reddig33
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- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 days ago:
I wish AMC had given Moonhaven more of a chance. Same with Rubicon and Lodge 49.
It’s also a shame the original Battlestar Galactica was too expensive for network television. Fun show and ahead of its time.
- Comment on The late 70s Trek series we never got to see 🥹 4 days ago:
I always felt the negative version of these titles looked so much better.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Begins With $3.5M Previews: Higher Than ‘Dumbo’ & Not Far From ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ – Box Office 4 days ago:
Ah yes, “Kung Fu Panda 4” — the smash hit by which all other movies are measured.
- Comment on "The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" will reportedly be pulled from theaters this Wednesday 1 week ago:
Studios didn’t own the streaming or broadcast TV channels then. Now they make more money by selling the property through channels they own and control.
- Comment on Teaching unions gear up for fight with Number 10 over AI job-loss fears 1 week ago:
It would be really stupid to use AI to teach kids. We can’t even get that technology to work correctly for summarizing notifications or providing accurate search results.
- Comment on 'Starship Troopers' Remake Set From 'District 9' Director Neill Blomkamp 1 week ago:
This reminds me of the recent Dune remake. It will probably be successful, but I’m content with my memories of the previous productions.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
Titanic would’ve been a better movie if they’d cast someone other than DiCaprio. But it probably wouldn’t have been as big of a hit.
- Comment on Spinal Tap II (2025, dir Rob Reiner) 1 week ago:
I thought about this if it was actually a trailer. But it’s just somebody’s hand, turning dials and then some titles. I’ll wait for a real trailer.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy that the studio would spend more than half the amount of the movie’s budget on marketing. Of course this is Hollywood accounting so who knows where that money actually went.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm 2 weeks ago:
I want aware that it flopped, though this seems to have been the press narrative for many outlets from its release.
$53 million global opening weekend sounds like pretty good business to me.
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
Which is probably why they have millions of subscribers but are still losing money.
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue studios shouldn’t own the channels at all. It’s hamstringing the industry, starving out movie theaters and preventing creatives from shopping their content to competitors.
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
They have all those Taylor Sheridan programs people are hooked on as well.
- Comment on AMC Theatres Is Having Regrets About Caving to Studios 2 weeks ago:
They’re losing out because the studios and the streaming channels, not the theaters. They make more profit by sending the movie out of the theater and onto their channels as soon as possible.
- Comment on ActBlue, the Democratic Fund-Raising Powerhouse, Faces Internal Chaos 2 weeks ago:
Oh good. Maybe it will collapse and I will stop getting fundraising texts from them every damned day.
- Comment on The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2024 (Including all earnings, film salaries, & other forms of income) - The Rock Tops the List with $88M 3 weeks ago:
Not sure that The Rock is worth that kind of money.
- Comment on U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World 3 weeks ago:
“Make the World Sick Again.”
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 3 weeks ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 3 weeks ago:
High energy use. Anytime the power goes out you’d lose your bed, etc.
It’s also possible that the holodeck re-creations of things aren’t as realistic feeling as they look. It’s an illusion after all. So maybe a lot of it is just designed to fool the mind, not be comfortable/realistic.
- Comment on 'Superman': David Zaslav Promoting DC Movie Like 'Barbie' 4 weeks ago:
Word of mouth can make or break a film, even without a marketing budget.
- Comment on Warner Bros. has created a whole new way to preserve film history — other studios need to take note 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get how posting films to Youtube is some sort of miracle of film preservation. WBD owns multiple streaming channels — why not just post them there?
- Comment on Amazon has already made a Bond film – it cost $300m and is unwatchable 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t always that way. When it started, Amazon had some neat ideas like having customers vote on pilot TV shows to indicate which ones should go to series. A lot of the pilots they didn’t pick up were pretty good.
They also bought the rights to the Expanse novels and did a great job making them into different TV seasons. They even took chances on some interesting shows like “The Peripheral” and “Moonhaven”.
The enshittification of Amazon Prime likely has a lot to do with paying for Bezos’ big budget pet projects like “wheel of time” “and Lord of the rings” sucking the funding out of other projects. I expect with the Bond franchise purchase, this will just continue to be a problem. Even with as much money as Amazon, there’s only so much you can throw around.
- Comment on What It Took to Bring Those Viral Star Trek Short Films to Life 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... 4 weeks ago:
I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.
- Comment on What It Took to Bring Those Viral Star Trek Short Films to Life 4 weeks ago:
Where can I watch these shorts?
- Comment on ‘Freaky Tales’ Trailer – Gory Violence and Music Collide in ’80s Genre Mixtape Anthology 4 weeks ago:
Not necessarily a bad thing, but there’s always the risk of overexposure/backlash. Doubly so when you start seeing the same actors play five different superheroes.
I also worry about a performer’s well being when they start showing up in just about everything. On top of the performance, they have to do talk shows and press junkets which can be brutal. Take some of that money you are making and spend it on a nice break and vacation for a change.
- Comment on ‘Freaky Tales’ Trailer – Gory Violence and Music Collide in ’80s Genre Mixtape Anthology 4 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s Pedro Pascal again. Dude is showing up in as many shows as Nicole Kidman these days.
- Comment on First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' 5 weeks ago:
Probably the best he has looked in a long time. Beard looks good on him.
- Comment on U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website 5 weeks ago:
Pathetic.
- Comment on State Department Revises Plan to Buy Armored Teslas 5 weeks ago:
Gotta cut the budget of other departments so we can funnel that money to Tesla.
Grifters gonna grift.