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08FebFebruary 8, 2024

Disney’s Feb 7 Earnings Call Impressions

Fellow travelers within the cabal are circling the wagons around Bob Iger with a view to preventing Nelson Peltz and Jay Rusulo from getting on the Disney BOD. These weren’t softball questions, these were T-ball questions. Clearly they had been instructed about that which they could and could NOT ask questions about.The closest thing to a hard hitting question was, what are you going to do about the film business? Iger replied with what I think is the most terrifying...

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07FebFebruary 7, 2024

A Less Optimistic Appraisal of the Netflix Avatar Trailer

It's been a while since I posed anything by E;RMostly because it's been a while since he posted anything himself.Regardless he's a bigger Avatar fan than I ever was so I will respect his opinion on this matter.Dour as it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8TkayFT34 Note: I might not be posting tonight, depending on how interesting the Disney earnings call is today.

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06FebFebruary 6, 2024

RE:Play – F.E.A.R.

I’ve made no secret of my disdain for Blockbuster Video. When I was a young man and down on my luck, I could count on their brutal return policies to leave me surviving for a week on Cheez-its and Value Star Bean Dip. The company’s insistence on leasing rather than owning their property cut the Blockbuster’s own throat when they were down on their luck. There was a reason Family Video survived for a decade after Blockbuster went under.Nonetheless, there were...

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06FebFebruary 6, 2024

RIP Toby Keith

1961 - 2024You have no idea how much... This. Song. Speaks. To. Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y

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05FebFebruary 5, 2024

Space Daddy to Aquire Disney?

No, he isn’t but I’m required to cover this.At the premiere of Lola, a film with a title so unimaginative it’s up there with For Love or Money. Elon Musk was going out of this way to ham it up on the red carpet. He was wearing the bomber jacket he had on for the New York Times Book Thingy. The one where he told Iger to commit self-procreation. Yeah, that jacket.He was clowning it up on the red carpet...

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02FebFebruary 2, 2024

RIP Carl Weathers

Sad news this afternoon. His agent confirms that Carl Weathers has passed.From Deadline:"Carl Weathers, who turned charisma, talent, hard work and athleticism into a 50-year acting career, died today at 76.Weathers studied theater in college, where he also played football. He parlayed the latter into a brief NFL career with the (then) Oakland Raiders in 1970. He began working as an extra in blaxploitation films at the time. That led to roles on TV and eventually film, where he had his...

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02FebFebruary 2, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Zom 100

It might surprise you to know I’m not much of a zombie fan. Despite the fact that my first book was technically a zombie uprising story.’ I don’t like victim horror, and zombie fiction leans heavily into that. There also tends to be a very strong nihilistic bent to it. I might perk up my ears if someone comes up with a new variant on this old formula. But that just doesn’t happen much anymore.I thought I’d seen it all...

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31JanJanuary 31, 2024

Extra! Extra! Disney’s Lawsuit Shotdown in Federal Court

From That Park Place"United States District Judge Allen Winsor dismissed The Walt Disney Company’s lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida...In a 17-page document granting the motion to dismiss, Judge Allen Winsor wrote, “The clerk will enter a judgment that says, ‘This case was resolved on motions to dismiss. Plaintiff’s claims against the Governor and the Department Secretary are dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiff’s claims against the Central...

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31JanJanuary 31, 2024

Larry Fink Comes for Geralt of Rivea

The Witcher is dead It’s all over but for the crying. I knew it the moment that CD Projekt Red CFO, Piotr Nielubowicz used the word “stakeholder.” In the past, this term meant nothing more than another common word that described the owners or stockholders (which is another way of saying owner) of businesses and corporations. However the unholy trinity of Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street have given “Stakeholder” a new meaning.Stakeholders are now employees that terrorize their companies into complete...

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30JanJanuary 30, 2024

Universal Officially Announces They Will be Eating Disney’s Lunch

This is what Universal is buying with the billions that Bob Iger will be paying them for Hulu, (which he is incidentally shutting down and rolling into Disney+. That's some 4D chess Bob).I realize there are a few pixie dusters out there that have been trained by Mickey the Great and Terrible to snort, "they can announce what they like. It's what gets built that counts."Sorry guys you're going to have to just take a hit of that Special Magic because...

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