They intend to make up the difference by selling info to advertisers, which raises the question, what advertiser wants to pay $50 to learn that I went to see Thor: Ragnarok five times?

Yeah, I'm thinking about a lot of changes. A year is too far in advance to be booking arthouse/indie movies with floating release dates. I also think that on the other side of things, a better modifier for Blockbuster would be taking foreign grosses into account.

I assume Nightmare Before Christmas would be the bonus ep, which would turn things around somewhat.

So I bought No Man's Sky but I keep getting killed by angry horseshoe crabs before I can finish repairing my ship. Is this normal?

Based on the stock I saw it was to make room for more SNL merch and weird perfunctory Late Night w/ Seth Meyers items ("we could put the logo on a… mug?")

It didn't in June.

Books
I read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It's very much sci-fi for the Book Club set, spending way too much time setting up a fairly rote multiple-timelines premise that a more genre-y sci-fi author would've had more confidence in. Crouch also has a stylistic tic that bugged me for a long time. He loves to describe…

Was that Bane Maron?

The first sorta disappointing Rick & Morty of the season, in that it had one clever idea but once that idea was revealed at the end of the first act you could pretty much guess how it would play out from there. I ended up feeling like the alluded-to events of Vindicators 1 would've made for a better episode.

That's very strange since it's still the #2 movie in America.

You have it in the Simple Draft. Nobody has it in the Complex Draft, which is nuts.

It has grossed more domestically than all of Wright's other films combined.

One upside to the fact that there's only been one good animated movie this year so far is that I've hardly had to sit through any excruciating kids' movie trailers.

Logan Lucky deserves to be way higher.

Why the fuck is it opening so wide in the first place? Box Office Mojo doesn't even have a chart for "worst openings in 4k+ theaters" because they already consider 3k+ to be "Super-saturated". It's fourth on the chart of Widest Independent Releases behind the middle 3 Twilight movies. WAT.

Should I buy No Man's Sky for $24 in light of the recent update?

It's gonna be too cloudy tonight to watch the Perseids :(

Justin Trudeau's not looking too great

Well apparently NBC lost their option to Amazing Stories back in May so that frees up some time he had blocked out.

He also used special ammo of POTS O' SNAKES in a naval battle.