Opinion

Zack Snyder Projects Reportedly Canceled at Netflix, Casting Even More Doubt on DC Snyderverse Return

Zack Snyder Projects Reportedly Canceled at Netflix, Casting Even More Doubt on DC Snyderverse Return

For months, online speculation has circulated that Netflix would swoop into the Warner Bros. bidding war, take control of DC, and somehow resurrect Zack Snyder’s original failed superhero universe. It’s a dramatic idea, the kind of rumor that lights up social media and generates clicks. But it runs into one tiny problem: the same company supposedly planning a Snyder cinematic renaissance is also shutting down Snyder projects left and right. If anything, the pattern forming at Netflix looks far more like Zack Snyder being canceled than Zack Snyder being restored in any meaningful way.

YouTube Censorship’s Final Form, Self-Censorship

YouTube Censorship’s Final Form, Self-Censorship

Orwellian gets tossed around a lot when people don’t like what’s being said. Kafkaesque used to get tossed around a lot, but people pretend to read Kafka less than they pretend to read Orwell these days, so here we are.

When it comes to YouTube censorship, you could use both or either.

Wicked Wins the Domestic Box Office but Loses to Gladiator 2 Internationally, Has Glicked Begun?

Wicked Wins the Domestic Box Office but Loses to Gladiator 2 Internationally, Has Glicked Begun?

Wicked and Gladiator 2 both soared at the box office this week with some fascinating results both domestically and worldwide. Many are comparing the apparent success of both films to the Barbenheimer phenomenon from summer 2003 that saw both Barbie and Oppenheimer achieve critical and commercial success at the same time. That’s why so many are calling this clash Glicked.