If the writers strike goes on long enough and the actors strike happens, you might have famous actors and writer (who don’t normally do that sort of thing) showing up at these types of cons as themselves for Q&A events and autograph/photo sessions. I know from reading Bruce Campbell’s various books that that you can…

I have never seen a single episode of Reno 911, but I am going to take a guess and say, was that Jim Rash?

How do you have Spy but not the even funnier Melissa McCarthy movie The Heat? I have long thought that the biggest mistake they made with her Ghostbusters movie was not making it R rated. Since if you are going to put her in a movie you need to let her say whatever she wants.

It is interesting that one of the main reasons that AMC got into original programming is because they didn’t want to compete with TCM in the old movie channel game. Since the way they make money was by being part of the lower tier cable packages. And the worry was that if a cable company had to pick one old time movie…

I am confused, why was Roma being on 150 screens bad? When it looks like even with the new rules you only have to be shown for 7 days in 10 cities (70 screens) to qualify for an Oscar.

Yea it seems odd to me too. If a movie uses computers to render some CG image is that taking a job away from artists since surely those images could be hand drawn on a computer one frame at a time.

I am surprised that they released this in June when. Most kids are still in school, since it looks like a movie mostly for kids. It seems way more like the kid of movie that you might take your kids to on a Thursday afternoon in July (or drop them off at when you go see something good).

So if it gets out into the WGA contract that a studio can't replace writers with AI then what is to stop a writer from using AI to get paid whe they don't want to work? Will there be union member rules that are enforced where if you are caught doing that you are out of the union?

The AI seems like such a weird thing to be fighting over based on how it could work negatively both ways. Because of course I can picture a scenario where a studio says they don't need a writer their AI machine just spit out a script. But at the same time I can also see a scenario where a writer gets a job writing a…

I read somewhere once that a big reason that Tony Stark is out of the suit so much in Iron Man 3 is because Marvel kind of put their foot down. Since if they were going to be paying him tens of millions of dollars they actually wanted to see him on screen doing stuff. Not just doing voice acting while a CG suit flies…

It's hard to know from my perspective but are their people out there who are into comics who aren't aware of Jack Kirby's role in creating so many of these great characters?

That is an interesting point about Kirby's post Marvel stuff. I have never read any of his DC stuff but I have read a ton of those 60's Lee/Kirby comics. And even with Marvel, Kirby co-creates Captain America in 1940 and then his next super popular creation comes 21 years later with Fantastic Four. Yes I know he…

I there anyone out there with even a basic familiarity with Marvel comics character who isn’t aware that Jack Kirby was hugely important in the creation of many of the classic golden and silver aged characters? It’s not like this is some hidden secret of Marvel comics.

I haven't seen the new season yet but otherwise this is actually a pretty solid list. The only change I might make is remove the pig fucking episode, which I thought was stupid and can't see ever happening (otherwise people would be doing things and blackmailing the PM all the time. And I would replace it with The…

It’s more like all those people who used to complain about Ticketmaster and those $50 service fees are now going to complain about the artist who charges $300. I think a lot of artists probably liked that TM was the villain that people hated instead of them. Because if people hate you, you lose fans.

I wonder if there might be a bunch of artists that are kind of worried about this? Because now if you go to buy a ticket and it is $250 up front with no breakdown of who gets what, a lot of people are going to blame the artists for price gouging.

The obvious story is one where it is revealed that Short Round retired to coastal Oregon and he is actually Data's dad.

Doesn’t that kind of go against the whole idea of collective bargaining? Where the power of the whole union works together to make sure everyone gets a good contract. If specific studios or production companies could come up with their own agreements, what is stopping them from just making deals with their most…

Darth Maul and Boba Fett were both stupid. Maul because he somehow survived when Qui-Gon didn’t and because it was some dumb surprise twist in Solo for people who didn’t watch the cartoon. Boba Fett was dumb because for a giant badass he goes out in the dumbest way possible, then comes back to life and decides to be a…

I remember reading in Kevin Hart’s autobiography that he did a pilot for a show created by Judd Apatow where he was roommates with Jason Segel. This was in 2001 after Freaks and Geeks but before Undeclared. It also starred Amy Poehler and January Jones. I would absolutely check out that show. And there are probably a…