I’m 34, and that pitch for a Barney movie sounds absolutely awful. First off, if I want a dark satirical takedown to Barney, I’ll rewatch Death to Smoochie. But more than that, Barney was a show for little kids, and as such, any nostalgia I have for it is tied into nostalgia for being a little kid. A cynical version…

This is funny, but it’s also almost exactly what Zaslav actually says out loud. “Why don’t we make more of the stuff that makes money, and stop making the stuff that doesn’t make money?”

In fairness, I’d watch a movie about how Rudy Giuliani is really a teenage kraken so maybe it was a missed opportunity...

Every time I see the name “Ruby Gillman,” I momentarily see “Rudy Giuliani.”

The real solution is to make movie attendance mandatory. You want your precious “social services”? Well, you better have your ticket stub to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Next Generation’ on you, or you don’t get squat!

Good god, Wikipedia says the Indy 5 budget was $295 million. That’s insane. Has to make like 700 million internationally to break even (unless it was heavily tipped toward domestic then maybe 600M, which it isn’t so far)

Clearly the solution here is to create even bigger, more expensive movies and release them fifteen-to-twenty at a time. Audiences will be so bewildered by the sheer number of releases that they’ll have no choice but to watch them all, multiple times over.

The plan used to be that the successes more than made up for the losses.

It is absurd that a dozen movies are made for $250million or more every year.  They can’t all be runaway blockbusters.  How do these executives keep their jobs when more than half tentpole movies lose scores of millions of dollars?

The movie’s actually quite bizarrely unwoke in how it goes out of its way to make clear all the CIA people helping the Nazis are just mercenaries rather than actual agents, and the one true agent (who also happens to be the movie’s only black person) gets fridged as soon as she learns the truth without any chance of…

From what I’ve seen, chuds hate it because a woman is in it. Even worse, it’s a funny woman!

On a related note, man was it a genius marketing move to set up Oppenheimer as “the anti-Barbie.” So many more people are talking about that movie than if it was just standing on its own, even with Nolan involved.

To be fair Barbie's marketing campaign is the best I've seen since Deadpool. 

George is fine as long as there’s somebody else to write the dialogue and push back against his worst ideas.

Disney hasn’t had a bonafide hit that didn’t require an asterisk this year.

I think it’s a combination of not wanting to see an 80 year old Indy and people remembering how terrible Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was. 

Not a big fan of the Dune prequels, but it is a huge universe, and with some decent writers and casting this could be great.

Congratulations to Anheuser-Busch for running a campaign that’s so disastrous it has not only enraged the astroturfed blowback to the original campaign, it has also made everybody else mad at them for not at least like “Checking on on Dylan to see is she’s okay.” 

Mulvaney is 1000% correct, but Anheuser-Busch wasn’t going to double-down on the campaign and board members weren’t go on camera hand-in-hand with her expressing “support”.   What else could have realistically been done that wouldn’t have been half-hearted?

Was really hoping this would end up in a landfill never to be found.