Bingo. Iger said back in like February that they’re gonna start reducing budgets; this movie was just already filmed by then. Deadpool 3 & Cap 4 are in a similar situation with high budgets. Thunderbolts will be the first MCU flick where we could conceivably see how the lower budget helps.

I don’t think it stopped; I’m not stupid. I think people who’ve been mistreated are finding it easier to come forward.

Like I said, more scrutiny & transparency now. All it’ll take are auditioners willing to call it out.

Is that still gonna play out that way post-Weinstein? There’s more scrutiny & transparency now.

It was actual footage he’d shot, though, not a recreation of him.

Because it wasn’t that good of a movie. And Simone was played by a real actress anyway.

Here’s the answer to “Who is Dar-Benn?” as is relevant to (& very well explained in) the movie The Marvels:

Depends on that writer’s contract with Marvel.

But you see, & this point cannot be overemphasized, Barsanti is a hack.

With each passing day, that Variety article looks more & more like they didn’t vet their source well enough.

The Stone Poneys’ 1967 version of “Different Drum” is technically a cover; the Greenbriar Boys beat them to it by a year (and technically, so did the composer himself: Nesmith performed a piss-take version of it as a gag in an early Monkees episode).

I don’t have Prime, though.

Weird Al has a verse about that.

And a bunch of honest people got screwed out of their free pizzas too.

That sounds, much like the WGA deal, like wins on literally every issue.

The cast isn’t whitewashed this time, at least.

The Daily Beast’s critic’s blurb wasn’t even about the movie!

She was in almost every trailer.

Their monarch is a black woman, though.

We already know from the trailers that there’s exposition in the movie to explain who Kamala is & how Monica got powers (but film-only viewers have already met Monica anyway, because she was in the first one).