actor/writer/filmmaker: Alex Stone in Major Payne, Grace & Grit, Lymelife, Louis, @SundanceOrg Labs alumnus, stream my new film BitterSweet click link in bio👇
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We made BitterSweet with no budget, no studio, no AI. Just years of long nights, raw emotions, and a tiny crew determined to tell a human story. It’s finally streaming July 11. Watch the trailer & help us make noise in the algorithm. Pre-order link in bio/reply. Every one counts.
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This is one of the more important shifts happening outside the traditional Hollywood system.
FAST and AVOD platforms are creating a parallel production economy where low-cost, highly targeted films can find real audiences without theatrical release, studio backing or prestige validation.
It is not a replacement for Hollywood. But it is another reminder that audience demand often exists long before the traditional industry decides to serve it.
There's a new generation of filmmakers earning a good living with low-cost, highly-targeted content on free streaming services like Tubi and Roku. I profiled an incredibly interesting guy whose work is making $2M per year with zero help from Hollywood.
wsj.com/business/media/the-f…
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Disclosure Day Spoiler Alert: Obviously the power of Emily Blunt's Empathetically Induced Exposition to heal our built up traumas by blurting out TMI is not as cinematic as E.T.'s levitation of kids bicycles. But that's what happens when you grow up. The real work is less magical and more mundane. Be nice to yourself and others then maybe you can be nice to aliens
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I took a break from chatting comics to chat about movies with @stevenmartini who you know from Major Payne, where he was Cadet Alex Stone and also from his most recent project Bittersweet!!! Don’t miss out on this fun conversation #movies #directing youtu.be/lB7ENPWjyoY?is=OXTX…
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Jun 15
When I wrote a movie about Louis Armstrong’s childhood in New Orleans, I learned about the origins of the Second Line: a West African tradition that evolved in Congo Square, where enslaved people were spent Sundays away from field labor gathered to dance, trade, worship, and preserve culture under impossible circumstances.
Those rhythms survived. Over generations they helped give rise to jazz.
When they danced through my farmers market this Sunday, I was reminded where it came from and thanked God for how far we’ve come.
Then I went home and turned on the TV to see a UFC cage match at the White House.
History doesn't move in straight lines.
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Jun 15
Curry Barker shares his thoughts on ‘OBSESSION’ art director Sally Choi’s viral Instagram post, in which she advocated for industry-wide change and improve pay conditions for low-budget crews:
“I have nothing but respect for the art department, and the work they did was extraordinary. Everybody on this film worked so hard and they deserve to be recognized. This movie was made for so little money that it’s typical that the only people who [directly] benefit from its financial success are the people who took on some sort of risk.”
“But what I hope is that every person that worked really hard on this film will see opportunities to catapult their careers in ways that can be very financially fruitful for them — like what’s happening for me.”
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
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Jun 15
Make your movie however you can.
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Jun 14
This is such an oddly specific statistic I never heard about the phenomenon. Can anyone else guess why UFOs over Africa don't visit private schools, only public?!
I had a whole period in middle school where I wanted to be transferred to a public school just so I could see some shit. Every few months there would be some mass event. I did witness something that looked like a giant plane sized red flare in 2000 with my grandmother. She said it was a bleeding/wounded witch 😂
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7 Years ago I wrote a mini-series about Dr. John Mack which ended just as he went to investigate Ariel School. It never got made but last month I was asked to write a short film about Ariel. It was truly cathartic creative closure. I love writing screenplays about this subject.
Jun 14
Steven Spielberg says the aliens in Disclosure Day were partially based on witness accounts from the 1994 Ariel School sighting in Zimbabwe
“I had to base our aliens on what people have reported who claim to have had close encounters to the third kind. And there is a consistency in the reporting.
There is circumstantial evidence from tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who have claimed not just in America but all over the world to have seen something or met people who have seen things.
And obviously the first thing that comes to mind when you go back and you investigate what Dr. Mack, you know, investigated himself, from Harvard. He went to Zimbabwe to the aerial school where 65 school children saw a craft land and saw beings come out of that craft and they all described the eyes that were completely hypnotic and the eyes were wraparound eyes.”
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This moment gave me goosebump chills to quiet my analytical brain which was scoffing at the incredulity of them jumping into a train car filled with pianos 2 seconds earlier. The fact that it played immediately after such insane action is a testament to both actors and director.
Jun 13
this scene from disclosure day made me want to crawl out of my own skin. the adrenaline from the chase up to the pianos clashing around... i need emily blunt to win an oscar for this
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Obviously you all were not given given the non human blurpy blurp gene because I heard the line perfectly fully stated: "Listen assholes, stop stabbing me in the eyes!"
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Jun 13
Disclosure Day was amazing. Fuck the haters
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This is the end of a fine silk thread.
Jun 12
there will basically be no industry in a few years. A small handful of monopolies will own everything, there will be no middle class creators, and everyone will wonder "why isn't TV good anymore?" (end 🧵)
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Just talked about her REMARKABLE performance today with @stevenmartini
Jun 12
Her name is Courtney Grace and she absolutely sold everything this scene required #DisclosureDay
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Obviously you all were not given given the non human blurpy blurp gene because I heard the line perfectly fully stated: "Listen assholes, stop stabbing me in the eyes!"
But listen... to what? The animals? The aliens? What do they have to say? Can't he tell us a bit of what we should be listening to? Why is listening the right answer? So many unanswered questions...
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Jun 12
No notes. This is a perfect review.
It's a very thinky action movie. Had philosophical conversations going on. Kinda heavy in spots. You have to be in a mood for that.
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Disclosure Day. Spoiler Alert: Steven gives you remote viewing, bilocation, invisibility, telepathy, trains, and a lot of fire trucks, before he gives you any spaceships. And when he does it's with restraint. Spielberg's answer to Independence Day. Instead of invasion, it's empathy. X files&Hitchcock. Could have focused on Blunt's experience more than the chase. Wife and kids enjoyed it. Had a great time at the AMC dine family of 4. $ 200. Bought the tin.
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The invisibility chase was sort of baffling to watch until I realized this is Steven showing us his answer to the Fermi Paradox: if the universe is filled with life, where are they? Why don't we see them?
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Jun 11
Make your movie, however you can. Patience, dedication, a great team, honoring the script and story. Then wait & fight to make sure you get the right opportunity to expose it. From pre, to distribution, every decision matters.
Shoot for the stars then make logical steps forward
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