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1 hour ago, Krissykins said:
It’s what they deserve. Disney are always on the wrong side of LGBT history.The problem is they have been on the right side of history in the past and in fact they have used their size to cause change fairly recently.
QuoteDisney and its Marvel Studios film unit will not shoot future movies in Georgia if a controversial bill that critics contend would legalize anti-gay discrimination is signed by that state’s governor. Among other companies, Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Lionsgate, CBS as well as the AMC Networks, which films The Walking Dead in the state, have called on Gov. Nathan Deal to veto the legislation.
“Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law,” a Disney spokesman said Wednesday.
Marvel has filmed such movies as Ant-Man and the upcoming Captain America: Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 in Atlanta, taking advantage of Georgia’s attractive tax incentives. While Disney’s statement specifically mentioned Marvel, other Disney units like ABC Studios and Disney Studios would also take part in the boycott.
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In the wake of Disney’s move today, Griffin said, “We applaud Disney and Marvel for standing up for fairness and equality by sending a strong warning to Governor Deal. It’s appalling that anti-LGBT activists in Georgia are trying to pass legislation creating an explicit right to discriminate against LGBTAmericans. We urge other studios, major corporations, and fair-mind Georgians to continue speaking out and urging Gov. Deal to veto this heinous piece of legislation sitting on his desk.”
The advocacy group GLAAD also recognized Disney’s stance, with its president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis saying in a statement, “Disney is the first studio to speak out, but not the last. Now, Governor Deal needs to demonstrate his leadership by vetoing a law that would harm not only LGBT Georgians, but the growing entertainment industry that supports Georgia’s economy.”
source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/disney-fox-viacom-cbs-amc-877659/
QuoteAt a press conference moments ago, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced that he will veto a bill that would allow discrimination against LGBTQ people. Numerous corporations and celebrities have denounced the bill and threatened to leave the state or abandon planned projects if the bill became law.
Hollywood has been particularly invested in the fight against the bill. Companies like Disney, Netflix, CBS, NBCUniversal, and Discovery joined forces with actors and producers like Aaron Sorkin, Ryan Murphy and Julianne Moore to oppose the legislation. Georgia offers Hollywood production companies huge tax breaks as an incentive to shoot in the state, which took in $1.7 billion last year in revenues from such companies.
Now obviously Disney (and Universal for that matter) cannot threaten to move their theme parks out of Florida unlike how they threatened to leave Georgia but at the very least they can make a statement that supports their LGBT staff and the LGBT people of Florida rather than both siding things.
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Pretty much what the tweet above says, Disney should condemn this especially as one of the largest companies in Florida.
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1 hour ago, Seth Irskens said:
Pixar needs to sue and not leave disney. If this report is confirmed on Wednesday.
Pixar is Disney, they will not sue because they can't.
At worst there may be an employee walkout but even that seems unlikely as this has nothing to do with money or bad working conditions.
Some employees may choose to leave (which I would welcome in general to be honest, it is always good to have competition) but if they want theatrical none of the other major animation studios are really assured of offering that as Universal, Warner, Paramount and Sony have all sent or sold animated movies to streaming during the pandemic. We will see what the Skydance/Apple partnership does in terms of theatrical but that is still an unknown but I'd imagine a short window at best due to TV+
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5 minutes ago, El Gato said:
sucks to be a DC fan sometimes
Between Peacemaker and The Batman it has been a good time to be a DC fan for me.
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Somewhere around $120-140m is still great, easily the second highest opening weekend in the last 2 years. I'm happy with that and it will surely be enough to get a sequel.
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Great film I really enjoyed it.
Don't think it was on the level of Reeves Apes films but still very engaging, I also like the changed up a lot of things for past Batman films and media, this felt unique.
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2 hours ago, Derby Legion said:
Remember when eternals was going to be especially well received and do especially well here because of Don Lee
I’ll admit that was me but to be fair I didn’t expect the controversial plot point that took over discussion.
Going to be rough for Batman in these conditions with only so so word of mouth, given the COVID cases numbers. Hopefully it makes up for that in other markets.
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This is so awesome!
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16 hours ago, AnDr3s said:
this is one of things that i'm the most excited
I just recently watched the recent Apes trilogy on Disney+, both Dawn and War got me even more excited both for his directing style but also use of technology (Reeves is clearly used to digital technology and using the StageCraft tech I imagine will be awesome)
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13 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:
Walk ups will be strong, not worried about pre-sales
Pre-sales are great though, even with average walk ups it will still have a good opening weekend.
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18 minutes ago, Porthos said:
Not just ILM. Paramount rolled out its own version for various Star Trek shows, and I'd be very surprised if other fx houses/other studios weren't seeking out their own versions of this type of tech.
That is true I think Netflix also have their own version of the tech with their upcoming show 1899 as well.
That being said even though ILM has been under Disney for a decade or so now they work on a bunch of third party projects and I don't see that changing any time soon.
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5 hours ago, belblazer said:
Yikes. It's so well done that I thought that was real.
It is crazy and we are only going to see more of it ILM seems to be ramping up StageCraft very rapidly.
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3 minutes ago, cax16 said:
The footage looks dope, excited to see this is less than 2 weeks.
I do love the nonsensical sport/movie tie-ins that Warner, Disney, Universal and Paramount do it is almost always cheesy as hell and makes me laugh.
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1 minute ago, Porthos said:
Man, you're fast. Check my edits I made to my post (I made the first literally one minute after posting).
Yeah I saw that just after posting lol must have been very close, at least us both a chance to shit on how new BOM and The-Numbers do things.
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4 minutes ago, Porthos said:
Sauce?
This is what I see over at the-numbers:
Tried to find the old page/charts on BOM, but came up empty.
Not doubting you, just wondering where the info is from.
(PRETTY sure that's in-year numbers over at t-n)
I am using in year, if it was released in 2021 until end of a films run Sony probably would win with Spider-Man 2022 numbers.
is less than than
I miss the old BOM in which you could sort by parent company.
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7 hours ago, TwoMisfits said:
Well, Sony won calendar year DOM 2020 and 2021, so they are the running 2 year champ. Til the champ gets knocked off, he's still the champ...
Sony won 2020 but Disney won 2021.
Disney was $1.175B in 2021 vs. Sony $1.078B in 2021
Sony did have the biggest Domestic film in both 2020 and 2021 though so that is their title to defend.
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Excited as fuck for Not Of Planet Earth!
Also glad Keke Palmer is having a moment between this, Lightyear and Proud Family been a fan of hers since Jump In and True Jackson.
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Watched the first 5 episodes of this as they came out and forgot about it so got to catch up for the finale.
Me forgetting about it isn't a knock against the show, it is just more getting distracted with other shows, movies and video games. I've really enjoyed the humour more hit than miss for me and I feel the show is better than TSS (which I liked but didn't love) and the character chemistry has been fantastic, action is solid but aside from a couple of big moments rather muted although I don't mind that for what the show is about.
Hopefully the last 3 episodes are great and it sets up a season 2 or another spinoff show from James Gunn.
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On 9/22/2021 at 10:57 AM, wildphantom said:
Guess I was right that they weren’t going to put it straight on Disney+ ! I took some flack for that too, but I couldn’t see them throwing money away.
So I guess we could see it hitting iTunes etc to buy outright the week commencing October 18th? Likely 4K UHD/Blu-ray release a couple of weeks later?
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Now on Disney+ in Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, Singapore, Italy and probably some other markets.
Wonder how this will impact box office in these markets.
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Posted · Edited by Potiki
Better late than never. Putting some money up, signing a human rights bill and having a meeting are all great but should have gotten ahead of things.
edit: this is in regards to the LGBT rights issues in Florida.