It’s usually done on a sliding scale, with studios getting the lion’s share of the first week’s domestic grosses, and theaters getting more of the ticket price the longer it stays in theaters (and international theaters, who have home-grown movies they’d like to put on screens, taking a higher percentage of the ticket…

They didn’t get to keep all $660 million--they have to split the gross with theaters.

I do think that a few Leave votes were purely symbolic anti-government protests, but there were a lot of people who genuinely thought that they could use Brexit to kick out all the immigrants without losing any of the Common Market trading benefits.

...”Clue”?

Basically, everyone who voted Leave did so on the assumption that they would be able to retain all of the benefits of membership in the EU without any of its obligations, simply by having the leverage to bargain an amazing deal with the EU member nations. This has turned out to be the equivalent of “There’s going to…

Many people. Over ten. He’d give exact numbers, but he’d have to take off his shoes first.

The thing is, this kind of shit might wind up enshrining trans protections in the workplace. If Lumpy McAsshole becomes president and suddenly the rules change for trans people, they can take this shit to court and say, “Hey, can you explain why the rules changed?” And since the only answer they’ve got is, “We hate…

Tumblr announced a recent ban on porn in order to make the site more “family friendly”. A number of people have pointed out that there are still plenty of openly white supremacist sites still operating there, which is against their current terms of service, and they’re doing absolutely nothing about it, which speaks…

Luckily, Tumblr has taken steps to solve the problem by banning porn even harder.

Gaston eats eight times that many eggs for breakfast, man.

Leviticus. Whenever you want to go find some fucked up bullshit excuse to hate on someone, I guarantee you can find it in Leviticus. Hate tattoos? Hate piercings? Hate sex? Hate food? Leviticus is your go-to book of the Bible for justifying your insane rantings with “God said so”.

It’s hard to tell, really--Trump lashes out like this at everyone who doesn’t sycophantically praise him.

It reminds me of an old Alexei Sayles bit, where he talked about how every new Prime Minister made the one before him look good by comparison. “Can you imagine how bad the next PM is going to have to be to make Margaret Thatcher look good? ‘Oh, I used to hate Thatcher, but now that the Zorgon overlords have come down…

You call him the cosmic cowboy, but personally I call him the organized criminal of love.

There’s a right to feed Russian intelligence to credulous journalists? Wow. Who knew?

I’m always a little suspicious of this defense, since it always seems to be employed in defense of guys who aren’t even quarter-assing their apologies because that seems too much like work. “Well, he said, ‘Dude...’ in a sad tone of voice, isn’t that enough for you people?”

Yep. You’re going to be seeing a lot of pivots like this as the Muller investigation digs up more dirt.

I just keep picturing Jack Webb coming on screen and saying, “Eel sniffing. It starts out as a habit. Then it becomes an addiction. Then it becomes a curse. Parents, talk to your children.”

Yes, all those black people he denied housing got to be in touch with their love of the great outdoors because of Trump! God, he’s such a humanitarian.

It’s just adorable how many nobodies in the greys are absolutely raging at my statement that women have the right to enjoy a party without some drunk dude looming over them in a corner and spewing out a full list of all the shit he wants to do with her body.