If Disney were aware of these tweets in 2012 and could foresee that they would be a potential PR issue for Gunn later on down the line, why didn’t they have him delete them back then?

Yeah, I expect to see these kind of afactual defenses of Gunn in the comments, but I was surprised to see them in the article itself. He didn’t apologize for these tweets at any point prior to when they surfaced last month, and there’s no evidence one way or another that Disney knew about the tweets when they signed…

Disney wouldn’t even have to try to kill their careers. If the actors actually broke their contracts to kill this movie, they’d never be signed by a major studio again.

There’s no way that the actors do this. It’s literally what the contracts they signed were designed to prevent. And it would destroy their future earning power, because nobody wants to sign an actor that causes that much trouble for the studio.

There doesn’t seem to be any proof that Disney knew about the tweets before he was hired, and I was kind of surprised to see that repeated here like it’s a fact. Gunn apologized for an offensive blog post around the time he was hired, and Disney stuck by him on that, but these tweets are a new story. (A lot of people…

I don’t know if it’ll disappear, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the terms get less favorable. A-List pretty much only exists to undercut MoviePass and its ilk.

Furthermore Amazon always had plans to grow and expand book shipping was literally a first step in a long and detailed plan, it also you know made money.

My point is not that MoviePass won’t fail—it’s more likely than not that it still will. My point is that their plan wasn’t any more of a “money pit” than Amazon’s plan in its early years (“we’re going to lose money by pricing things less than their list cost and then shipping them free”) or Netflix’s in their early…

They were literally completely out of money this weekend, so everything was at max surge price to try to keep you from going.

Who would have thought paying market prices for tickets and then selling them for below market prices isn’t a good business model.

I believe they were banking on a buy-in from the theater companies that never materialized

I imagine they investigated anything that they could get in legal trouble for (that is, anything that played out at work), and that’s it. There’s no real reason for them to investigate anything in Hardwick’s personal life (and in fact, legally there are probably reasons that you wouldn’t).

Treating child abuse as a punchline means that fewer people come forward about being abused, because a) they don’t want to be a punchline too and b) they’ve been shown that other people don’t take it seriously, so what’s the point? It’s not particularly complicated.

An apology is directed at the people that were hurt by your actions. Gunn’s admission that he has grown as a person since he made those edgy jokes is great, and worthwhile, but it’s neither interchangeable with an apology nor “better” than one. His statement focused on his own growth and how it’s affected his own life,…

This is an explanation for his behavior on Twitter, but it’s not an apology.

didn’t he apologize for his horrible jokes early on?

I get the impression it was something of a passion project for Streep, who said she saw the Broadway version just after 9/11 and felt like it helped cheer a lot of people up when they most needed it. She might not have negotiated a huge salary here.

It’s not a musical. It’s Cats.

I think men and women, generally speaking, are different creatures in many ways with different tastes. I don’t think it’s outrageous that art coming from the viewpoint of a woman would be best enjoyed by other women.

Are they all white men, too? As far as I can tell, they’re all white.