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One Step Closer to Middle-earth.
One Step Closer to Middle-earth.
“This CGI looks like s***.” - Fan on YouTube “Wait, this is real?!” - Same fan, 30 mins later One billion impressions…
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Marvel. Black Panther. Lexus!
Marvel. Black Panther. Lexus!
In my line of work, you often work for many months or in some cases years under NDA's in the dark. Feels real good to…
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Remy Merriex reposted thisRemy Merriex reposted thisBlackweek is giving away 50 tickets to women for our OCT 7-9 conference at nya studios in Los Angeles. As you all should know, women have be disproportionately impacted by the job market - so let's all do something about it. If you are a WOMAN, apply for a seat at Blackweek HERE https://lnkd.in/gbUtwK8u - we are looking for more applicants so tag someone that you think deserves this chance. If you want to support WOMEN, buy a PAY IT FORWARD pass HERE https://lnkd.in/g56-BSY8 and give someone a chance to make the connect they need to take that next step in their career. Tag someone who should pay it forward really excited about this, andre and the Blackweek team
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Remy Merriex shared thisI’m not the first person to say the entertainment industry is a joke, but I like to be one of the people to prove it. I finally got a chance to direct my first comedy special during the Netflix is a Joke fest!
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Remy Merriex reposted thisRemy Merriex reposted thisSorry to interrupt your vibe coding but if anyone needs a little motivation today, call 707-873-7862. It's a school project where kindergarteners give you a pep talk. I called this morning and can't wipe the smile off my face.
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Remy Merriex shared thisThis is part of what you should be taking away from a potential merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers. If it wasn’t obvious before that Hollywood and entertainment in general is in the middle of a era-defining shift, it should be now.Remy Merriex shared this$72 billion. Netflix just bought Warner Bros. While everyone debates if this kills theaters, I see something else entirely. The biggest entertainment consolidation in history. And creators building their own signature series just became Hollywood's most valuable free agents. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴: When two giants merge, they cut overlapping projects. Cancel "risky" shows. Streamline to proven formulas. I watched it happen at every studio merger during my 12 years in Hollywood. But this time? The creators who would've pitched those "risky" projects have audiences. Distribution. Direct relationships with viewers who actually want fresh stories. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: → 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 Netflix-Warner will chase mass market. Your 50K engaged followers who love your specific genre? That's your greenlight. → 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀 They'll stick to 8-episode seasons and 2-hour features. Your 15-minute episodes dropping weekly on YouTube? Perfect for audiences they're abandoning. → 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 Consolidation means fewer decision-makers. Fewer perspectives. Your authentic story that doesn't fit their algorithm? That's exactly what audiences are craving. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Stop thinking about competing with Netflix. Start thinking about serving niche audiences. That web series you've been planning? The podcast-to-TV pipeline you're building? The signature series funded by your community? You're not competing with an $72 billion giant. You're filling the creative gaps they're creating. Tyler Perry built a studio while Hollywood consolidated. The Duffer Brothers created Stranger Things after being rejected everywhere. Every merger creates opportunity for creators who see gaps instead of gates. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: While everyone watches this merger, what gap are you going to fill? What audience are you going to serve? What story are you going to greenlight yourself to tell? Because the gap between creators waiting for Netflix's permission and creators building their own empires? It just got $72 billion wider. Want to find out how to Greenlight Yourself subscribe to my newsletter. Link in the comments. ✨ Follow me, Jerrica Long 🧩, for more on building at the intersection of Hollywood and the creator economy ✨ #GreenlightYourself #CreatorEconomy #NetflixWarnerBros
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Remy Merriex shared thisThis guy gets a job right out of high school working at a carnival. he needed some money, they had money, he took it. Very first day they hand him a shovel, point to the elephants and say “Follow them around and clean up any mess they make”. So he does. Days turn into weeks. Weeks, turn into years. Years turn into a career. One day, he’s at his sister’s house for Thanksgiving and just like he always does, he spends most of his time complaining about the fact that he has to, you know, clean up elephant shit. His sister, who’s a dentist, says, “listen why don’t you just come train to work in dentistry. I’ll find you a job. It’ll pay three times what you’re making now and we won’t have to hear about what Dumbo had for breakfast ever again. I’ve been asking you this for 15 years now, just say yes!” He looks at her like she’s completely crazy, leans in and goes: “What? And quit show business!?” If you just got laid off, or quit, or got fired, or can't find a new gig, just remember this joke. It's always funny and always true about the work we do.
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Remy Merriex shared thisHey babe, wake up. I just blew a stack of cash on new headshots.
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Remy Merriex shared thisGet her before you can’t!!!!Remy Merriex shared thisHi hi everyone, just wanted to put the word out that I’m back on the market as a freelancer after wrapping up another art director contract at Meta. Also, excited to share the official news that I’ve also been accepted into Casa Lü Parque Artist Residency in Mexico City, starting January 22nd! Heading into Q4, I'm in a transitional chapter and I'm really excited to explore my creative career fully as a visual artist. I'm also using this time to reconnect with old and new colleagues, collaborators and anyone building something bigger than themselves. If I can be a creative support or if there's an opportunity that feels aligned, I'd love to connect. Please don't hesitate to reach out: noahamint@gmail.com full portfolio: nohameen.com
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Remy Merriex shared thisThese people were never born. This never happened. Allow me to introduce you to Sora 2. A few years ago I gave a keynote talk at Amazon’s annual design conference, Conflux, called “Post Truth Design”. This was a year before modern LLMs launched and generative AI blew up. I was talking about exactly this kind of situation, where hyperrealistic, but generated media and content will supersede and conflict with reality. Most importantly, loads of research tells us that when presented with objective truth versus comfortable or even more entertaining fictions, lies will always win. Because of this, there is a deep humanistic responsibility on us to both find ways to deal with this new future, and actively work against these psychological tendencies to believe comfortable or entertaining lies. Unsurprisingly, things didn’t get simpler in the intervening years since then, but I feel very strongly believe we can and will find a balance. We simply don’t have any other choice. Even if it takes a lot of suffering to pay for it. (video generated by Drew Harwell on Sora 2 via Blusesky)
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisToday, on my birthday, I’d like to announce that I’m starting a new position as Senior Director, Integrated Marketing Operations for the National Football League (NFL). In a few months I will be relocating to NYC. I’m looking forward to learning the role and I’m excited to get to know my new team, and enjoy meeting all of my new colleagues around the league. Thank you so much to Mallory Dash and Jennifer Baker for giving me this incredible opportunity! Thank you to all of my friends and family that have supported me with love, respect, friendship, and countless other ways on this journey. You are all my people and will be for the rest of my life. Thank you isn't even enough to say, but it's what I have right now. If you ever need anything, I got you. I'm looking forward to spending some great time with my LA friends & family before I head out of town, so please reach out. READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!
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Remy Merriex liked thisRemy Merriex liked thisParamount is denying that it leaked confidential discussions with California AG Rob Bonta, who abruptly canceled a planned meeting with the company over the Warner Bros. Discovery case. “We share AG Bonta’s concerns about the public discussions and misreporting that has surrounded this deal,” Paramount said in a statement sent to Variety. “As we have assured the Attorney General’s office, Paramount has not been the source of the leaks of any of our confidential discussions with the AG’s office. We remain hopeful and stand ready to continue good faith discussions to resolve the Attorneys General suit and move forward with our plans for increased competition and increased output to the benefit of the talent and entertainment workers.” https://lnkd.in/gZceRQCg
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisTo every woman making the thing with no platform, no funding, no rich uncle sponsoring a residency in the woods: The cosign isn't coming. GOOD. Because the thing you're making took your whole specific life to build. That exact combo lives in ONE body on this planet and you're the one sitting on it, waiting for permission. Listen. The patriarchal death cult is heavy enough. You don't need to add the weight of waiting to be chosen. Choose yourself, make the thing. We need it!
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisit only took me 441410 years but i FINALLY updated my portfolio. https://lnkd.in/gi9dzs9r
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisTomorrow, August 22nd, marks my 10th Googleversary! Crazy how fast time flies and all the amazing memories you can create when you move with intention! It's been 10 years of the most amazing learnings, both personally and professionally. For many, a job at Google is the goal and if you're still working toward that goal, I say, keep it alive!! For me, it wasn't even in my imagination; I couldn't fathom it. After spending 13 years in a refugee camp, scorned by the remnants of the Liberian Civil War and facing the reality of going nowhere fast, Google represented an opportunity to transform! I spent the last 10 years morphing into a better human. Through meaningful relationships with my peers, mentors, sponsors and champions, I've inherited an abundance of intangible wealth. I became a US Citizen while at Google and have since revisited my home country of Liberia, to build bridges and add value in the best way possible. I've worked on some amazing projects and solved significant challenges that elevated products and people. I'm eternally grateful for this journey and immensely thankful to all of you who've poured into my growth over the years. It's with a warm and humble heart, I say THANK YOU! The journey ahead is ooooh so bright and I cannot wait to see what the next 10 years have in store! with gratitude!
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisTo our members, allies and friends, We write with heavy hearts to mark the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday, a brilliant Black scholar whose life ended far too soon. His passing is not only a devastating loss to his family, friends and colleagues, but a moment of collective grief for Black communities who see in his story a familiar pattern of dehumanising scrutiny that Black men in public life are too often forced to endure. For many Black people, this feels familiar. Black men in particular are often subjected to media treatment that strips away their humanity, reducing them to objects of suspicion, ridicule or moral judgement. BAATN stands firmly in support of an independent inquiry. We believe that lasting, systemic change must be put in place to stop racist media attacks on Black celebrities and public figures. Our full statement, together with links for further action and support, can be found on the BAATN website under About → News. https://lnkd.in/eYnnpJkG The Good Law Project campaign visit https://lnkd.in/e7F9puUf In solidarity, BAATN Leadership and Advisory Team The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network
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Remy Merriex liked thisRemy Merriex liked thisFriends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream. Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds and such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own. https://lnkd.in/gnmChGWuInside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK studentsInside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
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Remy Merriex reacted on thisRemy Merriex reacted on thisHad lunch with the homie Chris Spencer but forgot to take a photo. So here's an AI-created version that looks like neither of us. Make sure you stay connected with your peeps. They will keep you grounded and inspired at the same time.
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Lexus / Marvel Studios Super Bowl LII Spot, “Long Live The King”
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See projectI led all creative as Group Creative Director for "Long Live for The King", the most talked about and watched Lexus campaign of all time. Watched nearly 15 million times online alone in the first 72 hours, it is on track to out pace every other Lexus video via their native channels *combined*, including all previous Lexus Super Bowl commercials. Launched during 2018's Super Bowl LII, the spot was named the best ad in the Super Bowl by Maxim, The Root, BET, among others, including being ranked…
I led all creative as Group Creative Director for "Long Live for The King", the most talked about and watched Lexus campaign of all time. Watched nearly 15 million times online alone in the first 72 hours, it is on track to out pace every other Lexus video via their native channels *combined*, including all previous Lexus Super Bowl commercials. Launched during 2018's Super Bowl LII, the spot was named the best ad in the Super Bowl by Maxim, The Root, BET, among others, including being ranked as a top ad by Forbes, Ad Age and CBS' Greatest Super Bowl Commercials. To date, this was the largest collaboration for either Lexus or Marvel Studios and has already proved to be one of the most fruitful for both brands.
I served as the lead Group Creative Director and led all creative of both this spot and the full, nearly 2-year long, $10MM+ advertising campaign and partnership between Lexus and Marvel. The spot features key talent from the Black Panther film, notably Chadwick Boseman. Early metrics showed that interested in the Lexus brand rose over by double digits and interest in the LS 500 rose by an incredible quadruple digit margin!
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