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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.FIRSTIger is thinking about selling HuluOn 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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08FebFebruary 8, 2023

Who Will Be the First Openly Gay Star Wars Character?

I sense a disturbance.REPOST: 2/8/23 from two years ago. Disney/LucasFilm will be looking into the queerness of a long established Star Wars character. Which one you ask? (long tired sigh) #TheDarkHeraldWasRightA stupid question to be certain but one that SJWs are demanding an answer to.And Disney will absolutely provide that answer. There is zero doubt in my mind that past a certain point, one of the senior executives at Fort Mickey will start demanding it.During the...

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08FebFebruary 8, 2023

Tianna’s Horrifying Salt Mining Collective

Well, Splash Mountain and Brer Rabbit's adventure that has charmed families for decades is gone for good.*As I have said before, the ride was in desperate need of refurbishment. And while Disney could have shown an ounce of integrity by preserving its groundbreaking contribution to the black American experience, this is fucking Disney we are talking about.And Iger was just getting too many Boomer vapors because of Song of the South. They could have also preserved the integrity of...

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07FebFebruary 7, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice

This is it.This is finally the Terry Pratchett film his fans have waited for, “the looked for that cometh at unawares, the longed for that cometh beyond hope!” It is the Terry Pratchett movie that finally got things right.At least for me. Purists will doubtless be furious that this favorite scene or that was left out. And given that the RT scores for once seem to reflect the reviewers’ accurate opinions (due to a lack of bribery funds) score of 75% (audience score is...

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06FebFebruary 6, 2023

Rumor Bomb: The Future of Star Wars

Okay, this one is all on WDW Pro.Normally I wouldn't go with a rumor like this but Pro's track record is exceptional so my confidence in this intel is high.There was a big pow-wow at Disney on the future of Star Wars. Iger, the senior executive leadership at Disney as well as the leadership of LucasFilm. Disney has massively over-invested in Reylo Star Wars. The sunk costs are too big to reskin the rides and attractions at Disney...

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04FebFebruary 4, 2023

RE:Play Bioshock

Okay, how many of you would inject yourself with a random bottle of Glowing Red Shit just because some guy on a radio, who you have never seen before, said you should? -- Cataline SergiusThis is an oldie I decided to brush the dust off of and tack up here.Bioshock is now ten years old. Wow, think about that for a second. That much time has crept up on us since the first Bioshock game came out.2007...

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03FebFebruary 3, 2023

HardDrive-By: Dead Space (2023)

I can’t believe I bought this game.I stumbled across the first Dead Space game pretty much by accident. I was in Target (which I no longer set foot in), and I had some money available for a cheap game (this was right before the first of the Steam Sales). I am not nuts about horror games but I had enjoyed F.E.A.R. and was looking for something like that. I forget what I paid for Dead Space, but full price would have been...

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02FebFebruary 2, 2023

Oscar Predictions 2023

First, the award show is going to suck unless Will Smith slaps somebody else. Second, Marvel will take home its first serious Oscar. They’ve won for technical awards before… I think… Honestly, I didn’t check, and I don’t need to, it’s the only thing the Academy would give to a popular movie. So, Marvel almost certainly won for one of those non-serious awards Anyway, Angela Basset is going to win for Best Supporting Actress for Wakanda: Forever. Was her performance Oscar-worthy? Well, it was the best thing in...

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