I am very reluctant to report on rumors of Kathleen Kennedy’s impending demise as CEO of LucasFilm for the same reason everybody else it. That rumor has been sailing around since The Last Jedi and that franchise trainwreck is coming up in its seventh anniversary this year. Every time some new Star Wars-related disaster strikes, the rumor mill gins up again. No one could believe her contract would be extended in 2021 but the expiration date came and went with no sign...
BUMPED 7/26/2023 Have you ever thought about how hideously disastrous it would be to undo the Thanos Snap? In this week's episode, we see “Geraldine” (it’s actually Monica Rambeau) being reverse-dusted back into existence in a hospital room. She looks around in confusion and then heads out into a corridor that is suddenly packed with frantic people running about aimlessly in shock and confusion. One man says, “I have to call my wife!” And that is when it hit me. Just how bad undoing The Snap...
Yeah, shocking I know. A Marvel character that was just killed off will be resurrected before her $250 million (allegedly) budget movie comes out. It’s not why this is happening that’s important, that is pretty much self-evident, there’s a movie coming out that Marvel is hoping won’t bomb. So I’ll take a quick look at how her raise-dead spell was performed. Marvel Studios is finally after five years trying to incorporate some of the characters they picked up from the Fox buyout....
Barbie started life as a call girl. No, I’m not joking about that. Meet Bild Lilli: Her Bild Magazine comic strip was rather worryingly popular in post-war West Germany. Enough so that she inspired a rather evil looking collectable doll. Now in fairness to the Germans, the doll was meant as a gag-gift. However, Mattel executive Ruth Handler saw something more in her than that. How boys play with their action figures is a lot different than how girls play with their...
No. It's not about the wife of Leonidas of Sparta. Go away, you make me sad. For some peculiar reason Godzilla is only popular in Japan and America. Other countries are aware of him but they never took the interest in him that America did. Japan is one of those countries the US has a special relationship with, it pretty much began with Commodore Perry. It was a relationship that definitely had some love/hate vibes going on. We...
I might get a review up tonight but I doubt it. It will likely be Monday. Regardless, if you had any plans to take your little girl to see the Barbie Movie, cancel them now. This is just a little Woke, it's a Woke Dumpster fire filled with burning tires.
Pixar was at the time an excellent acquisition for Disney. Sure computer animated characters were new but there was no real problem fitting them into Disney's existing pantheon. In the last Wreck-It Ralph movie there was a gag with a Disney princess's green room and no one could understand Merida's accent because "she is from the other studio." But Merida, Woody, and Lightening have no trouble fitting into the Disney-shared universe. And there effectively is a Disney-shared universe....
Disney employees are in panic mode. Or perhaps I should say more in panic mode than usual. Bob Iger is now openly admitting that he's looking for buyers for some of Disney's properties. Specifically, it's cable networks and ABC, although not all of it. A week ago Iger gave an "unusually candid interview" on CNBC's The Squawk Box. Where he discussed the possible sale of Disney's linear assets ABC, Freeform, FX, and the rest of the cable networks Disney...
Way back in the Before Internet Times, meaning the Seventies and Eighties because who cares about the seriously Before Internet Times that proceeded that, if you were a comic book fan and you were curious about European comics your options were: Pretend there was no such thing as European comics Try to get a semester overseas thing. Join the military and hope you didn’t get posted in New Mexico Buy a copy of Heavy Metal. There is an internet rumor that Heavy Metal magazine was...
This weekend’s box office was underpowered as opposed to the gaping maw of utter fail we’ve gotten used to seeing this summer. Mission Impossible 7 has opened with a reasonably solid $235 million worldwide. When adjusted for inflation this is a slightly weaker first weekend than Mission Impossible: Fallout. MI:7 is a much better movie than Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. A lot less CG and a lot more traditional heroism. It has its weaknesses but a lot of that is from...
