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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · Apr 11

How Spaghetti Westerns started...

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drew® @drewned.bsky.social · 2d

You know what's impervious to A.I.?

Global Vice-President, Shower Curtain Ring Division
(Yes, he was promoted)

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 2d

The second #JamesBond film “FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE” directed by Terence Young, starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw, premiered #OnThisDay in 1963 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London

🎬 Eon Productions
🎥 United Artists

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 7d

Congratulations, Stephen! So deserved!

“Humor can be a catalyst for change, and Stephen stands as a shining example of how speaking truth to power, boldly, wisely and with heart, can ignite change,” Kerry Kennedy shares

Stephen Colbert to Receive Ripple of Hope Award From RFK Human Rights Center

"Humor can be a catalyst for change, and Stephen stands as a shining example of how speaking truth to power, boldly, wisely and with heart, can ignite change," Kerry Kennedy shares

www.thewrap.com

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drew® @drewned.bsky.social · 8d

Great to spend a couple hours (over lots of seafood) with 2/3rds of the braintrust at Ironbound Films. Looking forward to great things @jeremynewberger.bsky.social

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · 17d

Do you still go to movie theaters?

Streaming is overtaking theaters for movie watchers, an AP-NORC poll finds

Americans are more likely to watch newly released movies from the comfort of their own homes instead of heading out to a theater, according to a new poll.

www.nbcnews.com

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · 20d

Iger was worried he was going to get Dershowitzed on the vineyard #Kimmel

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · Sep 6

Les Paul explains to Dave how he invented the electric guitar.
#MusicSky

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · Aug 12

This guy

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · Jul 25

What's the benefit to Netflix of their pouring $30mm into advertising for #HappyGilmore2

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Film Updates @filmupdates.bsky.social · Jul 23

Skyler Gisondo is in talks to star opposite Ariana Grande in ‘MEET THE PARENTS 4.’

(www.theinsneider.com/p/skyler-gis...)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Jun 26

Jeff Bezos and Steven Tyler are getting married?

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · Jun 26

Reuters reports Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez’s wedding this weekend costs somewhere between $46.5M and $55.6M.

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JΛKΣ✌️ @mothmanshadow.com · Jun 9

LAPD out there like

The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 21

www.comicsands.com/pascal-phoen...

Pedro Pascal Yanked Joaquin Phoenix's Arm Down At Cannes—And Fans Sadly Think They Know Why

What a time to be alive.

www.comicsands.com

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 20

Say what you want, but he made the trains run on time

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 18

🎬 EDDINGTON starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone ++
July 18, 2025 release date
Looks tasty...

Eddington | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 17

'Taking the low road sometimes nets the greatest advances.'

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 17

If you have backers, we can probably add a cameo by Dee Snyder or Elvira (who has a book coming out so she may be cheap).

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 17

Our budget only allows for 4 actors, a lending library, 3 gallons of blood and an apparition. We can blow through that in 2.5 minutes. The rest is gonna have to be a 6.5 minute expository soliloquoy (you can break it into as many pieces as you want) in a Starbucks that we shoot guerilla.

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 17

Fair.

WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 17

This seems primed to be a <10 min short film. Have you written for the screen?

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · May 17

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 14

Who doesn't miss the days when smuggling Coors from Texarkana was a national obsession

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · May 5

Next up: Hollywood!

drew® @drewned.bsky.social · May 5

The dude is literally going through the Yellow pages looking for high-dollar industries to make the trek to the WH to ask for carve outs where he gets something for himself in return, just like he did to Big Law and is trying with Academia. This isn't hard-- it's a mob shakedown.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 23

We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.

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WestStar Films @weststarfilms.bsky.social · Apr 19

Come on!! We can't catch a break. The documentary was already in pre-production and we already committed to 300 Harvard hoodies for the extras.

drew® @drewned.bsky.social · Apr 19

Punch a bully, get a prize...
#Harvard @nytimes.com

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drew® @drewned.bsky.social · Apr 15

Ran across a letter I sent to my cast from over 8 years ago about what they could expect if we didn't fight tooth and nail to stop Trump. It's chilling in its forecasting of where we are literally today... (they didn't seem to care at the time-- actors, amirite? 🤷🏽‍♂️)

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