February 2023 - Page 2 of 3

20FebFebruary 20, 2023

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Antman and the Wasp Quantomania

I have rarely seen a genre movie so dripping with contempt for its core audience. Nineteen eighties Mexican sword and sandals videos had more respect for the people that would be seeing it than this flick did. There are no characters, only cut-and-paste caricatures. This is no plot, only a series of ridiculous contrivances. This entire motion picture has been built around appearance for the sake of appearance. It is a Disney Frankenstein. This film is broken. Like its namesake, there is no substance...

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18FebFebruary 18, 2023

More Bad News for Brie Larson

The Marvels had a summer release date of 28 July this year. It just got shoved back to a November 10 launch. It's not quite as bad as the January graveyard but that said, it sure as hell ain't a summer slot either. There were rumors it was testing badly, I think we can now assume they more than rumors. Captain Marvel has been a major and self-awarded headache for Kevin Feige. Feige's ego got in the way of harsh...

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15FebFebruary 15, 2023

Raquel Has Left Us

She was the last of the old-school Hollywood bombshells and the most frequent complaint about her was that she couldn't act. If that was why you were watching Raquel Welch, you were doing life wrong. She arrived in a Life magazine spread called "The End of the Great Girl Drought." This got her a 7-year / 5-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. The studio wanted her to change her name to Debbie, instead, she made Raquel a household name. She...

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15FebFebruary 15, 2023

RUMOR ALERT: Hogwarts Legacy TV Show

Warner Brothers' earnings call is ten days away. Zaslav will be making a number of announcements both good and bad. Because he has to be seen to be doing something. The most important this time is going to be who he is picking to run Wizarding World Productions (or whatever they are calling the Harry Potter Universe). Zaslav needs something more solid than a name, he has to announce a production but if the DCU is anything to go by, he isn't going...

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15FebFebruary 15, 2023

Is Velma Getting A Second Season?

Depends on who you ask. I've been seeing claims that it is getting renewed all day. I just can't find anything that looks like a real confirmation. Just YouTubers and access media reading each other's headlines. The brighter ones are putting a question mark on the statement. I've found no official announcement in Variety, or the Hollywood Reporter, and only a backhanded confirmation in Deadline. Mind you I'm not saying it's not getting a second season. It still might. Warner...

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13FebFebruary 13, 2023

Super Bowl 2023 Movie Trailers

Not all of the trailers. Just four. These are the only ones that I have to see for the Arkhaven Blog, and truthfully only have to see three of them but I'm geuninely interested in the first one. Regardless, the intriguing factor of these trailers for me is the number of views in the first 24 hours. It's not a perfect measure of audience interest to be sure, but it does give you an idea...

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13FebFebruary 13, 2023

Gamer Gate Is Over, We Won

Gaming journalism is dead. It died last week. Gideon Litchfield, the Editor and Chief has thrown Wired’s credibility completely down the toilet. He has come forward defending Wired’s ludicrous 1/10 rated review of Hogwarts Legacy. There is no part of this review that isn’t laughably incompetent on every level. It fails at everything a review should try to do. The reviewer in question “Jaina Grey” doesn’t do game reviews at all. Jaina’s beat (sorry for that choice of word) is anal sex...

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10FebFebruary 10, 2023

Warner Brothers’ Grand Design

It’s simple but complicated. AT&T spun off Warner Brothers when they setup the merger with Discovery. However, they still own a great deal of Warner Brothers Discovery stock. They want Warner Brothers sold to another company. Zaslav’s job is to get it ready for that sale. Everything to do with the DC has to be viewed through that prism. The first thing Zaslav had to do was trim the fat. So, he killed off what I’m going to call the Sarnoffverse. The previous regime’s plan had been...

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10FebFebruary 10, 2023

Blogs And Ends: The When Did I Start Running a Business News Blog Edition?

Okay too many things to get cranked out too fast. So I'm doing an anthology post. FIRST Iger is thinking about selling Hulu On the face of it, this is nuts. Hulu is one of Disney's few real money makers. Its annual gross revenue is $9.6 Billion. However, it's less crazy when you dig into to it. Currently one third of that gross revenue has to go to Universal. Here's a quick refresher on the background. Hulu started as an equal partnership...

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09FebFebruary 9, 2023

Breaking News – Disney Proxy Fight Has Ended

Nelson Peltz has dropped his fight to get on the Disney board of directors. This comes literally the day after a fairly brutal earnings call for Bob Iger. He had to admit that Disney streaming has disastrously underperformed and lost millions of subscribers. Mostly because they had to end the sleight of hand regarding subscriber numbers due to the Warner Brothers lawsuit. Everybody is cleaning up their act in that regard. Hot Star in India lost most...

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