First of all, I’m not sure they are considered successes. But both Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon were greenlit with the primary goal of driving people to subscribe to Apple TV. Unlike Disney+, Apple doesn’t have a clear “brand” of what kind of TV it is offering, and both movies seem designed to establish a…

I’m sure the added competition from Aquaman 2 will have some effect, but I don’t know how much the audiences for the movies will overlap. Wonka seems well positioned to take advantage of Christmas, where for many viewers it becomes less important what you are dying to see, and more important what grandma, your teenage…

I don’t think anyone has called them financial successes, but they were both distributed by Apple TV+, which is flush with cash, and it was pretty obvious they just put them in theaters for awards eligibility.

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.

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.

Seriously, why didn’t the person also ask why was Flash a bomb at 50+ Million!?

Wonka also pulled in its dollars despite the fact movie musicals are on the outs nowadays

Yikes, does something this self-evident really need to be explained to people? If so, let me add that Wonka has already made $150 mil globally, and is on pace to make more globally than The Marvels by, likely, a hefty amount. It will be more successful irrespective of budgets.

Moana gets better every time I’ve seen it, and with two young kids in the house, I’ve seen it a lot.  It’s up there with just about anything else in the Disney canon.

I dunno, there’s a lot of strains of conservatism which view weakness and helplessness as things to be held in contempt and why don’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, etc. A lot of times you’ll see stories taking pains to establish that the “weak” are Hard Working Virtuous Folk who are worthy of the help given…

Moana was late 2016, not that long ago in film production time and its fantastic. 

The text of this review makes it seem like an okay but not great episode, but a D+ grade suggests a really bad episode. (I thought it had a couple of pretty decent sketches and Momoa was mostly fine. I liked the short monologue.)

Yeah...yeah! That’s the ticket.

I don’t care how old he is - Jon Lovitz should be playing George Santos.

Ahhhhhh, that’s why men thinking about Rome in September 2023 is ancient history. I’m beginning to get it.

It got an AI Club review

At the moment, Zaslav may see an end of year tax incentive and sell the thing for pennies to Disney.  

The author was NOT born in 2003, got it???

Aquaman is DC, not Marvel.

“This time around, he’s promoting his Marvel sea-quel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,“