premium B&N members get an additional 10% off!

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ken gave me a similar rundown in my Dune book, but he did not tell me about all the star power he was auditioning alongside!

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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter. In addition to NIGHT SKIES, it also inspired one of my top favorite movies of all time, CRITTERS. So, yeah, I'm all about a movie about it, especially from the FROGMAN folks!

genrevision.com

The CRITTERS Movies | The Drew Reviews — GenreVision

Don't call 'em a Gremlins rip-off.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s a whole chapter about the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter in my new book STRANDED ON EARTH. It was the inspiration for NIGHT SKIES (ultimately E.T.) so it’s exciting to see another version of the tale cooking!

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just rewatched UNCLE BUCK for the first time in ages. Look, John Candy is a goddamn king and this movie is funny and well shot… but goddamn, all the backwards moralizing makes it feel like two more steps to the right and it would be a MADEA movie.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Was my honor to do the BULLETPROOF audio commentary alongside director @ernest-dickerson.bsky.social! With his help we also put together some deleted scenes that give the movie a bit more depth. A great 4K release from @kinolorber.com on September 22!

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