Regardless of the competition, what Spiderverse accomplished here is pretty impressive: it’s very rare for a movie to reclaim the #1 spot after losing it, let along during the crowded summer season, and especially not after nearly a month of release.

Also, they released it two weeks after Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the film that kicked off the whole multiverse trend in the first place.

I don’t doubt it. Hell, the simple fact that the movie is a Batman spinoff would have probably done half the work for them. I mean, look how desperate DC’s marketing was to tie The Flash movie to Batman. He’s DC’s biggest franchise, and pretty much the only major DC hero who hasn’t absorbed a flop at this point…

Meanwhile, in Argentina:

Interestingly, the only one of the cancelled shows to have WGA coverage is Grease. Paramount isn’t even saving that much money by destroying these works.

The Producers was originally a comedy, then they just turned it into a tax law.

Jeff Simpson is one of the artists who worked on the show. Given his tweet from yesterday, it looks like artists were not told that AI would be used.

Probably quite a few people, given that 1) Disney knows exactly when people stop watching, and they still allocate money for credit sequences in each show. And 2) 15 years of MCU movies have conditioned viewers to always sit through the credits in case there’s an extra scene afterward.

Well, whose fault is that? Real art has been around for all of human history. AI “art” of this kind has been around for like eight months. Why would you expect people to automatically know more about a new technology than about one of the cornerstones of human culture?

Tell us the meme hurt your feelings without telling us the meme hurt your feelings.

My favorite thing about AI evangelists is how every time they open their mouths they reveal that they don’t know the first thing about how art is actually made.

Except they wouldn’t have been paid to imitate an AI. They’d have been paid to make ugly and unsettling imagery. The fact that AI can do that by accident (and is good at basically nothing else) doesn’t change the fact that a human could have done it better.

then all of human writing and art-making is plagiaristic too.

He knows that he’s already rich so if other artists get fucked over by this garbage tech, it won’t effect him.

“Writers don’t deserve fair pay because they’re not willing to join me in mindlessly worshiping AI” is exactly the sort of take I’d expect from people hopping onto the latest post-NFT techbro fad.

I’m sure that the actual artists who worked on the original Secret Invasion comic series appreciate that not only will they not get credit for this show’s existence, Marvel made the effort to spit on their entire profession, even though the studio would not exist without artists.

As Pixar’s creative director, John Lasseter was involved in EVERY movie Pixar has EVER released. Yes, all the great ones, but also crap like The Good Dinosaur, Monsters University, and Cars 2 (which he directed!)

Zootopia also has a much more interesting setting. A city where every kind of mammal lives together has a lot more potential than a city with four kinds of inhabitants. The background is packed with details showing how the needs of so many different creatures are accommodated, all of which feeds back into the movie’s…

I feel like Pixar reached the natural conclusion of their “what if X had feelings” era when they made Inside Out and just had the feelings themselves be the protagonists.