It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen this year. I have to give it that. I’m afraid I can’t give it a lot else.Beetlejuice x 2, is a sequel that feels like a sequel. Tim Burton didn’t really want to make it. Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega didn’t really want to star in it. But Michael Keaton delivered on it.I suspect this movie only got made in the first place because Ryder and Keaton’s stock has risen in the past...
Normally the Arkhaven Blog isn’t a political blog. But this crosses over onto my turf. Dana Walden has up until now been the most likely candidate to succeed Bob Iger as the CEO of Disney. This may… I must stress, may have just been changed. The ABC WhistleBlower covered his tracks, his affidavits sworn on penalty of perjury were mailed before the debate. Basically he predicted everything that happened that night.Dana Walden is already taking questions from the very friendly Variety. Meaning...
Twenty-five years ago today, Earth's Moon was blasted out of orbit and into deep space.To this day we have no clue as to the fate of Commander John Koenig and the three hundred souls under his command at Moonbase Alpha. We know from their last transmissions that they had somehow survived the catastrophe but beyond that nothing.The tidal forces of the Moon being ripped out of orbit left Earth in throws of tsunamis, earthquakes, and other seismic upheavals (probably...
When I first saw the Millennium Falcon as a little kid in 1977, I thought it was the coolest thing in all existence. There was nothing about it that I didn’t love. The WWII AA guns were cool, the B-29 bomber bridge was cool, even the boarding ramp was cool. I had literal dreams about the Falcon. I was in love. That isn’t to say that it didn’t raise a question in my young little head. If this was a freighter, where did you put the...
One of the biggest disappointments of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s professional lives had to be the poor reception of Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. It was their only theatrical release, and it was a bomb. Gerry Anderson had put his heart into the project. The script was as good as he could make it. There were plenty of thrills and chills, and while the basic science of a film that was supposed to be hard science fiction didn’t pass the smell...
Part 1, and Part 2Barbara Bain must have loved this DVD coverSpace 1999 completed its first season with a good deal of critical praise and a strong following among genre fans. A strong following doesn’t mean a big one. ITC head, Lew Grade had been very disappointed by the lack of an American network sale and as usual, was seeing very little reason to continue the show. It was pretty expensive and although it wasn’t losing money, it wasn’t making...
On February 25, 2020, Bob Iger held a surprise press conference. There was a new CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Standing beside Iger was a shaven-headed man with no charisma. Everybody who watched that press conference could tell there was something way off about Iger. Chapek could see it too, as reporters shifted their attention to him, fifteen years of watching The Boss’s body language told him that Bob Iger was becoming angry.Back in 2015, at the Burbank campus...
Hoo-Boy, these investors are steamed at Ubisoft. Rightfully so. Ubisoft’s stock price has cratered from a high of $23 to $2.61 today. If you had sunk $1,000,000 into Ubisoft when the stock was at its height, you would have a market value of $113,000 today.Ubisoft has been a notable DEI trainwreck of a gaming company this year. Ubisoft has over-monetized and underdelivered on its AAA (Sorry I mean AAAA) games. The company owned a monster with Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. ...
I'd much rather watch thisLord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is proving to be a notable malinvest on Amazon’s part. I’m honestly not sure what the business plan was for this program and that is assuming that it ever had one other than being a vanity project to impress Jeff Bezos's mistress. If that is the case then The Rings of Power’s only notable accomplishment has been to make Mackenzie Scott Bezos the richest woman on the planet...
#TheDarkHeraldWasRightGood Omens season 3 has been "delayed." I called this back in August when the Coraline sequel went from green light to red light. The Tumblrinas are sobbing about this because of course they are. Granted, these are mostly Tennant fan girls but they are exactly the kind of women that Gaiman would allegedly victimize.Prime Video has halted production on the final season of “Good Omens.” The decision comes two months after series creator and showrunner Neil...
