Cancel culture is climbing to new highs this week as a video game company publicly announces they have terminated an employee solely based on who she follows on social media. In a cryptic tweet on Friday afternoon, Limited Run Games posted on Twitter that...
Many people believe toys are just for kids. But for the biggest manufacturers of the the things we play with, extending the market often means designing seemingly preschool-targeted children in a way that attracts adults and non-traditional toy buyers. Mattel...
Sorry, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd. Internal issues at Warner Bros Discovery may have led to many seasons of Looney Tunes getting hit with Acme Disappearing Paint. In a follow up to our previous articles covering the ongoing parade of content disappearances on...
An arms race is appearing between entertainment corporations looking to dive into one of the last sure-thing revenue sources out here: live sports. Streaming might be risky but courts and gridirons are not. In an email to subscribers, internet-based cable...
Doxxing and false flag campaigns are supposed to be severely punished on Twitter, yet it seems to still continue while some use these malicious tools to target entertainment commentators. Late Monday evening, YouTubers HeelvsBabyface and Valliant Renegade were...
The press tour for Willow might have just dropped a bombshell about LGBT milestones in Disney films. Why Disney and the media didn't focus on this more, we may never know. Yet again, the big news flies under the radar, but at That Park Place, we are cursed with the...
There’s a hole in the bottom of the HBOMax content library, and who knows what will disappear into the abyss before it gets plugged. For now, Looney Tunes are moving and they might not be "that's all, folks." If you haven’t been following That Park Place, you might...
Some of our earliest adventures into entertainment and culture come from the toys we enjoy as children. Yet seemingly agenda-free plushies are now even carrying messages that aren't clearly signaled to parents and grandparents at purchase. This one was sent to us by a...
In an effort to increase revenues, some companies are discovering that limiting their properties solely to their own distribution platforms is a limiting proposal. The game is changing for the big streamers. The days of everyone being locked in their homes,...
Is Apple about to push Twitter off the App Store? The world's richest man has gone from technocrat darling to elite-loathed free speech advocate. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has fueled speculation from the moment he bought his first shares in January of...
It's peculiar to see Disney send out an animated film with so little advertising. One of the common refrains heard about their latest movie: "What is that?" I woke up today to check on the reviews for Strange World and something is not right. There aren’t...
Burbank is paying a huge sum of money to former Disney CEO Bob Chapek. An SEC filing reveals the ex-leader of The House of Mouse was fired "without cause." Let’s put an end to one rumor. According to an SEC filing by the Walt Disney Company: Bob Chapek was terminated...