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08MayMay 8, 2024

Disney’s Stock Craters After Earnings Call

Inspiring performance Bob.Disney's Q2 earnings call was today and I think it spoke for itself. I suspect some of this was put options being exercised. Everybody knew that the price of Disney stock had been artificially inflated because of Nelson Peltz's bid to get on the Disney BOD. Which means there were a lot of sell orders with a hair-trigger.Now that Iger's job is safe for another year, the investors have finally started badgering him about Marvel's disastrous performance. And he really didn't...

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06MayMay 6, 2024

RE:View – Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

It’s better than it has any right to be. Which is not to say that it’s good.One of the joys of a total knee replacement is the insomnia. I had been watching Wicked City on Tubi, drifted off before the end and Spacehunter had come on because, for some inexplicable reason, Tubi thought I would like it. I kind of did. Back in the eighties anyway. One thing that always strikes people who watch this thing is that it feels like it...

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06MayMay 6, 2024

And Here’s Superman!

I guess.This is the first picture of David Corenswet as Superman.I appreciate the calm, but your hustle could use a little work Kal-El.Discuss on Social Galactic

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06MayMay 6, 2024

Super Earth Has Conquered Sony

Sony has thrown in the towel. Details to follow as they come in. Developing.Discuss on Social Galactic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hCkh2AH58

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05MayMay 5, 2024

RIP Bernard Hill

This would appear to be a weekend for sad news, and I’m afraid I have some more.Bernard Hill who played King Theoden in Peter Jackson’s epic of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has passed at the age of 79.Hill was born to a catholic mining family in Manchester, in 1945. He got into the business when Britain still required actors to earn their Equity card. Meaning he spent most of his twenties in out of way corners of...

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05MayMay 5, 2024

Sony’s Helldive (Update)

Wow, Sony actually managed to make a bad situation worse over night.Helldivers 2 was cutoff from all 177 countries where PSN is unavailable last night. It took a while to find out who did it.If it was Valve, that would have been understandable. They were going to have to refund any games sold between now and the end of the month anyway, so it would make sense for Steam to cut it's loses.No, it was Sony. They have officially doubled down. This California...

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04MayMay 4, 2024

Helldivers II Disaster

It was fun while it lasted.Helldivers II was the great white hope of the gaming world. AAA games are trash now but this one was the kind of game that we all used to love. It was a hell of a lot of game for $40 bucks. There was no pay-to-win or pay-to-cheat. No subscription required to play it. No DLC that was obviously created concurrently. Nothing was disabled for the lower price except Stratagem Hero. Live service games in recent years...

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02MayMay 2, 2024

Zaslav Takes One to the Knee Cap

Comcast/Universal has put together a bid a $2.5 billion bid for TNT’s contract with the NBA that is currently due to expire at the end of the 24/25 season. TNT’s owner Warner Brothers Discovery is countering with a bid of…ZERO.They will not be challenging Comcast’s bid.From the Blazer's Edge:Comcast’s NBC Universal is prepping a huge bid to take over TNT’s role of the NBA national broadcaster. The Wall Street Journal broke the news Monday, with Deadline reporting details afterward. Turner...

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01MayMay 1, 2024

Avoid Like the Plague: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

. There is an annual contest for writers to come up with the most hackneyed and cliched opening sentence they possibly can. They come up with gems like "She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were." This entire movie is like that sentence but it lasts for more than two hours...

By The Dark HeraldUncategorized

30AprApril 30, 2024

Paramount’s CEO Fired Right Before the Earnings Call

Well that was brief but exciting. Bob Bakish “stepped down” right before the Paramount earnings call started on Monday. Like the tombstone says, I had looked for this but not so soon. I actually no, I had looked for this and been surprised I hadn’t seen it long before now. Under his “leadership” Paramount has fallen to the bottom of the Hollywood ladder. It has assets but no real ability to make use of them now. Like every other studio that gambled...

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