New piece in the NYT today How to Save Hollywood: Make Fun Movies nytimes.com/2026/03/28/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Stop looking at your phone between lines of dialogue. Of course it 's going to affect the writing. Do you think Tolstoy looked at his phone between paragraphs? Tolstoy turned off his phone during writing hours. Always.

Tried watching maximum pleasure guaranteed on apple. Great title. Reminds me that people can accept a big fanciful premise, but you will lose them if the details of your world don’t ring true.

David Hockney

Should that really be a crime?

Progress report on n1bw.com (“the number one best website”). Goal: Build a collaborative platform for creating and producing vertical video series. Thesis: Collaborative UGC can scale faster than traditional vertically integrated studios, and can expand microseries into new genres. Done: ✅ Acquired URL, incorporated company, launched site and Discord ✅ Click-through creator agreement completed and implemented ✅ 40 members joined Discord ✅ Creators can propose new projects ✅ First project launched internally: LAPD: Demon Division ✅ Writers selected ✅ Season 1 (12 episodes) outlined ✅ First draft scripts delivered ✅ Story discussion completed Next: 1. Final scripts due 6/19 2. Open bank account 3. Market to filmmakers 4. Filmmakers produce episodes 5. Add video hosting and viewer payment system to site 5. Set up accounting 6. Flow revenue to creators and n1bw per agreement 7. Raise seed round 8. Users expand number of projects 9. License traditional film and television on contingent basis 10. Market n1bw Onward.

Enjoyed Obsession last night. Good film. Not complicated. It is trying to be fun. That was its only agenda. And the theater was full on a Monday night. Lower budgets fun. I’ve said it before, but this is the way.

There are only two kinds of movie scripts. 1. I want to spend two years on this. 2. Others.

Chess club Downtown Los Angeles 6/7/26

AMC movie theater in ROLLING HILLS, CA, on a SATURDAY NIGHT! MOVIES are SO BACK, BABY!!

Final Draft is almost certainly the worst software that is used by a significant number of people.

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

Man have times changed. If you suggested that title or topic 9 yrs ago, you’d have been publicly executed.

On voting day, 60% of the vote was counted and announced. 4 days later, only 64% of the vote is counted and announced. There is no target date for completion. In many other countries, they count all the votes on voting day and they announce the winner that day.

The standard reaction of any Hollywood denizen to any new tech (going back at least to the Internet) is “if I could snap my fingers, I would make it go away.” You’ll fit right in, Mr. Parsons.

If you’re in spec scripts, pivot to spec scripts online trailers and in-universe content.

This began as a thought experiment and ended with a shocking conclusion: Obsession has already outperformed the entire 2020–2025 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition lineup combined. STORY HERE: open.substack.com/pub/hollyw…

Will become increasingly common.

Lots of credit grabs around Hollywood for the breakout success of BACKROOMS, but at the very beginning, one lowly assistant clicked on a Reddit link and saw a potential movie. The full backstory ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/the-27-year-old-as…

Marilyn Monroe would be 100 today. Has anyone ever had a better year than Marilyn in 1953 (at 27)? Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire.

AMC Entertainment, $AMC, saw the highest attendance for May since 2019