You could start with this: https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2016/07/20/how-sony-s-marketing-nearly-destroyed-ghostbusters

Oxen?

Or they sell off their interests in whatever entity holds the rights in such a way that they lose veto power over making a sequel (see, e.g., George Lucas, who was fine with Star Wars sequels in the abstract, but probably wouldn’t have approved of the direction Disney took the franchise).

Uh, I like to quote the “Two in the box” line from GB2, but, to be fair, I have to admit that no one has any clue what I’m referring to when I do it.

As a fan of both the Ghostbusters and TMNT franchises, I’d say the TMNT reboot didn’t incite as much rage because TMNT fans generally approach the franchise recognizing that original source material wasn’t really that great and a lot of their enjoyment comes from the kitschiness of it. (I mean the title itself is…

Yeah, I would have preferred a Doctor Strange reference there to a TLJ hall of mirrors one.

Hey, if it’s good enough for Lex Luthor....

Is Project Greenbook about a white USAF officer and black USAF officer searching together for evidence of extraterrestrials in the segregated American South?

This reminds me of the videogame M.U.L.E. from the early 1980s — one of the events that can happen during the game says something like, “The space colony museum offers to buy your antique computer. Earn $400.”

Seeing all of these old machines together, stripped of nostalgia value, makes one realize how incredibly ugly a lot of machines were back in the 80s and 90s. Chunky, brutalist beige boxes. At what point did everyone decide black and gray plastic and brushed aluminum were just the colors that consumer electronics were…

I find Cox way too smarmy to handle in more than small doses.

To be fair, there are a lot of Hollywood types that don’t understand the difference either given the number of times I’ve seen the term “reboot” by actual professionals in the industry to describe things that are clearly remakes or sequels that come out a long time after the original.  

I believe that’s how you “unlock” the scooter to be able to use it.

Starred for the Moby Dick reference.

That’s the joke, son.

If anyone thought a studio in the 21st Century would order that particular line of all things in the movie cut, I’m not sure what world they’re living in.

It’s also news to me that Burt Kwouk did a film outside of the Pink Panther series.

With Leonard Nimoy as World Controller Mustapha Mond!

The Mutara Nebula battle is still probably in the top 5 of best space battle scenes of all time (and definitely still in the top 10).

Yeah, I was going to say that this strategy is a lot more viable in a country with major gun control laws....