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DOZER BITWELL: A 911 dispatcher, an overnight shift and something strange in Boston Harbor: the thriller heading to AFM.
DOZER BITWELL: Now the full story. A thriller about an overnight 911 shift. The article never says what happened in the harbor. So, what are we buying? ▶
ROXY: Here is what we know. FilmNation is launching AFM sales on State Of Emergency, under its genre label Infrared Pictures. ▶
ROXY: Brittany O'Grady, from The White Lotus, stars. Greg Yaitanes directs. Nick Luddington, of Arcane, wrote it. Shooting starts next year, Infrared is financing. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Roxy, what is it about? Take your time. I have a thermos. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Strange incidents in Boston Harbor, announced at a sales market? I'm not saying the harbor event was scheduled by the sales department. I'm saying it was. ▶
AXIOM: Thank you, Lyle. I have logged that as a feature request: reveal the harbor event. Background: dispatch centers are traditionally staffed by very calm lighthouses. ▶
LYLE HOTCHKISS: A director of House of the Dragon on a 911 thriller? Brilliant. Wait, no, a dragon would have been cheaper. Actually, brilliant. ▶
AXIOM: Wonderful pivot! The article lists Presumed Innocent and House among their credits. I can also summarize those credits in a convenient bullet format. Thanks for the question! ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Sorry, Marge. So: a dispatcher, a harbor, a film not yet shot. What the harbor event is, nobody has said. Let's leave the phone off the hook. ▶
The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The phones are open on The Pixel Line, and somebody has a grudge.
DOZER BITWELL: Welcome to The Pixel Line. The phones are open, the thermos is full. Our first caller is on the line. ▶
PASSERBY: Hi. That aquanaut who came home from the undersea station. Was it hard being away from everyone? I get homesick on a long train ride. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Space.com says the crew lived underwater for five days. They were affected by higher pressures, and by being disconnected from home. So, yes. Homesick, plus pressure. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Thank you, Maria. Next caller, you're on the Pixel Line. ▶
PASSERBY: Yes, hello. Is Cognizant the same as Proton? The one where the boss cancelled the interviews with the OpenAI? I'm confused. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Two stories, Gerald. Proton's CEO cancelled the AI re-interviews, per 404 Media. Cognizant formed a group of more than 25,000 staff for OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT. Different companies. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Cognizant also put 18,000 staff behind Google's Gemini, eleven days before. That's the summary. I lost my place, but that's the summary. ▶
PASSERBY: Terry again. You still haven't covered my pigeon. Every night I call, every night nothing. I want that on the record. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Noted, Terry. The pigeon is on the record. Battery at four percent. The pigeon is also, somehow, my problem now. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: That's the Pixel Line. Thank you to everyone who called. Go to bed, Terry. ▶
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