Why on earth would you cameo actors from a movie you’re remaking? That’s begging for a comparison that you may not want.

Not that I believe it’s what is actually happening but the theory I heard was it was adults playing themselves as kids in the 1980 in a horror themed TRPG. Playing “D&D” in this context usually is someone unfamiliar with the fact that there are a million other role playing games out in the world in a huge variety of…

They should just replace him with Krang from TMNT.

The whole show and all its characters only existed in the mind of a tightly wound convenience store clerk who was reading the novelization of Stranger Things.

Because entertainment journalism is and always has been extremely dumb.

No mention of how Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo?  Seems like a far bigger recasting than the other two mentioned. 

I hope the show ends with a title drop.

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Intimate partner violence rates were highest in the poorest neighborhoods (13.8 per 1,000 women in the lowest income quartile, followed by 12.1, 8.2, and 5.0 in the respective higher income quartiles)

I’m unaware of anyone claiming either movie is a financial success (Flower Moon appears to be a solid critical success), but both of those movies were made for AppleTV+. The theatrical run is for awards consideration and whatever $$ they get is a bonus.

Are those even considered successes? Neither has made its budget back.

They seem to be super unpopular; there are a LOT of musicals (Mean Girls, Color Purple, Wonka) where the trailer almost completely elides the inclusion of musical numbers. Pretty grim if you can’t sell a musical on…being a musical.

It’s pretty simple. Because The Marvels is a failure on the level of what theatrical Marvel movies are supposed to be. And is troubling from the point of view of the health of their entire market segment.

...Is this kinda thing more prevalent among the rich and powerful? I’ve never heard that before, I think if anything the stereotype is the opposite.

They’ve been heading out for like 60 years.

I’d be very surprised if Marvel hadn’t already made the decision to re-cast him and just haven’t announced it yet.

This is all stuff that happened before being bought out. Kotick is leaving and everybody will have a new executive team to answer to, this is one of the rare times that you can pretty much expect the entire company culture to change.

While Trebek could hardly be categorized as “real” he was at least highly polished and, sadly, the infrastructure for nurturing professional television personalities no longer exists. It used to be that someone could start out in local radio/TV and work their way up to larger markets and then to the networks where…