There’s always the possibility that things improve. According to reports, the new owner is retaining the entire editorial staff, whereas Spanfeller’s influence is now gone.

Hostel: The Series

It’s not a film executive making the claim, it’s Germain.

Have standards lowered to the point that Real Steel, Free Guy, and a bunch of mediocre comedies constitutes “blockbuster chops and a proven track record”?

looks like Alien and Aliens smushed together into one movie without offering anything new

Huh? Godzilla Minus One has nothing to do with any other Godzilla movie.

not only is this dubbed into English

These movies are the new Transformers films

Colin Trevorrow oversaw the whole World trilogy, writing all three movies and directing two of them. He’s stated that Dominion was the movie he’d been wanting to make all along, with dinosaurs out in the world and humans having to co-exist with them, it just took him two whole movies to get the status quo to that…

Where Winds Meet is described as “an oriental Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG”. That sounds potentially cool — like a Chinese-inspired version of Ghost of Tsushima. A quick search turns up footage from last year backing that up (maybe a little too much, to be honest).

They bought a franchise with box office returns which to that point totalled $528m, of which 83% was just for the first movie. That’s not a name with any tangible value for sequels.

Plus, it’s shown precious little reason to suggest it can support a franchise. None of the sequels have done very well, and while I’ve heard the TV series was surprisingly decent, it got poor ratings and was cancelled after in short order.

What are you talking about? The bad D+ shows are bad because they’re bad stories, badly told. It’s really that simple.

“When he finally crosses paths with the Stranger, you could say he has a desire to try to keep the destruction that has happened there from spreading to his beloved lands in the West. He nudges the Stranger along his journey, which he knows will eventually protect the larger natural world that he cares about.”

new religions and dialects are starting to form

The typical rule of thumb is that a movie’s global revenue has to double the production budget.

It’s literally a cautionary tale about right wing demagogues like Trump, just told in such a way that it might actually get listened to by the people who vote for them.

don’t even get me started on Max himself showing up apparently having stayed in the same place we find him years later in FR

Except Dementus is a failure. He’s only attempting to take over the Citadel at the end because he’d already run Gastown into the ground, despite having negotiated better terms than his predecessor.

A movie deemed controversial for not being controversial enough.