Also, remember Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd century? I think it was earth based. 

The Lovecraft Country show might be interesting. 

Also, Netflix can do a “throw everything at the wall and see what happens” model because they don’t need to worry about airtime or anything like that. Just dump it in the New Release section and move on. There’s really only 3 hours a day where HBO can air new content. Unless they plan on doing a lot of HBO…

The need for serialization is a major problem for most Netflix shows. Honestly, I think season 1 of Stranger Things is the only show that really delivered on the “it’s like a x-hour” movie concept that Netflix is pushing. Mindhunters I think is the biggest casuality--the show wants to do a case of the week format so…

Ghosts just fuck non-stop. Why do you think they moan so much?

I think this is a bit of chicken and egg thing—is the Sicario sequel a bad idea because it doesn’t feature Emily Blunt, or is the fact that it makes no sense for Emily Blunt to be involved in a sequel a sign of why it’s a bad idea?

She’d want to steer clear of any CIA operations south of the border. Most likely she retired from law enforcement soon afterwards. The only way she’d fit into a sequel is if it was about her turning whistleblower about what happened in the first movie.

I thought Lovecraft Country was an interesting premise, but ended up being underwhelming. One of the biggest problems was how episodic it was, which won’t be a problem with a television show, so I am interested in seeing how this turns out.

I’m thinking the same thing. I’ve heard similiar stories about other sucessful, or at least once successful, companies: early success goes to the executives heads, and they figure whatever they’re doing must be a magic success formula and a culture of abuse and ostracization takes hold.

She seems to have some faith that Docter might start cracking down, so I’m thinking not him.

The hard part about navigating sci-fi literature is that you’ll find random pulp nonsense where an author self-insert bangs space princesses and saves the universe right next to Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke.

I subscribed to a magazine that prints short sci-fi stories for a couple of months, and they were all shockingly bad. Overwrought prose, flat characters with names that were just a collection of consonants, etc. And this was a respected magazine that had won Hugos and Nebulas! I guess every once in a while something…

It sounds to me like the big problem is the limited market for book reviews. It’s not like the AVC reviews every single movie or album that comes out a week--if people were interested in reading book reviews, the logistics would take essentially take care of themselves. But without a reader base, you’re just shouting…

God says you need to have sex with me, and also give me $20.

Fun fact: Menace II Society, Pulp Fiction, and all three Lord of the Rings movies won MTV movie awards.

Better than when Twilight was cleaning it up.

It’s almost like a real award!

There’s an oral history where Wesley Snipes talks about his failed effort to get a Black Panther movie made in the mid-90's, and at the end he says that he ended up making Blade instead. He doesn’t say anything about if that’s a coincidence or if he was set to make a movie with Marvel: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com…

That’s fair.

This movie premiered at Cannes.