The SAG-AFTRA presidents are union members (eg actors) - Ed Asner and Melissa Gilbert were presidents as well. :D

From Black Mirror episode to real life dystopia in just a month. Has to be a new record.

You don’t have to wager, you’re absolutely right - the strike rules expressly forbid it:

Thank you for your expert testimony, I’m sure that Digital Eclipse will be thankful for your diligent market research.

Technically Karate Champ was released first (May vs Dec 1984) but the only reason that they look alike is because of the limitations of game art at the time. Both protagonists are wearing generic karategi, but the similarities end there. Karate Champ is an early, round-based fighting game while Karateka is a linear…

One of the first (if not THE first) machinimas was someone hacking Karateka into a non-interactive movie featuring the hero returning for payback after walking up to her in a combat stance ;) :

Zuck and Elon are both filth and people need to find better heroes. Phil Fung’s tweet above equally applies to addicted social media users - “it’s hard to stick to your principles when it’s against your interests”, in this case it’s that sweet, sweet outrage or validation dopamine fix.

Zuck is just the original dealer…

Lucasfilm’s bait-and-switch treatment of Finn’s arc in the sequel trilogy is what he has a problem with. Nothing in this video indicates that he had any issues with science fiction as a general rule. He has been trying to get an Attack the Block sequel off the ground, after all.

If they’d done the puppet show as you describe in Rise of Skywalker, the fandom just would have complained that it was another recycled idea from the OT -

Not necessarily. In the world of classical 2D animation, there’s a role called an inbetweener...the people who draw all the frames in between, after the key pose animator and breakdown artist have done their passes.

With the advent of 3D digital animation, the program becomes your inbetweener. They interpolate between…

Adam Conover explains this in less than 5 minutes:

“Vast majority” is not data, and the buck does not stop with Kennedy - she has to report to Iger and Chapek, and they set the pace.

Yup. I was 13 when RotJ came out and I walked out of the theater muttering many of the same complaints people had about The Force Awakens - a mediocre retread of ANH with an emphasis on toys. Even Gary Kurtz parted ways with Lucas over his change in priorities.

Your daily reminder that you need therapy. Bob Iger set an unrealistic, aggressive release schedule by announcing a release date to shareholders before they had a script locked down. That scheduled caused the three films to have overlapping pre-production that further undermined quality (the scripts for VIII and IX…

Currently Hello Games has 28 people on staff, and they made a TON of money off Playstation pre-orders before the disastrous launch. As others have said, every time they release it on a new platform, it launches at full price so boom, more revenue.

The downside of Hello Games being so small is that as the game has…

Ok, I’ll amend my statement by saying she would have been outclassed by everyone but Temuera Morrison on set. :) Animation sells a lot of her vocal performance. Ashley trying to be angry and determined facing Lars as Thrawn in live action would absolutely fall flat.

Really? Because there have been some godawful D+ shows, I can’t imagine this will be worse than BoBF or Kenobi.

We don’t know if they gave Ashley a shot or not, but as a fan of Ashley’s voice work, I can say with confidence that she would have sucked as live action Ahsoka. I’ve seen her act, she just can’t bring the gravitas needed for the character via physical acting. There is a very good reason why her IMDB page doesn’t have…

It has breasts because it can (it is a Roger Corman film after all). As someone else mentioned, James Cameron designed it.

Within the film lore, it’s a semi-organic spaceship with a female AI named NELL, and the entire ship is essentially a stylized torso. That’s the late 70s for ya!

Tig Notaro as Flash is a movie I would actually watch.