"One of the most practical reasons has to do with the same reason that far fewer women are given shots at directing preordained blockbusters like Jurassic World"

Actually, you're wrong. This production "Axanar" intended to use copyrighted characters that CBS owns. But CBS does not own these characters outright; the original creators would be owed royalties. One of the deals that the production companies sign with the WGA would require them contractually to aggressively…

"Star Trek" started with Desilu, a production company funded by CBS money via a "first look" deal. So in a sense CBS launched it.

Pre-selling people Blu-rays is still commerical, even if you pretend that it's only fund-raising.

He owned "Lord of the Rings" and was involved in the film and I read somewhere that he made so much off of Lord of the Rings that he gave Fogerty the rights to his music back because it wasn't worth the annoyance.

To be fair, I don't think that's true, they've been working for more than a decade building to actually making this movie, I do believe it is in a sense a dream come true for these guys to get involved in a "Star Trek" feature film, it's just that they went about it in a way that was guaranteed to fail if it attracted…

The thing is, it isn't *real* trouble. The writer can't own the copyright on a script that is derivative in that way. And if the writer does sue, they can quite easily wind up liable to pay for the studio's lawyers as well when they lose. They claim that this is a reason not to read unsolicited material, but it's…

In this case, I believe CBS would have a copyright on "The Federation", the costume design, certain key make-up designs (Vulcans, for instance), the starship design, and quite possibly the sound effects. I don't know whether Axanar uses copyrighted music (I would assume they do). They definitely use pre-existing…

In a legal sense, raising money on Kickstarter *is* earning it. I was surprised that CBS let that happen at the time.

If "Point Break" isn't homoerotic, then nothing short of actual gay porn is "homoerotic". Now, you can choose to define words however you like, but it's not the common parlance of our times, so don't be surprised when people disagree with you.

"But it is even more suspicious to claim that despite having the equipment to completely dispose of both the body and the car you are so terminally stupid as to leave the car intact in your property and partially burn (in 3 sites!) the corpse."

It literally makes no sense whatsoever to believe that the police murdered a random innocent girl in order to frame Avery for the murder in order to stop him from receiving a payout, largely because such immoral people would simply murder Avery himself, which would be simpler and actually would stop him from receiving…

So you deliberately made yourself angry by binge-watching something but you aren't comfortable admitting that this is a form of entertainment?

Even a doc with this much screentime devoted to dry courtroom testimony can't show everything.

I think that if you have three people who present themselves as certain, they can eventually wear people down with "Are you really sure that he didn't do it?" Which, of course, isn't the question that jurors are there to answer, but with a case like this, I can see how nobody was 100% or even 75% sure that he didn't…

"The fact that he was about to earn millions is all the motive in the world for the cops to have framed him"

When one party has confessed, the other party's defense attorney would be CRAZY to request a common trial.

In general, judges are very careful about allowing defense attorneys to introduce alternate suspects; I'm going to put it simplistically, but basically the legal system believes that jurors are easily fooled, so a defense attorney isn't allowed to just start saying things like "Hey, maybe Mike did it, or maybe Bobby…

The thing that is great about Groucho is that he is so devoted to making jokes that he can't actually commit to a scheme. Like, he wants to seduce the dowager, but he just can't help but hurl insults at her.

My advantage here is that I know that this is a "Star Wars" movie, so there can't possibly be anything to actually spoil. I love that the nerds think that something significant will happen that they don't want to know about before they see it when, in fact, within five minutes of the movie starting, every single…