Founder @number1bw. Formerly: launched Amazon Video, Amazon Studios. I am always right about show business things.
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Microdramas are booming. Unfortunately, most of them are ridiculous soap operas about marrying your dom billionaire boss.
Let’s build a new network.
On N1BW, creators get 70% of revenue … keep movie & TV rights … no exclusivity!
Bring scripts!
n1bw.com – at Los Angeles, CA
SPACE STRIPPERS ESCAPE (1986). Fully restored. Coming to @Number1bw #cannonfilms #golanglobus #likeandsubscribe
Fight fiercely, Harvard! Down with Princeton!
HARVARD POWERS PAST PRINCETON.
@HarvardFootball improved to 6-0 overall and 3-0 in Ivy play with a dominant 35-7 win over Princeton. Charlie Smith completed 22 of 28 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns. 🌿🏈
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Part of what's keeping movies alive is all these clowns who come from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and SCTV who are terrific. I mean, you can't get away from it. (1989)
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Americans' media consumption has topped out at ~25 hours a week
Annual growth since 2018:
- YouTube: +7.8%
- Social media: +6.6%
- Gaming: +2.1%
- Video (non-YouTube): -0.7%
- Print: -10.5%
Every hour social and YouTube gain is an hour something else loses
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Netflix’s movie program was never good, but the real problem was their sharp decline in original TV — from having 1-2 big new hits per year to 0, for years.
Not sure why people are focused on movies as a cure all. And this has all been apparent for years now.
Chainmail Bikini of the Damned 🔥 made on @runwayml for @Number1bw.
Coming next summer.
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In this moment, I am euphoric. I'm incredibly grateful to Venice, Moonpay & the legenday judges.
My upcoming feature film, Rainbow Sun, will be made in @AskVenice 🌈☀️
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🤖 Made with AI
the winner of the SERENISSIMA AWARD at the LUMARA FILM FESTIVAL is...
BLACK THUNDER by RYAN LIGHTBOURN
this 12-minute sci-fi fantasy epic wins the award for best film made using @AskVenice, and comes with a $12,000 prize along with 1.2 million Venice credits!
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With the late, great Oliver Reed currently wowing 2026 audiences all over again with his incredible performance in the restored version of Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’, I wanted to share this amazing clip of him from 1985.
The rather low-res clip comes from ‘In at the Deep End’, a BBC series in which presenter Paul Heiney tries his hands at a profession he had zero experience in. For this episode, Heiney was preparing for an acting role opposite Michael Caine in ‘Water’ and went to Oliver Reed for some pointers on how to play a villain.
Please enjoy what happens next.
Models that optimize for going from a loose notion of a video to a finished video asap are optimizing for the less interesting part of the market.
In more interesting world, control is v important as well as developing grammar of shots (“two shot,” “coverage,” “reverse angle”).
The broad mass of undifferentiated AI video in the future will not be valuable and people won’t pay much to create it. But the good stuff will matter.
The trouble with firing your head of content development is that generally you have a year or two of future material locked in. It’s hard to effect change quickly.
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Swingers made it feel like anyone could make movies.
Doug Liman scraping together $200K, then delivering something this polished and getting it released, feels like a myth now. The 90s IndieWood boom made everything seem possible.
This scene is still brutal.
The point of AI video or an AI video platform is not AI, it’s to deliver all the stuff that Hollywood refuses to deliver. Stuff that’s funny. Crazy premises and aesthetics.
When costs are low you can be fun, experimental and outrageous. Which is a pretty huge market gap.
Down with committees. Down with sameness. Corporate rock sucks.
🤖 Made with AI
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I wait weeks for feedback on scripts, and it's almost never from the general audience. Meanwhile, this guy is getting thousands of people to tell him what works, what doesn't, and why. In real time. He's building an audience, getting better at craft, and learning what connects. Hell of an advantage.
#Obsession director Curry Barker shares what he has learned from the comment section on platforms like YouTube, and how that "feedback" has shaped his approach to writing dialogue:
"The main thing I would take away is how smart the audience is."
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