I mentioned this on the Gizmodo article, but I never really liked TMNT either, and I still really enjoyed this film. I suppose for fans of the property, it has enough references to feel familiar, but to me it could have functioned just fine as an entirely different IP without missing a beat. The kids they got to do…

But if Scott had made 2049, who would be making the Dune movies now???

I wonder what “the top 10% of all books” means. If it’s the longest books, that seems like an even less useful skew of data. If it’s “the highest rated” then it’s just the highest rated of the samples he took, which is only some of the stuff published, probably recently, in one language using some rating system that…

FREE HENRIETTA! AND HER CUBS, AFTER PERFORMING ANY NECESSARY MEDICAL PROCEDURES!

Do you like my painting? I used 9.7 oz of oil paint, which is how much Van Gogh used on average in all of his paintings! It’s also on a 30 by 21 inch canvas, which is one of the most famous canvas sizes!

It would be an absolute dream if the AMPTP capitulated to both WGA and SAG-AFTRAs demands and immediately thereafter a huge chunk of VFX workers decide to strike.

In addition to the animation style looking cool and unique, I suspected and hoped that it might just have been considerably easier on the animators than even rote animation like Ruby Gilman, let alone stand-out works like Spider-Verse. It’s great that Rogen et al took that into consideration, and I hope more…

Peterson will film his Barbie response video just as soon as he stops crying.

I think it’s probably going to have an Elemental like run. Both were placed too close to movies that overperformed for weeks and depressed opening numbers, but it’ll probably continue to make a decent amount of money over its whole run.

I actually think Robbie might have enough integrity to turn down a shitty sequel. Her career hasn’t even peaked yet, she’s in high demand, and if she really just wanted to cash in on something, she’s still got an empty roster slot over at Marvel.

I was never a huge fan of the turtles. I probably watched the cartoon a bit as a kid, but I mostly thought they were boring. I feel like I attempted to watch the first movie at the behest of a friend, but either I checked out entirely or we stopped halfway through to go do something else, because I just vaguely…

I think “The Rock” counts most of the way toward an iconic role. It is still a character after all. If it were still the 90s, Hollywood might even try to transition the whole persona into a bonafide movie character for a franchise run. He just happened to do all his franchise work in a different medium before breaking…

One weird thing tangentially related to the whole Black Adam mess is that DC League of Super Pets was actually a pretty good movie, and Johnson seemed to have at least a marginal amount of self awareness with the Black Adam cameo in it. Maybe that was just because it was a comedy and animated so the stakes were lower,…

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You’re right, I don’t mean any way they want in the sense that they can just create all their background characters from scratch. I was thinking more along the lines of having shot a scene, but wanting it from another angle, or to do some weird VFX shit. Nothing that would substitute for actual shooting if that can be…

Nicknames are mostly harmless fun, but the fact that every group has to have one, as though each species of fish needs to have its own clever collective noun, is obnoxious. It used to be just the stoners and the metalheads who did it, and even then I can only think of a few bands before 2010 or so that had groupie…

I could see how these scans could be potentially useful for all kinds of media, but each actor should retain ownership of the scan. Use it any way you want in WandaVision, since you already paid them to be in it. Want to use it in Agatha: Coven of Chaos, though? Better pony up, at the usual rate. If it stops being…

I genuinely don’t get what’s so difficult to understand about this. I guess the devolution of unionization in this country has severely decreased class literacy, but I’ve never lived anywhere near a pro-union state and I still managed to pick up the basics. These people are in some of the most high profile unions in…