Draw Harrison, the Sucker Punch developer fired for comments made after the murder of Charlie Kirk, is speaking out. In the two months since her firing, Harrison has had time to reflect on what caused Sucker Punch to let her go from her dream job. Now, in an interview with gaming journalist Alyssa Mercante, she says Sucker Punch fired her because of a harassment campaign led by what Mercante calls “the seething online mass of the American alt-right.”
We already knew that the Chinese Communist Party wanted to manipulate the box office last year in order to give a Chinese-made movie an opportunity to become the first Chinese top-grossing film in a single year. Unfortunately for the CCP, Sony's Spider-Man No Way Home...
If you have read the title, you know the article. Sony has confirmed that a Ghostbusters Afterlife sequel is on the way. See, we didn't trick you did we? No release date or window has been provided. No cast has been named, no director given, no writer sent our way....
Sony has been on an absolute tear with their Marvel movies as of late. That seems to be coming to a pause with Morbius. Deadline is revealing that the CinemaScore (a mostly-industry-used statistic that measures early audience reception) is quite low: All of this...
This is huge, huge news. Sony Entertainment is reportedly buying the original developer behind the Halo series, Bungie. The studio currently works on the Destiny series. Has Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard set off an acquisition war? The cost for Sony is...
Activision-Blizzard, the publisher of games like Call of Duty, Overwatch, Diablo, Candy Crush, and many more, is being purchased by Microsoft. It will make Microsoft the third-largest game developer in the world, and likely solves many problems the beleaguered...
The experts over at Digital Foundry have jumped deep into the stats and technology behind the forthcoming Playstation VR2. The recently announced piece of tech may look a little clumsy, but it apparently is packing some serious power and futuristic abilities. Is this...
Further evidence is coming in that the "woke" movement in blockbuster films may be waning: Marisa Tomei apparently wanted to have Aunt May switch from heterosexual to a lesbian after the death of Uncle Ben. She thought this through so thoroughly that she took it to...
It is very much the tale of two strategies for the year of 2021. Sony Entertainment is poised to capture more than $1.5 billion this year from Spider-Man: No Way Home (which should hit $1 billion worldwide revenue on Christmas Day) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage...
There is a joke in Spider-Man No Way Home that was clearly put in as an olive branch to a demographic that has been utterly hated by movie producers for about a decade now. Rather than reviling sixty-five percent of the American population that call themselves...
Spider-Man: No Way Home made an astounding $587 million in its opening weekend, lifting worldwide theaters into positive territory for the year. It is resounding success for Sony, the producing studio, which had already made two of the most profitable movies of the...
One month ago, I discussed in detail whey Ghostbusters Afterlife and Encanto meant more at the box office than typical movies. The simple reason was that Sony was doing something that hadn't been tried since Sonic the Hedgehog came out just before the pandemic....
Various writers here at That Park Place have covered Ghostbusters Afterlife and its first weekend exceeded expectations. The movie is going to make a profit - it already has. But in all the glowing reports on the film, it's important to also note that it isn't the...