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05JunJune 5, 2023

Monday Box Office Roundup 6/5/23

Well, the Monday morning box office is almost good news for The Little Mermaid. The foreign box office came back from the dead on the second weekend. The FBO didn’t decrease, and it is now sitting at $140 million. Domestic on the other hand dropped significantly at 60%, leaving a weekend total of $186 million. Grand Total so far: $326 million. Forget what I just said, this is bad news for Disney. The Lion King (2019) did much better than that on its first weekend. The Hollywood...

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03JunJune 3, 2023

AI Apology

I was laughing when I read the first line. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn't just a bad idea for a game. It's a bad game period. 2023 is the year that Bethesda's model of "just release a game that is more buggy than an anthill and then patch your way to something playable before the first steam sale," went mainstream. Yes, this is yet another AAA title that was far too underbaked to justify its $60 price tag. I can...

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02JunJune 2, 2023

Ratings Terrorism?

Yeah, that's a new one. Unusual description for bad foreign reviews of the new Little Mermaid, wouldn't you say? Now if you are Disney it's a perfectly understandable one. Disney Studios was banking big on this film being a hit of Aladdin and Lion King levels. Instead, it's going to lose money. The foreign box office is absolutely dead for this thing. The Lion King and Aladdin were more or less faithful adaptations of classic, hand-drawn animated films from Disney's 1990s...

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01JunJune 1, 2023

Is Elemental Pixar’s Last Film?

The house that Lasseter built will shortly be launching Elemental. A romance between a flame elemental (kickass female) and a water elemental (hopeless simp). Wonderful. The cast is one long checklist and it was directed by the same guy who helmed The Good Dinosaur. Peter Sohn being one of the few creative lights at Pixar that Jon Lasseter didn’t see fit to tuck under his arm and run off to Skydance with. Elemental has a budget of $200 million and a release date of June...

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31MayMay 31, 2023

OverWatch’s new Seasonal Event

Overwatch hasn’t created a new seasonal event for five years. After the first year Chinese New Year, Overwatch Anniversary, Summer Games, Halloween, and Unspecified Winter Holiday were it. But there is a new one now!!! This is sad and hilarious at the same time. Whenever Blizzard has a huge public dick up with OVERWATCH one of the characters turns gay. Completely canceling the PVE section of the game, which as a reminder was the reason they rebooted Overwatch in the first place,...

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31MayMay 31, 2023

Disneyland Nails It’s Pride Flag to the Mast

This post has been made at the urgent and enraged insistence of Eldest Darkspawn. The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique has always been a special place for little girls at Disney Parks. If their Dad has money to burn or is vulnerable to enough pleading from wide tearful eyes. The girl's mother will get in on the act with the "she's only going to be a little girl once" argument. When you are already paying $5 for a 20-ouncer of Coke, ludicrously...

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30MayMay 30, 2023

FLASH: CBR IMPLODES!!!

Once the most reliable site on the internet for comic book news, Comic Book Resources has become a Woke parody of the Big Two of comic books. For values of Big anyway. But today Valnet fired CBR’s editor-in-chief Adam Swiderski along with TWO more senior executives in “major structural changes” amidst “culture and performance issues.” Translation, the venture capital dried up, ad revenue is in the basement and CBR’s management was pretending it was still 2014. Developing...

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30MayMay 30, 2023

HARDDRIVEBY: WARHAMMER 40,000 BOLTGUN

In all honesty, this game was not made for me. I am not a Warhammer 40,000 fan. When I was first made aware of it, I thought it looked really interesting. Then I saw how much money it seemed to suck out of its fans. “Even in debt, I still serve.” I didn’t have that kind of money to burn back then. Consequently, when it comes to Warhammer 40K I remain a Flirt. The reason I’m starting with this caveat is that I am not going to...

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29MayMay 29, 2023

RE:View Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is arguably the most influential space opera of the 20th century. Yes, I’m including 2001, Star Wars, and Alien in that statement. The reason is simple it was genesis. There were elements of all three of those films in Forbidden Planet. Sure, there were space opera movies before Forbidden Planet. But most were serials that were heavily influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs like Flash Gordan or Buck Rogers. George Pal produced some of the best early efforts in that genre but sadly his...

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29MayMay 29, 2023

The Little Mermaid Craters

This is a disaster for Disney. Not that you would know that from the level of spin going on in the trade media. "BOFFO BOX OFFICE BONANZA FOR THE LITTLE MERMAID THAT COULD! $163 MILLION ON ITS OPENING WEEKEND!!! If that was just the domestic total then, awesome, boffo indeed. But it's the grand total. Just for reference, the godawful CGI Lion King remake hauled in $269 million on its opening weekend and that was in 2019 pre-Bidenflation bucks. In today...

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