Australian actor Sam Worthington has said the Avatar film series operates with greater creative flexibility than Marvel productions, saying the freedom allows for creative expression and more risk-taking. In an interview with The Independent, Worthington explained...
One of the things that’s quite remarkable (to some—not to me) about the thousands and thousands who are spouting vile and evil things about the murder of Charlie Kirk is this: A whole lot of them are either K-12 teachers or hospital RN’s. Yes, there are regular retail folks from print shops to malt shops, pols from local govt. to federal agencies and just about all demographics of occupation, location, and persuasion included, but the big shock to so many is just how many are people who teach our kids or secure our health.
Like many Americans, I find myself reeling after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Horrified, for what this means for free speech. When the man who goes around trying to promote civil discourse and healthy public debate is shot for his words, we’ve entered dystopian-level crazy. And to see how many people’s first response is to celebrate the death of the man who would have willingly invited them to the table to talk, I wonder how far gone our society is.
In the light of the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk we’re all getting through our feelings about, it is perhaps instructive to note a “bigger picture” issue it brings to the forefront that applies not just to political stories but to EVERY story, event, commentary, or utterance from politicos, office holders, and punditry.
The Bubble People.
I get that they have their views and they are different than mine. I get that expressing their views is part of their job description, whether media or elected official (though maybe the actors and their ilk should just plain shut up and sing/dance/perform). But wow what a bubble they live in that they couldn’t wait a day, a few days, even a week or more to just plain know that shutting up is the best policy at a time of trauma.
Perhaps someday we’ll see the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) crossover with the DC Universe (DCU). But over on X, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu is already giving Superman the stare-down. While a sequel to this year’s Superman has the green light just months after the film’s debut, a follow-up to 2021’s Shang-Chi has yet to be confirmed.
One year ago, just two weeks after its release, the hero-shooter known as Concord was permanently shut down due to its abysmal sales and astonishingly low player count. Just a couple months later, Sony, in an attempt to cut losses, disbanded Firewalk studios, which had developed the game over the course of 8 years.
In one of the strangest twists in recent Hollywood memory, Stephen Colbert has finally won an Emmy for The Late Show—just weeks after CBS announced his program is being canceled. After nearly a decade on the air and 33 nominations without a single victory, Colbert’s show secured its first statuette in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category.
The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Was this really about rewarding creative merit, or was Hollywood sending a political message after CBS pulled the plug on the partisan host?
When Paramount Skydance announced its sweeping five-day-a-week return-to-office mandate last week, the memo didn’t just signal the end of hybrid work. For many employees, it was the loudest warning yet that Paramount layoffs are coming — and soon. The company is...
Amid mounting constraints in its land-based assets, The Walt Disney Company is increasingly emphasizing cruise operations as a scalable alternative. While theme‑park growth faces limitations—such as high operating costs, competition from rivals like Universal’s Epic Universe, and infrastructure saturation—Disney Cruise Line (DCL) has emerged for the company as a viable avenue for expansion.
Since the release of The Batman in 2022 and its spin-off, The Penguin on HBO Max, fans have speculated on the future of franchise and the character. Not Batman. He’s a given, though James Gunn’s parallel DC Universe seems in conflict with writer/director Matt Reeves’ darker world. But how will Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb, aka: The Penguin, feature in The Batman 2?
Now we may have an idea, and it’s not as prominently as we might have thought given the success of his solo show.
As every movie fan knows, the Pirates’ Code is more like guidelines. Now, we’ve learned that the Way of the Gunn (at least where it concerns the DC Universe) is more like “bullet points.”
SO…as you’ve no doubt heard by now, the new Six Flags (post-merger with Cedar Fair) has had management shuffles and financial losses and is in the process of combining, re-organizing, and, inevitably, closing some of their parks where the two brands basically “over-serve” a given region of the country. All that was to be expected.
But what’s come out that I find fascinating is something that wasn’t popularly noted in news coverage, at least what I saw, but IS being mentioned as almost an afterthought now when it should be the leading fact in many of these closure stories.
Now, in a shift that has been years in the making, Disney appears to be phasing out MagicBands in favor of the company’s phone-centric MagicMobile system. The change hasn’t gone unnoticed, and for many longtime guests, it signals the end of a tangible era of convenience in exchange for one more digital screen added onto your Disney Day.