the Disney-Fox merger and film/TV production/exhibition hegemony in general

BROS.

I bet the Discovery name gets chucked in a few years, just like with AOL.

That is a goddamned horrible logo. Fitting, I suppose.

pic.twitter.com/G80fZ9gamy

— masonReloaded 🐛 (@masonreloaded) June 1, 2021

lol

Yeah, it looks like the intro screen to a mid-'90s educational CD-ROM.

where dreams are made of

where wings take dream

Yesterday I learned only 25 spec scripts sold in 2020.

25.

— Kristi Dick (@FickleProd) June 6, 2021

No, Hollywood Isn’t “Out Of Ideas”

Disney's IP-recycling 'Cruella' has Twitter critics hot under the collar. They don't need to be.

feels like readers should be told that the person who wrote this article is a staff writer on a disney plus comic book adaptation https://t.co/pB5prnzCMy

— bradley babendir (@therealbradbabs) June 8, 2021

lol @ one of the raves being “they spent a lot of money on licensing songs”

— rachel (@rachelmillman) June 9, 2021

Fair. Cruella is good though

There is literally no way this is possible.

It is!

That article, though, is bad

Is Bustle one of those new platforms where creatives generate content in exchange for NFTs or something?

At any rate, here in the future, the epithet 'sellout' is only employed ironically to refer to those who fail to maximize their synergistic potential. So I have to assume she will also be dropping a single on Hollywood Records about how The Last Skywalker is the only good SW movie (from the upcoming album Pro-flicts of Interest).

And yes, I did mean The Last Skywalker, goddammit (only sellouts admit when they make a mistake).

If Smith pops in and tells me Cruella is necessary or worthwhile, and that she's been paid, I'll check it out.

Bustle is a Content Platform with actual writers but it is let's say very amenable to being pitched ideas directly from corporate PR departments

Sad part is we all fell for the clickbait by even talking about it

The only winning move is not to post

this is true, but let's not overlook the Pattinson space brag part of this saga.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3ZCSWNXoAEGu4u?format=png&name=small

High Life’s US distributor:

y/n? pic.twitter.com/WTDCaSGgb1

— A24 (@A24) June 8, 2021

Clearly I'm not entirely unsympathetic to her overarching POV, the difference being that I'm very open about the fact that I'm posting this from the yacht I was able to buy as Disney's brand management coordinator for property acquisitions and enhancements. #princesslieutenantripley

Hong Kong has just issued new amendments to its film censorship rules that effectively impose Beijing’s strict censorship standards there overnight, in the name of the National Security Law. They take effect today.

HK censors are to ban the screening of “any film content that is objectively & reasonably capable of being perceived as endorsing, supporting, promoting, glorifying, encouraging or inciting” acts endangering national security.

Also a ban on screenings of content interpretable as “incitement to secession, subversion or collusion w foreign countries, advocating terrorism," etc etc.

I hate this timeline almost as much as I hate myself.

Fortunately this year's Capitolfest (if it's not canceled for public health reasons) will feature certain pre-1935 Fox films. (Crossing my fingers that it doesn't get cancelled.)

Thread about it

Huge: Hong Kong has just issued new amendments to its film censorship rules that effectively impose Beijing’s strict censorship standards there overnight, in the name of the National Security Law. They take effect today.

— Rebecca Davis (@rebeccaludavis) June 11, 2021

Seen some speculating that HK film reissues might be affected too

So I read the same thread twice today and didn't remember it? I blame vaccine tiredness

While I enjoy Disney/Marvel greatly... They lately sent me copyright strikes on redbubble, for my FACE. Saying it infringed their trademark?!
I'm not wearing a licenced costume. It's my FACE. Like I'm really flattered they say I look like Loki, but...wtf?!@dailydot of interest? pic.twitter.com/fJv4PsxTAF

— 🦇 𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝕬𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖓 🦇 (@LordAmalthean) June 21, 2021

tbf (and I brought up Disney's wild overreach on redbubble on another thread y'day) that dude has severely photoshopped his face to look like Tom Hiddleston, and apparently deleted an account called DollarStoreLoki or s/t weeks ago to start this new "who me?" campaign

Extremely lokilike behabiour

Also why wouldn't you go with the handle lowkeyloki or something

lokilike lookalike

we found the lowliest variant

For those of you who are curious about how antitrust works, this is the textbook definition of Robert Bork's consumer welfare standard. pic.twitter.com/JEQZi6DSKW

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) June 30, 2021

OTOH this is going to be the first Simpsons episode I voluntarily watch in a decade.

I guess they're forgetting about all those Family Guy as Star Wars TV movies Fox put out.

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/12/familyguy_somethingsomethin.jpg

is that simpsons thing real? holy fuck.

https://i.imgur.com/PuqtXQV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PuqtXQV.jpg

fucking hell, the joke is that there's no joke i suppose

the whole business of dressing up characters from one chunk of intellectual property as characters from another chunk of intellectual property is so painfully hollow and meaningless. like even as fanservice - okay, ralph's the Hulk and Milhouse is Hawkeye and Lisa's teacher is Gamora. would it really make any difference if Comic Book Guy was the Hulk and Hans Moleman was Hawkeye and Lisa was Gamora? it's like a Colorforms Dress-Up Set; anything can be combined with anything, but what statement results? what's the commentary, what's the "joke"?

bet you’re fun at halloween

tbf, moleman is moleman so they got that right i guess.

the whole business of dressing up characters from one chunk of intellectual property as characters from another chunk of intellectual property is so painfully hollow and meaningless

Would you say it's a New Jersey?

peter-griffin-dressed-as-darth-vader-saying-do-not-want.gif

ok i'll give you Moleman/Moleman

but as for Halloween, what do the two things have to do with each other? these aren't people coming up with costumes, and nobody in the image even looks like they're having fun being in the costumes.

they surely could've thought a bit about connecting the archetypes rather than going Black character=Black character. Explain another reason beyond melanin why Doc Hibbard is Falcon.

Explain why any of this is happening at all. You can't. No one can.

I mean yes, $$$, but otherwise why

Yep. At the risk of being booted off of WB's A-List (emails promoting the corporation'$ late$t product)...a week or so ago I got an email inviting suggestions for WB's 2023 centennial. (My idea was lavish restoration of one or more of their surviving 1923 films, and if that does happen...I might as well have requested a 4K Director's Cut of The Devils.)

One idea the survey floated was crossovers of Animaniacs with assorted other WB properties (Friends was the only IP that stuck in my mind). And the forthcoming Space Jam sequel is already crossover city--I saw King Kong in one ad, and paying just a little more attention would probably have revealed other familiar figures.

twas synergy killed the beast