Be like Ben Affleck:
>>Share a bank account with Matt Damon before either of them makes it, helping each other get through the early years.Interview
>>At 25, win an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting together.
>>At 28, already a Hollywood star, co-found LivePlanet with Matt and two other partners.
>>Create Project Greenlight, giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity and showing audiences what making a movie actually takes.
>>Earn Emmy nominations for each of its first three seasons.
>>Move behind the camera. Direct Gone Baby Gone and The Town.
>>At 40, win your second Oscar as a producer of Argo, a film you also directed and starred in.
>>Build Pearl Street with Matt, co-producing films including Jason Bourne and Manchester by the Sea.
>>Reunite to write The Last Duel with Nicole Holofcener, then act in it together under Ridley Scott.
>>At 50, co-found Artists Equity with Matt and RedBird Capital.
>>Become CEO. Matt becomes Chief Content Officer.
>>Build a studio that expands profit participation to the crews behind the camera.
>>Make data-informed distribution decisions part of the business from day one.
>>Launch the studio with AIR. Direct it, play Nike founder Phil Knight, and cast Matt as the executive pursuing Michael Jordan.
>>Produce, direct and star in Dunkin’s first Super Bowl commercial, too.
>>Meanwhile, quietly found an AI filmmaking company, InterPositive, in 2022.
>>Bring engineers, researchers and filmmakers onto a controlled soundstage to shoot proprietary training data.
>>Build models around visual logic, editorial consistency and the production problems you know firsthand: missing shots, background replacements and incorrect lighting.
>>Design the tools so filmmakers retain control over creative decisions.
>>In 2026, sell InterPositive to Netflix in a deal reported at $587 million, and join Netflix as a senior advisor.
From sharing a bank account to sharing an Oscar to building studios together. Matt has been his friend, writing partner, co-star and business partner across decades.
That makes Ben’s command of AI much easier to understand. He has spent his career learning how movies get written, financed, shot and finished. Then he built a technology company around the problems he already understood.
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Here's my conversation with
@DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization.
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:27 - Introduction
2:56 - Programming with AI agents
18:14 - How software will change
27:30 - AI impact on open source
37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro
47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering
1:00:06 - The end of manual programming
1:10:24 - Advice for programmers
1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate
1:31:46 - Programming setup for AI Agents
1:44:11 - Obsessing about speed
2:07:06 - Voice prompting vs typing
2:21:05 - Best AI coding models
2:37:55 - Best AI coding harnesses
2:50:57 - AI video generation and filmmaking
3:10:28 - Fatherhood
3:38:35 - Linux will win the desktop
3:49:51 - PewDiePie
3:59:24 - Future of programming
4:22:17 - Politics and immigration
4:53:54 - Longevity, over-optimization, and fear of death
5:05:38 - Eternal recurrence and future of human civization
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AI can generate beautiful clips.
But filmmaking needs direction.
Introducing Topview Film Studio: the cinematic generation suite for AI filmmakers. 🎬
Direct micro-expressions. Set the camera. Block the scene in 3D. Refine portraits to remove the AI look.
Topview Film Studio brings these film-grade controls into one cinematic canvas.
Stop prompting clips. Start directing shots.
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Caption:
Looking back at Marty Supreme, some of my favorite moments happened because things didn’t go exactly as planned. That’s the magic of filmmaking, you stay in the scene, adapt, and sometimes the mistakes become the best part of the movie.
Josh Safdie gave me one piece of advice before filming, don’t overthink it. Just read the room, put yourself in that moment, and be present. Working with Josh Safdie, Timothée Chalamet, and Gwyneth Paltrow taught me that great acting isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being fully present in the moment.
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TapNow Creative OS is now live.
One AI-native operating system for the entire filmmaking workflow, from idea development and content generation to post-production.
Start with an idea and take it all the way to the final cut.
Click the link below for more details.
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AI filmmaking is insane!
House of the Dragon reportedly costs $20 million per episode.
Now you can create Hollywood-level dragon shots from your bedroom with Seedance.
My workflow:
1. Make a start frame in Midjourney
2. Block-out in Blender, animate the camera
3. Feed both to Seedance
You can build a whole cinematic universe from a handful of blocks.
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Seedance 2.0 is insane.
Blender previs is having a moment in AI filmmaking for a reason.
I wanted to see how far I could push the workflow beyond a simple camera move in an ambush scene.
The workflow:
1. Make a start image in Midjourney
2. Block it out in Blender, animate the camera
3. Feed both to Seedance
The more I test this pipeline, the more convinced I am that hybrid pipelines are the future. The conversation is moving fast but previs is one of the clearest unlocks so far.
Seedance still isn't perfect at matching the reference but it's close.
You can experiment with staging, timing, and camera movement before you ever touch the video model.
Solve the scene before you generate the shot.
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Ok, this is absurd.
You can choreograph a complex action scene in Blender with basic shapes, then let Seedance make it real.
You need to try this AI filmmaking workflow:
1. Generate a start frame in Midjourney
2. Block out the action in Blender
3. Feed both to Seedance
My Blender reference was just rough timing, camera shake, and spatial choreography, and Seedance tracked the speed, motion, and action way better than I expected.
This is the difference between describing a shot and directing one.
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This is getting ridiculous.
You need to try this AI filmmaking workflow.
My Blender reference is embarrassingly simple. You can drive a precise multi-character shot with nothing but basic shapes.
1. Generate a start frame in Midjourney
2. Block out the scene in Blender with boxes, animate the camera
3. Feed both to Seedance
This feels like a real unlock. Your 3D reference doesn't need to look good.
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One prompt. 30s. 4K. 50 refs.
Seedance 2.5 is live here:
This is one-click filmmaking.