They still have to pay a fee to the production companies and possibly the actors, etc., just like network stations had to pay for syndication.

Jon Gries was in the main credits this season, while he arguably had fewer scenes than the piano guy (and was definitely in fewer episodes). That’s either because he insisted on this in his contract or he’s already signed for season three.

It would be TERRIBLE drama. That’s what everybody is more or less trying to tell you.

Nothing screams “climax to an operatic subplot” more than a conversation between lawyers about the validity of an infidelity clause in a prenup.

Honestly, I don’t remember the line anymore, but I think it is a literary or pop-culture reference. George Smiley was probably Le Carré’s most popular character, particularly in Britain. Le Carré used him in approximately ten novels, including The Man who Came from the Cold, and he was the central figure in the “Karla…

Fuqua has always been more of a journeyman who dabbles in various genres, rather than an auteur who would leave an unmistakable stamp on everything they shoot. Yet, there are good, even great, journeymen, especially in the studio era, people like Michael Curtiz, Richard Donner, Robert Wise, Robert Mulligan or George…

Totally. I’d be the first to dismiss a guy whose résumé appears to consist of Scary Movie 3 and 4, Superhero Movie (which he also directed), The Hangover part II and III, or The Huntsman: Winter’s War (the Kristen Stewart-less sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman), in addition to being accused by James Gunn of…

Nope, according to my sources, they’re currently vetting George Lazenby as the new CEO.

This wasn’t the Arte France Cinema production logo. It was a parody of the logo for Ciné Tamaris, the production company founded by Agnès Varda in the fifties, which still exists and now handles most of the catalog for both Varda and Jacques Demy. Its logo is a blinking tabby cat.

I guess that Bell was tied to a contract for three games, and when they decided to make direct sequels to ACII (based on the ton of unused concepts that they hadn’t time to implement in this game), the plans to make the whole series a trilogy with each game taking place at a specific time in history and involving a…

It’s definitely a Discovery thing. Contrary to most of the shows on Adult Swim, it wasn’t a Warner Bros production, as it came from a different production company. And due to the way Netflix still owned rights on the first season, they couldn’t offer the complete series on streaming. 

When Edward Norton hosted SNL just before Halloween in 2013, they did “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders”, with every Anderson regular being trapped in an home invasion horror movie.

Snyder’s shtick is actually quite easy to notice in the projects he directed or produced. This is a guy who basically wants to depict glorified wrestlers in Spandex as demigods, either Christ-like figures or Randian heroes.

Their reference appears to be less Kevin Feige than Ed Catmull and John Lasseter from Pixar and the Walt Disney Animation Studios, minus, hopefully, the sex pest thing.

It was also plagued by being released simultaneously on theaters and HBO Max, a decision made at corporate level, which had some sense in 2020 but was mostly a manner for ATT to try to gain HBO Max subscribers in 2021.

You say this as if it were a bad thing to totally forget about the Chakotay storyline...

Only found your mention after I had posted.

There was also the case of expert Jamake Highwater. He wrote dozens of books about his Cherokee heritage, pocketed slightly less than $1 million in public grants in the seventies and early eighties, before people started to have their doubts on him, and he was first exposed as a fraud. Yet, he still remained, out of…

There shouldn’t be a drop in quality. Both seasons were actually written and filmed back to back by the same team (they may have switched directors, given the task, but nothing more). These are comparatively short plots that can be wrapped within six episodes, almost everything can be shot within a 50 miles radius out…

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