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05AprApril 5, 2024

Skydance is Likely to Buy Paramount

I was too steamed over yesterday's news to notice that #TheDarkHeraldWasRight again.As I had guessed, Shari Redstone was just using David Zaslav to get David Ellison to see things her way. Skydance has entered into exclusive talks with Paramount with a view towards a merger. This is by no means a guarantee but Redstone is hot to sell and Skydance is hot to buy, so this is now just negotiating. Warner Brothers was never a serious contender, even though Zaslav is...

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03AprApril 3, 2024

Clown World Keeps Hold of Disney

At about 9:00 AM Eastern someone at Disney broke the law.A leak from a source that was clearly viewed as reliable by the business press, claimed that Disney had enough votes to hold off giving Nelson Peltz a seat on the Walt Disney Company board of directors. The only reason to do this was to support the Iger slate. This is a felony offense.The SEC has always come down very hard on leaks like this in the past but I...

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02AprApril 2, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends – Godzilla X Kong: New Empire

I’ll begin with the obvious, this film is no Godzilla Minus One. It’s not even close to that good but you knew that just looking at the trailers. However, this is a completely different kind of movie that’s meant for a different audience. If you watched Porky’s and were expecting Saving Private Ryan, that screw-up is all on you. Same thing applies here. If you went to an American Godzilla movie and expected something from Toho, you should have managed...

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01AprApril 1, 2024

RE:View – The Last Jedi

You would have to be Glob’s perfect retard to not recognize that this is easily the greatest Star Wars movie of all time. There is literally nothing that this film got wrong. I am left near to weeping just thinking about the perfection that is Ryan Johnson’s magnum opus. The closest thing to a problem is the opening score. John Williams's bombastic and overbearing Star Wars Main Title. This ridiculously overblown tone poem of a score has been assaulting the ears...

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31MarMarch 31, 2024

Kong Vs. Godzilla (Part One)

BUMPED 3/31/2024In a pre-Star Wars universe, guys in silly rubber costumes tramping around flimsy sets were awesome.Give a kid a bunch of cardboard boxes and a crayon and within minutes there were would be a Tokyo skyline. All ready to be stomped flat by a hunched over boy, who occasionally interruppted the carnage to give his mighty Godzilla roar.When I was nine, my only sources of income were scouring parking lots for dropped change, returning pop bottles, and (for one summer)...

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30MarMarch 30, 2024

Blogs and Ends: Disney the Dismal Update

Next week we will see if Nelson Peltz and Jay Rosulo get seats on the Disney board of directors. While this does not mean that Bob Iger will automatically leave the company if they win, it will be seen as a body blow to his prestige. Worse still he will not be leaving on his own terms, assuming he was ever planning to leave at all. He has an advisory contract that is slated to go into effect the moment he goes...

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28MarMarch 28, 2024

First Impressions: Netflix’s Three Body Problem

This is not a review of the whole series, it is just my first impressions of the first couple of episodes.Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu was the last Hugo-winning novel of the year that will ever enjoy any real broad spectrum respect from actual readers as opposed to the literary community. The translation of the first book of Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy arrived in the middle of the Great Puppy War. It was so good it enjoyed...

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27MarMarch 27, 2024

Disney Folds to Florida

Disney's lawsuit was always about public relations. There wasn't the slightest hope in hell that the US judicial system would throw out the entire body of American property law for the benefit of Bob Iger. Not that there wasn't a lot of media retards predicting that would happen.Well, it didn't. I'll give this much to Mickey the Great and Terrible, the embarrassment of this stupidity was kept to a minimum. With the shareholder vote only days away, Iger apparently decided this one...

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27MarMarch 27, 2024

The Dark Herald Was Wrong, Iger Should Dump ESPN

On September 7, 1979, Lee Leanard said the first words ever heard on ESPN, "If you're a fan, if you're a fan, what you'll see in the next minutes, hours, and days to follow may convince you you've gone to sports heaven."Leanard had no way of knowing just how right he was. The Rasmussen family (not the famous one) had come up with the idea of a cable network for local sports events in Connecticut. It turned out it was...

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26MarMarch 26, 2024

Book Discussion: The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth is an anthology of novellas by Cixin Liu, the (2015) Hugo Award-winning author of the Three-Body Problem. Which incidentally was the last time the Hugos reflected the voice of the entire fandom instead just 300-pound, purple-haired weirdos. I found this collection as intriguing as the Three Body for similar reasons. When I read his first novel, I was honestly rather surprised by what he was able to get away with in Communist China. That book began with an unflinching look...

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