Difference is, the studio was kinda depending on Justice League to dominate the box-office and gross a billion plus dollars, both to recoup its enormous budget and to generate interest in the films to follow.

So, wait, the cops knew Internal Affairs was setting them up?

Bird definitely seems to be an elitist, but that doesn’t make him a Randian elitist.

Replace “Spider-Man 2" with “The Amazing Spider-Man”, and I’d agree. :)

As I understand it, with trademarks, you need to make continuous use of them in order to keep them. If you stop putting out products with the trademarked name or image on them, the trademark will lapse, and it will become free for everyone else to use. And someone else may even make their own trademark out of it.

Tell that to Marvel Comics, who trademarked the name “Captain Marvel”, despite a character with the same name having been published by a rival comics publisher for decades beforehand.

I think it has to do with which actors are needed for which episodes.

So, do you also never go see movies in theaters, since they always show previews before the movie starts?

So, while watching a television series, if after each hour or half-hour long episode, there’s a thirty second interstitial telling you about other Netflix programs before the next episode automatically plays (an interstitial you can skip over with a click of a mouse), that’s just intolerable to you?

Hmm, are we sure Winona Ryder isn’t just one of Count Olaf’s many disguises?

I’d be for it only if the commercials were from the same era the show originally aired. So if you’re watching old episodes of Cheers, you might see a commercial for IBM’s new electric typewriters.

Except Netflix isn’t doing this to make money (at least, not directly). No one’s paying Netflix to put ads for their products on the site. Netflix is including short promotional videos for their own programming, so their customers will know those programs exist and check them out.

“At somewhere between $2 and $2.5 million per episode, it’s one of the most expensive half-hour shows in history”

Trademarks don’t have to do with whether you invented the name or image in question, only with whether the public associates it with your brand, and would therefore believe that someone else using the name or image must be associated with you.

I think the logic is that, since the studios know that their big, crowd-pleasing blockbusters have little chance of getting Best Picture nominations, they don’t bother trying to make those movies appeal to the Academy voters’ idea of high quality.

If The Godfather was made today, it probably wouldn’t be a movie. It’d probably be a series on HBO or Amazon.

For me, The Amazing Spider-Man is still #1.

Not necessarily. She didn’t have anything to do with McCreary taking control of the Eligius crew away from Diyoza, and whether she helped him or not, he may still have decided to pull hissuicidal takin’-you-all-with-me gambit.

I came here to say the exact same thing. Well, I didn’t remember what year the short film was from, but I do remember having seen it in school, and it being pretty darn chilling.