Back in the day, Lucas was harassed by fans nonstop for his decisions regarding the Star Wars franchise, be it the prequels and the special editions, to the point he swore off making more Star Wars and filmmaking in general. It seems like there's this reflection on how we all treated him, now that he's a much older man and doesn't seem to be in the best health these days, that we are now looking at what we loved from him in the first place. The original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, THX (the film and company), ILM, American Graffiti, his helping out of Akira Kurosawa's final films when nobody else would, his fight against coloring older films, his charity work. You see more posts about appreciating him than ever before. Not just on here, too.

He is a good man, who changed the game for Hollywood for the better. And when he was still working, we treated him like garbage. It's nice now we can rectify that and post about how wonderful he is before he dies thinking people hate him. I dunno if it's because of the reaction to Disney's handling on the franchise, how the harassment by fans echoing how they treated Lucas, the fact he doesn't have much time left, there are a lot of variables.

But what matters now, George Lucas, we appreciate you. Thank you.

Tarantino’s films hit different.

I found this clip of Bill Hader talking about directing and it really makes me think how much of an asshole some of these quote unquote BIG DIRECTORS are just by acting psychotic towards crew and cast. After being on very few, small film sets myself, the idea of the person running the entire thing isolating actors and behaving like a mad person to get them “to a specific place” is actually insane. I get that we’re all there to try and make a story in the directors vision, but I’d also prefer if you weren’t a deranged person while doing it.

Personally, I think so. But I made this video to just talk about why you may or may not want to go, and what I did instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZjA4pUaaI8

**sorry for the typo - I am dyslexic. It has been corrected on the youtube channel

hey all - I started screenwriting and directing 8mm films as a kid, then stopped when I discovered music. fast forward 40 years, I started writing again during covid and wrote four screenplays during the lockdown. one of them, band on the run, is now on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango. it stars an actor named larry bagby, who played "ice" in hocus pocus, as well as "marshal grant" in the johnny cash movie, walk the line.

I guess my point here, it's never too late to write a script and direct a movie - good, bad or otherwise. write your script, and then take that next step. it's hard and it's scary (that's what she said), but keep going! linktree is here if interested.

https://deadline.com/2026/09/lucas-museum-opening-hollywood-1237108680/

There's a lot of negative attention surrounding the Dark Knight trilogy currently and I've been hearing weird hot takes about his stuff, especially Oppenheimer.

Is this some political or cultural thing I'm not getting? Do people just want to be contrarian?

If someone can answer please do.

Producer duo Hit-Boy & The Alchemist dropped an album called “Goldfish” alongside a short film, and the visuals look insane.

Directed by Abteen and shot by Kateline Arizmendi, who shot Succession.

Starring: Danny Trejo • Rory Culkin • Marshall Manesh • Shara Magomedov • Sarah McDaniel • Simon Rex • Blake Anderson • Big Hit • Conway The Machine • Slink Johnson • Lefty Gunplay • Essyonna Peschong

Hello I am a newborn child, and I have been wanting to make a feature film for a long time. Any advice on how to get funding/actors/distribution will be appreciated, I have only learned to use my eyes and make noise so directing should be a breeze. Thank

I've wanted to make movies my whole life. 3 years ago I shot a coming-of-age dark comedy called Say Less (a brother and sister left alone in their house, kind of The Edge of Seventeen meets Risky Business) on 16 night shoots with a 13 person crew and my entire life savings. 37 festival rejections, 2 corrupted hard drives, and a difficult crash course in indie distrib. later, it's finally available on Amazon. Would love to hear your thoughts+feedback, and happy to answer anything about the process. (also for anyone wondering, the 1 fest that accepted it was Cinequest)

Name of the film is SAY LESS on Amazon b/c it's kind of buried in the text above. Also right now it's only available in North America, but I'm hoping to sell the international rights so everyone can see it. But if you have one of the trickier VPNs you can VPN into Amazon North America and watch it if you want sry for all the text :)

The brackets with numbers in the names of the directors is where I rank them among my favorite directors. I'm sandwiched between Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan. I'm taller than half of them but shorter than the other half