demesisx
@demesisx@infosec.pub
Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino in ‘No Hurry’ to Direct Final Movie 2 weeks ago:
Is he going to do this Brett Favre thing where he pretends to retire every year and there’s this whole media circus about it?
Just go out without a peep, dude. It’s classier…but then again Quentin isn’t really known for class though he’s certainly capable of recognizing it from others.
- Comment on The Super Bowl Is TV's Biggest Event – but for Movie Ads, It's Not the Only Game in Town 3 weeks ago:
Tap for spoiler
The Super Bowl is by far the biggest TV event of the year. But for movie studios eager to capitalize on the enormous power of the NFL as a marketing platform for upcoming blockbusters, it’s not the only game in town, and sports-related opportunities to impress hard-to-reach audiences don’t begin and end there. Inevitably, there’s considerable focus on which movie ads drop during the Super Bowl, which takes place Feb. 9 this year and will be broadcast by Fox. That’s in part because of the lofty price tag associated with advertising during the game, with reports the network is commanding $7 million on average per 30-second spot. The opportunities to capitalize on the NFL’s unparalleled popularity, however, don’t stop there. And marketers have become increasingly savvy about leveraging excitement around the playoffs, including this weekend’s league-championship games, which also promise to be an enormous attraction. Disney has aggressively used football to promote the first major blockbuster to roll out this calendar year, the Marvel sequel “Captain America: Brave New World,” during the playoffs. Scheduled to open Feb. 14, the Anthony Mackie-starring film already received extensive advertising during earlier rounds of the playoffs ahead of a synergistic “sneak peek” during this week’s college-football championship game on Disney-owned ESPN, which averaged more than 22 million viewers, a 12% decline from last year. Although the Super Bowl, which attracted almost 124 million viewers on NBC and its sister networks last year, dominates sports ratings, the NFL playoffs and division championships still deliver vast audiences of their own, including millions of younger men, a key demographic that’s often difficult to reach via linear TV platforms. Notably, this weekend’s AFC championship games — defending Super Bowl champs Kansas City Chiefs vs. the Buffalo Bills on CBS and the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Washington Commanders on Fox, both airing Sunday — will likely deliver lots of eyeballs to whatever ads studios run. Last year’s conference championship games, Kansas City vs. Baltimore on CBS and Detroit vs. San Francisco on Fox, averaged 55.5 million and 56.3 million viewers, respectively. Ads in those games reportedly cost about $3 million each — a relative bargain compared to the Super Bowl. Although that game carries plenty of intangible benefits, including the media hoopla that surrounds the Super Bowl ads and the game’s ability to reach viewers as interested in the ads as the on-field action. While there will be other major sporting events between now and summer, including March Madness (the NCAA basketball tournament) and NBA playoffs from April into June, nothing in sports rivals the NFL in terms of size or scale — especially in an increasingly fragmented TV environment. Film marketers nevertheless face tough decisions on how best to allocate their budgets, since the Super Bowl offers the ability to gin up excitement about movies — often months in advance — but no assurances of success. Last year’s lineup of Super Bowl movie ads included the eventual hits “Deadpool & Wolverine” (which bypassed in-game rates, airing a teaser spot during the pregame festivities), “Wicked” and “Twisters,” but also “The Fall Guy” and “IF,” which delivered disappointing box office returns when they opened in May. Studios generally play their cards close to the vest on Super Bowl marketing plans until the last minute, and this year remains no exception. Disney will be back to promote unspecified properties in Super Bowl LIX, a studio insider confirmed to TheWrap. Opening the same week as the game, “Captain America: Brave New World” is the most immediate concern — the studio is leveraging Harrison Ford turning into Red Hulk in marketing the first “Captain America” movie without Chris Evans. But other major releases due this year include another Marvel title, “Thunderbolts*,” as well as the live-action “Lilo & Stitch” in May. All are possibilities for Super Bowl spots. But those marketing decisions aren’t strictly limited to movies, with TV and streamers recognizing the inherent power of the Super Bowl for projects with the heft to merit such exposure. Amazon, for example, used the 2022 Super Bowl to tease its “The Lord of the Rings” series, while Disney’s spots last year included FX/Hulu’s period epic“Shōgun,” which went on to dominate the Emmys and Golden Globes.
- Comment on Star Wars: Daisy Ridley's Movie New Jedi Order Lands Writer 3 weeks ago:
Documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is due to make her narrative feature debut with the project
Mark my words: they GUARANTEE that it will be bad by hiring a first time director that has previously only worked in documentaries for a movie with a budget this big. How can they STILL keep making these unforced errors with billion dollar franchises?
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
Look into one Mr. Frank Grillo for all of the things you seek.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
I worked on a few movies with him.
Here’s the exact exchange I overheard between him and a PA on the set of Finestkind:
PA: “Would you like Oolong tea, Earl Grey, Green Tea, or something else?”
Tommy Lee Jones: “I’d like a hot cup of too many fucking questions!”
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 1 month ago:
They could have shot it on a potato and no one would have noticed.
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 1 month ago:
I used to be a projectionist.
The projector was fine.
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 1 month ago:
- Comment on Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office 1 month ago:
And looks objectively terrible compared to basically ANY major motion picture released this year (perhaps just short of the great film but terribly-lit “Rob Peace”).
I was flabbergasted that such horrifically flat lighting and incredibly uninspired camera work didn’t trigger any reshoots (particularly with the $150 million budget they had and, as a consequence, the equipment they had at their disposal.)
- Comment on Voters 2 months ago:
Not as badly as I seem. It’s just insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result that gets me heated.
- Comment on Voters 2 months ago:
No. But the way to fix this CERTAINLY isn’t to post memes broadcasting your anger at some perceived slight from people that won’t step in line behind a sham system like some stupid sheep to be herded for your silly partisan hackery. The shaming does nothing more than perpetuate the very issue of corruption and austerity in the US.
Ranked choice voting solves the issues created by FPTP.
Have you EVER seen evidence that shaming marginalized, unrepresented, utterly voiceless and abused voters works?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m shocked that you’d make the typical overly generous assessment of actual bribery to excuse any and all of your team. /s
Do some more research. This is just the tip of the fucking iceberg. Biden has a long track record of quid pro quo besides this event that you clearly are purposely looking the other way on.
I could literally show you video of Biden accepting a bribe and you’d find a way to excuse it.
…house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline…
…house.gov/…/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-i…
reason.com/…/theres-plenty-of-evidence-of-corrupt…
propublica.org/…/bidens-cozy-relations-with-bank-…
gazette.com/…/article_ff57a793-140b-5d88-8996-a21…
congress.gov/…/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD006.pdf
politico.com/…/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-bro…
theintercept.com/…/does-joe-biden-have-a-corrupti…
www.npr.org/transcripts/93954519
washingtonexaminer.com/…/the-mbna-tales-when-joe-…
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- Comment on Box Office: Disney Clears $2 Billion in 2024, Only Studio To Do So 2 months ago:
There’s like three studios left. Welcome to oligopoly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The politicians of the US took massive payouts from the banking industry in exchange for commodifying anything and everything that people need. Back in 2008, Biden himself took a $250,000 bribe from MBNA to make it illegal to escape student loans even in bankruptcy.
- Comment on Voters 2 months ago:
How dare you, OP.
What you’re doing is the equivalent of victim-shaming. The two party system is a fucking sham; and if you’re too comfortable (or ignorant) to realize that, you need to go read up on the US’s fake democracy and stop punching down on your allies.
Some reading:
1.) First past the post makes only two parties possible.
2.) Voting is a fucking sham when you only have two private parties that win court cases where they are accused of election fraud, offering the following as their defense:
“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’”
furthermore, the DNC’s lawyer said,
“There’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here…it’s not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise,”
If your two parties are legally allowed to engage in open election fraud in the process of selecting those only two possible candidates, how effective is it IN REALITY to vote?
- Comment on Luke Wilson Is 'Always Pitching' an Idiocracy Sequel to Mike Judge 2 months ago:
I can only see one result of this: a debilitatingly self-aware nod to the previous one so obviously written by DNC partisan hacks that it feels empty compared to the original.
- Comment on Damn it, Lebron! 2 months ago:
These are fucking hilarious. Keep em coming!
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Gladiator II 2 months ago:
🤌🏼your review is ::chef’s kiss::
Thank you.
- Comment on Long time Ridley Scott collaborator slams the Gladiator 2 director for being "lazy" and "impatient" with his filmmaking: "Having lots of cameras I don’t think has made the films any better" 2 months ago:
Wow. Even worse! Haha.
- Comment on Long time Ridley Scott collaborator slams the Gladiator 2 director for being "lazy" and "impatient" with his filmmaking: "Having lots of cameras I don’t think has made the films any better" 2 months ago:
I mean, did people expect anything good from a sequel to a movie that literally didn’t need a sequel?
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 3 months ago:
I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke that day.
- Comment on Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships 4 months ago:
Hopefully this sticks. IMO, movie studios need to keep attracting customers or the whole film industry will stay dead.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 months ago:
Touché!
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 months ago:
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
- Comment on ouch 4 months ago:
Looked it up. Yes
- Comment on I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius 4 months ago:
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 4 months ago:
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
- Comment on An antidote to social media censorship? Nostr. 5 months ago:
I’m looking into using NOSTR on a project that was originally going to be a Lemmy fork that allows retailers to broadcast their inventories to decentralized aggregators (or even run their own).
- Comment on The Election Ritual: the illusion of American democracy 5 months ago:
Thanks for bravely coming to this comment section to actually demonstrate EXACTLY what the video is about. You are such a fucking joke (to the Democrats and Republican parties) and you don’t even know it. You are cosplaying as an activist.
Thanks again for the laugh.
