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Joined August 2015
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 11
A 7,000-member community of people who budget film & TV for a living, answering each other's questions daily. Stephen Marinaccio runs it. Underrated resource. ๐ฌ
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 11
Spider-Noir takes Spider-Man out of the skyline and drops him into an alternate, Depression-era 1930s New York. It opens like a confession, not a fight.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 12
Kevin Goetz has tested 5,000 films. His verdict on audiences: "They think they know what they want." So nobody asked for Sinners โ and it worked anyway. New ep ๐ฌ ๐ง podcasts.apple.com/us/podcasโฆ
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 10
Best note on saying "no" we've heard: understand what they need and why โ help them explain it again โ then say no. People don't reject ideas; they reject feeling unheard. ๐ฌ
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 10
30 days to train a line producer. The priority isn't the budget โ it's the schedule. "The schedule is the real killer." ๐ฌ
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At 9, Danielle Vega sang the "I Love You" song to an inanimate Barney doll in front of 8 executives. She got the part. That set was non-union โ and somehow one of the safest rooms in 90s kids' TV.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
Jun 10
Crowdfunding a $6M feature $100 at a time means thousands of "executive producers." Great in theory. A nightmare on the back end. ๐ฌ
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A24 is a master marketer. Sometimes the movie lives up to the trailer. Sometimes it doesn't.
Chris on Kane Parsons โ youngest A24 director โ and the generation behind him who learned to edit before they could drive.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
"Should I just post my movies free on YouTube?"
Chris's answer: depends on the goal.
Notoriety, yes. Views, yes. Money or theatrical โ different path entirely.
The strategy is downstream of the goal. Pick the goal first.
๐ฌ New Reel Q&A clip.
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"Is AI going to make its way into big Hollywood films?"
Chris: it already has.
The lines that should hold: no AI award winners. No AI screenwriters. No AI actors. No AI musicians.
Tool, yes. Worker, no.
๐ฌ New Reel Q&A clip.Subscribe support: themakeitpodcast.store/shop/โฆ
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New Reel Q&A. Five questions in three minutes.
A24's youngest director. YouTube-first distribution. AI's red lines in Hollywood. The genre that breaks producers. The superpower nobody should want.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 29
A film budget is a story about what's going to happen โ written before anything has.
Today's MAKE IT is with line producer and DGA UPM Stephen Marinaccio. He's been the person Hollywood calls when a global production needs to actually get made on a number. ๐งต
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 26
She walked into a gas station, asked to borrow a $4 coffee mug for a week to shoot a movie, and the cashier said yes.
That's not a story. That's an operating system.
New SUMMARIES โ actress/producer Jennica Schwartzman. ๐ apple.co/3RsiTPG ๐ข open.spotify.com/episode/0KKโฆ
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 26
The MAKE IT story that has no business being on a filmmaking podcast and absolutely belongs there. Chris's uncle from Germany. 1 AM at Kroger. A cart with 15 tubs of Cool Whip, Vaseline, and maxi pads. The clerk's face.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 27
Should you cut a trailer for your short film?
Hard part: trailer editing is its own cottage industry. The right editor is rare.
Easy part: in 2026, nothing is blocking a one-minute trailer from reaching a million people overnight. Spin off every artifact you can. Just make them excellent.๐ฌ themakeitpodcast.store/shop/โฆ
#ShortFilm #Filmmaking
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 27
Who gets the final say in casting on a feature? The director. Casting director is a key partnership โ the role exists for a reason โ but the call belongs to the person who has to work most closely with that actor every day.๐ฌ New Reel Q&A. Subscribe โ themakeitpodcast.store/shop/โฆ
#Filmmaking #Casting
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 25
Nick on the new episode of MAKE IT: scrolling Instagram, watches a home renovation reel, sends it to his wife. She loves it. He looks again โ the whole thing is AI.
Telling the difference between AI and real UGC is going to be its own discipline.
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 25
The AI hosts on our SUMMARIES sub-show have started:
ยท complimenting us unprompted
ยท referencing past experiences they don't have
ยท talking about their feelings
"It's just developing a human sentimentality in real time. Amazing โ and freaky."
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Bonsai Creative retweeted
May 22
Nick on the new MAKE IT episode, giving Elsa Ramo (@RamoLawPC) her flowers:
"It's a profession. A paid profession. But you have to have passion. A personality. An interest in the people you're representing. Because โ it's the relationships that matter."
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