I think it’s totally inaccurate to say this is “a real low point for the once-untouchable franchise,” given that the only franchise this could be considered part of is Sony’s Spider-man’s acquaintances without Spider-man himself film universe, which was never untouchable, with at best some people thinking Venom 1 was…

I got that. I was just extending my original comment.

If they want to either actually assess the security risk posed by Tik Tok through the processes that already exist for doing so, they should go for it.

It’s still weird. Lots of people have names with nonintuitive spellings. We seem to get frigging Timothée Chalamet right, and that’s stranger than Gandhi.

Exactly.

This is a profoundly stupid fucking take and you should be embarrassed.

You and that editor should probably figure out how Gandhi’s name is spelled.

It’s not racist to disapprove of medieval practices, especially when they come to killing children. Europeans did their share of “extinguishing the line,” and it was fucking terrible then, too.

There’s also just the usual balance sheet chicanery, where they spent X in year Y and earned Z etc. It merits keeping in mind that all of the streaming services are just massive, massive loss leaders (the only studio to net profit from streaming is Sony, because they license content but don’t run a streaming service),…

More performative bullshit from both parties.

I think the fact that he never booked another major part after this suggests that a lot stronger than what Stone said.

Recent history has shown that these things are quite a bit more complicated than they seem to us. There may be different tax writeoffs and compensation deals in place for theatrical versus streaming releases. WB has dropped some great stuff straight to Max and killed things with very positive buzz outright, and still…

Surprise! David Zaslav will be playing Barlow.

If it was any other studio, I’d agree.  But Zaslav is not making these kind of moves on the basis of quality.

Trolly troll troll.

This you, Beau? You seem to have a really strong take on this that doesn’t seem to be based on much of anything.

I mean, Google is right there. Lots of discussion of his behavior on his previous job, along with the false narrative he tried to push after he was fired.

Why not just look up the tweet that got her fired?

I’m not accusing the Wachowskis of not crediting their inspirations. They were real ones.

Pretty wise position for all entries after the first.