That’s a very different application of AI than the one Cage is obviously referring to. Underneath the deepfake in that movie is still a real performance that Cage actually gave on a real set. It’s basically just software doing the job of a very advanced makeup artist. I would not think of that in the same category as…

Yeah, if there’s a writer out there who could make a school-shooting episode of <i>Abbot Elementary</i> work, I’d love to meet them.

Yo Disney I just found a few shares from that original deal in my couch cushions. I will settle for $8.6 mil. 

This probably won’t tip the scales into breaking Disney up into 20 different entities yet.  But it needs to happen.

I enjoy this show and FFS it’s not the place to be talking about school shootings. Yes, the show has a good amount of social commentary, but that particular topic in *this* show could not work. There is absolutely no humour to be had and this is, first-and-foremost, a comedy series. 

I can’t imagine why she wouldn’t want an episode of her situation comedy to be about children being murdered.

I’m about a third the way through season 2 on Hulu and I’m excited to see where the charter  schools plot goes. Good for them for helping to educate people on how charter schools fuck over normal schools. 

Disney did need a platform to put the more adult-oriented movies/shows it owns now, and I guess Hulu will be it.

Original Hulu was great. I don’t think I have watched a single thing on it ever since they started charging subscription but still making you watch commercials.

Poor Hulu. No more two Christmases but instead has to stay at mean Papa Iger’s house the entire time.

I like multiverse stuff a lot better than a rehashed Infinity Gauntlet storyline with an idiot Thanos, personally.  At least in the comics he was trying to woo the anthropomorphic personification of Death, that makes sense even if it is insane.  And that fits his mo: He’s the Mad Titan, not the Dumbass Titan.

I don’t think the parent company that was eager to run Star Wars movies into the ground as fast as possible is interested in letting Marvel take a break.

This problem apparently came into play with the upcoming The Marvels, which “resulted in four weeks of reshoots to bring coherence to a tangled storyline...”

I mean, convoluted is an understatement.

I wish they’d bring back more of the Elders who’ve hosted the show multiple times in the past and are still professionally doing great, memorable work - Walken, John Lithgow, John Goodman, even Elliott Gould. I wouldn’t even mind if they all hosted at once.

That sketch was dangerously accurate

Oh man, this past summer I rediscovered a swimming hole/fishing hole from my childhood that I hadn’t been to in forty years. It was magical. It was also 109% Lake Beach.

He’s reading those introductions off a cue card anyway so it’s not like he forgot to mention H.E.R - he wasn’t written to intro her.

What, no love for “Lake Beach”? 

Deepest sympathies to the family of our longtime customer, Ms. Chnandler Bong.

Eh, I have all the respect in the world for the man and his films, but Scorsese can fuck himself on this one. Build in a goddamn intermission. If every scene of your film is so important that it has be 3.5 hours long, then your choice is either building in an intermission or expecting theatergoers to miss several…