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Had a conversation with this guy Ryan Coogler on behalf of @theankler.com youtu.be/4IZ8xJUEhlQ?...

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Andrew Cuomo announcing his independent campaign on Twitter and immediately getting murderously ratioed by Mamdani's fundraising link response to the tweet is absolute comedy hours. Never seen anything like it.

So it turns out that our authoritarians are very bad at authoritarian pageantry.

Went to Guadalajara at the end of March and wrote for Vanity Fair about history, colonialism, football, faith, one my doppelgängers, and three teams' quest to qualify for the World Cup. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

New data study available over on @theblcklst.bsky.social's Substack: The Anatomy of a Score - Part 1. open.substack.com/pub/blcklst/...

5 of the top 10 were recommended by the Black List. 5 of the 25 that the Black List recommended were finalists or fellows. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I cannot endorse Black List password sharing even when it has a very happy ending (and an SXSW premiere starring William H Macy, Natalie Morales, Randall Park, and Edi Patterson is definitely a very happy ending.) variety.com/2026/film/co...

"A reasonable conclusion is that most screenplays submitted to the Black List website are competent but not exceptional, and those that are exceptional are quite rare (which roughly mirrors what most of us know instinctively if we’ve read a lot of screenplays)."

How rare is an 8+ overall score from a Black List website reader? Quite rare. (As it should be.) New data study. open.substack.com/pub/blcklst/...