I doubt it. At the very least Disney/its bondholders relied on FL’s commitment not to mess with Reedy Creed bonds and now FL should be on the hook for changing its position with regards to any losses Disney or the bondholders suffer.

They aren’t going to pull up WDW anytime soon, but they were planning on transferring a bunch of its Imagineers (basically the skilled workers and designers who design the amusement parks) from CA to FL. One of the reasons that they finally spoke out against the Don’t Say Gay Bill was that this group was already…

If Disney didn’t want to keep the special district, they could unilaterally decide to get rid of it tomorrow, since they were the ones that demanded it in the first place. They don’t and the local governments don’t for exactly the reasons the OP listed above. Also, the local governments shouldn’t have to pay every…

The Disney stop was more due to the fact that phase two of the train project (phase one was Miami to Orlando) was supposed to continue on to Tampa. Walt Disney World would have been on or very close to the route that line would have taken. Even then, I think the target market wasn’t so much people arriving at the…

The other big reason Disney got this deal is when they bought the land there was literally no infrastructure around it (like no sewers or powerlines or potable water for miles) and Orange/Osceola Counties didn’t have the funds to pay for it. They were willing to put all of that in at their own cost and pay to…

How is Cher doing karaoke to ABBA not “camp?”

I agree. While I think regardless of how the appeal goes, the mask mandate isn’t coming back, they can’t let this baseless opinion take away powers clearly granted to the CDC just because this unqualified judge wanted to.

For whatever reason, the Russian leagues pay (well probably at this point paid the most). I think all the teams there are owned by oligarchs willing to throw obscene money at vanity projects and to compete against each other.

$228k is not small if you can keep making that for the rest of your career. It’s not really that much when you consider this is probably the most money they will ever make per year and even then that’s only for 5-10 years at best.

I’m pretty sure Up and Toy Story 3 were both nominated for Best Picture, as was Beauty and the Beast in 1991. 

I mean the main narrative arc comes to an end. There is a cliffhanger, but it would have been a mostly new story with more delving into the mythology of the show.

It’s not just that movies are samey, its that its rare to see anything outside of the Marvel-sized tentpole space or the low-budget indie space. The market for mid-budget movies (at least in terms of them getting made) has completely fallen away, which is quite depressing. Also, even among the big budget tentpole…

Yeah I mostly agree with him here, although his Dune criticism is a little off since I felt that movie was (for better and worse) deeply personal and weird. But like I was recently rewatching Panic Room and while that movie isn’t some cinematic masterpiece, they straight up do not make those kind of mid-range…

She seems to have grown up comfortable (her dad was a doctor, but I think of the less lucrative research scientist type) and either her parents or grandparents were immigrants. Definitely not of the multi-generational wealth style. To the extent she is wealthy its through constantly working (she still has a day job as…

Agree. It doesn’t necessarily let Redmayne off the hook for taking the role, but it’s hard to blame him for “taking” the role from a transwoman when it was unlikely any transwoman was going to be considered for the role in the first place.

Transparent also had a lot more participation from trans people in front of and behind the camera (maybe not at the beginning, but certainly by the end) than The Danish Girl ever did. Granted, the trans people involved with the show were not given a safe space, but at least they had a few seats at the table.

I totally feel you on letting a big pop culture thing get away from you and letting it go far enough that catching up seemed too daunting. It happened to me with MCU (never really liked superhero movies, saw a few of the first ones and was like meh these are fine and now there are like 30 of them) and also Game of…

I get why Scooter Braun would be a jerk and not sell the masters to her, but why wouldn’t the PE firm? She was probably going to pay fairly for them (since to be fair she never owned them in the first place) and they would be able to maximize the benefit of this investment. Now they are left with masters that will be…

Not to mention watching all the times his dad almost dies/has super intense panic attacks that look like heart attacks.

I’m not so sure. At least with younger millennials and Gen Z, I think The Sopranos has been one of the most popular pandemic binges, maybe only behind Survivor. I have some anecdotal evidence of this along with at least three think pieces I have recently seen about the newfound popularity of The Sopranos with younger…