Spidey Freak

Also whatever the heck went on in the meeting with Gal Gadot. That's two actors now who pretty much claim Gunn flat out lied or at least deliberately used confusing semantics in two different instances offline, so I'm not sure him being this vocal online is a good thing. Having said that, I'm usually cool with official sources debunking rumors. With Gunn's murky track record though, I won't be surprised if he's passing off things that were actually once part of the plan as completely baseless rumors. This is the second time he's debunked a reputed trade, right? That NEVER happens so you've got to wonder.

The Archie Comics account has been tweeting up a storm about it. Been intending to check it out over the weekend.

Re Fandango, here's last year's list for reference No Barbenheimer (going by this list, it would have looked like they would've opened to #2 and #3 to Dead Reckoning's 2nd weekend), Mario barely making it in at #10, Quantumania at #3! (though TBF it had a decent OW and then it was all downhill from there), GotG3 over AtSV, Indy in Top 5, The Little Mermaid not figuring in the Top 10 even tho domestically Ariel's at #6 etc. The list also seems to skew older with the likes of John Wick and Indiana Jones TROUNCING Mario even tho we know what actually happened at the BO. So I'm not putting too much into Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters's rankings in this year's list.

This is true for the general voting body that votes for the winner after the nominations are announced. They don't even bother watching all 3-5 nominated films of any given year and usually give it to the big Pixar/WDAS film unless there's an unignorable competitor like Spider-Verse or GDT's Pinocchio. This is why I think AtSV still has the higher chance to win than TBatH but it could go either way, But the smaller body who compile the nomination list are very well-versed and the chances of them including all 3 of Nimona/Suzume/Robot Dreams over Mario and Wish are higher than Mario/Wish making it in. Across and Heron are the only locks for the nom as I see it. I think Elemental might make it in if they think it's too harsh to shut out Pixar/WDAS completely especially when Disney is already going through a rough patch.

The Lion King: Hamlet Simba's Pride: Romeo & Juliet Mufasa: ?? Richard III with Mufasa in the Henry VII role?

Mario is not going to be nominated. It's too much of a busy year for that. I'm slightly shocked Critics Choice went for Wish over Suzume. Hope this isn't some dumb "1 anime movie only" untold rule thanks to TBatH.

Why make this gimmicky movie only to have nonsensical alliances like California/Texas? Unless Texas has become a blue state in this movie's universe 😛

Zazzy such a broke ass pimp

And I might add that other than Shazam, none of those films had their actors promoting them like is the case for blockbusters every other year. The way ppl are just ready to ignore the existence of GotG3 and AtSV, which were successes just before the strikes hit, is hilarious. We won't get a clear case of the health of the superhero movies at the BO till the end of 2025 by which time a lot of the biggest franchises in the genre would have their movies come out.

The funniest twist is Riverdale's Reggie breaking into the major film awards circuit before each and every one of the Euphoria cast who have far greater expectations set on them

Is the entirety of The Crown Season 6 being considered for the acting noms including the unreleased episodes? If it's just the first part, makes no sense for Debicki to be in Supporting and Staunton and West in Lead because it was Diana's story with QE2 and Charles playing support

COVID pushed everyone who was on the fence regarding streamers into their camp because of no alternative, which ended up hurting theatrical even more. It's a good thing MCU and DC are taking next year off tho beyond Deadpool 3 and Joker 2 which will win back goodwill unless the quality is atrocious

The cynic in me thinks nostalgia played a larger role in Barbie and Mario's success. Even Barbie's original story wouldn't have helped an original character like Tyra Banks's role in Life-Sized. FNAF too majorly owes it's success to nostalgia among Gen Z

It's kind of being ignorant on purpose if at this point ppl don't realize just how influential the Spider-Verse films have been over the last few years in terms of boundary pushing animation that a lot of subsequent Oscar nominated films like Puss (and assuming Nimona and TMNT this year) and Emmy winning shows like Arcane have picked up, and even storytelling, with everything from Everything Everywhere All At Once to recent MCU/DCEU installments doing multiverse. Also Miyazaki has lost when there were stronger reasons to believe that he was retiring, like with The Wind Rises. Right now he seems to be open to making one or two more films. You can't be talking about the same Academy whose members were quoted in 2015 saying about Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea "What are these two Chinese things nobody has heard of?? Why was The Lego Movie snubbed!!!"

Denis has always been vocal about having a trilogy from the start, with Messiah being the crucial third act of the story. He views the first book alone as incomplete.

Not over half if we are considering all of Ghibli, not just Miyazaki. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There and The Red Turtle aren't Miyazaki.

Spidey has made it to the AFI Yearly Top 10 list and received a BEST PICTURE (not just Animated) nomination at Astra (formerly Hollywood Critics Association). It's also getting buzz for a Screenplay nomination. It's not losing to Mario lol. Maybe TBatH but not Mario.

You either retire early, or stay in power long enough to become Zaslav

Kinda interesting how Marvel and WDAS both had the same period of highs starting from 2008/2009, hitting peaks in 2012/2013 with TA & Frozen and then 2019 with Endgame and Frozen 2, before going on the downward slope in the 2020s

I get that it's juicy seeing the MCU fail this hard but tbh when the franchise that sold itself on its charismatic actors has its biggest bomb when the actors couldn't promote it until it was too late, is it really a fair and square L?

I know it's not BOT if there isn't incessant gloom and doom but considering the two industry strikes going on for multiple months that prevented actors from promoting Q3 and some of Q4 films, 2023 ain't that bad.

Yeah but Marvel put out No Way Home at the same time and The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch were also bright spots in 2000s WDAS but that didn't stop critics from turning on those studios. It's basically critics deciding when to stop giving free rides based on goodwill of previous works.