100% agree. This article vastly over-estimates the importance of older content on a given platform. A friend at Netflix shared that something like 95+% of their streams are basically just the top new releases, with everything else trailing off dramatically. If Warner can realize additional millions from sharing (as…

There were existing deals in place, they couldn't cut them off instantly. But they did as soon as the deals ran out.

Permanently damaging the value of the brand will get him a much lower price, though.

How much debt does he have to burn through?

I think the question is what WB got paid for letting Amazon air Lord of the Rings.   They’re 20-year-old movies which everyone has seen before, but which might briefly be something Amazon was willing to pay a lot for.  Companies are constantly agreeing to give up things that are valuable to them, for money.  That’s…

Being from Boston was a pretty important part of his identity, not really a nitpick in an article about M*A*S*H characters.

Charles Emmerson Winchester III was NOT a Brit. He was very famously from Boston -- hence the uppercrustean accent. 

If either of my kids want to be an actor like I did, I’m shipping them overseas to be “White American” for 4 years rather than paying for college.

Ah, it’s a shame after her breakthrough in TV she’s still not getting to make a film.

No, that was Michelle MacLaren who is probably best known for her work directing Breaking Bad where she directed more episodes than anyone else and was a huge influence on the look and style of the show.

What about the Firefox arcade machine?

You know what they should do? Make a movie about the actor who played him, William Hootkins. He was Munson in Flash Gordon (“you’re crazy!”), Captain Eaton in Raiders (“Top men.”) and fucking ECKHARDT in Batman. And he’s played everyone from Churchill to Teddy Roosevelt.

Fuck, he was on set during the filming of Superm…

Fighter pilot, with daddy issues, where the mission they fly is exactly like the mission from a Star Wars movie, movie.

Even if just for, say, ten years. Let people miss it a bit.

Announcing several movies and then quietly cancelling them absolutely is new though, and says a lot about the state of the franchise for Disney.

Really looking forward to next Star Wars Day or whatever, where they announce the same shows they announced in 2020, but like... half of them.

If this is the Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman, that sucks this is a big loss.

Fighter pilot, with daddy issues, movie.  An important ingredient.

That’s a bummer. A Rogue Squadron movie sounds like fun.

Is that the new Donnie Yen movie?

long gaps between Star Wars movies isn’t a new thing, if anything it just primes the pump for huge openings ala Phantom Menace or Force Awakens. There’s a whole metric ton of Star Wars TeeVee anyway for Star Wars fix.