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Co-writer 2004 #Hellboy movie
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Amazon #1 best-selling novelist 🖊️ • Comic books
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Hi, #Scriptsky. I'm Peter Briggs: I sold my first spec to Fox in '92. I'm credited co-writer on the 2004 movie "Hellboy"; past 30 years I've been hired-by or sold specs to all the major studios.
My side hustle: I provide consultancy to emerging screenwriters serious about their craft. Links above!
My side hustle: I provide consultancy to emerging screenwriters serious about their craft. Links above!
Watched the McConaughey movie "The Lost Bus". Apple's publicity made it look like a VHS.
Holy crap! NO! McConaughey is a bus driver in the Paradise, California wildfires and it's GIGANTIC. I don’t even know how Paul Greengrass made a lot of it. VFX are gigantic, virtually flawless.
#3 for 2025.
Holy crap! NO! McConaughey is a bus driver in the Paradise, California wildfires and it's GIGANTIC. I don’t even know how Paul Greengrass made a lot of it. VFX are gigantic, virtually flawless.
#3 for 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Watched the McConaughey movie "The Lost Bus". Apple's publicity made it look like a VHS.
Holy crap! NO! McConaughey is a bus driver in the Paradise, California wildfires and it's GIGANTIC. I don’t even know how Paul Greengrass made a lot of it. VFX are gigantic, virtually flawless.
#3 for 2025.
Holy crap! NO! McConaughey is a bus driver in the Paradise, California wildfires and it's GIGANTIC. I don’t even know how Paul Greengrass made a lot of it. VFX are gigantic, virtually flawless.
#3 for 2025.
"Introduce yourself with four spaceships."
(Man, I wish this were at least 6. But, hey.)
(Man, I wish this were at least 6. But, hey.)
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Introduce yourself with four spaceships."
(Man, I wish this were at least 6. But, hey.)
(Man, I wish this were at least 6. But, hey.)
As a lover of old movies, I've always hated this show.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
As a lover of old movies, I've always hated this show.
Now I remember why I liked Udo.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Now I remember why I liked Udo.
A movie that takes place where you're from...
(Prescot!)
(Prescot!)
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from...
(Prescot!)
(Prescot!)
in 2008, I found myself propping up the Berlin Film Festival bar with Udo. This was the first time in many years he'd been, invited by his friend Rolf Moeller. It was the beginning of a crazy night, and he dragged me from one party to the next. Outrageously camp, and twinkly-charming.
Very sad. RIP
Very sad. RIP
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
in 2008, I found myself propping up the Berlin Film Festival bar with Udo. This was the first time in many years he'd been, invited by his friend Rolf Moeller. It was the beginning of a crazy night, and he dragged me from one party to the next. Outrageously camp, and twinkly-charming.
Very sad. RIP
Very sad. RIP
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I don't know how many are aware of "Art Of The Title", which is a fantastic curated repository of Title Sequences from Film and Television. A great inspirational filmmaker resource:
www.artofthetitle.com
Desperately needing cash to keep them going, they have a fund page:
ko-fi.com/artofthetitle
www.artofthetitle.com
Desperately needing cash to keep them going, they have a fund page:
ko-fi.com/artofthetitle
Support Art of the Title
Support Art of the Title
ko-fi.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I don't know how many are aware of "Art Of The Title", which is a fantastic curated repository of Title Sequences from Film and Television. A great inspirational filmmaker resource:
www.artofthetitle.com
Desperately needing cash to keep them going, they have a fund page:
ko-fi.com/artofthetitle
www.artofthetitle.com
Desperately needing cash to keep them going, they have a fund page:
ko-fi.com/artofthetitle
The whole Tom King "Mouse Man" Wonder Woman thing has been doing my head in for months with its bonkers audacity.
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The whole Tom King "Mouse Man" Wonder Woman thing has been doing my head in for months with its bonkers audacity.
Intrigued by the whole crazy Olivia Nuzzi-of-it-all, today. I used to swap Tweets with her in "The Bad Place" during the whole New York hush-money trial last year, before she got booted.
Especially hilarious hindsight, given I used to hang-out years ago in L.A. with RFK's old lady, Cheryl Hines...
Especially hilarious hindsight, given I used to hang-out years ago in L.A. with RFK's old lady, Cheryl Hines...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Intrigued by the whole crazy Olivia Nuzzi-of-it-all, today. I used to swap Tweets with her in "The Bad Place" during the whole New York hush-money trial last year, before she got booted.
Especially hilarious hindsight, given I used to hang-out years ago in L.A. with RFK's old lady, Cheryl Hines...
Especially hilarious hindsight, given I used to hang-out years ago in L.A. with RFK's old lady, Cheryl Hines...
That was a cracking episode of The Morning Show this week on Apple. With Jon Hamm, Jeremy Irons, and Marion Cottilard, all the firepower was really delivering. Have to say - the writing this Season has really been on-point. #scriptsky
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
That was a cracking episode of The Morning Show this week on Apple. With Jon Hamm, Jeremy Irons, and Marion Cottilard, all the firepower was really delivering. Have to say - the writing this Season has really been on-point. #scriptsky
Name your top 4 '80s films. (Allowing only one Star Wars or Trek movie each, if that's the case.)
1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. The Thing
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. The Thing
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Name your top 4 '80s films. (Allowing only one Star Wars or Trek movie each, if that's the case.)
1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. The Thing
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. The Thing
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
It's funny how EVERY implausible, weak, and wacky James Bond villain over the decades, whom we rolled our eyes at for being implausible and cartoonish and honestly unbelievable, viewed in the cold light of day after 10 years of utter nutters on the political scene....seem now soberingly normal?
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's funny how EVERY implausible, weak, and wacky James Bond villain over the decades, whom we rolled our eyes at for being implausible and cartoonish and honestly unbelievable, viewed in the cold light of day after 10 years of utter nutters on the political scene....seem now soberingly normal?
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Boys and girls - another Friday! Hell encroaches daily, yet we cheerfully jab it back with wit, pointy sticks, and debonair flair.
Congratulate yourself! Press play on your stacking-up flicks. Pinch your beloved's bottom. Uncork that special Japanese whisky, before next week's nukes evaporate it.
Congratulate yourself! Press play on your stacking-up flicks. Pinch your beloved's bottom. Uncork that special Japanese whisky, before next week's nukes evaporate it.
May 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Boys and girls - another Friday! Hell encroaches daily, yet we cheerfully jab it back with wit, pointy sticks, and debonair flair.
Congratulate yourself! Press play on your stacking-up flicks. Pinch your beloved's bottom. Uncork that special Japanese whisky, before next week's nukes evaporate it.
Congratulate yourself! Press play on your stacking-up flicks. Pinch your beloved's bottom. Uncork that special Japanese whisky, before next week's nukes evaporate it.
Watched "Official Competition" from 2021, a hilarious Spanish language film about two pretentious actors and an equally-pretentious woman film director, prepping a billionaire's vanity project. Cruz, Banderas, and Martinez are a lot of fun. For anyone who's ever spent time with actors... #filmsky
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Watched "Official Competition" from 2021, a hilarious Spanish language film about two pretentious actors and an equally-pretentious woman film director, prepping a billionaire's vanity project. Cruz, Banderas, and Martinez are a lot of fun. For anyone who's ever spent time with actors... #filmsky
Watched Elaine May's 1972 Charles Grodin schmuck movie "The Heartbreak Kid".
Here's a fascinating piece about why you can't watch it. (Legitimately.) #Filmsky
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma....
Here's a fascinating piece about why you can't watch it. (Legitimately.) #Filmsky
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma....
‘We can’t afford to lose them’: the fight to bring missing movies back
Films such as The Heartbreak Kid and I Shot Andy Warhol remain unavailable on any platform but a new initiative is aiming to change that
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Watched Elaine May's 1972 Charles Grodin schmuck movie "The Heartbreak Kid".
Here's a fascinating piece about why you can't watch it. (Legitimately.) #Filmsky
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma....
Here's a fascinating piece about why you can't watch it. (Legitimately.) #Filmsky
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ma....
Just watched the absolutely bonkers (in a good way) Alan Bridges movie "The Hireling", which won the Palm D'Or in 1973. As @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social says in a 2009 piece, it's extraordinary this has slipped through the cracks in history. Jawdropping ending.
www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Peter Bradshaw on Alan Bridges's The Hireling
Peter Bradshaw: Revisit The Hireling, Alan Bridges's 1973 gem about failure in love - and see why a retrospective is long overdue
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just watched the absolutely bonkers (in a good way) Alan Bridges movie "The Hireling", which won the Palm D'Or in 1973. As @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social says in a 2009 piece, it's extraordinary this has slipped through the cracks in history. Jawdropping ending.
www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Well, we have TWO Scorseses in common in our top 5!
1. The Color of Money
2. The Aviator
3. After Hours
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The King of Comedy
1. The Color of Money
2. The Aviator
3. After Hours
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The King of Comedy
My extremely basic-taste Scorsese top 5:
1976. Goodfellas
1980. Raging Bull
1982. The King of Comedy
1985. After Hours
1990. Goodfellas
1976. Goodfellas
1980. Raging Bull
1982. The King of Comedy
1985. After Hours
1990. Goodfellas
It’s the GOAT’s birthday
My top 5 Scorseses as of today
1. Taxi Driver
2. Goodfellas
3. Casino
4. The King of Comedy
5. The Irishman
My top 5 Scorseses as of today
1. Taxi Driver
2. Goodfellas
3. Casino
4. The King of Comedy
5. The Irishman
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Well, we have TWO Scorseses in common in our top 5!
1. The Color of Money
2. The Aviator
3. After Hours
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The King of Comedy
1. The Color of Money
2. The Aviator
3. After Hours
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The King of Comedy
Fascinating article on Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan. I had the hugest TV-crush on Ancona. She passed me walking down Bond Street one day; I smiled at her...and she looked at me blankly, and carried-on walking. I was crushed. (But still carry a torch.)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan look back: ‘We would have killed each other if we’d stayed as a couple. Instead, our friendship is eternal’
The comedians on their Bafta-winning sketch show, the reason they split up – and why she reminds him of Diane Keaton
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fascinating article on Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan. I had the hugest TV-crush on Ancona. She passed me walking down Bond Street one day; I smiled at her...and she looked at me blankly, and carried-on walking. I was crushed. (But still carry a torch.)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Primordial being menaces hapless people
- Over-the-hill guy gets second shot (can identify)
- Two adversaries carry a murderous grudge over a long period (ditto)
- Period tales of derring-do
- Something pure and loveable that kids love and makes me sob.
- Primordial being menaces hapless people
- Over-the-hill guy gets second shot (can identify)
- Two adversaries carry a murderous grudge over a long period (ditto)
- Period tales of derring-do
- Something pure and loveable that kids love and makes me sob.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Primordial being menaces hapless people
- Over-the-hill guy gets second shot (can identify)
- Two adversaries carry a murderous grudge over a long period (ditto)
- Period tales of derring-do
- Something pure and loveable that kids love and makes me sob.
- Primordial being menaces hapless people
- Over-the-hill guy gets second shot (can identify)
- Two adversaries carry a murderous grudge over a long period (ditto)
- Period tales of derring-do
- Something pure and loveable that kids love and makes me sob.
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Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
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November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
Saw "One Battle After Another". I only really like "There Will Be Blood" and "Phantom Thread", so I was surprised I was entertained (thanks to a good Third Act, despite questionable bounty hunter plot logic.) Joint #7 for my 2025 so far: eerie how Anderson inadvertently predicted the 2025 zeitgeist.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Saw "One Battle After Another". I only really like "There Will Be Blood" and "Phantom Thread", so I was surprised I was entertained (thanks to a good Third Act, despite questionable bounty hunter plot logic.) Joint #7 for my 2025 so far: eerie how Anderson inadvertently predicted the 2025 zeitgeist.
We're here. Not so much a "Week End", as a "Respite Start".
Gird your loins. Shout to the heavens. There are good films out there to watch - honest injun. Press those buttons, send them spinning. Have a drink for me, gang. I gots work to do.
But I wants you to all be happy.
23 Skidoo!
Gird your loins. Shout to the heavens. There are good films out there to watch - honest injun. Press those buttons, send them spinning. Have a drink for me, gang. I gots work to do.
But I wants you to all be happy.
23 Skidoo!
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
We're here. Not so much a "Week End", as a "Respite Start".
Gird your loins. Shout to the heavens. There are good films out there to watch - honest injun. Press those buttons, send them spinning. Have a drink for me, gang. I gots work to do.
But I wants you to all be happy.
23 Skidoo!
Gird your loins. Shout to the heavens. There are good films out there to watch - honest injun. Press those buttons, send them spinning. Have a drink for me, gang. I gots work to do.
But I wants you to all be happy.
23 Skidoo!
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Thank God that arrived. I've been waiting all week...
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank God that arrived. I've been waiting all week...
Watched "Frankenstein". Amazing costumes, suitably grisly prosthetics. I’d buy the "Art Of" book. Wish some of the performances were as naturalistic and grounded as Charles Dance and Lars Mikkelsen, and a bit less hammy.
Eight Andrew Lloyd Webber songs would have really elevated the operatic sets.
Eight Andrew Lloyd Webber songs would have really elevated the operatic sets.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Watched "Frankenstein". Amazing costumes, suitably grisly prosthetics. I’d buy the "Art Of" book. Wish some of the performances were as naturalistic and grounded as Charles Dance and Lars Mikkelsen, and a bit less hammy.
Eight Andrew Lloyd Webber songs would have really elevated the operatic sets.
Eight Andrew Lloyd Webber songs would have really elevated the operatic sets.
Binged "The New Look", Apple's 10-part 2024 Christian Dior & Coco Chanel show from Todd A Kessler.
That's right up there with "A Gentleman In Moscow" as one of the best shows of the last few years. Beautifully shot, directed. Elegant wordplay that wowed me at times.
That's right up there with "A Gentleman In Moscow" as one of the best shows of the last few years. Beautifully shot, directed. Elegant wordplay that wowed me at times.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Binged "The New Look", Apple's 10-part 2024 Christian Dior & Coco Chanel show from Todd A Kessler.
That's right up there with "A Gentleman In Moscow" as one of the best shows of the last few years. Beautifully shot, directed. Elegant wordplay that wowed me at times.
That's right up there with "A Gentleman In Moscow" as one of the best shows of the last few years. Beautifully shot, directed. Elegant wordplay that wowed me at times.