Patrick James Stephens
DGA 1st Assistant Director for Film & TV. Represented by Jacqui Fincham at
Creative Media Management. UK based
#fishfingersorlobster #paperless 🎮
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- “I have friends everywhere” boxd.it/9HzLMl
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- “It may sound a little hokey, but I wanted to create a company by artists for artists, because they’re just not a lot of that in the business today.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
- “I am Rome & where I walk is Rome” @davidmorrissey.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/05/brit...
- “Remember the American author Denny Ludwell’s line from 1930: “We were Britain’s colony once, she will be our colony before she’s done. Not in name, but in fact. But we shan’t make Britain’s mistake: too wise to govern the world, we shall merely own it.”
- This is the path 🙏🏼🔮 #DailyCalm
- Many thanks to the Odeon for the #ScreenUnseen screening of ‘The Surfer’ 🙏🏼🔮🎞️https://boxd.it/9CQZDh
- I have just finished Robert McKee’s Horror Seminar part of his Genre Festival 2025. The genre courses are available individually too so you can take ‘Action’ & ‘Crime Thriller’ if you’re not interested in ‘Love Story’ or ‘Comedy’. Here’s a list of the movies referenced in ‘Horror’. boxd.it/GjAfI
- President Trump announced a plan on Sunday night to slap a 100% tariff on foreign-produced films — prompting a slew of questions in Hollywood. Starting with: Huh? variety.com/2025/biz/new...
- Hollywood legends gathered Saturday night to celebrate Francis Ford Coppola as he received the prestigious AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Film Institute. #Khartoum variety.com/2025/film/ne...
- Bruce Logan, Legendary VFX Artist of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Fame, Dies at 78 www.thewrap.com/bruce-logan-...
- Nobody in the Odeon Luxe knows why ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is on now rather than May the Fourth? #Odeon #Limitless #TakeTheHighGround #MayTheFourth be with you
- There’s an actual Lithuanian saying ‘the silent pig digs deeper’ which I’ve always loved but ‘you can’t lick a badger twice’ is excellent 🦡 🐖 🙏🏼❤️ 🇱🇹
- Donald Trump could be given the honour of addressing the UK parliament. We can't let him spout his idiocy and hate in the heart of our democracy. MPs are pushing back - now it’s our turn. Sign the petition to stop this national embarrassment: 38d.gs/yfl7
- Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #LastFourWatched Rewatching the ‘Missions’ in the run up to ‘Final Reckoning’. ‘Warfare’ is unmissable & seeing ‘Sinners’ again next week because once isn’t enough @letterboxd.social
- Wow. 10yrs of the Watch already? I would be lost without mine in so many ways 🙏🏼❤️🔮 #CloseYourRings
- Really enjoying Robert McKee’s Horror Webinar. Here’s a list of the movies referenced after Day 02 boxd.it/GjAfI
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- ‘Assassin's Creed Shadows' success shows that the threat of negative campaigns is overblown. As solid sales numbers for the new Assassin’s Creed stack up, other companies should take note of how little the manufactured controversy around it mattered’ www.gamesindustry.biz/assassins-cr...
- Reposted by Patrick James StephensThe story of a family and a family business. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, a film by Wes Anderson. Only in theaters May 30.
- Really looking forward to this week. If you cannot make the live sessions with Robert McKee they are available On Demand until the end of June ‘25. HORROR 3-PART WEBINAR SERIES Live Online: From April 22 – 24, 2025 On Demand: Until June 30, 2025 mckeestory.com/webinars/hor...
- Wow. What a great film. Superb film making and what an awesome soundtrack. Many thanks Odeon for the excellent iSense screening too boxd.it/9rIQDR
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- Reposted by Patrick James StephensSinners debuts with a 4.2 on Letterboxd 🔥 Sinners is in theaters now via Warner Bros.
- Reposted by Patrick James StephensYour world will get bigger and brighter. THE LIFE OF CHUCK. From the hearts and souls of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King. In Select Cities 6.6, Everywhere 6.13 #ThanksChuck #HowDoYouDescribeTheIndescribable?
- To celebrate 25 years of American Psycho’s bone-deep impact, writer-director Mary Harron chats with Mia Lee Vicino about women’s retroactive embrace of the film on @letterboxd.social , Christian Bale’s physical comedy prowess and why Patrick Bateman is a total dork. letterboxd.com/journal/mary...
- Ryan Coogler Gives a Primer on Film Stock and the Various Viewing Options for ‘Sinners’ — Watch #Sinners www.indiewire.com/news/general...
- Ted Kotcheff, the unheralded Canadian moviemaker who moved gracefully among genres to direct such notable films as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, has died. He was 94 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
- The director of "Black Bag" tells IndieWire about his approach to a sequence that could have stopped his spy thriller dead in its tracks but became one of the most entertaining moments of his career. www.indiewire.com/features/int...
- The Academy will introduce a stunt design Oscar for the 100th ceremony in 2028, responding to an increasingly vocal call for the new category. Films released in 2027 will be the first wave for consideration. www.screendaily.com/news/stunt-d...
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- The UK’s culture, media and sport (CMS) committee has delivered its far-reaching recommendations to the government, following its in-depth inquiry into British film and high-end TV. www.screendaily.com/news/the-uks...
- President Donald Trump has backed down from his reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday after days of market fretting and concern at home and internationally (at least for now), but for Hollywood, some of the industry’s biggest problems started well before...” www.indiewire.com/news/busines...
- DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Sarnoski will write and direct the highly anticipated live-action adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s genre-defying video game, Death Stranding, with A24 and Kojima Productions producing deadline.com/2025/04/a-qu...
- Painter and illustrator Robert E. McGinnis, who created sexy posters for the James Bond franchise as well as numerous other films, magazine illustrations and book covers, died March 10 in Old Greenwich, Conn. He was 99. variety.com/2025/film/pe...
- In preparing for his role in Paramount’s upcoming thriller “The Running Man,” Glen Powell says his first call was to his mentor, Tom Cruise. Powell said on Thursday at CinemaCon that he was advised, “film yourself running as soon as possible. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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- ‘True healing is not the fixing of the broken…’ 🙏🏼🔮❤️ #DailyCalm
- From Lille’s Series Mania, All3Media has revealed that the long-running detective drama “Midsomer Murders” is celebrating another landmark as production kicks off for its historic 25th season. variety.com/2025/tv/glob...
- Well, I have posted a few times these awesome DGA Podcasts but this is a rather special Anniversary Series discussion: Director Martin Scorsese discusses his film, After Hours, with Actor Griffin Dunne and fellow Director Raymond De Felitta in a screening at the DGA theater in New York.
- Kazuo Ishiguro's most popular novel is as relevant today as when it was published 20 years ago. When it was published in 2005, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go was acclaimed by critics and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. #neverletmego podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
- Following controversy around The Brutalist‘s usage of AI, David Cronenberg is coming to the Best Picture Oscar nominee’s defense. deadline.com/2025/03/davi...
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- “We work in the dark to serve the light” Today’s the day 🎮 🔮❤️
- In celebration of Mr. Hackman’s fine body of work… boxd.it/996Gf3
- Fascinating & unmissable. Fine work 🙏🏼🔮
- “Fishing in Cornwall is like a metaphor for life,” #Cornwall www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- Great story telling & awesome cast. Brutal journey. Limited Series at their finest. Well worth seeing ‘American Primeval’ @netflix.com
- “…anything can happen in just one day” #DailyCalm 🙏🏼❤️🔮
- Many thanks @calm.com #DailyCalm
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- Steven Soderbergh‘s third collaboration with David Koepp in two years (Kimi and Presence), and already the second to be released in 2025, proves to be the charm for both. Black Bag is an exceptionally sophisticated and adult spy thriller… deadline.com/2025/03/blac...
- Netflix expects to spend in the neighborhood of $18 billion in cash on content in 2025 — and it sees plenty of runway to expand in the years ahead, according to Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann. variety.com/2025/digital...
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- Happy St. Piran’s Day too! #Cornish
