At the age of 31 Tobe Hooper delivered one of the greatest horror movies of all time for under $140K. Texas Chainsaw Massacre rewrote the rules of American horror as a genre. There was something intimate to the horror of Chainsaw. It spoke to Baby Boomers and told them the old rural world must be cast aside. That it was degenerate, corrupt, and their parents were right to abandon it. A lot of Chainsaw’s success derived from its anti-rural bigotry that...
Yesterday Josh D'Ammaro, the CEO of Disney Parks and Experiences had an absolutely amazing announcement to make. Over the next decade, Disney is going to be investing $60 BILLION into the parks. The business press got stupidly excited about this one, and the entertainment press was peeing itself in awe and wonder at the daring of Iger the White. Why then did the Disney share price crash? Isn't this the good news investors were hoping to hear?Well,...
Last week Unity Create announced a plan that may have killed the company. Starting next week developers will be charged $0.20 per downloaded game that uses the Unity Engine. This caused an eruption in the game developer community, the kind that might easily turn out to be an extinction-level event. Darklings: Why the big woof? It’s only $0.20. That amount is so small you can’t find a cent key on most planks these days. Good question and here’s the reason for the...
Fables is one of DC/Vertigo Comics longer running titles and is wholly owned by its creator Bill Willingham. Stick a pin in the 'wholly owned' part because we are circling back to it. Willingham is one of those artists whose work you are familiar with even if you never heard of him. He got his start as a staff artist for TSR doing work on Dungeons and Dragons in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His work was fairly well known...
Welcome to the Arktoons Spotlight, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog. The Spotlight is where I take a look at one title from the amazing world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant for you. I am the Dark Herald; I do the blogging here at Arkhaven.com. The blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. And you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the webtoons. Arkhaven is different from other webtoon publishers. While...
FIRST https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1696963693312188613 Is it really stolen honor if no one believes you for second?Look armchair Medal of Honor winners, the internet is a thing now. Just googling a little isn't going to remotely sell you as a super ninja Green Beret SEAL in 2023."Trained sniper, military style..." Even a cook, regardless of service would never have phrased it like that. Also, the whole disassembling and reassembling blindfolded thing doesn't happen. It's bullshit. Any DI who tried to have his...
I got into an interesting discussion recently. “What kind of princess is the new Snow White supposed to be anyway?” It was the rehash of just how horrible of a person Rachel Zegler is, and the nasty things she had to say about her new character. Here’s the thing, while I have very little doubt that she’s spoiled, narcissistic, and generally speaking five feet of walking malignancy, she didn’t come up with those lines that she bombed herself with at D-23. Those were...
Mickey the Great and Terrible has raised the white flag in the Great Cable War of 2023. Charter is victorious. Ten days past, Disney pulled all of their content on Charter Cable’s fifteen million viewers, to include ESPN at the start of football season. Pro and college football fans were incensed... at Disney. Cancer Rat was for his part shocked that people would blame him for something he did. Disney was demanding a price hike from Charter. Spectrum/Charter said, look asshole you’re double...
BUMPED: Sept 11, 2023.Jon Del Arroz's Flying Sparks is coming to you in comic book format, provided you support it. There is only ONE DAY left in this campaign! Meta-Girl fights a KRAKEN!Meta-Man CRUSHES the COMMIES! Plus an incredible origin!All of this and more in Flying Sparks: The Companion! Back today!Flying Sparks chronicles the story of Meta-Girl who's dating supervillain Johnny Benvinuti under her secret identity, while the world is threatened by a crazy tyrant who unleashes...
One last thing before I'm off to BasedCon for the weekend.Disney has lost its federal lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida.Disney amended its federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to focus solely on its First Amendment claim that the governor politically retaliated against the company. Disney last week had asked to drop its other claims in the case because they are being actively pursued in a separate state-level lawsuit in Florida.One of Disney's lawyers must have had the "Look asshole, it's...
