Writer/Producer, Full time Dad, collaborator, free thinker, instigator, and unabashed cinephile...
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2009
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Ralph Greco retweeted
I am pleased to share the news that Sony Pictures will be reopening and restoring the historic Cinerama Dome. I was briefed by them on their reopening plans and can’t reveal any details, but I was invited to join the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation so I look forward to working with them to ensure that the restoration honors and preserves the Dome and keeps it exactly as it was in 1963. The Sony people have been extremely generous with me and kind. Getting it to reopen has been a six year odyssey for me. I’ve made many new friends along the way and I am grateful for many people supporting me. I started the petition to save the Cinerama Dome within minutes of finding out it was shutting down and it received over 30 thousand signatures. I was able to reveal the 2023 reopening plans and then break the sad news about it being officially cancelled. Many people told me to give up. Industry figures that I deeply admire told me it would be impossible to convince the family ownership to reoepen it or have it leased to another exhibitor considering their other abandoned cinemas and lack of communication to me. I was called delusional. People made fun of me. Instead, I held protests, spoke with city leaders, provided updates from public records, updated the media, continuously pressed the owners. I had conversations with filmmakers ranging from Wes Anderson to Quentin Tarantino about it. A few months ago I projected the images of the owners faces onto the Dome asking them to reopen and they called the police on me. That was actually a miracle in disguise. I received attention from all around the world and the Cinerama Dome became a topic of conversation again. The general public wasn’t aware that the Dome was abandoned & neglected for 6 years. At the time I had thought nobody would care and it was widely accepted the Dome would be another demolition by neglect. That night was the first form of communication I’ve had with the owners in six years. A few weeks later their property representative responded to a comment about my incident saying “Ownership has taken notice to extreme public interest in reopening” and then I gave ownership a deadline of August 20th to reopen or pick a new operator or massive protests will resume at their HQ. Just a few months later I’m contacted by Sony about the reopening. Now I have Save Your Cinema with over 20K followers on social media and millions of views each day. With the help of my followers we have saved multiple cinemas and are actively working on more reopening soon TBA! I am so grateful for everyone supporting me. Here are just some of the people I’d like to thank! Sean Baker, Edgar Wright, Alma Har'el, Joshua Safran, Alison Martino, Gary Baum, Mark Olsen, Jazz Tangcay, Pat Saperstein, Tait Forman, Christopher Forman , vanfathernighy and every single follower and person who signed my petition and liked my posts. We all made this happen TOGETHER as a community effort. Thank you to EVERYONE! The BEST movie theater on Earth will be reopening 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Ralph Greco retweeted
“Willoughby? Maybe it’s wishful thinking or maybe it’s the last stop in the vast design of things… Whatever it is, it comes with sunlight and serenity and it’s part of The Twilight Zone.”
Rod Serling:
“ A Stop at Willoughby”
Ralph Greco retweeted
People don’t seem to understand Biden could have given everyone a unicorn & world peace and his approval rating would still be 33% because the right wing seized on the invention of social media and the internet to build a massive propaganda machine reality can’t outperform.
Ralph Greco retweeted
Board Certified Surgeon in Austin, Texas is whistleblower on US Health Insurance Companies
She was just PULLED OUT OF SURGERY
while her patient was asleep and forced to speak with UnitedHealthcare who tries to cancel patients inpatient stay after surgery who has CANCER
“It's 2025 and insurance just keeps getting worse”
“I've never had this happen before. But during the second deep, I had a phone call into the operating room saying that UnitedHealthcare wanted me to call them about one of the patients who was having surgery”
“So I scrubbed outta my case and I called UnitedHealthcare and the gentleman said he needed some information about her, wanna know her diagnosis and whether whether her inpatient stay should be justified. — I was like, do you understand that she's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?”
“It's out of control. It insurance is out of control. I have no other words.”
Ralph Greco retweeted
Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was released 33 years ago today.
Still one of the greatest successes of this saga. What a great ending.
Ralph Greco retweeted
Take the 8 minutes and watch Maddow explain how depraved Trumps pardons are. Charles Kushner is evil SOB. No wonder Jared is one too.
Ralph Greco retweeted
All the worst people you know forming a team to destroy everything you love.
David Zaslav: Trump May Bring "Opportunity for Consolidation" That's "Positive" for Business hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
Ralph Greco retweeted
So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.
And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.
When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.
What then?
Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?
You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.
You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.
You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.
You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.
You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.
You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.
You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.
You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.
You just made women less safe and less free.
You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.
You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!
You just ushered in Fascism.
Because your cereal costs more.
Congratulations.
Ralph Greco retweeted
BREAKING: CNN’s Elle Reeve just did some interviews in rural Georgia where 90% of the county’s voters vote Republican. The answers Elle received will shock you. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this stunning report.
Ralph Greco retweeted
As someone who likes to shoot straight, I’m not going to lie: I find it irritating and disappointing listening to the smug, cynical, even gleeful tone of too many film critics—both professional and fanatic—who are currently holding forth online about the failures of Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS and Todd Phillips’ JOKER: FOLIE Á DEUX. Now, I haven’t seen the films myself—life’s been a bitch in the last few weeks and I just haven’t had the time. So I don’t know whether I’d personally enjoy these films or not. But the truth is: I don’t care. I’m just glad they exist. I’m glad to know we still live in a world where daring filmmakers—who’ve both earned our respect, I might add—have the courage, means, and wherewithal to toss their hats over the wall in the service of creating something daring, personal, and visionary... whether anyone else likes it or not. That simple act ought to be celebrated, not scorned.
When did we become a culture of judgmental ninnies who find parasitic joy in the perceived failure of others? Until you’ve attempted to do something bold yourself and failed, publically—as does every single person who’s ever tried to create anything of worth for public consumption, at least a few times before they eventually succeed—it’s worth keeping in mind that no art we truly love comes without risk and sacrifice and blood and sweat and tears. To make a great film, or any kind of great art, you have to have skin in the game. And it’s very easy to mock that art or that artist when the skin ain’t yours, brothers and sisters. No one says you have to like this work. But when you presume to tell everyone else that you don’t—for a living—at least try to do it with a little fucking respect.
Ralph Greco retweeted
This is important to think about when doomscrolling through “the Nates.”
Rosenberg: What happened in 2022 is that in the battleground states, the Republicans flooded the field with polls that were usually 2-4 points more Republican than the independent polls. They ended up pushing the polling averages to the right. RCP had Republicans with 54 Senate seats.
Some of those same polling outfits that haven’t done public polling for the last two years have returned. Wick, Insider Advantage, Trafalgar, and Patriot Polling started producing polls in the battleground states, showing their results 2-4 points more Republican than all the other polling. So, it’s literally the exact same thing.
The reason it matters is it demobilizes. When we think we’re losing, we demobilize. Our voters disengage, and money dries up. The same is true for them. They want to give Trump and Republican voters the belief that the election is closer than it really is.
The second thing is if Trump tries to cheat and overturn the election results, he needs data showing he was somehow winning..
Ralph Greco retweeted
Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice President has no constitutional authority to tell states to submit alternative slates of electors because his candidate lost. That is tyranny. Our institutions held on Jan 6 because Mike Pence refused to violate his oath to the Constitution. Trump picked JD Vance because Vance will do whatever Trump wants, including violating the Constitution. They are both far too dangerous to serve. It’s our duty to stop them.
Ralph Greco retweeted
“I watched a lot of #StarTrek with my dad. He wanted me to see an example of a woman in leadership. When I was a kid, the only example of that (#Janeway) was in SciFi. It’s not SciFi anymore. We will have the first woman president of the United States” - @AOC #StarTrekVoyager
