Happy holidays Hollywood tech nerds!

In this week’s post:

🎁 The Hollywood Tech Nerd Year in Review

🍿 Kernels: 3 links worth making popcorn for

The Hollywood Tech Nerd Year in Review

Folks, it’s the last Hollywood Tech Nerds newsletter of 2023, and I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have subscribed over the past year of its existence. You’ve given me the gift of your readership, which is priceless!

I thought I’d take a look back at a few important things that happened during 2023:

• I grew a beard (and then shaved it off when Aunt Joan said it was “wispy” and then grew it back again after she was arrested)

• I saw over 50 movies in the theater, and only 49 of them by myself!

• My parents finally didn’t passive-aggressively mention going to medical school during Thanksgiving

Wait, sorry, that’s for my personal newsletter! Here’s a tiny part of the fun and interesting stuff I covered in this newsletter!

• Why Scorsese thinks “the industry is over”

• The VFX behind Super Mario Bros.

• How Tarantino created his own film genre

• Why FAST is the future of streaming TV

• AI-generated South Park

• How they make movies for the Las Vegas Sphere

And that’s just a small portion of the fascinating stories we covered this year, there are tons more at www.hollywoodtechnerds.com, both now and to come.

I wish all of you the happiest of holidays in whichever way you celebrate or don’t, and I will see you in 2024!

Your friend,

Steve

Kernels (3 links worth making popcorn for)

Here’s a round-up of cool links about Hollywood and technology:

VHS is back, baby! (link)

A startup looks to induce lucid dreams with AI. (link)

Rebel Moon’s Zack Snyder on violence, loss, and extreme fandom. (link)