Well, there seems to be a lot of high level world government figures that are skrulls that would just deny it. Also, revealing an invasion of a million shapeshifters that can perfectly mimic anyone potentially would sow abject chaos as nobody would know who to trust. It’s a little different than an invasion of aliens…

That was definetely Cheadle’s voice on the phone. Rhodey is the high level US government agent Fury was talking about this episode.  

There’s a shot in the trailer for the show that confirms this actually. It shows G’iah in the super skrull machine and she’s wearing the same exact clothes. I assume the next episode will open with that scene before cutting to show her wound heal.

G’iah isn’t dead and the trailer for the show has a sequence that explains why. I expect the next episode will open with that scene.

I’ve like this show so far but I also find it illustrates some of the loss of cohesion this phase of the MCU has going. Secret Invasion should be a massive multi phase build up to big team up films on its own. Instead, it’s sandwiched in between setting up Kang as the big IW/Endgame payoff films. Which means such a…

Seriously. She earned that choice by making smart, incisive well regarded films from pretty humble beginnings and is now getting these opportunities. There’s this bizarre notion in some fandom, particularly indie film fandom, that indie writers/directors/actors are choosing to eschew bigger projects because they have…

That’s not what I’m reading. Development was delayed by the pandemic but photography started in June 2021 and finished in February 2022. Now, that is a long production, but the only pandemic related delay I can find is that they intended to shoot in India, but because Covid was rebounding there, the moved to Morocco…

WB was already doing stuff like this (The Sopranos to Amazon for instance) before they had a dedicated streaming service. Not that they have one, and Zaslav is reviving this licensing spree anyway, it’s just undercutting the point of subscribing to Max to begin with. 

Yup, I’ve seen reports in the trades saying it’s budget was actually closer to $330 mil. Mind boggling. At those budgets, plus marketing, you basically need a billion dollar world wide gross to be successful. It’s simply not feasible for this IP at this time to reach those heights globally.

Let’s be fair here. Spielberg made the last Indy movie and that was an awful movie. There was really no other place to go than up from there, no matter who was directing this next one. 

We’d be near per-Covid numbers if not for some pretty big disappointments, like Flash and this film, and if the usually reliable kids movies weren’t underperforming. Mario being the obvious outlier as far as kids movies but surveys show it was really carried by nostalgic adults.

That is not true at all. D+, for instance, broke $2 bil in revenue last quarter and is still operating at a loss. It’s actually quite expensive to stream, especially worldwide where there’s all types of licensing and carrier fees. It’s doubly hard to be profitable when your original content has stunningly high budgets…

The CinemaScore is a B+ (same as Flash), which is basically a death knell. Opening weekend audiences are usually overly generous to big tentpole IPs. Being in the B’s is not good and suggests word of mouth isn’t going to give the film legs. Globally, it doesn’t help that Indiana Jones isn’t nearly as popular a…

There’s context missing. Disney had big subscription losses due to losing rights to cricket in India, which was the main driver of Disney streaming subscriptions there. They were outbid by a joint Paramount/Viacom venture. They did end up getting the linear TV rights though, for $3.02 billion. In all other regions…

It is mind boggling that the SC took up a hypo case, something that should never, ever happen. There was no standing here. It was a what if? It was purely politically motivated to even take the case, just to satisfy the conservative courts benefactors.

Before we get to the shocking ending twist, Gravik saves Brogan and then has him shot after figuring out that he told his torturers something about the Skrull plan. (Sonya escaped before he got there.) And he gives G’iah a very suspicious look while he does all this—as if to say, “This will be you soon, if you side…

I’m hoping they go with a Lex that has no particular bone to pick with Superman and is just a megalomaniacal genius who does shit like making dirigible cities in attempts to start a World War for his own gain, but then gets increasingly frustrated with Superman thwarting him. The Silver Age and beyond origins kept…

Eh, I’d argues Gunn’s standalone superhero movies have very cohesive plots in comparison to other superhero movies. Mainly because he generally focuses on the character motivation to drive the story.

Brosnahan playing Lois Lane may be the best casting in the history of casting. When it came out who they were screentesting I couldn’t imagine anyone else better in the role. This was actually the duo I hoped for. I’ve only seen Corenswet in Pearl but I actually thought, wow, the guy looks like Superman, and, while a…

From the way Gunn has describe it I doubt there’s going to much origin story stuff. It sounds like Clark has already been Superman for a while and the starts with Clark taking a job at the Daily Planet.