Coyote Vs. ACME has been released from the Iron Chamber of Tax Writeoffs. The producers have been cleared to shop the movie around. There were a bunch of questions about why this one had been killed. The audience testing was in the 90% approval territory. The plot was that Wile was suing Acme over a history of consistent and prolonged product failures that frequently injured him severely. There is now enough controversy going for it that...
"Who else could join? " Are you serious Marvel? They've handed themselves another sillyass problem here because the only others that can join are Shuri, America Chavez, and Iron Heart. This is pathetic, there are no other teen heroes available. The only mystery here is, are they going to be able to put a boy in this hen party? Marvel has provided these girls with no one they can correct, sneer at, or look down on. Also, not to state the...
The movies were successful, and it was apparent fairly soon after the acquisition that unless we made some egregious unforced errors or were blindsided by some unforeseen outside event, Marvel was going to be worth far more than we’d anticipated. -Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime Yeah Bob, so about that... The Marvels did not beat out Five Nights at Freddy’s opening weekend. They knew that going in but now Disney has to cope with the fact that they didn’t beat...
I survived this movie. I have to give it that. Okay, I’ve survived worse but Antman and the Wasp Quantomania wasn’t deliberately trying to kill me. I’m not sure I can say the same about The Marvels. I’ve made so many Frankenstein jokes about Disney/Marvel/Star Wars movie scrapbooking. I indeed and truly am out of material when it comes to this new one. That said The Marvels is only utterly incomprehensible if you try to pay attention to it. Let the...
Yeah, it sucks. This was a failure that was fifteen years in the making and started the day Bob Iger walked into Ike Perlmutter's office to discuss a possible merger. The problem was that Perlmutter appears to have been fundamentally incapable of not seeking mega buyout ultra riches at the expense of long-term achievement. It was basically the story of his business life or at least it was until he and Ari Arad bought out Marvel in the mid-nineties. Sure that deal...
The day after Bob Iger's November 8th earnings call Disney's stock price jumped up $6 per share. Which immediately raises the question, did Disney have that good of a quarter? Oh hell no, but there were some numbers that could be tortured until they confessed. Plus, the actors' strike ended yesterday and that had a positive halo effect on the whole industry. If you take Iger's presentation at face value then I suppose it does look like it's all sunshine and furry...
The legendary creator of Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, had announced his retirement after the release of The Wind Rises. Truthfully as soon as he announced he was hanging up his paint brushes his fans started the timer. They couldn't believe he could walk away for good. However it was looking like he was serious. The Wind Rises was released in 2013 and it didn't look like he was changing his mind. Which was a pity...
The review embargo on The Marvels has been lifted. Owww. I'm sure it will go up. However, it looks like Disney can't be bothered to send out bribe money on this one. The big question at this point is, will The Marvels outperform Fiver Nights at Freddy's. Discuss on Social Galactic
This was genesis. Pacific Comics was the place where it all started. True, Eclipse is better known today and rose a lot higher before their own crash. Malibu Comics had Ultraforce, Men in Black, and Alien Nation. But without Pacific Comics there would have been no shoulders for them to stand on. Its origins were about as humble as you can get. Brothers Bill and Steve Schanes started up a mail-order comic book business pretty much in their parent’s garage. It was...
