Global warming: it's not all bad!
The Rock.
Television needs a salary cap to stop wealthy owners like HBO from assembling super-teams.
I can only guess the thought process is along the lines of "CoD is dying, WoW is dying, Skylanders is dying, what the fuck are we going to do?" and in the business equivalent of a mid-life crisis they decide to bring back Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero and spend almost $6bn on a mobile app business because that's what the…
Activision is buying King (Candy Crush Saga) for $5.9bn.
I'm all for blaming NBC for all of society's woes, but the show aired on ABC.
And we need someone to pay for the Community movie!
Estimates suggest Jem and the Holograms dropped 78.9% weekend-to-weekend, with a $120 per theater average, giving it the 10th worst percentage weekend-to-week drop for a wide release. This is not a successful film.
I guessed because you implied it was rare. Safety and field goal, right?
Only borderline? Show-off.
This NBA rookie class looks really, really good.
On one hand, I agree (I don't have a Facebook account, as tedious people with Facebook accounts like to tell people constantly, much like people without televisions). On the other, they've literally had that policy since day 1, so it shouldn't really be a shock.
I hear Vox Media has purchased Encyclopedia Britannica and is rewriting it in clickbait. "You won't believe what happened in Pompeii!" and "The seven best islands near Burma [gallery] (the fifth is a must see!)"
I'm planning to read about it on Grantland tomorrow.
Disney owns 80% of ESPN and represents 25% of Disney's overall operating profit. I think it's reasonable to assume ESPN doesn't operate in a vacuum, and it seems very likely that ESPN has been told to cut costs by Disney to maintain their margins at a time when they're facing declining revenue thanks to cord-cutting.
I continually find it surprising how little Disney gets mentioned in the context of ESPN's business decisions.
The joys of journalism in 2015.