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Quick thing:   I am not going to be around for a bit. Non-Board Personal issues, and I need some time. I will get the emojis up for next weekend, and run the Cas of the Cas Games (Sign Up For Them! Play the Change). If you need anything big, PM me. Otherwise @XXR You Ok Annie and @ZeeSoh and @Eric Crowe got this covered. 
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MODERATION:   Since we have like 3500 MCU threads, I’m just gonna post this here in hopes that everyone sees it, so that I don’t have to post it like 3500 times individually and spam all the threads:   When you’re talking about the MCU, please make sure that you’re talking specifically about that title in that thread. I.e; Dr Strange Thread is for Dr Strange.    And if you want to reference any other property, especially if it isn’t out yet, please use the spoiler t

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4 hours ago, Jandrew said:

Don't get how you fools keep getting in trouble. 6 years, 0 points. 

 

Also can someone explains this one: alisson23 - (11/2/17) -  Suspended indefinitely by user request.

4 years, 25 points, one 3 month ban, a handful of week long bans, and a generous offering of threadbans.

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Have we talked about this article?

 

Will Smith, Adam Sandler and How Sony Suffered Through the Collapse of the A-List Star (Book Excerpt)

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/will-smith-adam-sandler-how-sony-suffered-collapse-a-list-star-book-excerpt-1088418

 

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Smith was hardly deterred, though. He had something far bigger in mind. Aware that "star vehicles" were fading and talent needed to get involved in franchises, he developed a project called "1000 A.E." Working out of a "war room" filled with concept art, his Overbrook team envisioned a story set a millennium after the late-21st century destruction of Earth by environmental calamities. Not just a sci-fi franchise meant to reflect contemporary concerns, it would be a "transmedia universe," fleshed out in a 294-page "bible."

 

Overbrook's not-too-modest pitch document detailed plans for not only the movie and its sequel but also a television show, an animated series, webisodes, a video game, consumer products, theme park attractions, comic books, an "in-school education program in partnership with NASA" and "cologne, perfume, toiletries, etc." Fans would become so engaged, the pitch document advised, "it is also essential to create a stand-alone AE-branded Social Network." 

 

Sony executives had mixed opinions on its commercial potential, but they needed franchises and they believed in Smith. Their biggest concern was how much Will Smith the movie would have. Envisioned as a father-son adventure story, the script in some versions focused entirely on a young character played by the star's son Jaden. Ultimately, Will Smith appeared in the movie but spent most of it disabled in a spaceship, giving advice over a communicator to his mobile son. Executives also weren't thrilled with Smith's choice of a director, M. Night Shyamalan, whose once-hot career had cooled. As they put together marketing plans for the May 2013 release, now titled After Earth, Sony executives realized their best bet was a con job. "Conceal Will Smith's injury," reads one marketing document. "It'd be disappointing to our audience to discover that he spends the majority of the film stuck in the ship." But no amount of deception could save the film; it grossed a dismal $61 million in the U.S. and a somewhat better $183 million overseas, but the $149 million production lost more than $25 million. There were no sequels, no TV shows and no video games. The failure was devastating to Smith, who not only acted in and produced the movie but also got his first screenwriting credit.

 

 

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