RT @DrewMcWeeny: Imagine being such an attention-span-addled dunce that you need everything to jangle keys at you instead of engaging with…
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
this is why I love working at @VanityFair
yesterday, I saw half our staff clustered around our fashion correspondent's desk poring over this photo. As José puts it, "The image has several discrepancies. The style and make of the Chanel Flap bag is inconsistent with others the brand has sold, and the Valentino shoes in question appear askew in proportion; their straps have several punched holes that the authentic Valentino style does not."
AI image detectors confirmed that yes, Olivia Reingold used an AI-generated image to make her point, without a drop of disclosure. Wild!!!!
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yesterday, I saw half our staff clustered around our fashion correspondent's desk poring over this photo. As José puts it, "The image has several discrepancies. The style and make of the Chanel Flap bag is inconsistent with others the brand has sold, and the Valentino shoes in question appear askew in proportion; their straps have several punched holes that the authentic Valentino style does not."
AI image detectors confirmed that yes, Olivia Reingold used an AI-generated image to make her point, without a drop of disclosure. Wild!!!!
vanityfair.com/story/midterms…
So far at Abdul El-Sayed’s election night event I’ve spotted, Valentino heels, a Chanel bag, a Moncler jacket, Rolex watches, and a YSL bag among other designer items.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
What is the point of a politician — let alone a literal vice president — who says he understood all of this and yet did absolutely nothing about it
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
We got your back, New York!Community noteSeveral figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
I got Debbie on the phone, and she is exactly as charming and funny as I was hoping she'd be.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
Tubi has 10x as many films in its library as Netflix. The quality and quantity gap there is insane, and it's free.
Ted Sarandos Admits Netflix Is "Not Growing as Fast as I Want Us To" hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
What the "Distributors Can't Find *Enough* Indie Films To Distribute" article says very, very quietly is that they're only looking for the next Obsession, an off-the-shelf genre exercise with a million-dollar budget and a niche-famous director that they barely have to market.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
The entire Lost Media community is collectively being held up by like 3 people with working LaserDisc players.
For anyone interested, be aware that I offer the use of my equipment and services for LD and VHS digitization for a commission! Hit me up and I'll give my all to extract as much quality as possible out of these decades-old formats. Here's some raw, unfiltered VHS samples:
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
This is simply not true. I have a list of over 200 films I’ve seen at festivals in the last five years that still haven’t been released in the US.
Indie film has a strange new problem: Buyers are hungry, and audiences are showing up. There just aren’t enough movies to buy. Ashley Cullins talks to top dealmakers about what’s driving the shortage and what could fix it: mrf.lu/2dyqc
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
just love it when the piece you reported out for months gets read word for word by someone looking into their front facing camera who then gets ad revenue from it
people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
"Critics always admired Spike Lee’s 25th Hour for filming at Ground Zero." literally the entire movie is about 9/11: american ideology before it, the racism and division and chest-thumping that came afterward, the sense that we are all living in a blameless fantasy. come on, man.
Why Hollywood Has Never Made a Great 9/11 Movie hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
Gaza has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world (at the peak of Israeli bombing, 10 kids were losing limbs daily), UNRWA says. And now Israel is now blocking prosthetic limbs from entering Gaza. All this has happened with US support or complicity.
🚨Aid coalition chief: Israel blocks wheelchairs, prosthetics, watermelons, and fresh produce from entering Gaza
Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, which represents more than 100 humanitarian and development NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, detailed Israel’s sweeping restrictions on aid during a UN Security Council briefing Wednesday.
🔹Israel rejects scissors, crutches, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs as “dual-use,” bars medical specialists and restricts engine oil so severely that its price has risen to 45 times normal levels, bringing aid operations to “an absolute breaking point,” Rayburn said.
🔹Israeli authorities have also rejected watermelon and onions under an unpublished “humanitarian policy,” deregistered more than 30 international aid groups and repeatedly moved the supposedly fixed Yellow Line, cutting access to at least 85 water points, schools and health clinics.
“Humanitarian assistance, by its nature, cannot be conditioned,” Rayburn said, noting Israel was shrinking “almost daily” the physical space in Gaza where aid groups can operate.
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I am once again tapping the sign vulture.com/article/looney…
Warner Bros. Discovery Launches a Free Live Stream of Tom and Jerry Cartoons on YouTube
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“The Looney Tunes always stay the same. It’s the world around them that changes.” - @bauzilla
incredible interview with Bugs (and other Looney Tunes!) at @vulture vulture.com/article/eric-b…
incredible interview with Bugs (and other Looney Tunes!) at @vulture vulture.com/article/eric-b…
The voice behind Bugs Bunny — and most of the Looney Tunes in ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ — loves that the long-awaited movie will make you cry. Read our full chat with veteran voice actor Eric Bauza here. vulture.com/article/eric-b…
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first reported at @vulture by @TVMoJoe — who revealed several details about the direction of the season, plus more images, here: vulture.com/article/only-m…
First look at ‘ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING’ Season 6.
Releasing December 6 on Hulu.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
I don’t know about any of these other projects but Dave fought for every single creative decision on this movie until the literal second the DCP was finished. There’s a reason this movie is idiosyncratic. You don’t get Peter Lorre as a major character by accident.
It’s baffling how Coyote Vs. Acme doesn’t feel like it was obviously executively meddled in the same way previous films that came out of WAG did.
It doesn’t have the issue Tom and Jerry did where the movie ultimately isn’t about them and it feels like a subtle anti-Space Jam 2.
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
Appreciate the sentiment, but when you keyword-search the article for "anime" on a Windows PC, you get the error "bwong" because it's not mentioned anywhere in the piece.
'Jaadugar' would be a justified winner for outstanding animated program, but it didn't even get nominated.
'Jaadugar' would be a justified winner for outstanding animated program, but it didn't even get nominated.
Fresh animated shows like 'Among Us' and 'Haha, You Clowns' are getting snubbed at the #Emmys for old snoozes. But there’s a way out — if the TV Academy will listen. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
When the inevitable Blu-ray comes out, PLEAAASE replace our version.
That HD master we had was so ass, I had to boost the crap out of dark areas to get any detail at all. This is the remaster I wish we had a decade ago, but it’s finally coming.
That HD master we had was so ass, I had to boost the crap out of dark areas to get any detail at all. This is the remaster I wish we had a decade ago, but it’s finally coming.
Trailer for 'VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST' (Remastered)!
Coming to North American theaters in 2027
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Eric Vilas-Boas 🖋 @ericvb.bsky.social retweeted
I spoke to steve way, who is wonderful, about his work on FURIOUS, which is also wonderful. @vulture:
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