They are absolutely fucking atrocious at building on big media releases.

Demand. Books that are consistently ordered are consistently reprinted (see: Watchmen, much to Alan Moore’s chagrin).

I dunno that the delay is a budget blower. I think it’s more “we don’t want to risk being unable to properly promote it because of the strikes”.

As much as I’m looking forward to the new one, I do not buy that Dune will ever be a major tentpole franchise. The way I see it, we’ll be extremely lucky if it does well enough to warrant Villeneuve returning for Messiah.

Except Quidditch is stupid. Most of the game is irrelevant to the outcome. Almost every match is inevitably decided by whoever gets the snitch, seeing as that instantly ends the match and results in a 15 score swing in their favour.

No, I didn’t. That was Brendan Keen. I was arguing with him, and then you jumped in, ostensibly on my side, but making such a gobsmackingly unhelpful contribution that it needed to be called out.

That might have been a good point to make instead of just shouting “false” with a supporting link that explicitly said “true”.

Did you even read your link?

A reasonable person can question whether some young children should receive permanent, life-altering gender treatments based on extremely limited science.

My point was, it’d probably be harder to find a year when there wasn’t an anti-Semitic event that over-eager people could insist was an intentional reference.

As someone who totally buys that her goblins are based in anti-Semitic tropes (Rowling hasn’t met a reductive stereotype she won’t play into), that 1612 thing in your second link is one hell of stretch. I imagine almost any year she’d plucked out of the air would have some anti-Semitic event in it, but even if 1612…

They do do those things. Maybe not to taken to the extremes of your example, but episode lengths often vary considerably and different release schedules pop up occasionally too.

It’s not likely to change any time soon. Given the demands he apparently made (including putting an adaptation of his father’s unrelated scifi novel into production), it seems obvious that he has no interest in giving up whatever rights he controls, regardless of what might be offered for them.

The gold boxes? Ugh.

they’re just emulating the PS1 version straight up

It probably didn’t. Theatres take a big chunk of the box office. Half of the worldwide total is a very rough rule of thumb.

I wonder if that reaction directly led to lower box office for Dead Reckoning. “Another movie without an ending? Fuck that.”

Fast X and Across the Spider-Verse?

What does their legal status have to do with anything? Adulthood is a malleable thing, there are different legal standards from place to place and from circumstance to circumstance. Millie Bobby Brown can vote and get married, but she can’t drink in the US. She can drink in the UK, but can’t adopt and isn’t entitled…

She’s younger than Hayley Atwell though. There can’t be too many hit franchises that kill off the female lead only to replace her with an older female lead.