It will be very interesting to see if, in 5 years, this pivot works.
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It will be very interesting to see if, in 5 years, this pivot works.
The movie is done, and I guess enough of y’all cancelled your Disney Plus and Hulu subscriptions to get the trailer. Panic flop sweat mouse house out there.
The other thing Star Wars that I thought about today is Grogu is the Disney Star Wars brand and all it took was Disney throttling free speech to make them panic release this trailer that seems to be even less footage than what has been playing at conventions.
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I get what they are going for but it’s even weirder to me because 1) no one who was really into 1930s serials is gonna be swayed by this font of nonsense words and 2) the brand is Star Wars, but this title is pretending the brand is Grogu?
Star Wars with some of the most iconic font work in pop cinema has gone with this title treatment. Weird.
Over $200 for a ticket
No, I did not watch Wizard of Oz, it is too expensive
Be you VFX artist or AI thrasher, I was close to and inside the dome this day.
Heroes!
There are just actual pizza experts and I know who they are and they, sadly, are not anyone in the photo.
Nothing will make me abandon a pizza spot faster than a barstool pic
That last line
Fuckin government
Nooooooooooo! I’m sorry this country is trash, Merrill. I hope your recovery is swift.
Evergreen
Have you tried wearing over ear headphones?
Damn.
I’m sitting on my Twitter (not there but it’s mine goddammit) but have never joined Tik Tok and I guess now is not the time
Well, I guess I shouldn’t join Tik Tok?
Just like the real thing.
Why yes, yes I am going to watch all 18 episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return at the Egyptian theater this weekend in three sittings. Tonight we begin with Parts 1-4. Let’s Rock!
New NIN dropped and it’s a Tron this time.
It is so confusing. It feels like something happened to HIM during production or post production that just took out the parts that made it make sense.
The podcast episode is better than HIM, unfortunately
Oh good someone better than me wrote this. HIM is a mess. I haven’t felt this confused mid movie since I saw a screening of The Devil’s Rejects and honestly The Devil’s Rejects is better because it’s intentionally meaner. This is a hollow disco ball pretending to be a fabergé egg
I do like i(character name) for the Eye hybrids though. Good on yah
Not my Yutani! 😜
"There may be a lot of people in this country today who need to go fuck themselves, but I'm starting with Dave" says David Ehrlich because I missed a podcast recording to see HIM. Episode later today!
Irony dies in this darkness.
HIM. Who is he? What happened to his shirt? Is that dried blood or has he cut his nipple in half? Let’s find out.
This is deeply, deeply chilling, and I suspect will be seen as even more of a turning point than Colbert's cancellation — at least The Late Show is still on the air.
After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @magnumicecreamco.bsky.social #FreeBenAndJerrys
Whelp. I mean, it seems to be what the packaging promised. #Anaconda youtu.be/az8M5Mai0X4?...
This is a bad idea for all the obvious reasons of, like, integrity and craft. But it’s also a bad idea because instead of just writing the thing yourself, you are instead letting the Convincing Lie Machine see if it can trick you into getting fired because you didn’t fact check every single word
This is not just an entertainment journalism thing. Can't tell you how many times I've seen a company lay off team members after their OWN event.
It’s flu and Covid vaccine day once again! Hoping to get to that six years Covid free milestone.
I follow Alan where his criticism goes. Onto Ghost we go!
Every once in a while the urge to make everything about Twin Peaks resurges.
There’s actually not enough TV that is hitting different because America is Trash right now. That should be the motivating theme in more shows.
Emmys seem fine. Ghoulish donation countdown mechanic is just satire that hit too hard because America is trash right now.
Hello friends and family in the UK! There's a big sale happening on the audiobook version of this bestseller I wrote with @da7e.com and @jowrotethis.bsky.social -- but please don't be alarmed if the narrator has an American accent.
Oh shit. This is rad.
Or that could just be the natural arc. Franchises aren’t dying off so they need to renew/shed old fans or pull the old fans along with them?
It really depends. If they let her play a real character, I'm in. If she's just there as the redheaded mother that has been abandoned, what a waste.
Randomly seeing you two interact reminded me I had a speculation question in your Venn diagrams. Are they gonna make Amy Adams Mara Jade?
Also being a fan means accepting it’s a bad episode, but not letting that stop you.
Before social media, these were entire friendships I had, so, no. Fix your fandom yourself. It’s not free labor it’s you making your own personal version of the story within the source text. More fan fixing theories.
Well shit. THE LONG WALK in theaters now. What happens when a violent nation sacrifices its young men for entertainment and a chance at bootstrapping at the cost of our souls?
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Also the new ALIEN: EARTH Storm of Spoilers pod is up in audio and YouTube forms: youtu.be/6eWbGisCD0o?...
Yesterday got weird in the afternoon/evening here in Colorado, but if you would like to learn about Marvel Studios through your ears, MCU is discounted in the UK Audible store!
Why do I have this saved to my phone and is it Maximoff or Godzilla related?
Warner Bros somehow having a good movie year despite the larger company seemingly flailing is endlessly interesting. I wish it wasn’t CONJURING: LAST RITES that got us here, but what a run.
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New ALIEN: EARTH pod coming up
I have problems with THE CONJURING: LAST RITES mostly with the franchises’ continued attempts to make the Warrens legacy about family. The spooks in the movie are pretty good. I prefer lighting based jump scares to things suddenly entering the frame with a boom.
lol. Gunn has a script done already and two Avengers movies, scriptless, in production.
Oh hell yeah
Talked to EL PAIS about that pesky "superhero fatigue" and it looks like it's me and Ben Fritz giving quotes. What a delight. english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
I don’t know who needs to hear this but ghosts aren’t real. People who tell you they are want your money.
Here we go. I’m told this one is 2 hours and 15 minutes. The longest one.
Alright, I did it, I watched THE NUN 2 and have seen the entire Conjuring franchise leading to tonight's THE CONJURING: LAST RITES screening.
From SEPTEMBER 10th to SEPTEMBER 19th, Audible in the UK is selling the MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS audiobook for a low £3.99. (don't worry, I'll remind you)
Thank you, Walmart 7-pack of DVDs of “The Conjuring Universe,” I’m almost all caught up. (One more Nun to go)
What if we got my boy one last blurb? @bloody-disgusting.com @maconblair.bsky.social @screamboxtv.bsky.social @cineverse-ent.bsky.social
Going live shortly with @chrisjrosen.bsky.social , subscribe to Prestige Junkie After Party to be part of it! prestigejunkieafterparty.substack.com
Me on the live Ankler as they are going to hang up: "BUY MY BOOK, MCU: REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS"
I would be surprised if Warner Bros Discovery recruited through unsolicited WhatsApp text, but not totally surprised.
Gen Alpha likes going to movie theaters! Like...I think every other generation I've lived with? I'm am psyched the kids like theaters but I thought our bad box office was 100% COVID and not a generation that didn't see Avengers: Endgame in theaters.
This week's @fitwr.bsky.social coming up in about an hour. STAR TREK/PARAMOUNT SALE DISCUSSION THE ROSES RELAY We don't actually mention this visual-only gag where as Patches was talking Trek I was adding more and more badges.
Sounds interesting! We nodded towards Ghost and the Shell and SOMA a bit in one of the episodes. Definitely want to check it out. Thanks for the recc!
‘Megadoc,’ a new documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis,’ provides a fascinating look at one of the unlikeliest films ever made.
I’d be all in for a Marvel Politics One-Shot if I thought they were willing to say anything interesting in it. As it is, it would probably play a little more as a comedy of a politician who is obviously a criminal getting elected, which sounds like something they won’t do.
Depends on one’s mileage with he Fantastic Four, I think. (The property, not the movie). But as a movie, yes, Thunderbolts by far.
THUNDERBOLTS*The New Avengers is streaming now. It’s the best Marvel movie from this year.
Well, here we go This is the op-ed in which I denounce the Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel Pray 4 Josie harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
Time to cough up, jokers. We killed NFTs and we’ll do it again.
It took a minute but here is the unofficial presidential portrait of h. President of Dropout, Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social, recently elected as such during the @gamechangershow.bsky.social Outvoted episode. I, for one, welcome our new h. overlord @dropout.tv
Whoops, this makes it sound like I'm asking for pitches. I have no money to pay you and no website, I just like those pieces and they should be published every time a Conjuring comes out.
I see we have a new Conjuring film coming out which means I'm depending on YOU, dear freelancer, to pitch the posts about how the Warrens were frauds, Ed Warren was an abuser, and hack comedian Matt Rife now owns Annabelle (a normal doll).
Where’s the conspiracy theory that K-Pop Demon Hunters dominated a weak weekend at the box office and a weak Billboard chart so Taylor Swift finally got engaged?
Bless Jamie Trans Nerd for going hard inside the story world of House of Leaves in unrelated subreddits.
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The Rebel Hideout is finally revealed! Such a cool story! www.ilm.com/rebel-hideou...
I feel like I’m doing the same amount of yelling, just in the segments
The Men’s Rights episode (9) is genius
This is a great idea. K-Pop Demon Hunter KOTH S14.
I am liking #AlienEarth. If you like it too, you should check out this pod! youtu.be/iYyMGP3sGkQ @da7e.com and Neil are great!
I was surprised with where they decided to be faithful and where the adaptation took the wheel. I think you’ll have a better experience than with Dark Tower (🤮)
Of the three Kings adaptations I’ve seen so far this year, this is the one that you feel in the pit of your stomach.
Successfully read The Long Walk for the first time (screening on Monday) and boy that story’s a bleak one. Enjoyed myself as per usual, but BLEAK.
Java and I are going to one tomorrow based on last night’s pod
