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I think the movie was about to get delayed but they had to announce the cancellation of the Bad Bunny film first. Delay announcement probably coming later this year.

I saw that scene in my pornhub recommendations last week... It's a different kind of marketing, thats for sure.

John Carter was a good time and I’ll die on this hill.

You’re likely the first person to have spoken about CODA in at least 18 months.

Oh dear. Looks like this movie actually tested well. For the critics to sense something’s fishy with The Flash, and then for audience to just reject the movie as they did implies there might be a problem with the way WB are conducting these studies.

The CG Babies. The entire third act action scene. The faces deepfaked onto CG heads and bodies. The CG masks. The CG army guys. The CG villain army. The speed force looking like Pre-Viz. The cameos (the living actors being present for filming but still looking fake is madness. Being able to tell which Barry is real, and which is a stand in at nearly every turn. Im not one to complain about “bad” CGI either, films like Cats was completely fine to me. They were poorly designed, but not a disaster. The Flash is a totally different beast. Just an ugly, ugly film.

Also: has any other TV show been cancelled THREE TIMES?

You’re dead right. TV Shows used to be cancelled and just VANISH. We had a time where cancelled shows would go to iTunes or DVD, but I’ll take a wild guess that in 2023 studios will likely save more money deleting these shows than they would gain by keeping them available for sale.

TV shows have 2-3 year cliffhangers. Lord and Miller just put out the conclusion to a 20 year cliffhanger a couple months ago.

This is super common now btw. I've seen films use, what are clearly clips pulled from YouTube, as movie or TV footage when characters are watching TV (especially in content set during the CRT era. I guess they think kids that have never seen a VHS can't tell the difference between low bitrate YouTube and video cassette). Old news clips which are sourced from YouTube pop up in a lot of big movies too.

It also got boosted by cynical cinema executives that thought audiences were going to go apeshit wild over all those cameos in the last act.

International Day of Peace declared across the Internet and school playgrounds around the world.

I remember when he said that all the measures he has taken will likely be repeated by the entire industry and at the end of the day HE WAS RIGHT.

You’re mistaken

Video Games need to allow things to just be cutscenes because hold L2 and R2 to ACCEPT THE TRUTH is just ridiculous.

Someone is always complaining about something.

This feels 2 years too late. I was sick of hearing about this when it was happening. Might be just me though.

This is ridiculous. FREE THIS MAN IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

Baymax also didn't put up any numbers too.

Is this the same 'Pixar' that made Monsters At Work?

The Dreamworks issue was far more complicated than Pixar's. Pixar makes original movies, which are unpopular right now, which also cost far too much to produce. Simple. Apparently Pixar's structure is closer to that of a tech company, so reducing the budgets to something sensible would take restructuring and years to enforce. "Win or Lose" is also an absolute dud. One of the last Streaming Originals announced before Disney+'s launch to be released (HBO Max is still premiering shows announced before launch). It was green-lit way before we had any idea which direction streaming was heading in. Turns out Kids TV is damn near dead, requires consistent platforming, repeat viewing, and extensive advertising. Coco-Melon and Bluey (arguably two of the few Kids TV streaming hits) cost peanuts to produce. Disney's plan was to produce and sell animated shows from their 2 movie studios, thinking the branding and EXPENSIVE animation would create interest - turns out kids don't really care about any of that, and now Disney are stuck with a mini-series that likely cost multitudes more than it would've had they just used their traditional TV studios. Disney+ shifting from producing Original content aimed at families and replacing them with cheaper new imports from Disney Channel has also been very telling.

True Blood streams on Hulu. Deadline are playing fast and loose with the word “shocker”.

My backlog right now is Zelda, FFXVI, Black Mirror, Righteous Gemstones, Platonic, Demon Slayer and a dozen other shows/movies/games. They need to strike into 2025 so I can catch up.

Netflix’s “300 million people watched this movie you’ve never heard of” is an marketing gimmick meant to stoke our fear of missing out - nothing more, nothing less. Global viewership figures may as well be the Wild West. There’s no accessible third party to confirm those. “200m people saw this show”, is far easier to comprehend then “this show was viewed for 400m hours”. I imagine it’ll be a bigger part for the advertising of their content going forward.