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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 22h

Expect Airplane, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, Ruthless People and more, as writer/producer/director David Zucker joins the Film Stories podcast.
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Podcast | In conversation with David Zucker

Airplane, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, Ruthless People and more, as writer/producer/director David Zucker joins the Film Stories podcast.

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Altitude @altitudefilms.bsky.social · 21h

Our friends @studiocanal.co.uk have just released the brilliant, beautiful, funny, and life-affirming I SWEAR in cinemas.

Based on the remarkable true story.
Go see it on the big screen this weekend!

🎟️🍿: www.iswearfilm.com

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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 19h

It's never been a better time in the whole of history to be extraordinarily wealthy and they spend the whole time whining and moaning and scared that there will be a couple of extra percentage points on their taxes. It's kind of sad.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21h

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 18h

In UK and Irish cinemas from today!

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Terracotta Distribution @terracottadist.bsky.social · 16h

Ghosts, monsters, killers...or was it just all in your mind...Asian horror films of all flavours in the Terracotta Halloween 2025 sale. Have a little browse to see what's on sale:

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Buy Asian cinema Blu-ray and 4K UHD movies

Amazing selection of Asian cinema Blu-rays, 4K UHD and DVDs. Shop Boutique Blu-ray editions from boutique labels such as 88 Films, Eureka Entertainment, Third Window Films, Arrow Video, Criterion…

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 15h

Don't miss Mia Goth in her star-making turn as Maxine Minx and Pearl in Ti West's X TRILOGY – X, PEARL, and MAXXXINE – screening back-to-back in one night on Friday 17th October! 🪓 tinyurl.com/2s3ny6te

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 20h

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 21h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 13h

David Zucker!

filmstories.co.uk/podcast/podc...

Podcast | In conversation with David Zucker

Airplane, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, Ruthless People and more, as writer/producer/director David Zucker joins the Film Stories podcast.

filmstories.co.uk

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 13h

Decent chance that I SWEAR outperforms TRON: ARES at the UK box office this weekend.

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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 12h

Did you know that Hong Kong stunt performers got the idea to use cardboard boxes to break falls from... the French?! 😳 I did not.

Page 131 from Lauren Steimer's EXPERTS IN ACTION, explaining that Hong Kong stunties got the idea to use cardboard boxes to break falls from the French production UP TO HIS EARS.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Call me crazy but I've got a sneaking feeling that putting the country in charge of a politician who likes to encourage people to publicly burn religious texts won't work out too well

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 1d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 1d

And as is tradition, I want to share the acknowledgements page for the Animation Atlas. Some of you are on here, some aren't, but you all played a part and I can't thank you enough.

A screengrab of a page from a book, headed 'acknowledgements' and reading as follows:

Around the world of animation in 30 countries? A piece of cake. Well, only if you have help, and we relied on numerous friends and colleagues as we embarked on this ambitious trip. Thanks as always to our stalwart podcast companion Steph ‘Killer’ Watts, and also the team at our publisher, Welbeck/Headline, specifically Ross Hamilton (who got us into this fine mess in the first place), Giulia Hetherington, Caroline Curtis, Marion Storz and Russell Knowles.

As we sketched out our globe-trotting itinerary, we were guided by invigorating and illuminating chats with many pals and peers, including Sam Summers, Steve Henderson, Jennifer Hall, Alex Dudok de Wit, Susie Evans, Kambole Campbell, Niall Geraghty, Bence Bardos, Sam Clements, Griffin Newman, Paul Williams, Ryan Gaur, Isabel Stevens, Justin Johnson, Andrew Osmond, Young Jin Eric Choi, Ravi Narayanswami and Aga Baranowska.

We were aided in our journey by filmmakers, distributors, sales agents, archivists and other front-line workers from the world of film: Lucy Rubin, Chance Huskey and Dave Jestaet from GKids, Kerry Kasim and Andrew Partridge from the Anime Ltd., Léo Altmann and Xueyin Li from Charades, Kelly Powell and Jake Garriock from Curzon, Luce Grosjean from Miyu Distribution, Jessica Levick and Kate Robinson from Channel 4, Geo Lomuntad at Project 8, Dennis Bartok at Deaf Crocodile, Anna Lewis from Aardman, Jez Strewart and Will Swinburne from the BFI National Archive, Masaya Kaneko, and Mr Kōji Yamamura.

This is our sixth book in about as many years, and we’re indebted to you, our readers, for joining us on these expeditions into animation and world cinema – but most of all, we couldn’t do what we do without the love and support of Mim, Ivo, Louie and our newest fellow traveller, Gene.

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Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social · 1d

📚 Our new book is out today! 📚

The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!

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Kevin Lehane @kevinlehane.com · 1d

It was never a war.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

UPDATE: Israel's cabinet has approved the first stage of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hamas — a move aimed at ending the two-year war in Gaza and freeing hostages on both sides.

Israel approves first phase of U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hamas

Israel's cabinet has approved the first stage of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hamas — a move aimed at ending the two-year war in Gaza and freeing hostages on both sides.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 1d

pelvic thrust risk of going insane

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 1d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1670

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Jamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 1d

Me when I hear graphic designers, translators, writers, musicians, photographers are losing their livelihoods vs me when I hear Mr Beast is feeling threatened.