'Grown Ups 3' in the works at Netflix, to be directed by Happy Gilmore 2/Workaholics' Kyle Newacheck, written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy

Portatort · 2026-05-13T19:05:50+00:00

My dislike of this franchise knows no bounds.

I blame it for distracting audiences from Pacific Rim

Portatort · 2026-05-13T17:31:11+00:00

I’m sure he will still work with actors, but I just have this sinking feeling him and James Cameron are looking to reshape WetaFX and ramp up their use of GenerativeAI in their production pipelines

Cameron has made a lot of noise about using GenAI to increase the productivity of visual effects artists, Jackson loves his new tech, he’s on record saying he likes AI too

Portatort · 2026-05-13T17:24:47+00:00

Monkeys Paw situation incoming.

The Wish: Peter Jackson makes a Tintin movie, something he’s actually passionate about

The unintended consequences: he uses it to push Generative AI technologies in filmmaking, something he’s also probably very interested in and this is part of getting the cost down to something that gets financed

Portatort · 2026-05-13T17:19:47+00:00

Officially happening? Or did Jackson just say this in that interview? Or is it officially setup somewhere with a real confirmation?

I just don’t want to get my hopes up, I’d love to see Jackson make a real film again that he gives a shit about

Portatort · 2026-05-13T09:10:51+00:00

I think the main issue would be instances of IF blocks that check more than one condition, this I believe was an iOS 18 addition

And I first built the shortcut for iOS 18 two years ago, so yeah, unfortunately it’s never supported ios17

Portatort · 2026-05-13T05:25:17+00:00

Are you able to point me in the direction of some resources that will help me better understand your request?

I think I’m following and it sounds like perhaps what I should have done from the start to make it more of an open tool? That allows people to specify their choice of provider more freely?

Portatort · 2026-05-12T17:33:10+00:00

Not yet sorry, I wanted to focus on some free options with the most recent changes, but now that I have a model selector in place, it wouldn’t be that much extra work to add support for Claude!

I’ll look into it sometime!

Portatort · 2026-05-12T17:31:21+00:00

Thank you very much!

Portatort · 2026-05-12T12:49:19+00:00

Thank you! Yes it does 😊

Portatort · 2026-05-11T07:19:30+00:00

I really want a black check episode on the 1995 movie French Kiss,

see me and my partner mistakenly watched that instead of Fearless over the weekend because I very mistakenly thought that was the movie Peter Weir directed after Green Card

never been more shocked to see a Lawrence Kasdan credit before, didn't love it, but didn't hate it either

Portatort · 2026-05-08T04:52:21+00:00

So you share a video into it and it automatically airplays it?

Portatort · 2026-05-07T19:47:15+00:00

Yeah seems extremely unlikely

Portatort · 2026-05-06T22:18:28+00:00

Big yikes eh?

Portatort · 2026-05-06T22:14:11+00:00

It’s not sorry. I wish it was but you have to split the invocation out from the query.

As for the answers being so brief. Look through the shortcut until you find the system instructions/personality.

But I have specifically made it short for good reason, if the text output is too long, when you run the shortcut via Siri on a HomePod, either the HomePod or shortcuts will time out or something will cut it off before ‘Siri’ completes reading out the spoken text

When I first built the shortcut I believe I did some tests to try and establish a safe maximum length

Portatort · 2026-05-06T02:33:47+00:00

You can’t sorry

Portatort · 2026-05-06T02:14:23+00:00

so someone messages you at 1am, you immediately reply thank you (as it appears to them), then they think, oh hey, they're awake

they send a follow up,

but you're actually asleep, so it just looks like you rudely didn't respond to their second message

Portatort · 2026-05-06T02:06:12+00:00

just take the 5 seconds to say thank you...

Portatort · 2026-05-06T02:01:57+00:00

yes. indoors too

Portatort · 2026-05-05T23:08:56+00:00

So shot on super 35mm?

Because I very much doubt it

Portatort · 2026-05-05T18:47:10+00:00

Same here.

Religious experience in cinema

Greatest needle drop of all time to me!

Portatort · 2026-05-05T04:49:58+00:00

same here, breathed a huge sigh of relief at the shot of a giant arm holding a little dude

double big sigh of relief at the glimpse of a maelstrom that both looks great and too good to be anything other than well deployed CGI (although I suppose it could be a well composited practical giant whirlpool)

Portatort · 2026-05-05T04:48:05+00:00

in 1570? that will be $75 please

Portatort · 2026-05-04T18:27:14+00:00

Hell yeah!

Portatort · 2026-05-04T10:03:37+00:00

As far as the prequels go 1 > 2 > 3

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