Jamie Hannigan

Jamie Hannigan

@jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social

Writer, doodler, screenwriter (THE DAMNED, PILGRIMAGE, THE WOMAN IN THE WALL), regretter etc. Irish living in Madrid.

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China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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just a quick fyi for the #spookyseason that's in it, an Iceland-set horror film I wrote called THE DAMNED (directed by Thordur Palsson, starring Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Rory McCann and others) is going to be leaving Netflix (España) at the beginning of November, so watch it now if you can!

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The citizen who yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" is, in this hard time, a patriot. Honestly, what is left to say about this level of misrule? What careful critique hasn't been already offered? What reasoned response to this full-on run at fascism and kleptocracy remained unspoken?

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Replying to @seamas.bsky.social

If I'd loudly, and at length, bemoaned the fact that Muhammad being a popular name in Ireland was a sign of creeping Sharia law, I think it would come up. With Linehan it doesn't. Because frothing transphobia is not merely excused. It's worse. If you hate trans people enough, all else is forgiven

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Replying to @georgepotter.bsky.social

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

There’s renovations going on in the apartment building, so the elevator has been covered in new drawing material; you only get about 20 seconds at a time to doodle, though! #inktober

that's an open mug of coffee sam, shit's going to spill all over your car, ruin the upholstery; I'll bet Elmer scolded you about that in front of the bunnies and that's why there's such a big sour look on your puss

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I've said it before, but it still blows my mind that not only has there been a jaw-dropping (faithful, but not to a fault) big-screen DUNE adaptation, but it was a huge success and now has two sequels.

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

Lisan al Gaib! Denis Villeneuve's Dune was released 5 years ago today. And Paul's story will conclude in Dune: Part Three, planned for December 18 in the US (but December 15 for me 🤗).

(yeah, yeah, I know the first two were both adaptations of the first book, but they didn't agree to fund the second one until the returns for the first one made it financially viable, which is bonkers in itself)

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"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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‘So I says, “You got a grand to burn on a copy of Practical Magical Transfigurations but you can’t pay back the fifty bucks you still owe me? You’re a lousy friend, Jerry, you know that?” So he got mad and I got mad and, well, you know what happened next.’

aw man, you wait for JUST the right time to get the best deal on a private jet and then everything goes to hell, FML 😠

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

One flight last week leaving from al-Qassim airport north of Riyadh to Geneva on a Bombardier Global 6000 — a 14-seater long-range aircraft — sold for €94,000, compared with a price of about €60,000 before the closure of Riyadh’s main airport. ft.trib.al/GxeYgqK

‘So I says, “You got a grand to burn on a copy of Practical Magical Transfigurations but you can’t pay back the fifty bucks you still owe me? You’re a lousy friend, Jerry, you know that?” So he got mad and I got mad and, well, you know what happened next.’

just a quick fyi for the #spookyseason that's in it, an Iceland-set horror film I wrote called THE DAMNED (directed by Thordur Palsson, starring Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Rory McCann and others) is going to be leaving Netflix (España) at the beginning of November, so watch it now if you can!

also, wtf he's "RE-WRITING"? man you get paid for rewriting, this is some Find+Replace bullshit

Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social

Picturing Osman eating a swift, bones and all, with a cloth over his head to hide his actions from a judgemental God.

Some good news!

Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

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A reminder that CGI is not inherantly bad looking, but that it is produced by artists under perpetual crunch as fast as possible and for shit pay to maximise shareholder profits. When allowed to properly work their magic, artists can make CGI invisible and believable.

Personally, I would prefer something hopeful, set post-PICARD (but unrelated to the DISCOVERY/ACADEMY stuff). Failing that, I would be faintly interested in STARGAZER, a mini-series detailing the misadventures of a Picard back when he was a young first-officer with THE TURTLENECK UNIFORMS!

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

Star Trek will wrap up its third era next year (the Roddenberry era, the Berman era, the Kurtzman era - Yes, that's a gross oversimplification). What would you like the next era of Trek to be like?

Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social

You know when someone told you an outright lie when you were younger and you didn't question it because it had no impact on your life and then years later you asserted it as a fact and were utterly humiliated by the lads? Well, turns out massages weren't invented by a guy called Pierre Massage.

I had this idea for a fun, throwaway skeet about how every Pete Hegseth press conference is basically this gif ⬇️, and then this damaged motherfucker just straight up announces he wants to follow in the illustrious footsteps of the Islamic state and various drug cartels...

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Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

Tricia Lockwood@tricialockwood.bsky.social

they are WHAT

Tasty.

Radiance Films@filmsradiance.bsky.social

💿January Announcements 💿 We’re kicking off the new year right with a controversial early Ichikawa of rebellious youth, two films on Presidential assassinations, and a real-time doomsday thriller courtesy of Transmission. Plus our Radiance Membership is back for 2027!