Calum Chalmers
@calchal.bsky.social
Producer - director - writer of short films. 8/10 writer (top 2%) over at the blacklist. Sometimes an actor. I make films about well intentioned people making mistakes. I produce films about broken people trying to fix themselves.
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Short film script call out.
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
October 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Short film script call out.
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
I watched this today. I can safely say my life has changed. There was a time before a Hard Ticket to Hawaii. I barely remember it. And now I live in a post Hard Ticket to Hawaii world.
It’s time, it’s FINALLY time!!!
Brian & @crobertcargill.bsky.social punch their HARD TICKET TO HAWAII and say aloha to love…also drug lords, “blowup” dolls, razor frisbees, killer snakes, & much MUCH more!
RsKT now to make your feed paradise all the time!
www.spreaker.com/episode/hard...
Brian & @crobertcargill.bsky.social punch their HARD TICKET TO HAWAII and say aloha to love…also drug lords, “blowup” dolls, razor frisbees, killer snakes, & much MUCH more!
RsKT now to make your feed paradise all the time!
www.spreaker.com/episode/hard...
October 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I watched this today. I can safely say my life has changed. There was a time before a Hard Ticket to Hawaii. I barely remember it. And now I live in a post Hard Ticket to Hawaii world.
Short film script call out.
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
October 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Short film script call out.
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
Looking for erotic/sexy thrillers.
Ideally akin to The Housemaid rather than 365 Days. A nice location, handful of characters etc. Nothing that requires a super high budget for a short.
Under 15 pages would be preferable.
#filmsky #scriptsky #shortfilm #filmmaking
Sky's new docudrama The Wargame saying the show contains AI generated action scenes. Get to fuck with that shit. I was already unsure about watching due to the questionable casting, but the AI factor easily makes for a quick turn off.
September 21, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Sky's new docudrama The Wargame saying the show contains AI generated action scenes. Get to fuck with that shit. I was already unsure about watching due to the questionable casting, but the AI factor easily makes for a quick turn off.
Click the link to view the poster for Each Coming Night. A short I produced earlier in the year. We've been trying to get this made since October '22. And this weekend we're having our cast and crew screening!
www.short-stuff.com/news/exclusi...
www.short-stuff.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Poster reveal for Dakota Blue Richards’s directorial debut ‘Each Coming Night’ — Short Stuff
24 Aug 2026 | By Molly Lipson
www.short-stuff.com
September 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Click the link to view the poster for Each Coming Night. A short I produced earlier in the year. We've been trying to get this made since October '22. And this weekend we're having our cast and crew screening!
www.short-stuff.com/news/exclusi...
www.short-stuff.com/news/exclusi...
"The original Treasure Island films, with greatest, deepest respect, were terrible, and were always made for kids, with a lot of "arrghh me hearties" and eating the fucking scenery. This is not going to be like that."
Ridley Scott speaking to Empire. Making a no fun/adult take on Treasure Island.
Ridley Scott speaking to Empire. Making a no fun/adult take on Treasure Island.
Owen Cooper is being eyed to star in Ridley Scott's ‘TREASURE ISLAND’ alongside Hugh Jackman.
(Source: collider.com/ridley-scott...)
(Source: collider.com/ridley-scott...)
August 21, 2026 at 11:54 AM
"The original Treasure Island films, with greatest, deepest respect, were terrible, and were always made for kids, with a lot of "arrghh me hearties" and eating the fucking scenery. This is not going to be like that."
Ridley Scott speaking to Empire. Making a no fun/adult take on Treasure Island.
Ridley Scott speaking to Empire. Making a no fun/adult take on Treasure Island.
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In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
August 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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I strongly second this. Just finished the novel, and I think it's the best ultra-dark L.A. noir since peak '80s-'90s James Ellroy. The plotting is sensational; the writing is electric.
My appetite for ultra nihilistic modern noir isn’t what it used to be, but Jordan Harper’s A Violent Masterpiece has such incredible prose, I got sucked right in and read the whole thing in a rush.
August 15, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I strongly second this. Just finished the novel, and I think it's the best ultra-dark L.A. noir since peak '80s-'90s James Ellroy. The plotting is sensational; the writing is electric.
If you have soft spot for teen dramas/coming of age stories, I highly recommend Sterling Point on Amazon. Created by Megan Park (writer/director of My Old Ass) and produced by Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage (The OC). It has a wonderful blend of drama and comedy that evokes the old WB shows.
August 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
If you have soft spot for teen dramas/coming of age stories, I highly recommend Sterling Point on Amazon. Created by Megan Park (writer/director of My Old Ass) and produced by Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage (The OC). It has a wonderful blend of drama and comedy that evokes the old WB shows.
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I know the context is that there was a test screening and that’s where it came from (also; fuck test screenings) but given that pretty much every straight woman I know is foaming at the mouth to watch Olivia Coleman get pounded by a sentient wicker basket maybe just let the material speak for itself
‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen.
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
August 8, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I know the context is that there was a test screening and that’s where it came from (also; fuck test screenings) but given that pretty much every straight woman I know is foaming at the mouth to watch Olivia Coleman get pounded by a sentient wicker basket maybe just let the material speak for itself
Same Gen Z test audiences that wanted a kiss cut from Twisters.
‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen.
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
August 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Same Gen Z test audiences that wanted a kiss cut from Twisters.
Dealing with Sky customer services is truly taking years off my life.
August 6, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Dealing with Sky customer services is truly taking years off my life.
I highly recommend this brilliant novel. It picks up story threads from his previous novel Everybody Knows, but it works equally well as a standalone thriller. But this feels like Harper's Empire Strikes Back. Not since Don Winslow's cartel trilogy have I wanted the next instalment so badly.
August 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I highly recommend this brilliant novel. It picks up story threads from his previous novel Everybody Knows, but it works equally well as a standalone thriller. But this feels like Harper's Empire Strikes Back. Not since Don Winslow's cartel trilogy have I wanted the next instalment so badly.
If you're in the UK and access Paramount+ through Sky/Now TV, you actually get to watch episode 3 instead. And if you access it through AppleTV, you get to watch episode 4.
My review of this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a haunted house story with some interesting ideas it repeats a few too many times:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds recap, Season 4, episode 2: 'The Griffin Incident'
Kirk, Spock, and La'an find themselves trapped on a haunted ship
www.whatsalanwatching.com
July 30, 2026 at 7:49 PM
If you're in the UK and access Paramount+ through Sky/Now TV, you actually get to watch episode 3 instead. And if you access it through AppleTV, you get to watch episode 4.
Tickled that the guy behind Mobland is basically doing Yellowstone: Scotland for Paramount+. Kinda annoyed I didn't think of it myself.
www.joblo.com/laird-greenl...
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Joe Wright and Kenneth Branagh team for Paramount+ drama Laird
Paramount+ has ordered Laird, a new Scottish Highlands drama starring Kenneth Branagh and directed by Joe Wright
www.joblo.com
July 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Tickled that the guy behind Mobland is basically doing Yellowstone: Scotland for Paramount+. Kinda annoyed I didn't think of it myself.
www.joblo.com/laird-greenl...
www.joblo.com/laird-greenl...
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The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")
July 18, 2026 at 1:14 AM
The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")
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But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA
British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
July 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA
So dumb. If the creative arts aren't a priority, then they'll run out of things to offer to the AI companies.
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
July 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
So dumb. If the creative arts aren't a priority, then they'll run out of things to offer to the AI companies.
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Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
July 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
Driver's Ed just dropped on Amazon. Plays very much like a Gen Z take on Road Trip. And you can tell it's Gen Z cos there's a scene where 3 characters discuss how environmentally friendly their car is... as opposed to having a scene where Stifler gets his prostate milked.
June 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Driver's Ed just dropped on Amazon. Plays very much like a Gen Z take on Road Trip. And you can tell it's Gen Z cos there's a scene where 3 characters discuss how environmentally friendly their car is... as opposed to having a scene where Stifler gets his prostate milked.
Not sure why Harry Kane decided upon this for his vid line up.
Sirius Black: Losing It in Azkaban
Alt: Sirius Black: Losing It in Azkaban
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June 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Not sure why Harry Kane decided upon this for his vid line up.
Some excellent news.
Hit drama #TheOtherBennetSister will return with three-part Christmas special on BBC One. More details:
www.tvzoneuk.com/post/theothe...
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THE OTHER BENNET SISTER TO RETURN WITH THREE-PART CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ON BBC ONE
The Other Bennet Sister is returning to BBC iPlayer and BBC One for a three-part Christmas special produced by Bad Wolf for the BBC and BritBox North America.Screenwriter Sarah Quintrell, who wrote ni...
www.tvzoneuk.com
June 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Some excellent news.
Terrible decision. Peacock is giving FOX a run for its money when it comes to making bad calls.
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'Ponies' Canceled By Peacock After One Season
Peacock has opted not to renew its 1970s espionage thriller Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, for a second season.
deadline.com
June 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Terrible decision. Peacock is giving FOX a run for its money when it comes to making bad calls.
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Look, if you really need to squeeze money that badly, just hire a cheaper CEO and elimate executive bonuses. That's a bigger windfall than nickel and diming the lower ranks and telling everyone to reuse paper clips and post-its.
I'm not saying there's NO role for AI in the filmmaking process. But if the redundancy you're talking about eliminating is human taste, experience and creativity, you're just ignorant of what the process actually is in creative terms, and you just want to curry favor with the money people.
June 22, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Look, if you really need to squeeze money that badly, just hire a cheaper CEO and elimate executive bonuses. That's a bigger windfall than nickel and diming the lower ranks and telling everyone to reuse paper clips and post-its.
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I haven’t seen the movie, so this is not a comment on the quality of the movie; but I don’t have any interest in seeing a Robin Hood movie where the marketing tagline is that Robin Hood wasn’t a hero. It’s like marketing cheesecake by saying “this cheesecake is no dessert”
June 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I haven’t seen the movie, so this is not a comment on the quality of the movie; but I don’t have any interest in seeing a Robin Hood movie where the marketing tagline is that Robin Hood wasn’t a hero. It’s like marketing cheesecake by saying “this cheesecake is no dessert”