Congrats AI scammers, you made us root for the big studios. When you’re fighting Batman, you already lost.
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Congrats AI scammers, you made us root for the big studios. When you’re fighting Batman, you already lost.
I don’t have the rights. Maybe it’s pointless. But I have to try, if only to prove to myself I can. Someday, if the stars align, this is the story I’ll bleed to tell. #Scriptsky
I’m gonna have to tap out of #Spectember. Can’t crack the story, maybe it just needs more time to ferment. So instead, I’m going off the rails. I’m adapting the book I’ve been obsessed with since I was 12. Just reread it… and it still haunts me.
Sorry pardon
Rule of law is punk rock
Nerfherder?
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
Share one of your favorite moments from a COMIC BOOK film or TV show
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
It looks exactly how I learned the craft. All those resources can be overwhelming, and when you try to write, it just feels empty. My solution? Just write your script. Once it’s on the page, you’ll see you applied those rules subconsciously. You clearly care about the craft, so yes, you can write!
You cannot listen to the Epstein survivors talk about their horrific ordeals and not feel waves of heartbreak, shame and anger. Furious fucking anger.
BIGELOW IS BACK! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!
Looks like Ralph Fiennes is back in full force! He was absolutely the standout in #28YearsLater, and I can’t wait to see more of his masterful performance. If anyone can make a bone temple feel both terrifying and fascinating, it’s him.
I’ve watched plenty of horror this year, but none as bone shaking and haunting as The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. Every episode is a chilling reminder that the scariest nightmare is real life, where an innocent person can be trapped in a justice system that refuses to see the truth.
Stop forcing us to feel involved in your company’s performance. We don’t have stakes in them. Most of us are in here to get paid so we can afford a roof and eating.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan gets all 76 children trump tried to send to Guatemala back home, trump has been MIA for almost a week, the Epstein estate is going to hand over some actual Epstein files, and a discussion with @rweingarten.bsky.social about her new book. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“That’s all you can do, is learn and adapt,” said freelance writer Kiesha Richardson. “And I have some colleagues who are adamant about not working with AI. But I’m like, ‘I need money. I’m taking it.’” The WGA literally had a strike to prevent this & you should too www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Imagine just for one second if an actor said that make-up or costumes are ‘’for losers’’. Would he be praised?
Timothy Dalton is the best Bond
VFX-IATSE needs to urgently sit down with the people from DGA and SAG-AFTRA and have a friendly talk: either these overwhelming and repeated insults and disparagements by your members will stop immediately, or we will have to start filing lawsuits. There is no other choice.
A must read for anyone trying to figure out how to resist the creeping autocracy and wanting to understand how their personal acts of Resistance matter: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Women could only get a credit card in their own name in 1974.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.” The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop. We’ll be back next week to make sure they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
With all that’s going today, we’re almost over the fact that #Weapons is gonna claim the top spot for the 4th weekend in a row. A original horror film still at the top on their FOURTH WEEKEND*? This. Is. Freaking. NUTS! *No, I don’t count the Netflix stunt from last week. #Filmsky
We should threaten to give him a paternal hug, it would mess his system
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
Today’s a prime day to remember: Mary Shelley - yes, a female writer, invented science fiction, a new genre, through publication of her epic novel, ‘Frankenstein.’ Next time you hear someone state women can’t write SciFi show them this. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity #SciFi #BookSky
That would require a MAGA minion who can write
Bluesky right now …
$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?
Blow the whistle! It’s a new JFC! Brian & @crobertcargill.bsky.social share their glowing praise for the Bay Area banger that is FREAKY TALES, and declare it their favorite film of the year so far! RskT if you don’t think this ep is Too $hort! www.spreaker.com/episode/frea...
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Haven't played the #FirstPageFriday in a while. It's time to change that. Here's for a dark comedy I keep procrastinating to rewrite. No title yet, but the file is saved as "Fkedup_Heist" #Scriptsky
This is not the worst thing a priest would have done to a child
Recently I’d say Weapons. Also X (2022) and The Visit (2015)
Happy birthday to Jack Kirby.
Oh, Hi! is a blast of a twisted rom-com. A darkly funny take about modern relationships and messy expectations. Molly Gordon gives strong Kathy Bates vibes from Misery here, and she could easily become a horror standout fast. #Filmsky
Um so like cheaper than the sweatshop wages paid in overseas vfx shops or cheaper than the US-based. Vfx artists who have been fired in droves since the pandemic started and the strikes?
What’s going on with all the cast members leaving SNL? Longfellow was sadly underused, but Wakim was a breakout, and had the potential to play a great Mamadani in the cold open sketches.
Well congrats to those whose strategy is “we need our own fascist.”
I’ve said this many many times before, but the collapse (intentional sabotage) of the American education system over that last 40 years has left us with a populace where a dangerously large portion is dumb, lazy, bigoted, entitled, and convinced they are beyond any criticism. Yikes.
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
Meanwhile, a work of art has the power to transcend time and space, reaching generations and leave an impact. This is real immortality. The reason they’re diving head first into genAI is because they can’t stand that people they deem ‘’less intelligent’’ than them can achieve what they can never do
The last episode of #AlienEarth got me thinking on Big Tech’s obsession with transhumanism, immortality and AI. Here’s my 2 cents on it: Deep down, they know what they do doesn’t matter. Technology becomes obsolete, replaced and forgotten. How many innovators are remembered?
The Exorcist: The Musical
Also this might become one of my personal favorite movie line: ‘’By your standards, every crime committed by a Christian will be a stain on Christ?’’ ‘’And so it is.’’
I was long overdue for a rewatch on The Pale Blue Eye. Harry Melling’s performance as Poe is outstanding. He sounds and acts exactly as how you imagine Edgar Poe would have. He’s really carved out a great path as a character actor over the years. #Filmsky
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
I can’t say where it’s going, but holy hell is Alien: Earth being released right on time as far as what it could be setting up to say about technology companies preying on children. This may be one of those things I end up not having a choice in writing about. I might be compelled to.
AI won’t kill us with guns and nukes, but with sympathetic words.
Today's mood:
People who suggest that either all art/storytelling should be escapist or that storytelling that is escapist isn’t art, make me want to peel my face off and chase them into the sea. I love storytelling and the arts, because of HOW MUCH we can do with them. I’m so tired of this dumb shit.
Oh I’m definitely going to be first in line for this one
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Just got my coverage back from @networkisa.bsky.social on a script I’ve been dreading sharing for a while. Very encouraging, honest, and spot-on. The notes didn’t sugarcoat, but they cut right to the heart of the issue I was struggling with. Now I can’t wait to dive into the rewrite! #Scriptsky
I think we need Superman most when it’s hard to be a good person. He’s ultimately not great because it’s easy for him to be kind, and ethical, and relentless about both. He’s great because it’s so easy not to be. He’s an embodiment of a choice to do the harder, kinder thing.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.
"If high earners were truly fleeing high taxes, low-tax states would be swarming with millionaires. Instead, the highest concentrations of millionaires are found in high-tax states like Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Never heard of Otroverts before, but after reading it, it just hit me like a bullet. I’m fine one-on-one, but in a group, I just go blank. I’m not drained, I just don’t feel like I belong anywhere.
"Every conflict ends with some kind of negotiation"
Being a billionaire should be a crime
Authenticity is the key to win back voters
A scavenger hunt on the streets of NYC is a wonderful way to engage with the voters. It’s brilliant. It rallies the troops, it’s a lot of fun, it’s educational, and it’s active as opposed to passive engagement. Mamdani is the future. Newsom is the past.
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
Why can’t a single American journalist do this? Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s ended numerous wars — he’s now increased the number to ten! — and he’ll surely do it again. Ask him to name the wars he says he’s won. Ask Leavitt. Ask Hegseth. Ask Rubio. Just fucking ask them & don’t let go.
I hate the era we’re living in right now where reading a book when you’re bored is considered as more rude than being on your phone.
Zohran is likable because he suggests politics could be a fun and rewarding group effort and not the most sludgey bureaucratic horseshit you've ever experienced.
So many biopics seem in the work now, and yet none of them are on the late great Sir Christopher Lee.
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Interstellar
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
UK is becoming a polite Russia
I've been 3D printing tiny, very loud ICE whistles to hand out at the library where I work, so if anyone sees ICE thugs in the community, they can make lots of noise and get eyes on them.
Yup. #CPTSD
How come he didn’t call them MS-13-BC before?
The fact that John Bolton is a scumbag is irrelevant. Trump and the FBI are completely abusing their power. Have ANY republicans spoken out? #JohnBolton
Borders are imaginary and nationalism is mostly used to incite support for wars and racism! I’m not sure why I’m supposed to be mad!
People aren’t rejecting inclusivity. They’re rejecting the BS. If you want to get it right, make it meaningful, not performative.
Same with Barbie or Black Panther. People loved them because the inclusivity was built into the story, not pasted on as a gimmick.
Take The Last of Us. Bill and Frank’s episode was one of the most praised moments of the series. Why? Because it was authentic, not a corporate checkbox. Every character on the show feels like they belong to the narrative, not just there for social media stunts
People don’t reject “woke” content. They reject when it’s just a marketing gimmick, just for the sake of appearances, then quickly cut when it impacts business (looking at you, SW9). People can tell when diversity is in just for show, instead of being a genuine intention.
One of the biggest lie conservatives have successfully pushed in recent years is the “go woke, go broke” narrative, especially in the media industry. The truth is, it’s not the idea of inclusivity that’s the problem. It’s the PERFORMATIVE version of it.
Want to learn something about #water and #climate change? A simple approximation is that for every degree C of warming, the atmosphere holds 7% more water. That's one factor behind the growing number of extreme flooding events.
I was already eager, now I’m freaking hyped. #TheLongWalk
This is who Democrats should actually stand behind. Someone with actual convictions and compassion for the most vulnerable, not someone who does communication stunts while applying MAGA’s agenda. More people should be inspired by Governor Pritzker.
I'll be honest, I'm usually very of the mind that on the day of your death, you get the day off from ill will and shit talk. Your family, friends, and fans get the time to grieve. But if you trafficked in hate, there's no holiday when you die. You reap the hate in death you sowed in life. Fuck you.
Dear everyone stop making cringy posts about what people read, seriously just let them fucking read, the real problems are the royalists in their castles who don’t read & make the laws and royal proclamations.
I’m also loving how the show continues the saga’s critique of capitalist greed, using economic competition between mega-corporations as the narrative engine. It’s relevant, and faithful to the world of Alien.