Home > Trending > Watch: Woman turns fridge water dispenser into wine dispenser in the best hack of 2016 Watch: Woman turns fridge water dispenser into wine dispenser in the best hack of 2016 Forget Wikileaks and Julian Asange, this is the only hack the people need in 2016. Twitter user @iliketweet hit peak adult this weekend after having an inspired realisation that would allow her to have cold wine on tap for as long as she wants. Well, until she runs/passes out. Being blessed with one of those fridges that comes with a water dispensing function, Clare decided her own fridge needed an upgrade and swapped water out for white wine, thus becoming a fully functioning adult that we should all respect. — Clare (@iliketweet) December 11, 2016 Safe to say, Twitter was impressed. this is the best idea I've ever seen https://t.co/eVX2JMYpBH — katie (@vanilllaface) December 12, 2016Throw some Jameson in the ice maker so I know it's real https://t.co/cdntsfa6Fh
— King Crüe (@CrueTrillz) December 11, 2016 Imma do this for my new apartment except with henny https://t.co/QrVObhm86C — ☾ thomas halbert (@ThomasBeautyy) December 12, 2016 Read an article about a woman who rigged her fridge to dispense wine. Became sad when I realized my fridge has no water dispenser... — Ashley Wall (@peoniesnmint) December 12, 2016 She didn't fill the fridge's tank to its 4.5l capacity but that's probably for the best because we can only imagine the mix of confusion, joy and sorrow that would occur on a daily basis if she did. Also, unless it's sealed, that wine box is going to start absorbing all the smells/tastes of everything else in there, so maybe don't try this one at home. Unless you're a fan of wine that tastes of cheese and leftovers. Watch: Two Irish people who Jimmy Kimmel brought into the Oscars reveal all about the big night A black and white version of Logan is being 'worked on' Barry Jenkins reveals heartfelt Best Picture speech he would have given for Moonlight win
Watch: First look at Aquaman underwater unveiled by Zack Snyder The Oscars will no longer be working with the two PwC accountants involved with this year's awards James Cameron pens opens letter to the memory of Bill Paxton The world's largest passenger aircraft will land in Dublin this March Time to wrap up - snow and frost are being predicted for this weekend It's hard to believe but these strawberries are not red You can now get spice bag powder (but it's not very good, apparently) Watch: Stephen Colbert tears Donald Trump's speech to Congress to shreds for twelve minutes Do you really need that protein bar?Stolen emails from reveal the studio tried and failed last summer to recruit Phil Lord and Chris Miller to take over its animation division. The emails from the hacked documents, obtained by Variety, show studio toppers and looking to animation “to turn the studio around.” They hoped to install a Pixar-style “brain trust” of filmmakers at the top of .
Lord and Miller were being courted to head that group; other names being floated included Brad Bird. Lord and Miller, who directed “” as well as SPA’s “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and the studio’s “Jump Street” live-action comedy hits, met with Pascal last summer to discuss what such a brain trust might look like. Lord and Miller even suggested they would approach Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to join that team. “Can you imagine that world — the projects, the talent we’d attract, the money we’d make,” Pascal wrote to Lynton. Pascal acknowledged in the email that Lord and Miller were tied up making four “Lego” pictures at Warner Bros. through 2015. But when the pair were asked to detail any concerns they might have about coming to Sony, Lord wrote an email to Hannah Minghella, the former Sony Pictures Animation chief who now works for Pascal exclusively on the live-action side. He cited the bad reputation of Sony Pictures Animation and the studio’s visual effects unit , a reputation that developed from the loss of key talent from both divisions and Imageworks’ move to Vancouver.
“It’s too hard to do great work there,” wrote Lord to Minghella, in answer to Sony’s query. Their assessment was only slightly harsher than an internal assessment that Minghella had sent to Pascal a day earlier. On July 31, she emailed Pascal, with subject line “Confidential” (ellipses in original): “Objective: We want the creative direction of the company, and the projects, to be run by creatives… either an individual or a brain trust: Lord & Miller, Brad Bird, Will Gluck… Minghella outlined how such a brain trust might work, then turned to: – low morale negatively impacts talent retention. – studio reputation negatively impacts talent recruitment – only one (proven) director in-house: Genndy. – SPA no longer has the competitive edge it had before Fox, Universal, and Paramount started their animation divisions. – ImageWorks moving to Vancouver also impacts the competitive edge that came from being LA based – limited financial success compared with other animated titles – what are the drivers of this: Quality?
– limited number of active projects/franchises – Cloudy, Hotel T, Smurfs, Popeye – does the relationship with ImageWorks help or hinder SPA?” (Genndy is “Hotel Transylvania” director Genndy Tartakovsky.) The ensuing emails suggest that until they attempted to recruit Lord and Miller, Sony’s top brass was generally uninformed about the decline of Imageworks and the ill will that the studio’s personnel practices had generated in the vfx and animation community. After receiving Minghella’s honest assessment, Pascal had an email exchange with Lynton about their efforts to make Lord & Miller “our john lassiter” (sic). Pascal wrote to Lynton that Lord & Miller were excited about taking such a leadership role, but: “… they say we have lost every good person we had there and it’s a travesty” She also added that Lord & Miller had floated the idea of approaching Rogen and Goldberg, among others, to join that brain trust. “i’m having lunch with brad bird today to talk about it with him as well…this is our shot,” wrote Pascal.
Lynton responded: “why have all the good people left our place????” Later that morning Lord emailed Minghella a list of key talent that had left Imageworks; according to Lord and Miller’s reps, they sent that message in response to a request from Sony for feedback on why they were reluctant to return. Lord wrote that he and Miller felt that at Sony “artists have been treated like paper, and it’s too hard to do great work there,” adding, “What’s not measured by who left is who never came because the reputation was so bad.” Minghella forwarded the message to Pascal. Lynton wrote to Pascal and pointed a finger at Sony Pictures Digital president Bob Osher, who oversees Sony Animation and Imageworks. Lynton implied that Osher would have to be fired. Pascal responded that Osher’s “cost savings stuff” at Imageworks was “amazing.” “I am only sorry that left bob to his own devices and let it get to this point. And we just renewed Bob which is also a problem given what we will probably have to do.
That being said we should do it,” Lynton said in his email to Pascal. Pascal wrote back to Lynton about the brain drain at SPA and Imageworks. She repeated some of the names Lord had provided and added: “we gotta hold on to these folks.” “we know this is an impossible situation… a much tooo great an asset to waste not to mention a real way to turn the studio around…..we have lost the competitive advantages we had when we were th eonly option for people who wanted to leave disney dreamworks or pixar as well as the advantages we had to get local talent when imageworks was one of the few remaining la based options. more than ever we have to rely on our reputation as a place for creative innovation and excellence and we don’t have that reputation or reality anymore.” In the early years of this century, Imageworks was known for driving up wages for vfx pros, to the dismay of management at its competitors. One of the “big four” vfx studios, along with Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues Studios, it was a regular Oscar contender and would work on several tentpoles each year, in addition to supplying the animation for SPA.
Imageworks planned to support the low-margin vfx business with profits from animation, which has been successful for every other studio. But SPA’s pictures have underperformed relative to the competition. One of the studio’s biggest hits was Lord and Miller’s “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.” Over the years Imageworks shifted away from permanent jobs to a crew model, where artists are hired only for the duration of a show, which slashed personnel costs. Imageworks shifted more and more work from Los Angeles to Vancouver, and employees have complained that they were pressured to move to Vancouver, only to find that there was no job waiting for them, just an opportunity to be hired onto the next Imageworks project. In May, the division moved its HQ and all production to Vancouver. During the summer of 2013, Imageworks did not work on a single summer tentpole. This year it had Sony’s own “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and contributed to Marvel’s releases.