No doubt the dogs were a factor, but what I’ve seen Wallace talking about was her having to lose her shit emotionally, repeatedly, with a 6 year old sitting next to her. Normally, child actors are sequestered and shot separately from adult actors in scenes where there’s potentially traumatizing acting happening. Then…

The Michael Caine aspect is awesome. He’s super candid in his memoir. He was moving from England to LA at the time, where he was having a house built. Costs on the house were overrunning the original budget and while he was getting good work, he wasn’t getting very high paid work. He was Oscar nominated at the time…

Stephen King had Cujo, The Dead Zone AND Christine adaptations in 1983. Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone was, by far the best of them, though far from the best Cronenberg. Christine was okay Carpenter.

Nope, it’s shark terrorizes people in Sea World, where one of the grown up Brody kids coincidently happens to work. And, yes, it’s as stupid as it sounds. The entire movie takes place in an ocean park type thing with underwater viewing tunnels in a fenced off lagoon. For a good portion of the movie people are getting…

Yup, Taylor-Johnson says Kraven... THE HUNTER... is an, “animal lover and protector of the natural world.” Kraven the big game hunter. And, yes, the teaser shows him (very, very violently) killing poachers.

Kraven is arguably the best character out of Spider-Man’s rogues gallery BUT that’s because of obsession with Spider-Man. So, yeah, remove Spider-Man from the equation and there isn’t much there.

That might be the lamest round-house kick stunt work ever put to film. I never understood how the director looked at that and was like, that’s the take!

Chinese censors will decide the cuts I presume, much like they did with Logan. They cut 14 minutes out of Logan and, despite what I assume some narrative choppiness, it still topped the Chinese BO.

We’re a million miles away from AI rendering a movie in real time. Like, a million miles away. Even the fastest LLM’s have a delay. Rendering full motion animation and dialogue in real time is so far away from what anything can do right now, it isn’t going to be a couple years, and the processing power to do so is…

This time, he’s joining the list of celebrated writers, including Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, and Ian Fleming in censoring new editions of his book

OANN can’t afford Carlson. Newsmax could, but they’re next to be sued into oblivion by Dominion and then Smartmatic for their lies. Carlson himself is still to be sued by Dominion, SmartMatic and has the Grossberg case coming. The way it’s been going they all are heading towards financial ruin for their lies. 

The official RT Twitter account literally offered Carlson a job when the news broke, which is just, wow. 

OANN and Newsmax are about to sued out of existence by Dominion and SmartMatic. Neilson estimates OANN’s viewership at about 14K. Newsmax is much larger, but still couldn’t survive two back to back nearly billion dollar losses. Not that Newsmax wouldn’t try to hire Carlson, but all they’d be doing is opening…

Uh, Blaze Media doesn’t make billions. Their financials aren’t public but analysts estimate their revenue in the low millions. Their profits would be a small fraction of that.

According to the reporting today, from LAT and NYT (as well as a couple other outlets) Carlson was utter blindsided. His production team was working on tonight’s show this morning and they learned about his firing on Twitter. So we can feel good about that at least.

So, my point is simple: if you’re upset at a relatively dark-skinned actress playing Cleopatra, explain why in a manner that doesn’t include a reference to the modern conception of race (as it wouldn’t have existed 2100 years ago). Or, to be more clear, explain why in a manner that doesn’t revert to an ethnic or…

Just in this week: wrong doorbell, wrong driveway, wrong car, all things in my almost 50 years I’ve done and never feared it would amount to more than a quick explanation and a laugh. The artificial fear that’s been produced by right wing media fear mongering is astounding.

Yup.

Gutierrez-Reed too?

[Update 4/20 5:24 pm]: Charges against Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will also be dropped, per The Hollywood Reporter.