Domestic exhibitors generally take 45-50% of the gross, compared to about 60-65% overseas (and 75% in China). And that’s not even counting foreign taxes and bribes (again, China, which has a hard cap on how many imports can be exhibited per year), or currency controls (China once more, which until very recently made…

The real reason they didn’t start focusing on worldwide box office until about maybe 10-15 years ago (as Dirtside points out, “just now” is not accurate) is that many other countries (outside European ones) didn’t have a lot of spending money relative to the U.S., or didn’t show American movies in their theater chains…

You know, using a person’s suicide as a means to defend a movie as immune from criticism is low even for Snyder fanboys. I mean, what does his daughter’s death have to do with his filmography? There’s nothing wrong with feeling sympathy for him because of what happened to his daughter, but using it as an excuse to…

OHHHH GOOD FOR YOU!

Sean — and I say this with an incredible amount of respect for you as a writer (one of my favorites on the internet), a journalist, and a person — this is legitimately clickbait bullshit. The mountain of qualifiers heaped in the second half of this article practically unwrites the first and proves that point. Except…

My guess is that his personal life is in a downward spiral and he wants out of the grind on a studio franchise so he can get his shit together or at least try to get out of the spotlight.

IMO the Strucker hypocrisy makes sense- up until last month or so they thought of themselves as respectable citizens/that mutants only suffered because they made dangerous decisions. Of course they’d still judge mutants who aren’t their children for the desperate things they had to do.

Why do I keep seeing this hand wringing over The Punisher glorifying gun violence on the same sites that constantly gush over John Wick?

This “different culture” argument doesn’t survive for ten seconds when you translate it into a present-day situation.

I am not. Because the issue of removal of consent in this episode extends far beyond simply taking away consent from human beings for the purposed of sex. It was also used in this story to force the two species to comply to the Unions demands. Essentially the two parties were brought into the discussions for peace…

Are you one of those people who think that rape is about sex? But the issue here isn’t about sex. Its about consent. CONSENT. And this show has shits and giggles about people being denied the capacity to consent to what is being done to them, and that being considered OK because its ‘temporary’.

But at least Cornwall was going to relieve him of duty. And she’s also his superior officer and a professional psychologist. You get courtmartialled or at best reprimanded and demoted for the kind of behavior she pulled and lose your medical license. And yes, it happens a lot in the military and among…

The Simpsons writers (classic seasons) mentioned it would take them 1 or 2 hours to come up with a sign gag, these look like they took 3 minutes and elicited an “eh, good enough” before moving on.

I’m a cis man, so this might not mean anything coming from me, but this episode was hot fucking garbage. Just dunder-headed, tone deaf, offensive bullshit. This show is so busy trying to suck off TNG, but it’s failed to capture any of what made that show special. I was not expecting much coming from MacFarlane, and…

with one of the more recent examples being when White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blatantly abused her platform to declare that ESPN should fire contributor Jemele Hill

I’m skeptical that they can write one narratively plausible ending, let alone multiple.

Aha ha ha. What a story, Tyrion.

“Half-season finale”: words have lost all meaning.

HBO went with Aegon because every viewer knows it’s the name of the great conqueror who forged the Iron Throne they think we are all a bunch of dumbasses with no imagination. Complete failure on their part. I cannot stress highly enough how poor a decision that was.

Welcome to your daily clickbait/online outrage, everybody. Let’s cherry-pick part of his quote and then get all pissy about Jim Cameron being a big dumb sexist, while also almost entirely glossing over how he was putting non-sexualized female heroes in major movies over 30 years ago.