Rumor: Kathleen Kennedy is leaving LucasFilm... Again. Sorry, not buying that one even if John Campea is. There is supposedly an agreement that she leaves the company after Indy V launches. I've heard that one before. I'm not buying that one either because she wants to leave on a high note and no project that she is headlining will be successful. How did Kathleen Kennedy get to where she is today? W-e-l-l-l-l, I do know that when she...
I’ve frequently heard the claim that superhero movies are dead or dying. That they have worn out their welcome. This is usually being said by people who were never interested in them in the first place; like film critics. However, superhero movies have been around since 1978 when young Gen-Xers were first made to believe a man could fly. It’s frequently stated that these franchises go in cycles, but this really isn’t the case. What happens, (and it happens every time), is that the franchise...
FLASH! Midnight coup by Disney’s Board of Directors. Bob Chapek, is out. Dragged from his bed in the middle of the night and stood against a wall. Bob Iger is back in as CEO for the next two(?) years. That is a weirdly abbreviated contract. Susan Arnold is remaining as Chairman of the BOD. Iger had both jobs until he was hit by a boardroom revolt in February of 2020. The institutional investors all knew that the next two or three quarters would be losses. That was baked in. It was...
One of the last members of the Old Guard of hard science fiction has passed. During his career he authored over fifty books. He won five Nebula awards and two Hugos (back when a Hugo was worth having). He was also one of the founders of San Diego Comicon. Greg Bear suffered a massive stroke last week, his wife Astrid (daughter of Poul Anderson) released a statement saying that per his wishes, life support would be withdrawn. He breathed on...
It looks like nothing is coming up roses for Disney at the moment. Strange World is being treated like a bomb waiting to happen. Lightyear and Bros have already demonstrated just how much of the world was clamoring for gay romantic comedies. Which is no part of the world. From the interviews James Cameron has been giving, I think Avatar: The Way of Water is testing badly too. Cameron shot the next two chapters simultaneously and was planning on a fourth installment when...
Okay, you might not know what that means. During Peter Rice’s heyday at Disney, all kinds of really and obviously terrible projects got the green light. This was one of them. In the early 00s Eisener got a bug up his ass about making park rides into movies. He had one bomb with Haunted Mansion but more than made up for it with the Pirates of the Caribbean. If you watched any of the behind scenes stuff you could tell pretty quickly that everyone on...
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Many things are going on with Disney and almost all of them are bad. We will start with the biggest news. Black Panther Wakanda Forever had a big opening weekend of $192 million domestic. Maybe. Here’s the problem. There are a lot of reports that once again the box office has been Fortified. If true, then this is another example of Disney’s weird little practice of buying up large numbers of seats on the opening weekend...
I feel like such a chump. I honestly thought Marvel was going to try for once. I have no idea what this unfounded optimism was based on. Most of the praise for this film was written by shills before it hit the theaters. You can tell. Although, I have seen legitimate good reviews for this movie, and they were entirely from fat Gamma Males. If you are a Fat Gamma Male or are simply a Gamma male who is fat in spirit, this is absolutely the...
I noticed there was a ton of screaming coming from the people who publish on Webtoons.com. Okay, there is always a lot of noise from that corner, but this seemed to be genuinely angry for once. It turns out they had good reason. Their payment program just went bye-bye. A notice was sent by Webtoon, notifying its CANVAS Creators that the Creator Rewards Program will end in January 2023. A "tipping system" will replace the program, but the platform did not divulge details as to...
Kevin Conroy was thee voice of Batman. Two generations grew up with him voicing the Dark Knight. The film actors have come and gone at random for the last twenty years. But Kevin Conroy was a constant in changing world. Adam West had an early claim to a clownish iteration but he didn't play the role anywhere near as often or carry the part as seriously as Conroy did. "This series was clearly a high priority for Warner Brothers...
