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16NovNovember 16, 2021

Why Kathleen Kennedy’s Contract Was Renewed

Under normal circumstances, the one-two punch of The Last Jedi and Solo would have sunk any executive's career. When John Carter failed at the box office, Iger fired the president of Disney Films. The guy who is above Kevin Feige and Kathleen Kennedy.However, the years of their releases changed things. Last Jedi came out in 2017, Solo in 2018. The films' performances were irrelevant. They both became inextricably tied to the #Resistance against the Orange...

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15NovNovember 15, 2021

It Looks Like I Was Right

Inside the Magic is reporting that Kathleen Kennedy's contract has been quietly extended.Inside the Magic (more commonly called Inside the Tragic) isn't just a shill site for Disney. They are an ironclad (4 feet thick) Disney shill site. There is no way in hell that Inside the Tragic would go with a story like this without the express permission of Disney. They just wouldn't do it. Their entire livelihood depends on their good relationship with...

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15NovNovember 15, 2021

I Have Lost Something

This is more of a discussion than a review or recommendation.Consequently, I will make no effort whatsoever to avoid spoilers.You.Have.Been. Warned.************************SPOILERS*****************Busy weekend for Dwayne Johnson. He had Jungle Cruise drop to standard subscriber tier on Disney Plus and Red Notice launch on Netflix.First up, Jungle Cruise.Whether or not you’ve already seen this movie, you’ve already seen this movie. It’s Brenden Frasier’s version of the Mummy from twenty years ago. For that matter, it’s also Romancing the Stone from forty years ago (ouch).Woman Adventurer,...

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13NovNovember 13, 2021

Open Thread

Discuss what you want but...IT MUST BE RELATED TO POP CULTURE. ALL OTHER COMMENTS WILL BE NUKED.When I post "thread locked" no more posts.

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12NovNovember 12, 2021

Chinballs Scorched Earth Doctor Who

Chris Chibnall is building a tribute to all Gamma Malekind with the 13th season of Doctor Who. He would appear to be privately furious about being fired from the job he’s wanted since high school and is determined to leave Russel T. Davies with nothing but smoking ruins.There was a stream of leaks not too long ago that looked incomprehensibly ridiculous when they first hit the internet. But one of these leaks has proven to be true. And frankly, the Timeless Child looked to...

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12NovNovember 12, 2021

Did Feige Get the Stallone Treatment?

I think there is no question he did. But the big question is was it deliberate?For those who don't know what the Stallone Treatment is. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone had a feud going in the 1980s back when they were fighting it out for the title of King of the Blast Flicks. They officially kissed and made up but the underlying rivalry was still very much there, but they were pretending to be friendly in the...

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11NovNovember 11, 2021

Disney Plus Fails to Meet Wallstreet Expectations

Terrible earnings call for Bob Chapek today.The growth of Disney Plus is tortoise-like and it's all in the wrong markets. Disney Plus needs to get subs in the West where they can charge decent prices that will actually turn the company a profit. Instead, the only place anyone is signing up is in India, where the business model is dependent on low prices with mass subscriptions. I asked a friend who still has a free year left...

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09NovNovember 9, 2021

Rogue Squadron Shelved “Indefinitely”

The official statement is that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkin’s pet Star Wars film, Rogue Squadron has been delayed without a projected start date. That usually translates from the Hollywoodese as ‘it's canceled but we don’t want to say it's canceled.’It is supposedly being pushed back a year but here is the kill quote from Hollywood Reporter, “The hope is that once Jenkins’ fulfills her previous commitments, she will be able to return to the project.”Which wouldn’t be able to start until...

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08NovNovember 8, 2021

The Aggressive Mediocrity of Bob Chapek

A while back I had joked that the Disney difference was now just “Six Flags Over Orlando.” I have never spoke truer words.When the new Riviera Resort opened it was a chance for Bob Chapek to demonstrate the kind of curator of Walt Disney’s legacy he had been as the big boss of all the Disney Parks.It turned out he was cheap and unimaginative. One thing that has always set Disney Resorts apart was the theming. Even if the resort was going...

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06NovNovember 6, 2021

Cheap Thrills – The Friday Night Edition

Chris Chibnall's final season of failure has begun on the shortest season of Doctor Who in the show's nearly sixty-year history. Apparently. I have to take other people's word for it that it's on the air again because I'll be damned if I'm wasting another minute of my life on the travesty he created. However, there was a time when Doctor Who was something special.There was also a time that it was wandering in the wilderness after it was canceled...

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