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Chris Lee
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Senior Reporter for @Vulture-@NYmag covering Hollywood. "Very fire"
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    Chris Lee
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    Apr 18, 2025
    Ryan Coogler’s Warner Bros deal to gain ownership of Sinners 25 years after release has Hollywood ultra freaked out. “It could be the end of the studio system” an exec at another studio tells me. My dive into this “dangerous deal”: tinyurl.com/mu7b8z45
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    Chris Lee
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    Jun 23, 2023
    Across the Spider-Verse animators say Phil Lord drove them crazy with relentless revision, seeming unfamiliarity with 3D anim, 6 months of indecision and demands to redo finished work 5X. They say no way is Beyond the Spider-Verse coming out in 2024. By me
    ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’
    From vulture.com
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    Chris Lee
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    Jul 26, 2022
    A vfx tech who worked on several Marvel movies tells me the studio is infamously awful: they underpay and over work, have no idea what they want, demand endless last-minute revisions and will blacklist anyone who comes up short
    I’m in VFX, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel
    From vulture.com
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    Chris Lee
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    Sep 23, 2022
    Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde got into a "screaming match" on the set of #DontWorryDarling and Flo was so mad she told then-Warner Bros boss Toby Emmerich she wasn't going to promote DWD in a "long negotiation process." My report:
    Don’t Worry, Darling, It’s Judgment Day
    From vulture.com
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    Chris Lee
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    Aug 7, 2023
    Scoop! With Marvel systematically underpaying and overworking VFX workers, a crew of them has finally petitioned the studio to unionize. It's the 1st time visual effects pros have banded together to demand wage protections and benefits. History! @vfxunion tinyurl.com/24m6xu6t
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    Chris Lee
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    Apr 27, 2022
    Abiding mystery of the Warner Bros #CinemaCon panel: half way through her schpiel about Don't Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde was handed a manilla envelope. Seemed like she got served a lawsuit!
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    Chris Lee
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    Jun 23, 2023
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    Over 100 artists left during the production. Those that stayed sat "idle" for between 3 and 6 months while Lord tinkered with Spider-Verse in layout stage. My sources say he overrode the 3 directors and demanded final approval for every sequence in the film. Chris Miller was MIA
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    Chris Lee
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    Mar 20, 2023
    SO many VFX sources have told me Victoria Alonso was singularly responsible for Marvel's toxic work environment: a kingmaker who rewarded unquestioning fealty with an avalanche of work, but who also maintained the blacklist that kept FX pros wild eyed with fear
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    Chris Lee
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    Jun 23, 2023
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    One artist on Phil Lord rewriting scenes for already finished shots: "Sony has been fighting with him on this for the whole movie. I don’t know if he’s delusional. I’ve worked on projects where things are rewritten—even late in production. But this is another level of craziness"
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    Chris Lee
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    Apr 27, 2022
    Re Olivia Wilde and Envelopegate: a well-placed CinemaCon source tells me whoever served her those documents had all the right credentials including the covid vax bracelet and ID lanyard that convention delegates have to wear. Nothing about this was haphazard or left to chance!
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    Chris Lee
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    Jun 23, 2023
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    "The analogy for the way Phil works, it’s getting a bunch of construction workers to make a building without a blueprint. You start putting bricks on top of each other. You put the wood in, put the windows in, get some metal scaffold. And he’s like, 'Nah, knock that part down'"
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    Chris Lee
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    Jun 23, 2023
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    Another artist on Beyond the Spider-Verse coming out in 2024: "People say, “Oh, they probably worked on it at the same time.” In production the only progress that’s been made on the third one is any exploration or tests that were done before the movie was split into two parts"
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    Chris Lee
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    Jul 26, 2022
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    I was introduced to the concept of being "pixel-fucked": "They’ll be like, 'Can you just try this? Can you just try that?' They’ll want you to change an entire setting, an entire environment, pretty late in a movie."
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    Chris Lee
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    Nov 5, 2024
    Production on Juror #2 shut down 3 times for 93-y.o. Clint Eastwood's "health issues"; he also crunched Cheez-Its so loudly on set it disrupted scenes. But why did WB dump his film in just 28 cinemas? Corporate greed verging on Hollywood elder abuse. By me tinyurl.com/4dutbcwr
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