#lockdown rules

[towerblockers]

Starmer's Christmas Eve Voice Coach Fiasco: A Carols by Candlelight Controversy

Oh, the festive season of 2020 was supposed to be all about staying safe and staying home, wasn’t it? But here we are, in 2025, still untangling the tinsel of that year’s lockdown rules, thanks to a rather unexpected guest at Labour HQ on Christmas Eve. Yes, you heard that right – not Santa, but Leonie Mellinger, Sir Keir Starmer’s voice coach, made an appearance that’s now ringing bells all the…

[losinnato]

Creamsicle Cocktail Recipe This cool, Prosecco and vodka cocktail that tastes like an Orange Creamsicle is perfect for summer will impress your guests.

[retrowunderland]

Creamsicle Cocktail Recipe This cool, Prosecco and vodka cocktail that tastes like an Orange Creamsicle is perfect for summer will impress your guests. 1 fluid ounce good-quality vodka, 1 slice lemon, 1 fluid ounce orange-flavored carbonated water, 1 fluid ounce Prosecco, 1 scoop orange sherbet, 1/2 cup ice as needed, 1 scoop lemon sorbet, 1 fluid ounce lemon-flavored sparkling water

[heartsbreaking]

byron and noah won, i'm watching animal kingdom

expect more fucked up ocs by end of next week.

i'm on oc lockdown until i've watch two seasons but i can scheme secretly and not tell anyone.

[drinksglue]

All I want for christmas is a profic alternative to toyhouse and refsheet

[volfoss]

If I had a nickel for aquatic based very old comics hero who has such a bafflingly wild backstory that I just HAD to read their entire chronology. Well I'd have 2 nickels

[shamblz]

NAAAAUUUUR MY BOY WOULD NEVER SAY THAT

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

The Cannes Film Market is gearing up for one of its most unpredictable editions in years, as buyers navigate a landscape shaped by risk aversion, political turbulence (thank you, Mr. Trump), and the lingering aftershocks of a sluggish Berlin. February’s European Film Market was brimming with promising projects, but few big deals materialized, leaving distributors cautious as they head to the Marché du Film, which runs May 13-21.

“The market has become less predictable,” says Simon Williams of Ashland Hill Media Finance, whose sales outfit Palisades Park Pictures is shopping sci-fi actioners Eyes in the Trees with Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as well as Skyline: Warpath with Scott Adkins and Iko Uwais, at this year’s market. “It’s become so you can’t just rely on one market to launch a project. You take it to Berlin and get a few sales, then Cannes and get a few more; you have to do a lot more work to get the finances in place to get the green light.”

With presales becoming harder to secure and Trump’s 100 percent tariffs on movies “made in foreign lands” adding another layer of uncertainty, the indie film world is bracing for a challenging Cannes as the details of Trump’s plan remain frustratingly sparse. Even for those who are skeptical that any semblance of a plan will actually come to fruition, the worry is that even the threat of tariffs is enough to keep already risk-averse financiers away.

But recent indie triumphs at the Oscars like Anora and The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and The Substance, Conclave and A Real Pain — half of which debuted at Cannes and crossover commercial successes all — show the opportunity available for those who can make the numbers work.

“It seems like there continues to be, and I hope I don’t eat my words on this, an appetite for high concept, breakthrough, cool ideas and interesting new directors,” says Allison Hironaka, head of film and TV at Caviar, which has Zac Efron and Phoebe Dynevor project Famous in this year’s market. Gonzo films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance proved to be winners at the box office, earning nearly $60 million in international ticket sales.

“You can still make these studio-releasable movies for a global, wide audience, and you can build them more easily within in the independent sector,” says Guy Danella, the newly appointed head of production and acquisition at XYZ Films, whose Cannes slate includes The Edge of Normal, the English-language debut of Spanish director Carlota Pereda (Piggy), starring Chloë Grace Moretz. “There’s a real thirst on the talent side, with actors who are available and just holding out for something great. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a massive studio film for them to say yes.”

That’s evidenced by the projects heading to the Marché this year. The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the market’s hottest titles boast impressive above-the-line names like Sydney Sweeney, Jesse Plemons, Gal Gadot, Jeremy Allen White and Angelina Jolie, signing up for indie projects both massive — Lionsgate’s $150 million-plus Hunger Games prequel — and more modest, including Colman Domingo’s directorial debut, and a new Werner Herzog film. How buyers respond on the Croisette will be an indication of the long-term health of a disrupted industry.

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#23

THE RULE OF THREE

DIRECTOR James Roday Rodriguez

STARS Thomasin McKenzie, Katie Douglas

BUZZ A cursed countdown, 90s nostalgia, and a ride-or-die teen friendship power this sharp horror debut, being set up, from the team behind Smile, as the first in a planned trilogy, with franchise potential expected to draw in indie buyers.

SALES Protagonist Pictures

[darcyolsson]

wait so how long has daniel been interviewing louis in the show? because the pandemic is mentioned in s1 as an ongoing thing but we also see daniel at a crowded public places in s2. it can't be THAT long right? is it just a continuity error?

[windydrawallday]

I ended up jumping from WIP to WIP in a total of three hours at work (they know I'm a graphic designer/amateur illustrator plus I'm up to date with them so, they don't mind me carrying my laptop and drawing in the meantime) and so, even if not finished, advanced a lot of things!

I'm quite happy to fight my art block with these baby steps.

Anyway, made from zero a few expression exercises with my Roddy design, revisited an old expression sheet for my Lockdown design, and resumed studying toys and starting a (very green) design to approach Predaking that doesn't give me a figurative aneurism.

[cantankerouscatfish]

water my own dang shoes multiple times a week keeping thousands and thousands of plants alive. it's not FARMING though. it's. technically agriculture, according to the state. but. listen,,

[andromedasummer]

looking at ACT trying to change fucking te tiriti to amend it to include """all new zealanders""" and dismantle the human rights commission and hoping everyone supported their anti-lockdown rhetoric and spread their free speech bullshit that let them get a foothold in the public eye pisses themselves today.

thanks for retweeting these guys during lockdown mitch evans. i know the dogwhistles can't reach you all the way in monaco but i'll tell you what i sure am glad you had that instagram tantrum over our previous prime minister who didnt undermine confidence in our already strained health service and also didnt remove the plans that would've let me and thousands of others have a genuine shot at buying a house one day. so cool seeing family and friends lose their jobs alongside thousands of other in my city because fuck public servants the landlords need millions. so glad you have influence over people here in aotearoa by virtue of fumbling championships repeatedly while driving a car about as well as any other wealthy aucklander because the country is so small it'll devour any dregs of sports success it can scrounge up.

[donghyuckkies]

so sorry to my lil sister but there's no way we aren't listening to only got7 on our drive to the spa 🤣

[catamaurrr-star]

ohhhh i think minecraft is one of my special interests. that would make sense

[vvindication]

(scrolling thru google images, parroting) pretty boy, pretty boy

[alarrytale]

https://x.com/Ini369287/status/1930263938555342963?t=VGnf5fz3p9bWgcN1OV5yEw&s=19

This has become worse than pathetic. I really feel ashamed of Louis right now.

Hi, anon!

Did you send me the wrong link? I don't get why ST biking around and Soccer Aid using H's songs on their posts of him has to do with Louis?

Do you mean Louis' lack of effort to raise funds for Soccer Aid compared to ST is embarrasing?