Of that bunch, GOG3 did the best, and it fell significantly short of a billion, which for some stupid reason is now the benchmark for a solid hit.

Moreover, the overall trend on returns for both Marvel and superhero movies as a whole is down. Add to that the general feeling that the movies are aimless, the fact that…

I’m not sure you’ve been paying very close attention to animated film budgets, but they don’t cost less than live-action ones, crazy stuff like Avengers and Indy 5 excluded.

When the movie made a billion dollars, it’s probably worth at least a little bit of a fight.

Hollywood can fight about multiple things at once.

This.  He’s already on a massively loved show that gives him (presumably) a lot of satisfaction with his work.  Committing to 5 or more years of 6-8 month shooting schedules could very well throw a wrench in that.

He was on Shameless for ten years, and now he’s the star of an absolute critical darling of a show. I’m guessing he’s doing fine on the money front, and he’s not having any problem doing work he likes.

I know plenty of those people, and I’ve never heard any of them say anything but good things.

“Tell me about why should I do your movie.” Good for him.  Been a fan since the early days of Shameless, and this only validates that.

Even some people in the industry are turning.  And to some degree, I can’t blame them-- it’s really hard to be supportive of someone else when you haven’t been able to make mortgage payments for six months.

I think that was the effort to be funny

You can’t expect entertainment journalists* to spend endless microseconds verifying the spelling of an entertainers name, can you?

From a purely financial standpoint, I can see burying Batgirl making sense.  OTOH, has the PR from the decision worked out for them?  Maybe that’s not as big a hit as the 70M or whatever their tax write-off was worth, but it certainly wasn’t nothing.

Well, sometimes even awful people have a point.  Seriously, fuck this idea that we’re going to help corporations write off their taxes by donating money.  If Target or whoever wants to get the write-offs, why don’t THEY just round up every purchase and donate that difference?

I mean, it looks cool, it’s just emotionally empty.  Much like the movie that surrounds it.

It is amazing that people with that much power have such thin skin.  

In the case of Warner Brothers, it seems like it’s much more likely to be the former than the latter. Zaslav hasn’t shown himself to have any idea what he’s doing for some time, and that continues a fairly long streak of WB fucking up what hould have been chip shots (see also: Batman and Superman on screen together…

C’mon.  You’re expecting an entertainment website to do literally any research about a piece of entertainment?

That sentence just hurt my brain so much.

Very few parts of America can be redesigned easily or quickly to be walkable. Even large portions of most cities are too spread out for that. It would certainly be easier and cheaper (not to mention faster) to build EV infrastructure than do that kind of massive rebuilding.

Are there really that many people who go buying Rav4s who would seriously look at Ford anythings? Maybe its just the folks I know, but the ones who buy Toyotas buy them BECAUSE they’re Toyotas, and all the dependability that has historically gone into that name.  Even a couple thousand dollar difference in price isn’t…