Holy fuck, I thought you were exaggerating that it cost $200m but you weren’t really (t’s $185 according to Screenrant). I can’t believe they’re spending that much on the Meg 2. I know know the first one made over half a billion worldwide but that seems insanely optimistic.

Smith would make a greet Reed. The only problem is that he's already played a cosmic adventurer super genius. And I'm not mad keen on his American accent.

To clarify I’m WGGB not WGA, but I’m in full solidarity with our American cousins.

I’d imagine the content of the future will need to have more depth and interactivity than Choose Your Own Adventure books.

The simple answer would be that the studios would try to classify them as game writers rather than TV writers, so it’d be non union work at whatever price they want to pay. Or even just arguing that one branching episode deserves the same pay as a linear episode, even though it’s exponentially more work because you’re…

AI can’t do performance for shit though. Darth Vader, a largely unemotional character, sounded really flat in Obi Wan. If they can’t nail something as robotic and one note as that, then they’re nowhere near getting a comedy performance out of AI yet.

Ha. 5 year old me would have gladly taken a little trauma to get a Castle Grayskull.

“no one ever really loved the cartoon”

I think the “everyone in Friends makes a million dollars an episode” thing from the 90s kinda established what people believe TV stars earn.

According to The Internet (TM), he made about 20k an episode in the early days and 100k an ep for later seasons. But those were 22 episode seasons, so by the end he was clearing 2 million a year. Then 20% to manager and agent, bunch of tax, etc, he probably made about a million a year in the later seasons.  So easier…

It wasn't so much a smokescreen, as the studios original plan. But then Cruise basically had them rework the script so that it became very clear that Renner was not gonna replace him. 

Isn’t the problem that we don’t know what goes on because (for a variety of reasons) no one wants to talk specifics? Like how pre-Weinstein/#MeToo no actress wanted to talk specifics about an industry everyone suspected was full of scumbags.

There was a good article a few years ago about how the bigger names can clear over half a million for 2 days signing. Nice work if you can get it.

Agreed that I wish she’d written more films, but she made a fortune as a last minute script rewriter, usually uncredited on things like Hook, Sister Act, River Wild, Wedding Singer etc.

This article seems to be bending over backwards to explain why its premise isn’t totally undermined by the massive success of Spiderverse. But then the MCU examples given don’t make much sense either. Ant Man 3 has very little multiverse shenanigans, and Eternals had none. On the other hand, Spider-Man No Way Home and…

I think it’s because most people have worked for a terrible employer or client at some point in their lives. Obviously there are degrees, but we all have bills to pay. I have friends who work for water companies, insurance companies, banks, big media companies, etc. They haven’t done anything wrong but the companies…

It’s very unprofessional to publicly insult your co-workers. Especially in an ongoing project like a TV show. She could have taken credit for protecting the character and doing punch ups on the material without putting down the writing, as lots of other actors do.

Even if there aren’t reshoots, films are usually rewritten in the edit, or at polished with ADR rewrites.

Freeman, (along with, it seems, the majority of British journalists “left” and right) is a terf and will go to great lengths to paint anybody she can as "on her side".

It’s an ongoing issue for me with these shows, including Fett and Obi-Wan. I’m no military strategist but anyone who has ever played a videogame can see how dumb everyone is. Most of the time everyone approaches from the front and then stands out in the open shooting at each other. They constantly forget they have…