Disney Lays Off Hundreds of Employees In Its TV and Film Divisions

Disney is cutting hundreds of employees across several TV and film teams as the company focuses on expanding its streaming services.
Employees in the marketing for film and television, as well as TV publicity, casting and development, and corporate financial operations will be impacted by the cuts, a spokesperson for Disney told FOX Business.
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It comes after Disney's ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks announced plans to lay off just under 200 employees in March.
Those cuts represented nearly 6% of the total ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks workforce, and the majority of the impacted staffers are from ABC News, according to a source with knowledge of the headcount reduction.
Disney's Bob Iger.

Crowds at Disney World were small over Memorial Day weekend. Universal's Epic Universe just opened and is making a splash. (Link replaced with a current story.)

Meanwhile, Disney just screened the Fantastic Four for the public, I think at a Long Beach theater.

They understand they have another bomb on their hands and that this is pretty much the end of the M-She-U. When the Fantastic Four fails, that will be three failures in a row, and there will be zero momentum or interest for the upcoming two part Avengers movies.

It's strange to do test screenings so close to the planned release date. Apparently they're attempting last-minute reshoots to change the ending of the movie.

Marvel Studios may have a problem on its hands. According to multiple sources, the most recent test screenings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps were held earlier this week in Los Angeles--and the reactions are mixed. Though it's still in the post-production phase, initial viewer feedback suggests the reboot might not be the triumphant return for Marvel's First Family that Kevin Feige was hoping for.
Industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider shared details from a source who attended the screening, describing the film as "mid" and "meh," clarifying that it was "not that bad, but not that good, either." Perhaps more concerning are criticisms about "weak character development" and "bad CGI," the latter of which Sneider notes should improve in the coming weeks as visual effects are finalized.
"In general, Marvel doesn't do public test screenings unless they're worried," Sneider wrote. "That was the case with Eternals, The Marvels, Quantumania, and Brave New World."
While Sneider initially reported that Marvel was high on the project internally, another unnamed source reportedly described the film as "a mess" and "a huge problem movie"--echoing language that was once used to describe The Marvels before its disastrous release.
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ViewerAnon described the overall response as "'okay,' but not a big sample size," adding that "a couple people have said the first act's shaky but it gets better once Galactus shows up." They also noted that the version screened was "very unfinished," with only about 25% of VFX completed--something that could certainly skew audience reactions.
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While the film isn't eliciting the kind of extreme reactions being reported from Superman test screenings, the fact that Marvel felt the need to hold a public test run suggests some internal anxiety. The studio hasn't had a runaway hit since Deadpool & Wolverine, and with Bob Iger reportedly disappointed in the 2026 release slate, The Fantastic Four was expected to anchor the brand moving forward alongside the upcoming X-Men reboot.

Woke reviewer Grace Randolph heard from people who saw the movie, and they report that the M-She-U is back in full force. (Of course.) Even though she's super-woke and stupid and hates the term "The M-She-U," she says she has no choice but to report that Disney is once again going full M-She-U and giving haters (like me) a reason to bash the film. Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin). They just didn't feel like giving the three male members of the Fantastic Four a meaningful role in the resolution of the plot.

Meanwhile, Dr. Who -- which is now funded by Disney, because of course it is -- just posted its worst ratings in history and is now on "hiatus" with no future seasons planned. In other words, it's cancelled, but the BBC won't come right out and say so because they don't want to give "the CHUDs" the win. So the official story going forward will be that Dr. Who, like Rion Johnson's Star Wars trilogy, is still "in development," forever.

Note that the show used to get 7, 8, 9 or even ten million viewers in the UK. Now it barely gets two million for even its biggest shows (the first episode of a season, the last episode, and the ~~Christmas special~~ wintertime holiday episode).

Dr. Who could not sign anyone for the gay black doctor to regenerate into because, of course, the show is cancelled, and you can't sign an actor when you have literally zero dollars of budget to pay him.

So to avoid the embarrassment of having a regeneration scene where the Doctor regenerates into a TV test pattern, they brought back an actress from early in the show, Billie Piper, as the Doctor's "new" form.

This had been rumored as the solution to their dilemma for months.

Bringing back another nostalgia-hit actress is just a desperate last-gasp attempt to stir fan interest, which is near-zero. And of course they're not actually committing to bringing Billie Piper in as the new Doctor. They can't; they have zero dollars to pay a contract. They just hired her to do a quick cameo and say, literally, "Oh, hello" as her face appeared mid-regeneration.

Their plan is this: If they ever get renewed, they'll just claim that the Doctor "remembered" Billie Piper's face so it appeared briefly during his regeneration into someone else.

But they won't get renewed. Doctor Who is dead, forever, and good riddance.

Star Whovian
@StarWhovian
BREAKING
The BBC are worried about how they're going to continue Doctor Who.
Billie Piper filmed her scene only a few weeks ago as a favour to RTD, who wanted a regeneration cliffhanger as a last-ditch attempt to convince Disney to extend their partnership.

Fans are noting that the new actor playing the Doctor was credited as "The Doctor" in the credits of the episode he first appeared in, whereas Billie Piper is credited as... no one in particular.

this is actually so cowardly.

it's like even the people behind the scenes don't even know if billie piper is the doctor (which is probably true)

and as much as i think it's a bad idea, either commit to the concept or don’t have that regeneration scene at all. ☠️ pic.twitter.com/X0yJaR2Vym
— dw3ebs 💫 🍉 (@dw3ebs) June 1, 2025

Woke has claimed another IP. Another billion-dollar franchise on the bonfire of the woke.

Posted by: Ace at 04:34 PM

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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:34 PM (N1tpc)

2 Also, BURN MOUSE BURN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:34 PM (N1tpc)

3 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2025 04:34 PM (cYBz/)

4 Disney deserves all these failures and more.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

5 I was really looking forward to the next Doctor being played by a parapalegic, obese, black muslim tranny.

Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 03, 2025 04:35 PM (jvJvP)

6 The only problem I see with all of this woke bull$hit firing frenzy is tons of people have mutual funds and 401k's that are heavily invested in disney stocks. In the long term that is gonna suck for them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 04:37 PM (e5NfL)

7
So Bob Iger's bonus will be less than $100 million this year?

Posted by: Auspex at June 03, 2025 04:37 PM (j4U/Z)

8 Silver Surfer was maybe my favorite comic book character of all time, so the gender swap obviously pisses me off.

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 04:37 PM (xYTjA)

9 DisneyChannel actually did have some funny, pretty non-woke shows even 2 or 3 years back.

In every pile of shit, something good grows.

Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 03, 2025 04:37 PM (jvJvP)

10 I liked the Thunderbolts movie. Not woke, nothing weird in the story. Cooler captain America than that Falcon dude. Good father daughter story. Better than I expected.

Posted by: mishdog at June 03, 2025 04:38 PM (DjuPO)

11 Woke has claimed another IP. Another billion-dollar franchise on the bonfire of the woke.

Posted by: Ace at 04:34 PM

It will either be turned to their cause or destroyed.

Funny how that's the position of the villain in these stories, but the woke think they're the heroes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:38 PM (N1tpc)

12 Oh no!

Anyway…

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 03, 2025 04:39 PM (u73oe)

13 So will Doomcock finally be correct and Kathleen Kennedy will be shown the door? Nah

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 04:39 PM (oRTCs)

14 This brings me joy

Posted by: redridinghood at June 03, 2025 04:39 PM (NpAcC)

15
Disney is cutting hundreds of employees across several TV and film teams as the company focuses on expanding its streaming services.

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I have a clue for you, dummies: families aren't going to say "well, I sure didn't like it when this filthy faggot rat was trying to turn my kid into a genderless, mentally ill mutant Satanist in a movie theater, but if it's on my Roku, then I'm fine with it."

It's not the delivery mechanism that's the problem, and you're not going to suddenly eschew your bone-deep commitment to evil, so you'll find that streaming won't treat you any better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 04:40 PM (BI5O2)

16 Oh Nos! I will be so sad if I cannot watch another Star Wars movie or another Dr. Who episode or Snow White.

I think I need a Juicy Juice...Mom!

Posted by: 8 year Old Adult at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (wh+qF)

17 The hell?

F*cking censors here dont like anything.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (y7IZU)

18 I thought their theme parks were losing money too?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (1FkCD)

19 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

Posted by: RGallegos at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (JVh4R)

20 Your link about memorial day crowds is from 2023, just FYI.

Posted by: eko at June 03, 2025 04:42 PM (av+56)

21 12 Oh no!

Anyway…
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 03, 2025 04:39 PM (u73oe)
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Yep.

Posted by: WisRich at June 03, 2025 04:42 PM (G0vdT)

22 Three words.

Disney Galactic Starcruiser.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:43 PM (1FkCD)

23
Die Mouse Die

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 03, 2025 04:43 PM (y9nCu)

24 I thought their theme parks were losing money too?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (1FkCD)

This isn't proof they are losing money, but...:

"Crowds at Disney World were small over Memorial Day weekend. Universal's Epic Universe just opened and is making a splash. Disney envisons smaller crowds at Disney World throughout the summer."

Posted by: Ace at 04:34 PM

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:43 PM (N1tpc)

25 plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

Posted by: RGallegos

The first Jewish character in comics, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

26 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

Posted by: RGallegos at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (JVh4R)

Yeah, but he's a guy, so....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:44 PM (N1tpc)

27 Well, ace threatened us with a Disney thread the other day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 04:44 PM (Ri+6K)

28 Die Mouse, die.

Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)

29 The first Jewish character in comics, IIRC.
Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

Straight, Jewish, Guy.

Three strikes and he's out.

/all of Hollywood today

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (N1tpc)

30 Well, ace threatened us with a Disney thread the other day.
Posted by: Braenyard

We needed a break from the Jake Tapper threads.

Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

31 All I have to add is Die Mouse Die...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

32
I know this will horrify TJM, but I sincerely hope I live to see the last Hollywood movie studio close up shop for good.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

33 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

Posted by: RGallegos at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM

Well they managed to completely screw up star wars and there was literally an entire galaxy of stuff they could have went with but they chose the woke side of the force.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (e5NfL)

34 Watched an old South Park not too long ago. The treatment they give Disney in the one I saw was absolutely brutal, hilarious, and well deserved.

They hit all the major pressure points. Corporate control freaks, sexual deviants, greed based patronization. I couldn't stop laughing at Mickey beating the hell out of one of the Jonas brothers, then patronizing China while getting wasted and having sex with a bat.

Posted by: Orson at June 03, 2025 04:46 PM (dIske)

35 it gets better once Galactus shows up.

Isn’t this the first movie in the series? Why is Galactus already there?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 03, 2025 04:46 PM (EXyHK)

36 Woke has claimed another IP. Another billion-dollar franchise on the bonfire of the woke.

Posted by: Ace at 04:34 PM

Good. The more the merrier. Let everything "woke" die in a blaze of failure and regret. Perhaps when the "guild" loses enough money they will shut down all of the toxic garbage that they've been peddling. By that time every normal person will have moved on and the damage will be permanent.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (2J/Lj)

37 Looks like Snow White finished its theater run on Sunday. Was down to 25 screens nationwide and made $1,488. Didn't hit $90 million in the US for its entire run.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (UBKzV)

38 I was just saying I'd like more strike through at the HQ.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (0xo8i)

39 Dr Who is pretty much bottom of the barrel SF. Take your worst season of Stargate or hell the old War of the Worlds TV series and its still better.

And *now* its female, gay, and lame.

Why would anyone watch it?

Posted by: Bowser at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

40 It's no Prometheus.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (0sNs1)

41 All I have to add is Die Mouse Die...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

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What’s with all these people speaking German all the sudden?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (u73oe)

42 I know this will horrify TJM, but I sincerely hope I live to see the last Hollywood movie studio close up shop for good.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

They don't "get" people. They spend all of their time in a bubble with the same people all thinking the same things. No one breaks out of the bubble without getting cancelled. Little wonder that the products are crap.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (1FkCD)

43 Disney Lays Off Hundreds of Employees In Its TV and Film Divisions

Of course the rank and file take it in the shorts while the people actually responsible for the destruction of multiple licenses to fucking print money will continue to get their millions.

Posted by: Fuck Disney and corpos in general at June 03, 2025 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

44 Straight, Jewish, Guy.

And seriously working class.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 03, 2025 04:48 PM (EXyHK)

45 Like clockwork...

Posted by: Person who enjoys complaining about Disney threads at June 03, 2025 04:48 PM (b/lx9)

46 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

They screwed up Star Wars, so screwing up F4 is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Also, F4 has never really worked as a movie. The closest anyone's come is The Incredibles, and while I appreciate that it exposed millions of Gen Z kids to the deeply anti-leftist concept "if everyone is special, then nobody is" it's not the greatest movie from Pixar's golden age.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 03, 2025 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

47 The 1st time I saw the "special effects" in Doctor Who was the last time i watched.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 03, 2025 04:48 PM (0xo8i)

48 I wonder if/when one of those "better mousetraps" will appear outside the executive entrances to Disney.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (VNX3d)

49 >>>20 Your link about memorial day crowds is from 2023, just FYI.

whoops. Well, they were down this memorial day. Lemme find a real link for that.

Posted by: ace at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

50 Maybe if they replace Mickey with a talking gerbil . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

51 The 1st time I saw the "special effects" in Doctor Who was the last time i watched.

They've got 60 years of computing and tech over say ST TOS and its still worse...

Posted by: Bowser at June 03, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

52 Dr Who is pretty much bottom of the barrel SF. Take your worst season of Stargate or hell the old War of the Worlds TV series and its still better.

And *now* its female, gay, and lame.

Why would anyone watch it?
Posted by: Bowser at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah. The strength of it was how, in the end, it was camp. Then the showrunners decided to use it as a woke messaging platform and fucked up the canon, making it take itself too seriously, and ruined it all.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:50 PM (1FkCD)

53 All I have to add is Die Mouse Die...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 03, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

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What’s with all these people speaking German all the sudden?
Posted by: Sideshow Bob at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (u73oe)

Fixed that for you, Duke

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 03, 2025 04:50 PM (N1tpc)

54 Sinners has now become the highest grossing original movie of like the last 15 years.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 04:50 PM (MGB5H)

55 >>Woke reviewer Grace Randolph heard from people who saw the movie

She may be woke but she is FAF, and her entire look seems to based on Sue Storm.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

56 Disney is cutting hundreds of employees across several TV and film teams as the company focuses on expanding its streaming services.
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I'm sure the HR/DEI departments were unaffected by these cuts.

Posted by: WisRich at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (G0vdT)

57 Maybe if they replace Mickey with a talking gerbil . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

*perks up*

Posted by: Richard Gere at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

58 Why don't you enjoy wallowing in shame and self hatred like all the white men I know in hollywood????

Posted by: Female.writers and directors guild of America to American men at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (2cxea)

59 @54

>>Sinners has now become the highest grossing original movie of like the last 15 years.

I haven't seen it but a lot of people say it's a low-key "homage" to From Dusk To Dawn.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

60 They should have Doctor Who reincarnated as a dog or possibly a goat.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (0xo8i)

61 Maybe if they replace Mickey with a talking gerbil . . .
Posted by: gKWVE

It's hard to find good gerbils these days.

Posted by: Richard Gere at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

62 Comic book franchises are outing themselves as a conclave of perverts and pedophiles. I'm beginning to see a wisping of white smoke.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (qHYlB)

63 Saw Mission Impossible at the IMAX on Saturday. Not much of a plot but it was sure fun to watch.

Posted by: Tuna at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (lJ0H4)

64 Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin). They just didn't feel like giving the three male members of the Fantastic Four a meaningful role in the resolution of the plot.

It's pretty bad when not even Disney will give a meaningful role to a mega-gay star like Pedro Pascal. And during Pride month.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (ExV1e)

65 60 They should have Doctor Who reincarnated as a dog or possibly a goat.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (0xo8i)

An owl, obviously.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (gKWVE)

66 I gave up on Doctor Who a long time ago (Season 10).

The first few seasons were pretty good, but then it went off the rails and never looked back.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (7fElN)

67 Off, sock.

Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

68 I haven't seen it but a lot of people say it's a low-key "homage" to From Dusk To Dawn.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

She Hobbit and I thought it was absolutely phenomenal. There is definitely some dusk til dawn in there. But much more beautifully shot and made. And more serious. IMO it deserves all the acclaim
It has gotten.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (MGB5H)

69 They should have Doctor Who reincarnated as [...] a goat.

That might get them the muslim demographic finally.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (t0Rmr)

70 Yeah Sinners has made crazy amounts of money its been in the top 10 for like two months. You almost never see that any more. I guess its kinda white-bashing adjacent because most of the bad guys are whitey, but they are Irish vampires so I'm not sure that really counts. Plus: great music.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (2VST1)

71 The amazing thing is that Marvel has access to 60 plus years of perhaps, thousands of storylines they could mine to develop compelling and rich stories for their films and they simply refuse to use any of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (XV/Pl)

72 They should have Doctor Who reincarnated as a dog or possibly a goat.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (0xo8i)

That would make it a hit with the mohammedans.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (VNX3d)

73 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

They screwed up Star Wars, so screwing up F4 is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Also, F4 has never really worked as a movie. The closest anyone's come is The Incredibles, and while I appreciate that it exposed millions of Gen Z kids to the deeply anti-leftist concept "if everyone is special, then nobody is" it's not the greatest movie from Pixar's golden age.

Posted by: Ian S.

This will be the third failed attempt to launch (at least the first attempt got two movies). Folks will start to say it's "unfilmable", "not good for the screen", or outright cursed rather than commit to the fact that they keep handing it to fuckups to do (Josh Trank, anyone?) and not touch it again for...well, maybe ever. Just as well I think.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (OUMaO)

74 Disney envisons smaller crowds at Disney World throughout the summer.

It's not that the brand's becoming less popular, just that it's audience is becoming more selective...

Posted by: Ian Faith, Disney PR at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (ycI94)

75 Comic book franchises are outing themselves as a conclave of perverts and pedophiles. I'm beginning to see a wisping of white smoke.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM

Episode Four: A New Pope

Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (jc0TO)

76 Maybe if they replace Mickey with a talking gerbil . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

I have no idea why I read that as "talking pencil" but it would be funny.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (2J/Lj)

77 I thought that all the F4 remakes were just for copyright purposes.

Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

78 Speaking of primates, my sister told me a story about some gorillas in a zoo where one of them gave birth to a still born. They apparently ripped the body apart and threw the body parts around.

"Apes, so like us!"
--Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (2VST1)

79 *She may be woke but she is FAF*

(Wonders what FAF means)

Posted by: Hesitates to look it up at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (b/lx9)

80 Yeah Sinners has made crazy amounts of money its been in the top 10 for like two months. You almost never see that any more. I guess its kinda white-bashing adjacent because most of the bad guys are whitey, but they are Irish vampires so I'm not sure that really counts. Plus: great music.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 04:53 PM (2VST1)

Our take on that aspect on the way out was basically "it's a coogler flick. It's going to have some sort of pov in regards to that." But it is really a tertiary pov at best. And yes the music and cinematography are great.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (MGB5H)

81 Did they ever make a Ka-Zar movie?

Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

82 The only solution is to reboot all of the Marvel movies with gritty remakes

Posted by: brak at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (jGJov)

83 They don't "get" people. They spend all of their time in a bubble with the same people all thinking the same things. No one breaks out of the bubble without getting cancelled. Little wonder that the products are crap.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 03, 2025 04:47 PM (1FkCD)
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Yep. EVERYONE in their social circle espouses the same woke values and viewpoints. They believe THEY are the normies and WE'RE the weirdos.

Russell T. Davies even said as much in one of the interviews around Doctor Who. He said something about "traditionals" being "wrong."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (7fElN)

84 Maybe if they replace Mickey with a talking gerbil . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at June 03, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

Mickey Musk Ox?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (VNX3d)

85 Shoot, still no "well bye" to Disney. Hopefully they keep bleeding at the economy in general gets healthier. I'd say I want to see a headline that XYZ has bought Disney but if there is a non evil media entertainment (what DO you even call them these days?) company I don't know the identity of that company. There must be some small non-evil media companies but they wouldn't be big enough to quash the remaining evil in Disney.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (bP/i4)

86 >>>Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin). They just didn't feel like giving the three male members of the Fantastic Four a meaningful role in the resolution of the plot.

And that is enough for me to skip it altogether, a family of four that might be inclined to see it in the theater.

No loss.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (RG7aF)

87 That jumped up weatherman doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. He is the most overpaid, under motivated, obtuse jackass in corporate America. And that is saying something!

Posted by: Bob Iger sucks like a black hole at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (2cxea)

88 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

That should be an easy layup.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

89 I hope I live long enough to see Disney go into bankruptcy or receivership. The trustee or receiver will witness some mad intrigue to prevent the vaults from being opened allowing the old quality stuff to be re-released in theaters to raise $ for the creditors. I could see some dirty woke board member trying to destroy the masters.

It’s almost a movie in itself.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (dQfJF)

90 I gave up on Doctor Who a long time ago (Season 10).

If a gay femme black man in a dress crying doesn't get you turned on, you're doing it wrong!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (ycI94)

91 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

For the same reason that they cannot seem to figure out how to make a Blade movie: a badass black guy with a sword killing vampires. Hmm, tough concept, how could you possibly write a story about that??

They are devoid of writing talent and vision. They have no experiences or life to pull from and are middle school in their intellectual maturity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (2VST1)

92 >>>(Wonders what FAF means)

fat as f@#$?

Posted by: brak at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (jGJov)

93 I thought that all the F4 remakes were just for copyright purposes.

Posted by: toby928

Ugh. Thanks for reminding me of the Roger Corman version. Make that four, which seems fitting.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (OUMaO)

94
OT
Someone sitting in my house right now who had a job for a couple of years inspecting solar panel installations recently went through a period of unemployment thanks to Trump's canceling of alternative energy subsidies. He's got another job now with a better-funded company.

Yup. This is what I voted for.

With any luck, his next job will be inspecting natural gas installations.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (n7rxJ)

95 Tetris: The Movie

Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

96
I thought that the Fantastic Four movie was probably a dud when I saw who they got to play Sue Storm.

She's a good actress for the sort of pantherish boss bitch parts like she plays in the Mission Impossible movies but really not the right type to play Sue Storm. Lousy casting.

Someone like Sydney Sweeney would've been far better.

But, then the whole F4 movie seems badly miscast so not sure what's going on over at Disney.
No one seems able to do their job.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (iJfKG)

97 The amazing thing is that Marvel has access to 60 plus years of perhaps, thousands of storylines they could mine to develop compelling and rich stories for their films and they simply refuse to use any of it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:54 PM (XV/Pl)
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You could make the same observation about Star Wars. Disney had decades of EU material they could mine for compelling, fun stories and Disney deliberately de-canonized it in favor of their own drek.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 04:58 PM (7fElN)

98 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

That should be an easy layup.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

They are most likely going to be in daredevil season 2. Jessica jones is already confirmed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 04:58 PM (MGB5H)

99 88 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

That should be an easy layup.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Maybe we can get Angel Reese to direct? Then we can't possibly fail!

Posted by: Disney-Marvel Executives at June 03, 2025 04:58 PM (ycI94)

100 Saw Mission Impossible at the IMAX on Saturday. Not much of a plot but it was sure fun to watch.
Posted by: Tuna at June 03, 2025 04:52 PM (lJ0H4)

Saw it last week on a 60 foot screen in 48 channel Dolby Atmos. A fun flick for sure. The action was nonstop. Pretty cool. I like the short snipe at the beginning with Tom thanking the cast, crew, and the audience. "We made this movie for YOU". Nice touch. Looks they had fun making it.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 03, 2025 04:58 PM (5xuJ/)

101 The more they lay off the more bombs they can make.

Posted by: torabora at June 03, 2025 04:58 PM (FFYNc)

102 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

Yeah that was so bad. All the great martial arts stuff coming out and Iron Fist comes off like a cheap Arrow knockoff with a lower budget. Power Man started okay but got really boring really fast and had a stupid ending.

Dudes. Its such an easy concept. Two friends trying to make money with their powers and always ending up not getting paid much if anything. Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)

103 But, then the whole F4 movie seems badly miscast so not sure what's going on over at Disney.
No one seems able to do their job.

Posted by: naturalfake

The AWFLs and girlboss contingent took over. It's the same problem the Democrat party has for the same reason, except that kind of cultural disconnect in a media company is even more glaringly obvious.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 04:59 PM (OUMaO)

104 Nobody realizes The Thing is the heart of the Fantastic Four

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 03, 2025 04:59 PM (wBaIH)

105 Isn’t this the first movie in the series? Why is Galactus already there?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 03, 2025 04:46 PM (EXyHK)

They were expecting it to be the finale.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 04:59 PM (ExV1e)

106 Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

I hesitate to imagine Hollywood trying to remake The Rockford Files today.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 03, 2025 05:00 PM (EXyHK)

107 Have they announced a season 2 for She-Hulk yet?

'cause it's technically not cancelled either ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2025 05:00 PM (/w3vz)

108 >>>But, then the whole F4 movie seems badly miscast so not sure what's going on over at Disney.

they cast Pedro whatever who looks 50+ so no way the girl bosses at Disney would allow a. much younger woman to be cast

Posted by: brak at June 03, 2025 05:00 PM (jGJov)

109 @102

>>Dudes. Its such an easy concept. Two friends trying to make money with their powers and always ending up not getting paid much if anything. Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

Just make Quinten Tarantino an offer he can't refuse to write the script and get Robert Rodriguez to direct.

No brainer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 05:01 PM (XV/Pl)

110 How can you screw up on the Fantastic Four? There are an overwhelming amount of history in the comic books themselves, plus they have one the greatest characters ever created in Benjamin J. Grimm - The Thing.

Posted by: RGallegos at June 03, 2025 04:41 PM (JVh4R)

Well if you wish to have the second banana be the leader, and to only include 1 person on the team, and have an enemy help versus another enemy....you are well on the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:01 PM (8avO+)

111 The trailers for F4 seem to indicate that they forgot that Johnny is a prick. Kind of a big part of his character. Why he fueded with Spidey so much.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:01 PM (MGB5H)

112 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

Yeah that was so bad. All the great martial arts stuff coming out and Iron Fist comes off like a cheap Arrow knockoff with a lower budget. Power Man started okay but got really boring really fast and had a stupid ending.

And they just couldn't keep themselves from pushing The Message™ as Critical Drinker says.

Posted by: Woke ruins everything at June 03, 2025 05:01 PM (TbWk/)

113 There's a You Tube home Inspector who gets the cops called on him when he finds city gas valve leaking which is pretty much all of them in certain AZ new home developments.

Posted by: torabora at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (FFYNc)

114 Dudes. Its such an easy concept. Two friends trying to make money with their powers and always ending up not getting paid much if anything. Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

Same reason I wanted to see a "Hawkeye and Black Widow" movie...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (OUMaO)

115 The amazing thing is that Marvel has access to 60 plus years of perhaps, thousands of storylines they could mine to develop compelling and rich stories for their films and they simply refuse to use any of it.

They are only interested in the last 20 or so years, and only some of them. Because that's the stuff the current main staff at marvel worked on. They consider all the rest lame and childish and pale and stale.

Our take on that aspect on the way out was basically "it's a coogler flick. It's going to have some sort of pov in regards to that." But it is really a tertiary pov at best. And yes the music and cinematography are great.

Yeah, and if you make something entertaining and well crafted enough, I can live with a bit of dumb bias. You make a terrific film about WWI and make it a bit racist against Italians, okay. Dumb but I can live with it if its really well done. If you make a fantasy movie that's amazing and original but bashes men some eh, as long as its well done.

Just dont make the message the main thing and don't ravage existing IP for your own purposes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

116 Am I a bad person if I laugh about Disney employees being laid-off?

Posted by: Gref at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (aBgBM)

117 hesitate to imagine Hollywood trying to remake The Rockford Files today
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To be honest, Hollywood didn't make the Rockford files. James Garner did. He had total control over that sucker. He made a studio suit come down to the set every week and pay the cast and crew in cash. Dude hated the suits with a passion.

Posted by: Bob Iger sucks like a black hole at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (2cxea)

118 Am I a bad person if I laugh about Disney employees being laid-off?
Posted by: Gref at June 03,
Just Goofy

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (kTd/k)

119 The trailers for F4 seem to indicate that they forgot that Johnny is a prick. Kind of a big part of his character. Why he fueded with Spidey so much.

Posted by: BruceWayne

Funny thing is the last two castings of that character got us Chris Evans and Michael B. Jordan, either of which are more charismatic than that carved bar of soap they cast this time.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (OUMaO)

120 Seriously, how can you not do a Power Man and Iron Fist correctly?

That should be an easy layup.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

+10000000000000

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (MGB5H)

121 >>Dudes. Its such an easy concept. Two friends trying to make money with their powers and always ending up not getting paid much if anything. Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

Just make Quinten Tarantino an offer he can't refuse to write the script and get Robert Rodriguez to direct.

No brainer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 05:01 PM (XV/Pl)

The Tick was close except for the money bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

122 There's a You Tube home Inspector who gets the cops called on him when he finds city gas valve leaking which is pretty much all of them in certain AZ new home developments.
Posted by: torabora at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (FFYNc)

How dare he expose shoddy and dangerous contractor work! Arrest him immediately! Immediately!

Posted by: Didn't get a harrumph out of that guy at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (TbWk/)

123 86 >>>Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin). They just didn't feel like giving the three male members of the Fantastic Four a meaningful role in the resolution of the plot.

And that is enough for me to skip it altogether, a family of four that might be inclined to see it in the theater.

No loss.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (RG7aF)

If that's the real ending, it will be a box office disaster...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (tOcjL)

124 >>>(Wonders what FAF means)
*
fat as f@#$?
Posted by: brak at June 03, 2025

***
An image search for "Grace Randolph reviewer" tells me it should be "fine as f@#$".

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (omVj0)

125 Supposedly they tried a lot of different guys for Reed Richards and they all turned Marvel down. Imagine that. Pedro was their final option, apparently. Cuck Richards the science guy who I think dies in this movie. Rumor is that one of the four does.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (2VST1)

126 (Wonders what FAF means)
Posted by: Hesitates to look it up at June 03, 2025 04:55 PM (b/lx9)

Means the original comments thinks she's purty.

Fine As F***.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

127 Funny thing is the last two castings of that character got us Chris Evans and Michael B. Jordan, either of which are more charismatic than that carved bar of soap they cast this time.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 03, 2025 05:03 PM (OUMaO)

He is fun as Eddie in Stranger Things s4. But yea def not Johnny Storm.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (MGB5H)

128 Its a buddy cop movie based on Rockford Files, with low end powers. How can you NOT make that work??

Women don't understand guys being buddies. Put them in charge of an entire studio and the only buddy movie they'll approve will involve a rich handsome man teaming up with an ugly actress who looks just like the executive who greenlit the movie.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 03, 2025 05:05 PM (2ocoG)

129 There's a You Tube home Inspector who gets the cops called on him when he finds city gas valve leaking which is pretty much all of them in certain AZ new home developments.
Posted by: torabora at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (FFYNc)

I like how he says he can't say who did the work on the development as he walks past the developer's sign.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:05 PM (8avO+)

130 Cuck Richards the science guy who I think dies in this movie. Rumor is that one of the four does.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (2VST1)

They are all announced for Doomsday tho. Of course with multiverse that is meaningless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)

131 The trailers for F4 seem to indicate that they forgot that Johnny is a prick. Kind of a big part of his character. Why he fueded with Spidey so much.

Posted by: BruceWayne
----------------

I wondered why I laughed when Evans got deskinned in "Deadpool."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 03, 2025 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

132 What the music industry needs now is more 30 year old pop tarts in leotards from the Disney Company singing about their transformation from sexually abused to sexually deviant.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 05:06 PM (qHYlB)

133 Women don't understand guys being buddies. Put them in charge of an entire studio and the only buddy movie they'll approve will involve a rich handsome man teaming up with an ugly actress who looks just like the executive who greenlit the movie
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Cruel, but funny. 👍👍

Posted by: Bob Iger sucks like a black hole at June 03, 2025 05:06 PM (2cxea)

134 Where are Disney's shareholders? iger the second time around has been a disaster. That comp can't be profitable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 05:07 PM (oRTCs)

135 86 >>>Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin). They just didn't feel like giving the three male members of the Fantastic Four a meaningful role in the resolution of the plot.

And that is enough for me to skip it altogether, a family of four that might be inclined to see it in the theater.

No loss.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (RG7aF)

If that's the real ending, it will be a box office disaster...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 03, 2025 05:04 PM (tOcjL)

Sounds like the plot for the Incredibles with the super baby

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

136 I don't have anything to say about the main topic, but I thought it was important to tell you all that

Posted by: Dr. W at June 03, 2025 05:07 PM (qUkBO)

137
The business model here is nothing so simple and ordinary as making entertainment that will please a large audience and motivate them to pay for it, and come back for more. It's something else, completely different. The audience is not the audience.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (ufCEJ)

138 They are all announced for Doomsday tho. Of course with multiverse that is meaningless.

yeah, Robert Downey jr is in the cast. Chris Evans is in the cast. Its gonna be a long stupid festival of cameos getting killed off.

I wondered why I laughed when Evans got deskinned in "Deadpool."

They didn't write him very well but yeah that was clever. I liked him a lot as Johnny, him and Chiklis were the only two who seemed to understand their characters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (2VST1)

139 Where are Disney's shareholders? iger the second time around has been a disaster. That comp can't be profitable
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 05:07 PM (oRTCs)

Iger was actually a disaster in his first go round. All he did was purchase properties. Hes the one that greenlit all the failures that came out under Chapek. It just hadn't hit the fan yet.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (MGB5H)

140 IKWYM, FAF INTS S FAFO. OK, GTG , TTYL.

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (g47mK)

141 "The Fantastic Four: First Steps"

There's just something so sad about that title. Knowing it's going to bomb like Dresden.

Hilariously tragic.

Posted by: Mark Ruffalo at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (0HaGk)

142 My hope is that Pudgy Mustache will make comments so egregious prior to the movie that he utterly destroys it, a la Snow White.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (1yPiY)

143 Instead of Clark Richards they should just kill Pascals career

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (oRTCs)

144 I like how Johnny Storm got wasted in Wolverine and Deadpool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (uWKK8)

145 Sod off Socky.

Posted by: eleven at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (0HaGk)

146 It's something else, completely different. The audience is not the audience.
==
Its not an audience silly. Its a congregation that must be preached to....

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (2cxea)

147 I wish Hollywood would let this whole stupid superhero bullshit die. It's endlessly boring, and there's not a shred of good writing. It's the same cookie cutter stupid nonsense that spawns 25 sequels and a goddamn miniseries. Burn all this shit

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (XLfSN)

148
Saw "Bring Her Back" this week end.

Very good movie. Excellent acting. Tight script. Good story. Great directing. Plenty of surprising, whacked-out gory moments

Not exactly what I was expecting. Not a full on horror movie. "Bring Her Back" is more like one of those horror-adjacent gothic movies like "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" or "what Ever Happened to Baby Jane" until it decides to totally cut loose in the last thirty minutes or so. Then it brings the horror and gore and craziness.

Really, my kind of favorite horror movie in that it is tightly paced until it decides to totally go insane.

However, it's a rather sad story altogether and wants to play out as a tragedy that moves you emotionally at the end.

It didn't quite make it to that point for me, though I did notice a couple of people in the audience wiping their eyes.

Anyway...check it out.

And if you have seen these guys first horror movie check out "Talk to Me" it's a good one too.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 03, 2025 05:09 PM (iJfKG)

149 Where are Disney's shareholders? iger the second time around has been a disaster. That comp can't be profitable

They either are really gullible and buy Iger's patter (its the same every year: ignore those failures look at the few things that made money, we've got a brilliant plan, a few mistakes were made by overproducing content but we're focusing on quality now instead of quantity)...or they like how things are going and want more of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:10 PM (2VST1)

150 Lady and the Tramp Aristocats The Rescuers or did a remake of Old Yeller
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 03, 2025 05:08 PM (wGqjj)M

Live action lady and the tramp was one of the early Disney- titles.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:10 PM (MGB5H)

151 "Disney envisons smaller crowds at Disney World"
The park business caters to fewer guests who spend more.
Mostly white, not in the best physical condition, women. And a few men. Well, maybe men...

Posted by: Man at June 03, 2025 05:10 PM (tubbA)

152 Yeah, and if you make something entertaining and well crafted enough, I can live with a bit of dumb bias. You make a terrific film about WWI and make it a bit racist against Italians, okay. Dumb but I can live with it if its really well done. If you make a fantasy movie that's amazing and original but bashes men some eh, as long as its well done.

Just dont make the message the main thing and don't ravage existing IP for your own purposes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

11 or 12 battles on the same river has got to be a record. And having that be only the second worst attack front (the peaks of the Alps is the other) is another record.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)

153 Disney fans are now more selective

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 05:11 PM (oRTCs)

154 The S & P 500 index funds are weighted by market cap. DIS market cap has them sliding into Loserville, ranked along with the Texas Instruments, Boeings and Intels.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 03, 2025 05:11 PM (wBaIH)

155 Tetris: The Movie
Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

The video game has a better story line than most current movie releases.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (VNX3d)

156 Reed and Sue's Baby Franklin has always been gargantuanly powerful, incredibly so. Apparently according to rumors, that's what Galactus is after, someone who can make him new worlds to devour. The rumored end plot is so cosmically stupid I don't even want to share it, because I cannot believe anyone would seriously write or direct that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

157 Pedro Pascal is a doorstop. Useful but uninteresting, and boring as fuck until you kick it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (2J/Lj)

158 The Pædo Rat is way too fat.

I suppose their only recent success is another recycled live-action flick about a creepy lab creation.

Posted by: logprof at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (jo6FO)

159 Where are Disney's shareholders? iger the second time around has been a disaster. That comp can't be profitable

They either are really gullible and buy Iger's patter (its the same every year: ignore those failures look at the few things that made money, we've got a brilliant plan, a few mistakes were made by overproducing content but we're focusing on quality now instead of quantity)...or they like how things are going and want more of it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:10 PM (2VST1)

They had a shareholder revolt and managed to wiggle out of it

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

160 Iger was actually a disaster in his first go round. All he did was purchase properties. Hes the one that greenlit all the failures that came out under Chapek. It just hadn't hit the fan yet.
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He is a complete idiot. He should be small market weatherman, low stress area like arizona getting ready to retire.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (2cxea)

161 Not-so-hot take: The Fantastic Four and Doctor Who have ALWAYS been gay. Even as an 80s kid who read Marvel comics monthly and loved Star Wars, I thought the F4 and DW were lame and dorky.

Posted by: Jim at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (KYd5r)

162 Russell T. Davies even said as much in one of the interviews around Doctor Who. He said something about "traditionals" being "wrong."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 04:56 PM (7fElN)

The old Doctor Who is a dinosaur, a call back to a time when Labor cared about the working man and Britain was for the English

Posted by: Kindltot at June 03, 2025 05:13 PM (D7oie)

163 Tetris: The Movie
Posted by: toby928 at June 03, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

The video game has a better story line than most current movie releases.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (VNX3d)

Apple+ has a movie sort of about the birth of Tetris but not really. It's dumb but fun. Tetris. Came out in 2023.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:13 PM (MGB5H)

164 11 or 12 battles on the same river has got to be a record. And having that be only the second worst attack front (the peaks of the Alps is the other) is another record.

Well I'm not gonna say the Italians covered themselves in glory in WWI but you don't have to call them bent-nosed dago greaseballs, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:13 PM (2VST1)

165 Pong: Reloaded

Posted by: eleven at June 03, 2025 05:13 PM (0HaGk)

166 IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: TTFN at June 03, 2025 05:13 PM (b/lx9)

167 The rumored end plot is so cosmically stupid I don't even want to share it, because I cannot believe anyone would seriously write or direct that.
==
Wait wut? I thought it was a great idea!!!

Posted by: Bob Iger at June 03, 2025 05:14 PM (2cxea)

168 Off-topic, but appropriate given that it is Gay Pride month which apparently trumps everything, here is a video showing a young woman who positively dazzles with her Super Jeenyus planning skills, plotting her escape from Adolph Trump's Fascist America, even before he was reelected last year (not leaving anything to chance, I suppose).

https://tinyurl.com/yr5euxw3

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:15 PM (mADJX)

169 Reed and Sue's Baby Franklin has always been gargantuanly powerful, incredibly so. Apparently according to rumors, that's what Galactus is after, someone who can make him new worlds to devour. The rumored end plot is so cosmically stupid I don't even want to share it, because I cannot believe anyone would seriously write or direct that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

Ya Franklin is basically above Omega level. And I have seen some of the same stuff about the ending.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:15 PM (MGB5H)

170 161 Not-so-hot take: The Fantastic Four and Doctor Who have ALWAYS been gay. Even as an 80s kid who read Marvel comics monthly and loved Star Wars, I thought the F4 and DW were lame and dorky.
Posted by: Jim

With the HUGE popularity of the game Marvel Rivals, and excellent timing of F4 characters with the release of the movie, it should be a huge hit...and they fucked it up. Amazing.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 03, 2025 05:15 PM (ycI94)

171 "Disney Lays Off Hundreds of Employees In Its TV and Film Divisions"

That's a damn shame. Maybe those affected can learn to mine coal?

Posted by: The lone KwaKer! at June 03, 2025 05:16 PM (89Sog)

172 With the HUGE popularity of the game Marvel Rivals, and excellent timing of F4 characters with the release of the movie, it should be a huge hit...and they fucked it up. Amazing.

They needed a Sue with a sweet badonkadonk like the game

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:17 PM (2VST1)

173 Well the relative humidity here has been terrific over the past few days! So enjoy your free time former Disney employees!!

Posted by: Bob Iger at June 03, 2025 05:18 PM (2cxea)

174 Since I have never seen Dr. Who, I'm curious about the premise of the show. What does this doctor do? Why does he regenerate?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at June 03, 2025 05:20 PM (2J/Lj)

175 Apparently, Galactus is defeated by the gender-swapped female Silver Surfer and Sue Storm (with the help of her newborn baby Franklin).

hmmm. baby ben franklin: mutant master of electricity could be right up there with abraham lincoln: vampire hunter. *makes note*

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2025 05:20 PM (oY6Yp)

176 I like the pop culture threads. Politics is over.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 05:20 PM (BI5O2)

177 So TV and streaming are not the same thing?

Two different shit delivery formats?

Posted by: eleven at June 03, 2025 05:21 PM (0HaGk)

178 "The Fantastic Four was expected to anchor the brand moving forward alongside the upcoming X-Men reboot."

So comedic self-parody is the new strategy? Might not be a bad idea. Because they can't be seriously thinking of another "reboot." No way. No one is that oblivious. Not even them.

Posted by: front toward enemy at June 03, 2025 05:21 PM (TIizU)

179 Maybe, just maybe, California and Los Angeles might consider that part of why Hollywood no longer shoots and processes their work locally has to do with sky high costs inflicted on them by the local government???

One of many reasons Hollywood is is a death spiral, but still…

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:21 PM (Hkcdp)

180 The rumored end plot is so cosmically stupid I don't even want to share it, because I cannot believe anyone would seriously write or direct that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

Fine. I'll share. The infant Franklin confronts Galactus - who had voted for a Hitlerian clown to be President of Earth. There's a 20 minute soliloquy wherein Franklin explains the importance of inclusion and non-mainstream love - particularly that involving very young people. The Galactus agrees to spare the Earth while devouring Trump instead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 05:22 PM (ExV1e)

181 I predict Franklin Richards ends up as the "Beyonder" in Avengers: Secret Wars coming out in a couple years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:23 PM (2VST1)

182 Seeing Asgard with the most diverse population in the universe kind of soured me on the whole francise. And I don't think they were putting out anything else that I thought was the least bit interesting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:23 PM (/lPRQ)

183 If I were Iger - and I thank God I'm not - I'd have anyone coming into my office and talking about another superhero or comic book movie dragged outside and shot.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 05:23 PM (YqDXo)

184 All of this sounds stupid and unwatchable.
They are well and truly screwed.
Lolgf

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:23 PM (Hkcdp)

185 DIS played the old "our movies don't make money our parks do" nonsense, until it's apparent to all that the movies drive people to the parks.

Now they're saving it's all about streaming it is to laugh

(Emits horrifying bitter Russian belly laugh)

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 03, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

186 Meanwhile, Kathleen Kennedy still has a job, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (Hkcdp)

187 predict Franklin Richards ends up as the "Beyonder" in Avengers: Secret Wars coming out in a couple years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:23 PM (2VST1)

I can def see that. And could be somewhat entertaining if we get battleworld. But having so many omega level and above characters creates even more story telling issues. It's always been an issue in the comics too but just works better in that medium. Just like the multiverse.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (MGB5H)

188 Seeing Asgard with the most diverse population in the universe kind of soured me on the whole francise.

Yeah that was really annoying. I like Idris Elba a lot but really? Heimdall is blacker than coal and nobody noticed in the legends passed down over the centuries??? So all Asgard looks like the cover of a college guidebook.

Then they had Wakanda and the only whitey was a CIA guy played by a Brit LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (2VST1)

189 I thought Billie Piper was pretty good in that show. That show, of course, being "Secret Diary of a Call Girl."

Posted by: TD at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (hazdd)

190 "So comedic self-parody is the new strategy? Might not be a bad idea. Because they can't be seriously thinking of another "reboot." No way. No one is that oblivious. Not even them.
Posted by: front toward enemy"

I don't think it's oblivious so much as completely bankrupt creatively. And the woke shit isn't going anywhere either.

So they're stuck. They can't go forward and they can't go back.

All they can do is squirm and convulse until they bleed out.

Posted by: eleven at June 03, 2025 05:26 PM (0HaGk)

191 Meanwhile, Kathleen Kennedy still has a job, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (Hkcdp)

She's good until at least next years bomb staring Pedro mandalorian and groggy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:26 PM (MGB5H)

192 REBOOT = BOMB

So what exactly would you say you do here?

I burn through money and make box office disasters!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 03, 2025 05:26 PM (17s+e)

193 Nood--Republicans being spineless about cutting spending.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:27 PM (TN0g+)

194 "Meanwhile, Kathleen Kennedy still has a job, right?
Posted by: Lizzy"

She was never going anywhere.

Posted by: eleven at June 03, 2025 05:27 PM (0HaGk)

195 174 Since I have never seen Dr. Who, I'm curious about the premise of the show. What does this doctor do?

stuff, mostly. also nonsense.

Why does he regenerate?

because actors get tired of playing the character and want to move on.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2025 05:27 PM (oY6Yp)

196 I recall Billie Piper had some big lips, but it looks like they went in heavy on the Botox for this cameo.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 03, 2025 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

197 Also, why are they previewing movies in LA? Do they really think that's how audiences are in states that aren't dying?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 03, 2025 05:28 PM (wBaIH)

198 *Insert Snow White dance party ending gif*

I wonder how many recently fired Disney employees realize Zegler's infantile political commentary cemented their dismissals.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:28 PM (lIio7)

199 Sinners is a pretty awesome movie, especially with the degree of detail and depth brought to the script. Take, for example, the Chinese residents of the Mississippi Delta. That was something fairly well-known in Mississippi, but Sinners is the only film I can think of that acknowledges the settlers from the Siyi region of Guangdong that have been in the Delta since 1877. Also, they got Clarksdale perfectly.

Posted by: John Drake at June 03, 2025 05:28 PM (V7c3x)

200 Heimdall is blacker than coal and nobody noticed in the legends passed down over the centuries??? So all Asgard looks like the cover of a college guidebook.

===

I think the legend is he was the whitest guy in Asgard and Loki was supposed to be blacker than coal. Switched them up a bit there...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (/lPRQ)

201 Dr. Who should be rebooted as a time-traveling moslem suicide bombing history's infidels. I'd watch that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (qHYlB)

202 Grace Randolph is incredibly off-putting. The voice is like fingernails on a blackboard, her demeanor, the works.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (YqDXo)

203 If I were Iger - and I thank God I'm not

Okay, he's older than me - which would suck - but he's, presumably, crazy rich. What's the worst that happens? He gets fired and has to live a life of luxury.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

204 174 Since I have never seen Dr. Who, I'm curious about the premise of the show. What does this doctor do? Why does he regenerate?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at June 03, 2025 05:20 PM (2J/Lj)

The Doctor is an alien from a race called the Time Lords.
This particular one was exiled from his planet, Galifrey, and stole a TARDIS (a time machine) which has the ability to take on any shape, but his is broken so its been a 60s era Police call box.

He regenerates because the producers needed a way to continue the series when the original actor died unexpectedly.
So they ret-conned it where the Doctor is basically immortal and becomes a new Doctor when he's injured and dies.

The basic premise of the show is the Doctor takes companions he meets on adventures across space & time helping various people, fighting aliens and monsters, and solving difficult problems - many of which could be the end of the universe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 03, 2025 05:33 PM (6ydKt)

205 Pedro Pascal was fairly decent in "Narcos," but since then...well, the phrase "flash in the pan: does come to mind.

Posted by: John Drake at June 03, 2025 05:37 PM (V7c3x)

206 Yes, it’s hard to believe Grace Randolph is not some fake character - a put-on voice, wig, affected delivery of her lines. I’d say she has a face for radio, but yikes, she’s got a voice for print journalism…

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:44 PM (Hkcdp)

207 So they ret-conned it where the Doctor is basically immortal and becomes a new Doctor when he's injured and dies.

Honestly it was a brilliant idea and it has served them well over the years, until recently

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (2VST1)

208 186 Meanwhile, Kathleen Kennedy still has a job, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:25 PM (Hkcdp)

I think Kennedy has pictures of Iger in a Goofy suit backdooring a kid dressed as Micky.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 03, 2025 06:02 PM (dLmtu)

209 To be fair, no one outside of Marvel HQ gives a shit about the Fantastic 4.

Posted by: Mister Fabulist at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (kcBZn)

210 So they ret-conned it where the Doctor is basically immortal and becomes a new Doctor when he's injured and dies.

Honestly it was a brilliant idea and it has served them well over the years, until recently
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (2VST1)

like the transporter in Star Treks - solves the issue of having to land a ship and walk to the next scene.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)

211 Fantastic Four - They had this in the bag, then managed to screw it up. Sue Storm is supposed to suffer from being shy. That is the opposite of her hot-headed brother. see, their powers reflect who they are as people. Get it?

The ending would be Reed coming up with some sort of big science solution. Ben would lift the machine and aim it. Johnney would power it...oh no he doesn't have enough power. The silver surfer betrays Galactus to help! but of no it has too much power! the machine is breaking apart! Sue Strom reaches deep within herself to get enough power to project a forcefield...and hold the machine together for just a few more seconds....

Day saved. Roll credits.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 03, 2025 06:16 PM (gDhA9)

212 Dr. Who should have ended the season with the Doctor coming back as a dinosaur. I mean, it would have at least sparked some interest.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 03, 2025 06:21 PM (gDhA9)

213 If Pedro pascal is the answer, what is the question?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (gDhA9)

214 Dr Who fan from the 70's when life was good and Jon Pertwee was (mostly) stranded on Earth, working with UNIT, Jo Jo Grant and Lethbridge Stewart.
Yes, I am a fan of a fun Dr Who, Star Wars and Star Trek. But since the Capaldi era, it has sucked Jasmine Crockett ASS!
Let it die, like everything else Disney has touched.
Someday, maybe, a future genius will bring them back, but not until the last 10 or 15 years are buried deeper than Atlantis.
Gallifrey Rules!

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at June 03, 2025 09:45 PM (KFdqH)

215 Saved as a favorite, I love your site!

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