LA BOLA NEGRA is extraordinary. The craft is staggering — the use of music, mystery revealed at the perfect cadence. Everything in service of story. Authentic and earned, every beat. It trusts the audience, and it stayed with me.

Forgot to mention how good Andrew Schulz is in STREET FIGHTER. Steals every scene he's in.

Excited to see this.

Quite the week at the movies. YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is extraordinary. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is beautiful. LA BOLA NEGRA is a triumph. WHALEFALL announces Austin Abrams as a leading man. And STREET FIGHTER is just plain fun.

DIGGER is incredible. Tom Cruise is truly remarkable. End of an era in many ways as this is the last movie to be distributed by Warner Bros and likely the last movie of this type to be made. Maybe ever. Certainly at this budget level.

Two great dudes.

Did the script write itself? Variety should mention the writer in the headline!

Thank you @neildevani and thank you X. Also - ‘If you interviewed 100 men over 6’8” tall, you would find that almost all of them play basketball consistently. This does not mean that playing basketball makes you tall.’

I feel like there is a big hole in the self development literature/academia. Maybe it exists and someone on here can point me to it? Here’s what I want to know about: I built my career modeling myself on those who succeeded before me. I followed Tony Robbins advice in this regard and ‘studied the path’. I devoured biographies and histories of the movie business and picked up valuable lessons and insights. I still recommend ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE and THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE and SWIMMING WITH SHARKS. They have so much to teach. I still recommend Bill Gurley’s talk at the University of Texas on following your passion. It’s awesome. It’s fascinating studying successful people. I love Tim Ferris’ podcast which is focused on this idea - what are the habits of successful people? But - I think we may be putting too much emphasis on the habits of successful people. It’s not scientific. It makes it seem like these habits or attributes or practices cause the success. That could be true. But - It could just as easily be completely false. We don’t study failures. Do we? There could be 100 people who did exactly the same things as that founder you admire and had no success. Has anyone studied this? How do I find out more about this?

THE INVITE is excellent.

Let’s break some App Store records: apps.apple.com/us/app/whyser…

I’m obsessed with CLARKSON’S FARM. Farming is my new favorite genre? I’m also growing avocados, pears, grapes, kumquats . . .

He-Man is really well made. Clever take. Great visual effects and action sequences. Well cast. It just seems to be a property that feels like IP rather than being IP. Feels like the reaction to ‘Barbie worked. What else is in the Mattel library?’ Was anyone clamoring for this to be a movie? Respond here if you did. Maybe there are die-hard He-Man people out there?

I loved OBSESSION. loved. If you haven’t seen it, you should. BUT - I’ve seen this cycle so many times and in 18 months, we will have 3 horror movies every weekend and none of them will perform to their potential. The right comp is ANYONE BUT YOU. A romcom? Yes. The most powerful hit generating formula in the movie business is a good to great high concept film in a genre that has been underserved for a while. Let’s not all pile on the horror bandwagon. Let’s make an awesome R rated comedy. Let’s make a sexy erotic thriller. Let’s make a great emotional true story. Let’s make a great love story! There are audiences out there hungry for their type of movie. Let’s feed them. (Also - please see MOTOR CITY July 24 in a theater near you. And please enjoy KPOPS on Netflix!!!)

So many people vibecoding and no way to surface innovative projects. Proofofworth.net solves that.

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I was really bummed not to be invited to this. Seemed like a great event. Don’t forget your studio execs! Reward them for fighting for your films! Make them feel included.