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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15h

I do like what Gunn did with this one, using the alternate dimension to show us the life and family our hero wish he had. Was some good storytelling.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15h

Ah, the new Swamp Thing has dropped!

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15h

💔

So sorry, brother

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 17h

Hahahaha! I just got here!

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 21h

Tonight! Chicago! The Music Box Theater! Me, Gary Sherman, and a film it has literally been impossible to see for two decades!

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

20yrs ago Gary Sherman self-financed his own wild indie film, 39: A FILM BY CARROLL MCKANE. After showing it at festivals, he felt it was too extreme & unsettling for audiences at the time. Now he's showing it again THIS SUNDAY. And I'm hosting the Q&A! Join us!

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

What in the Kevin Smith…?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

To this day no one has been able to convince me that the phrase ANTIFA wasn’t coined by a right wing think tank to make liberal activists sound like a terror group and that liberals walked right into the trap and gave the right the villains it needed for their narrative.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Nyx met Penny (an adorable golden retriever) today at the dog park, one of Whiskey's favorite dogs to play with. Nyx and Penny became immediate friends and played hard for half an hour together, and man did it make my heart swell while also missing my little boy.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a fan, myself.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Holy cheese and crackers! Check out NIGHT FLIGHT+ for a dedicated BLACK PHONE 2 streaming channel of horror and cult films hand picked by Scott Derrickson himself.

And watch for our Night Flight nod when you see Black Phone 2 in theaters next week!

www.nightflightplus.com/videos/night...

Night Flight TV: Black Phone 2 Takeover!

To celebrate Night Flight’s cameo in the upcoming Blumhouse film Black Phone 2, we’re streaming a 24/7 marathon of director Scott Derrickson’s hand-picked favorites, alongside early ’80s late-night fi...

www.nightflightplus.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were enough of you that today wasn't full of thinkpieces about why it isn't doing better.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

The directors' first short film JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is an annual watch for us and a meme amongst several friends.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Holy cheese and crackers! Check out NIGHT FLIGHT+ for a dedicated BLACK PHONE 2 streaming channel of horror and cult films hand picked by Scott Derrickson himself.

And watch for our Night Flight nod when you see Black Phone 2 in theaters next week!

www.nightflightplus.com/videos/night...

Night Flight TV: Black Phone 2 Takeover!

To celebrate Night Flight’s cameo in the upcoming Blumhouse film Black Phone 2, we’re streaming a 24/7 marathon of director Scott Derrickson’s hand-picked favorites, alongside early ’80s late-night fi...

www.nightflightplus.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Not really, which is why we're still talking about it. But there has been a very real shift this year in thinking, leading to execs asking more questions about this. So hopefully we can get there shortly.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

DUNE is the example I use here. Why did it do so well, despite being a 60 year old franchise? That sizzling fucking young cast. Even the older actors were favorites. A Zendaya fronted Tron movie could have had the chance to rip.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

No, it really just is my generation who keeps making movies for ourselves and I find it baffling. Every time a movie targets the teens, it makes bank. Every time an old IP underperforms, critics scratch their heads.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

I want to make it perfectly clear I've got nothing against TRON: ARES. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

But what I want most is for the younger generations to love going to the movies, which means we need more movies for them. Not every movie needs to be for 50 year old white guys.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Pouring one out for a fellow homie.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

EXACTLY. $1B for a movie that is by many accounts almost unwatchable. And teens have ALWAYS loved horror. Why is horror doing so well right now? Because it's the one genre that hasn't left teens and 20 somethings behind.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

You have to be able to legally drink to even have strong memories of seeing the last TRON movie in a theater. ARES was a movie made for my generation and we don't need third spaces the way Gen Alpha and Gen Z do.

I don't know when Hollywood forgot about making movies for teenagers, but come on guys

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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