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09NovNovember 9, 2021

Rogue Squadron Shelved “Indefinitely”

The official statement is that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkin’s pet Star Wars film, Rogue Squadron has been delayed without a projected start date. That usually translates from the Hollywoodese as ‘it's canceled but we don’t want to say it's canceled.’It is supposedly being pushed back a year but here is the kill quote from Hollywood Reporter, “The hope is that once Jenkins’ fulfills her previous commitments, she will be able to return to the project.”Which wouldn’t be able to start until...

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08NovNovember 8, 2021

The Aggressive Mediocrity of Bob Chapek

A while back I had joked that the Disney difference was now just “Six Flags Over Orlando.” I have never spoke truer words.When the new Riviera Resort opened it was a chance for Bob Chapek to demonstrate the kind of curator of Walt Disney’s legacy he had been as the big boss of all the Disney Parks.It turned out he was cheap and unimaginative. One thing that has always set Disney Resorts apart was the theming. Even if the resort was going...

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06NovNovember 6, 2021

Cheap Thrills – The Friday Night Edition

Chris Chibnall's final season of failure has begun on the shortest season of Doctor Who in the show's nearly sixty-year history. Apparently. I have to take other people's word for it that it's on the air again because I'll be damned if I'm wasting another minute of my life on the travesty he created. However, there was a time when Doctor Who was something special.There was also a time that it was wandering in the wilderness after it was canceled...

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04NovNovember 4, 2021

BBC Loses Creative Control of Doctor Who

Despite the fact that the BBC are absolutely the owners of the IP, they are having to give up creative control of Doctor Who.Russel T Davies is being brought back on board to try to… I was about to write “save a sinking ship,” but the sad truth of Doctor Who is that the only part of the ship still above the waterline is the top of the smokestack. It would be more accurate to say that he’s been brought in to...

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03NovNovember 3, 2021

Blog Business

First. The first Open Thread seems to have been successful. I'll be posting one on Fridays from now on.Second. I'm afraid I'll be posting less frequently until the end of the year. I will finish writing my new book by Dec 31st if it kills me. Although I'm not abandoning you, my beloved readers.

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02NovNovember 2, 2021

Eternals Tracking Softens After Rotten Rating

The opening weekend projection has been dropped from over $100 million to the mid-sixties. After Eternals dipped below 60% on RT and stayed there. The review battle was valiantly fought with Rotten Tomatoes frantically rounding upwards when it should have been down, changing votes to Fresh that were obviously Rotten. And finally, frantically creating new reviewers who obviously hadn’t seen the movie. They finally gave up, it’s at 58% as of this morning, certified Rotten by critics. And that doesn’t include the newspaper reviews that...

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01NovNovember 1, 2021

Book of Boba Fett Not Trending on Twitter.

Buffy is, but not Boba. Buffy is probably getting by on Halloween inertia but the Book of Boba Fett's trailer just dropped on YouTube and it's not getting any traction. When you see it you'll know why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJ1cw6mohw I have no reason to watch this show. Admittedly, I was never much of a Boba-Boy but those that were don't seem that excited either. From what I can glean from the trailer, after murdering Bib Fortuna, Boba is promising to...

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01NovNovember 1, 2021

Open Thread

This is an experiment for me and like most of my experiments, it will likely end in disaster.Discuss what you want but...IT MUST BE ABOUT POP CULTURE, ANYTHING ELSE GETS NUKED.When I say the thread is locked no more posting is permitted.********************************************************THREAD LOCKED

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01NovNovember 1, 2021

Kathleen Kennedy’s Contract Was Secretly Renewed

I've shaken the trees and that is what has fallen out.The deadline has come and gone. There has been no announcement of Kennedy's imminent departure as well as no ringing endorsements of her replacement coming from official Disney channels.Also, Kay-Kay has been making a bunch of little digs at the Star Wars fandom this week in interviews, which amounts to her yelling, "I'm still standing bitches!"The story I got is, that Chapek signed her renewal because John Favreau doesn't want...

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30OctOctober 30, 2021

Eternals is (or rather was) Officially Rotten

The Eternals was at 59% at Rotten Tomatoes (briefly). The SJWs absolutely freaked out over a deliberately and overtly Woke Marvel movie getting a certified Rotten rating at RT. Truthfully, it should be lower, a lot of fairly negative reviews for this movie are being rated Fresh.The positive review bombing started immediately, it is now slightly above Fresh.Just to let you know in advance. There will be no Dark Herald Recommends on Eternals. It's three hours long...

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