This is rotten for all involved, surely, but damn, I’m going to miss the hell out of BIP. Although, at least I won’t have to see Kardashley cry all summer.

Interesting read! My wife and I don’t watch a ton of TV, but make a point to keep up with The Challenge (Real World is hit or miss, and let’s not talk about how much I miss Road Rules).

They’re actively trawling for international box office. The reason they used Cruise was he’s so famous that people in Thailand and Indonesia and China will shell out to go see this film no matter how boxy and clunky it is because they know who Cruise is.

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They’re convinced that Cruise was going to be their Robert Downey Jr but “safer” since he’s A) a known quantity, B) famous enough that foreign markets will pay to see him even though they don’t know anything about the Mummy and C) still have this weird idea that stars from twenty years ago are all you need for the…

This link will show you everything he and his company (Plan B) have produced. It’s a very impressive list, including many non-mainstream projects that would arguably never hadve seen the light of day without his imprimatur on them. It can be said that over the last 15 years, his producing efforts have had a measurable…

it works! i came up with Major Wedge :)

The best part of the Vanity Fair article is the tie-in banner ad

Cruise’s entire persona is about the Will to Power writ large.

Unrelated, but I came up with a process of generating Gossip Girl names that I’m VERY proud of: for your first name, you pick the last name of a British prime minister and for your last name, you pick a salad. Thus: Blair Waldorf. (My Gossip Girl name would be Thatcher Cobb.)

Pitt’s production company also produced “Feud”. He’s got an excellent track record and very good taste in material.

I did some research on IMDB.

What do these movies/shows have in common?: Okja, The OA, Moonlight, Selma, The Normal Heart, Eat Pray Love,

Brad Pitt was an executive producer on all of them and he wasn’t in the cast.

Can you imagine Tom Cruise producing something and saying, “That’s OK, I don’t have to be the star.”

I…

Exactly. Evidently he didn’t get that the only part that interesting was the goddamn mummy, we Nick Morton, a name that sounds like it was created with a generic white man name generator. 

Don’t forget the OG Mummy man.

Audiences and critics are so stupid. Don’t they know there’s nothing more fascinating than a white man in his 50's running around, pretending to be Indiana Jones? 

I’m going to have it disagree with you. Space exploration is one of the things that will one day provide more freedom, more opportunities for income, more opportunities to reduce pollution on the earth by pulling resources from asteroids instead of from our own living eco system. Not furthering the capabilities of…

But also, what if she did want to go home and have sex with him, and changed her mind when she saw his doll collection or something? The idea that if we start down a path with a man we can’t change our minds is fucking gross. If I start eating a pizza and hate it, do I need to keep going? Do you shove it into my mouth…

Have you met any astronauts and test pilots? Most are quite short.

Cavemen need to work on foraging and hunting, finding clean drinking water, safe shelter, and protecting their clan from raids from other clans.

So does the U.S., so does the U.S., so does the U.S., so does the U.S., so does the U.S. (insert almost any country, really)