Or maybe I was talking about the David Cronenberg film called Drive starring James Spader and Holly Hunter. It was released in 1996!

Came down in the comments section to say something similar. The suits at AMC reportedly wanted John Cusack or Matthew Broderick for the Walter role, but both of them turned it down. They were still completely opposed to Cranston until Gilligan showed them "Drive."

It doesn’t make sense because Clayton is apparently going off that one tweet or didn’t skim carefully enough whatever news story he’s summarizing here. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce decides what happens with the Walk of Fame, they haven’t even met yet to consider West Hollywood’s recommendation, and the president…

The headline. The opening paragraph. The whole point of the post. The whole thing is wrong. Here’s an actual news story about what’s happened thus far, and the pull quote from the president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce doesn’t seem promising (“The West Hollywood City Council does not have jurisdiction over the…

Of all of the wonders that increasingly available space travel could afford us, one that would be personally satisfying would be to see flat earthers (the sincere ones, not the trolls) see the decidedly spherical Earth with their own eyes.

“Who is profiting off of this?”

The Deep State runs so deep that it hires fake critics like Jones and rigs elections to get dolts like Trump into power just so that they can sound like loons telling us all about the Deep State. The greatest trick the Deep State ever pulled was convincing us that it doesn’t exist.

The Deep State runs so deep that it hires fake critics like Jones and rigs elections to get dolts like Trump into power just so that they can sound like loons telling us all about the Deep State. The greatest trick the Deep State ever pulled was convincing us that it doesn’t exist.

The Deep State runs so deep that it hires fake critics like Jones and rigs elections to get dolts like Trump into power just so that they can sound like loons telling us all about the Deep State. The greatest trick the Deep State ever pulled was convincing us that it doesn’t exist.

You must be thinking of the other fake dead postmodern French philosopher, Jack Derri-la-di-da-da. I know very, very little about Dr. Who. It is admittedly one of my cultural blind spots. I daresay I know more about Inspector Spacetime than I do about Dr. Who.

YouTube has a far-right problem.

Okay, we're done. Have fun pretending to understand what you're talking about.

Yep. You’re describing exactly what happened, though I’d add that with the growth that MoviePass demonstrated they were getting close to that tipping point. A piece in Wired back in January posited that the magic number would be something like 5 million subscribers. They had myriad independent theaters on board…

You’re describing what happened; I’m describing MoviePass’s core concept. They were wrong, obviously, as they’re about to go bankrupt. My original point was that MoviePass’s business model was not as momentously stupid as Barsanti described it. It still proved to be stupid--just not that stupid.

They were asking for a discount—and eventually a cut of the concessions stand profits—to help keep them afloat with the understanding that theater chains would see that keeping MoviePass afloat was mutually beneficial (bringing in more customers meant more ticket sales, more concession sales, etc.). AMC, the largest…

Trading a plan that for $9.99 a month provided a movie a day, every day, and at any theater—including art house theaters that show films that AMC would never touch (my local art house theater, for example, is partnered with MoviePass because they accept MasterCard)—versus a plan with far fewer movies (3 a week is my…

You’re not the only one in the thread making that same assessment and I... just don’t get it. With MoviePass I could see a movie a day—including films at my local art house theater (Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, MO for people playing at home)--for $10 a month when MoviePass first began. With Cinemark or whatever AMC’s…

Lots of people buy concessions. Lots of MoviePass subscribers were spending more money on concessions than the average movie goer does. Here’s a pull quote from a larger piece in Wired back in January, when MoviePass CEO  Mitch Lowe pointed out that “[MoviePass] customers are spending on average $13 on popcorn and…

They were already sharing data with studios to try to demonstrate that they could provide useful info on how to tailor marketing, release dates, etc. Given the data amounted to my movie-going habits alone, I had no problem with that.

So sticking with your own reasoning—MoviePass was bringing in more customers than theater chains would have otherwise seen—once it goes belly up those 1000 people will be, say, 700, for the sake of argument. That’s means that there are 300 fewer people buying tickets, discount or no, and 300 fewer people buying…