Last Voyage is in August and is a Dracula movie from the studio relasing a Dracula movie in April. Would make a lot of sense for there to be a trailer for it in April. "Hey audience at a Dracula movie, you're not going to believe this..."

A Last Voyage of thr Demeter trailer playing with arenfiled would be pretty funny honestly.

Been waiting on that movie in various iterations for damn near 20 years!

My point is, I don't think Scorsese is particularly avoidant of the story implications of texting. He's made period pieces since then but most of his films in the preceeding g 16 years were also period pieces. Not much of a change for him at all.

Their idea of "prove his Innocence" is pretty skewed when they alsonrelease texts from the girlfriend basically saying "I'm so sorry thstni made you strangle me until I passed out"

Also, film crews just have more leverage to demand protections than bartenders and waiters.

The Departed has a scene that hinges on someone being able to text inside their pocket.

People say this but most of them didn't really make many contemporary set films prior to smart phones either.

With Scorsese for instance in the 90s, he made 2 films thst were contemporary set, Cape Fear and Brigingout the dead, and 4 period pieces, Goodfellas, Casino, Age of Innocence and Kundun. Idlly enough hosn200s best picture winner includes a in-pocket T9 texting scene!

Peollenalways bring up slasher films as being disrupted by cellphones but honestly a cellphone isn't particularly helpful when someone is trying to stab you.

Very deeply not the same kind of movie.

Fall awards season. Similarly, Once Upon a time in Hollywood played Cannes, released in September. Parasite released in the US in the fall as well.

Functionally? Not really. Sometimes they feint at regulations but it's been a rubber stamp for most industries.

None of which would work if they hadn't been allowed to vertically integrate and take over the ticketing for essentially every venue over a certain size. There's not another game in town.

Which venues would you suppose they play? Stadium-filling acts playing in Evenbrite clubs in Wichitaw isn't going to do anything to make tickets more accessible.

Personally I don't find musicians lives to be particularly I threshing especially when filtered through the needs of arc based dramatic story telling.

Someone one lime Oppenheimer was a pretty odd and contradictory person, not popularly well known outside a few quotes. Nolan will likely have some interesting structuring devices, with the use of black and white possibly moving to that format for scenes after trh bomb test. Beyond finding the subject more interesting, Oppenheimer is more interesting to me than most biopics becausenirsnacruslky interested in being a film and seeing ehat you can donwithinnthst medium. A lot of biopics are are only slightly above the made for TV movies thst used to play on VH1 or whatever.

Anderson has denied that he was in talks for Licorice Pizza. His dad is in it though!

1000%

Oddly, DiCaprio's father George DiCaprio is in Licorice Pizza as a watered salesman. At one time he was a watered salesman in real life.

It was rumored at one point thst Leo was in talks for Licorice Pizza but Anderson has since denied this.

Onward to Vertigo!

Bad news about what actual games of Dnd tend to be like.

"Jizz music is holy scripture!"

It's a good song from a great scene of a great movie. It's also literally nomi ated for the Oscar. What else is thst telecast supposed to be about?

While thr popularity has undoubtedly receded, there's an extent tonehich broadcast TV numbers are a really dumb way to measure that. It's possible that there is more coverage and discussion of the Oscars than in many years, thar engagement just isn't monetizable by ABC. The Oscars locked into a billion dollar contract with broadcast ststion righbefor thr bottom dropped out from pretty much that entire medium.

Hell yeah!

Honeslty a big vote of confidence from both the studio and the festival with that.

Honestly outside of what, Fast and Furious, ther hasn't been much viable even among attempted blockbusters. That's the real absurdity of it.