I think it is hard to remember that Ian McKellan wasn’t an A-lister for his entire career, which retrospectively seems crazy. In a lot of ways, pre-X-Men, he was very much a “that guy” kind of actor especially outside of the UK.

It isn’t a new phenomenon so it isn’t doing anything that hasn’t been happening since the dawn of theater and film. Charlie Chaplin was a nepo-baby. And just like back then, there are also plenty of middle and lower class actors still climbing up the ranks. You’re equating with better with lack of nepotism and as…

People don’t get defensive on behalf of actors. People point out that actors only benefit from nepotism as much as anyone getting a corner office cos their dad owns a company. People also point out that actors ability to work is long-term isn’t predicated on who their parents are but by whether or not audiences like…

We also don’t need to pretend like acting is any different than any other walk of life where who your parents are and their resources ensure your success in most cases.

Not everyone gets a chance at anything. Not everyone gets to go to college. Not everyone gets to be a doctor or a lawyer. Not everyone gets to go to expensive private schools. Not everyone gets to live in the best neighborhoods. Every aspect of society has access issues based on your parentage and it’s only the…

The only soundbite I heard that seemed like people stirring the pot was the emphasis on him having the kids. She’s working in the UK and she has said before that he doesn’t want to go to the UK. It was three months. We know she was seen back here during that time. If he was a woman, no one would be batting an eye that…

In fairness, he probably has to deal with this nonsense every year. This ain’t his first Burning Man.

I used to go and I promise I’m not rich or a techbro. It was my one big trip of the year similar to how someone might go to Disney or Coachella. It was fun. It was a lot of drugs. It *is* a festival for whatever the organizers want it to be. I think the issue is that many attendees tend to have very lofty ideas about…

Maybe, but this is the full extent of the “dragging.” The section is far less a critique of Baxendale than it is a critique of chemistry. He says that the actors together lacked chemistry and that being funny didn’t come naturally to her when working with Schwimmer the same way it did for Aniston. In context, it has…

The weirder part is that this anecdote got so much traction in the media, which I assume is because Friends is still popular. Having read the book last year, the Baxendale stuff barely registered as an anecdote because most of it is a discussion of chemistry in general as opposed to a linear narrative about Friends.

In fairness, the book is almost 400 pages long. This anecdote does not take up that much space and is part of a larger discussion about chemistry where he is primarily talking about how chemistry was key to Frasier-Niles working and to Will & Grace and that this is just an example where the chemistry doesn’t work. It’s…

Some of it is a quantity thing.

Gotch ya. I thought it was sarcasm ;) my mistake! 

I mean technically that was Sony, but it still outgrossed Shazam...

I hope that is foray into so many Equalizer sequels is to fund his passion projects. I don’t want to see him go the way of Liam Neeson.

I get that Strange World didn’t perform well, but Encanto got fairly universal acclaim from audiences and critics. It’s low-box office was attributed pretty directly to Covid. It frankly makes Strange World seem more like the anomaly than anything else.

Marvel’s financial woes also pale in comparison to the financial woes of other studios. The box office is an issue, but it’s not an issue only for Marvel. As disappointing as Ant Man 3 might have been, it wasn’t Blue Beetle or Shazam: Fury of the Gods.

Day One, Murder Police and Manchester Prep are 3 examples.

Day One was a good example - It was produced by NBC and was supposed to air in place of Heroes at some point. They ordered the pilot to series and originally ordered 7 episodes. During production, they dropped it to 4. They insisted it would air as a miniseries and it never has.

Disney technically has to pay itself for the content it houses on Disney+. In some cases, licensing out will bring them move money.