It’s a dumb plot point, but the credit/blame actually goes to Mark “Do You Think This A Stands For France” Millar. Last Stand basically cribbed the backstory Millar cooked up for Phoenix in the Ultimate X-Men comics a year or two earlier.

My read is that they’ve more or less resigned themselves to Beer Likin’ Brett failing to get the votes, but they’ve decided to ratchet up the hysterics as much as possible to get their base to read the situation as an anti-white guy outrage instead of a humiliating failure

Well yeah, Pascal has been pretty open about that from the jump. But it’s pretty clear no one besides her thinks that’s a good idea.

They’ll keep the rights either way, but they might choose to licence the characters back to Disney, forgoing creative control in exchange for a cut of the profits like they did with Holland-Spidey

Goddamn it Gaga fans, Venom needs to tank without the asterisk otherwise Sony will keep the rights forever!

Polish law protects authors who don’t see a minimum amount of royalties in relation to the profits the license for their works if the compensation to the author is “lower than a factor of at least two.” Additionally, there’s a dispute over whether the original agreement was licencing the property for a single game or…

There’s a cogitative dissonance at play here. Even when we know the facts it’s very hard for Americans, regardless of party, to admit that our political system is not a true democracy

When they dump a 4-6 episode “Epilogue” cobbled together from the footage they’ve shot so far and quickie reshoots on some deadzone weekend in a year or so with no promotion, then we can say it’s dead

Marketing Brain has taken over, “sure the country is in the shitter and everyone is mad all the time, but have you seen the engagement on social?!?!” 

Restaurant workers are a self-selected group of people, and that selection process was “do you like this job that is alternately boring or intense, and has an element of chance (with a layer of skill) tied to your take home?”

Fair point, but since ‘89 they’ve been slowly redesigning him into a xenomorph and no one is asking for that crossover

Mrs. F will always go Nazi (or rather, authoritarian and arch-conservative. But it fits well enough and I didn’t title the essay)

They don’t need to. All they have to do is have power, then wait for the people without it to scramble over each other to be “one of the good ones.” Once they’ve gotten their foot in the door, they’ll fight tooth and nail to protect the status quo

Venom is a better character without Spider-man to play off of. The movie being forced to make a clean break was the best thing to happen to both franchises. I have my reservations about this particular movie, but a disgraced reporter with a narcissistic savior complex becoming possessed by a Lovecraftian alien/demon…

Who is asking for this? More importantly, who still has a job at Netflix when they think the future of entertainment is turning TV into FMV computer games from the 90s? 

Thank god. The whole “took them an entire season to run away” thing wouldn’t have been as noticeable if they’d released it in one go

The adaptation needed to change some things, the comic series is paced like a comic (events occurring almost too rapidly to register, followed by urgency-free filler like Nico bringing a vampire boyfriend back to the hideout) and the Pride needed an actual motivation in a universe where there aren’t 80 other secret…

At the time, New Line was flying Knowles down to New Zealand and paying for his hotel while he hung around the LotR set. He was a very big deal, and money was definitely spent getting him to write about certain films

There is a moral polarization in this country, politics is just the name we’re comfortable giving it so far

What a coward. I know I shouldn’t be, but I am astounded that the Republicans could walk out of yesterday with even the slightest feeling that this vote was a good idea