I am guessing that if the Mulan PVOD is financially successful, we will see more things like that for some more films that would otherwise have been held for theaters. I think that New Mutants might fall into that category well before, say, Black Widow, which will probably still hold out.

Not exactly the point, but OK.

I know it’s superheroes and all, but doesn’t Stargirl get cold flying around in bike shorts with a bare midriff in December? In Nebraska? She doesn’t have any superpowers herself like Wonder Woman or Superman, so I guess that the Cosmic Staff has some kind of alien tech heating system? I mean, there is snow on the…

I’m sure that Disney could get out of the theatrical distribution requirement for New Mutants one way or another. There are, after all, clearly extenuating circumstances. I think that they are going to use the release as a test to see how a major release would work right now. It may actually be a good movie with real…

He grew on me too.
Kind of like a fungus.

I did think of that after I posted, but those were still kind of specialized and limited mini-series, not really meant to be to be like a full ongoing series. As I recall, they were not really even on a mainstream network. Not to dismiss them. I remember them being interesting, but definitely not meant to broad-based…

It’s definitely time for New X-Men cartoons. After all, they haven’t been seen in their own animated series since that one season of Wolverine and the X-Men on Nicktoons in 2009. I know that the ‘90s X-Men animated series is beloved. I didn’t watch it in its original run, but I have recently been watching episodes on…

I immediately clocked the Guardians influence when I first saw it. It was that obvious and heavyhanded. I have hoped that Ayers’ originally intended cut would have been a bit more clever and inventive.

My understanding of the Suicide Squad “Ayers Cut” —which admittedly is based only on bits and pieces of gossip— is that the theatrical edit took out much of the character development and essentially relied on pop songs to do the same job. Lazily so, I might add. I mean if Guardians of the Galaxy just used “Spirit in…

Yes, well, in the first episode, I am fairly certain that Hargreaves was said to have gone after all of the babies or at least as many as he possibly could get and succeeded in “adopting” —in some case certainly buying outright— seven of the babies. Maybe he realized that’s all he could handle at once.

I suppose anything is possible. Haven’t read the books, but it’s possible that their powers could grow and change over time anyway. I feel like explanations are all in the works for the future.

I think it’s clear in the original movie that once one has been liberated from the Matrix, one can re-enter it as one’s true self. When Neo plugs into the Matrix for the first time after taking the red pill, he returns as Neo in a black leather trench coat and longer hair compared to his corporeal buzz cut, not as Mr.…

Presumably, this was an extraordinary worldwide event. There would have been extensive medical and media documentation of every instant pregnancy and birth which diabolical people like the Handler or Hargreaves or other as yet unknown parties would be able to access with their vast resources. After meeting the UA in…

Do we know that she never met another powered person? She was already a trained operative undercover in the asylum when she met Diego, and we later discover that she was pursued by the Handler as a child. Perhaps the Handler also acquired other similar operatives with the same birthdate as well?

Watch it again. In the final shot of him in the car, Harlan is levitating and spinning a small wooden sparrow floating above his hand.

I interpreted it as her having drained enough power from him to leave him with a trace of powers which he could manage. whether or not those powers can grow over time remains in question (I mean, but probably they will, otherwise why show them at all?)

Well, I don’t know about the books, but he does change Dave’s story. Dave has now enlisted earlier than he had before which could randomly change his Vietnam trajectory and provide just the kind of emotional rollercoaster for Klaus that seems to be the show’s stock-in-trade.

Came here to say the same thing. I don’t know how the plots of the source material are arranged, but when it was announced that The Umbrella Academy was renewed for a third season, it seems clear that they will make 10 more episodes, not 20 split into 2 ten episode sections. Each 10-episode season of this show is shot…

Obviously it’s a play for Chinese box office, but I can’t tel you how the Chinese audience will react to it, or how comfortable they are going to theaters yet. I don’t know if Disney expects that Mulan is capable of the kind of $1 billion+ worldwide box office that is potentially within the reach of any new Marvel…

Everything is pretty much in flux right now. I am fairly certain that Disney is considering that Black Widow would be expected to make far more money at the theatrical box office than Mulan would. This is a pretty major development, however, and if Mulan does well, then it will affect how other films waiting for…