Everybody is on decaf in that thing.

This is not how the WGA strike works. During the strike, there are people allowed to make changes to the script, but it’s limited to the director and the cast. That’s for instance what Daniel Craig explained about Quantum of Solace, which was shot during the previous strike. The script desperately needed another…

Watson meets Mary Morstan in the second Sherlock Holmes novel, as she’s surrounded by mysterious deaths and asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Watson proposes to her after the mystery around her is solved and she can think of her future without fearing for her life.

Watson’s wife in Sherlock died for non-narrative reasons, because Abbington and Freeman were in the middle of a divorce. And, outside of the final voice over in the finale, her death doesn’t change the motivations and the choices of the male lead characters, as it was the last episode. The voice over is ridiculous…

I guess that her death scene had initially more elements of racism. In the film, she gets killed because she’s turned into an hindrance for the plans of the baddies, and the racism is mostly implicit. It is a factor, but it isn’t stated bluntly.

Karen Allen has been credited on the latest posters. LaBeouf, on the other hand…

Harrison notoriously hated the Now and Then demo, and the two others then decided to stop working on the song.

Miracle Workers is actually premiering next month, on July 10. The new date was announced last week.

There was technically no “season 1". It was supposed to be a limited series when it went into production, and it’s only after the reviews and the ratings for the early episodes were fine that HBO committed to the show and transformed it into a “regular” series, by ordering a second season.

You’re trusting the blind items from Crazy Days and Nights?

Have you read the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, you well versed defender of Western culture and history? Have you spent even the time to read a text that’s just 20-page long? Because (SPOILER ALERT) the mermaid fucking dies.

There’s an interview I read something like 15 or 20 years ago, with an animator key to the Disney renaissance, and it was about the value of a good producer/studio boss. I don’t remember who it was, or where I read it, but it went something like this.

The Good Dinosaur was remade almost entirely from scratch after the original director stepped down when he admitted that they couldn’t crack a satisfying third act. Sohn, who was only supposed to be the co-director, stepped up and delivered a complete film in less than two years. It lost money, but it could have been…

Well, maybe not his childhood or his teenage crush, but she was already a famous page three model at the time he left his room, when he turned pro. So, I’d rephrase this as older brother and sister, rather than parents, with the sexual vibe being mostly gone between Keeley and Jamie.

Roy and Keeley basically act as surrogate parents to Jamie at this point (even if there’s nothing wrong about his actual mother), especially since one of them was his childhood hero and the other one his childhood crush.

An update from yesterday: your “fucking clown” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Last week, Zaslav bragged that “Republicans [were] back on the air” on CNN during a media conference, as changing the image of CNN is one of his biggest projects as a CEO.

Zaslav isn’t to blame for everything. Previous executives are guilty for many of the issues, including the huge losses in the last few years. It started when the Time Warner guys, after the financial crisis in China, realized that they couldn’t secure fundings from there to produce films, and that the solution to an…

I have no idea (and I don’t live in the US), but it appears to be Zaslav’s strategy to deemphasize the HBO brand (even if it has cachet and prestige) by switching to a totally bland moniker, so it doesn’t look like all arty-farty stuff.

If you only watch HBO on the cable, you’ll get HBO Originals, which are 90% in-house productions. The release schedule and the quantity of new stuff haven’t changed much over the years, with new episodes from their flagship shows usually premiering on Sunday nights (and available immediately on HBO Max too).

The finale for Battlestar Galactica suffered from the same flaws as Lost, but was much more of a trainwreck, apart from the final scenes between Adama and Roslin.