NBC Lays Off 150 "Journalists," Sacking Its Black, Latinx, and Gay DEI Unites "NBC BLK," "NBC Latino," and "NBC OUT"

Racist homophobic NBC has officially joined MAGA.

They're slashing their payrolls in anticipation of spinning off basket-case MSNBC from also basket-case NBC "News." Also, they hate blacks and gays. Anytime you take an action adverse to the interests of any blacks or gays that means you're acting out of "hate," right? Right?

NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its layoffs of about 150 staffers on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a significant culling as the Peacock network separates from its sister news network, MSNBC.
The cuts mean that the verticals NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT will no longer have dedicated teams bolstering their coverage. The verticals will continue to publish stories related to the specific groups and NBC News may ultimately retain up to five staffers who will contribute coverage on the verticals to the newsroom, according to one source, as the dedicated teams focused exclusively on these verticals are sunset.
The total reductions, which affected NBC News' entire news operation, make up about 7% of NBC News' newsroom of about 2,000 staffers and 2% of the wider NBCU News Group, which includes Telemundo and the network's owned-and-operated local news stations. The cuts did not target specific teams and were driven by the network's budget and the desire to streamline its editorial efforts, according to one source.
...
The job losses came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations, as MSNBC has moved under the spun-off company Versant....

The layoffs also reflect the media industry's larger retreat from efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain, removed mentions of diversity from its website in April and said it would stop publishing demographic data on its website. Disney also rebranded its internal DEI efforts last week to "Opportunity & Inclusion," according to Puck.
MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of talent from NBC News, the Washington Post, Politico and others as it builds its newsgathering operation. It plans to launch its rebranded image -- including its new name, MS NOW -- in the coming weeks.

LOL, sure.

CBS will also be laying off "journalists" soon:

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
Oct 15
Significant layoffs underway today at NBC News... big round of layoffs coming this quarter at CBS News...

Bonus: All of you guys who paid for a lifetime subscription to CNN Plus are going to be psyched about this -- CNN's about to launch its next failed streaming service.

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
2h
New: CNN’s new streaming service launches on Oct. 28, per internal meeting

I don't know about you, but the thing I miss most about cutting the cord is Jake Tapper's Enormous Honker. If I could see that big sneering nose and hear it honking like a flock of Canadian geese again, I'd just be ever so happy.

Speaking of failed network CNN: David Ellison has been looking to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, and thus CNN, as part of his spending spree to become an absolute media magnate. I don't know why they would even want the debt-plagued WBD. I sure as hell don't know why they'd want CNN.

Paramount made its offer to WBD, and the offer was refused. They're now preparing a bigger offer.

Paramount Skydance (NASDAQSKY) is preparing a second bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after its initial bid was rejected, according to a Los Angeles Times report on Sunday, which cited a person familiar with the matter. Warner Bros. Discovery shares rose 3.6%.
Billionaire Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has agreed to help finance an offer from Paramount Skydance, which is run by his son David Ellison, according to the report.
The update comes after Bloomberg reported on Sunday that Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) initially rejected Paramount Skydance's (NASDAQSKY) bid for roughly $20 a share in recent weeks.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is said to want upwards of $30 a share in a deal, according to a NYPost report on Monday.

I just don't know why you'd want another movie studio when you already own two (Paramount and Skydance). Warner Bros. is on a winning streak this year with a bunch of hits, but so what? The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.

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1 moar!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:16 PM (xcxpd)

2 MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of talent from NBC News, the Washington Post, Politico and others as it builds its newsgathering operation. It plans to launch its rebranded image -- including its new name, MS NOW -- in the coming weeks.

LOL, sure.

Personnel is policy. Nothing will change.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2025 01:17 PM (Riz8t)

3 Why do I always read the content?

Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 01:17 PM (R6ckG)

4 Man I hate to be that guy... but; it's CANADA Goose... not Canadian Goose.

Your attention to this matter, yada... yada.

Posted by: Coldwarvet at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (7t0kC)

5 I dunno, I kind of think that if my initial offer were rejected, I'd offer a less favorable on next time.

But this may be why I'm not in business.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (a+4eV)

6 The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.
________
It's just one battle after another. And then a turd.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (s0JqF)

7 Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (9DQoo)

8 Harvard or Columbia needs to hire these geniuses for enormous salaries to teach journalism.

Posted by: PG at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (BswES)

9 It's not much, but it's a start...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

10 Also Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM (xcxpd)

11 Man I hate to be that guy... but; it's CANADA Goose... not Canadian Goose.

Your attention to this matter, yada... yada.
Posted by: Coldwarvet

Canuckistani cobra-chicken, please.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2025 01:19 PM (a+4eV)

12 ..issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups...

I wonder how groups that define themselves by their skin tones feel about being lumped in with groups that define themselves by where they like to rub their genitals?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:19 PM (3nLb4)

13 Message control. Eat the bugs stuff.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at October 16, 2025 01:19 PM (s9EN2)

14 Ouroboros time

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:20 PM (bXbFr)

15 NB Seeing you later, no loads.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:20 PM (i24o9)

16 They can still promote diversity by replacing all of them with Mexican weather girls.

Posted by: Ripley at October 16, 2025 01:20 PM (GUOwU)

17

Can't believe they're doing this to the blacks.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 16, 2025 01:20 PM (et1vG)

18 They arent smart enough for that

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:21 PM (bXbFr)

19 You know, someone with bucks and brains could buy CNN and turn it into a worldwide straight news channel and it would again be successful. I know, ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 16, 2025 01:21 PM (PV3WW)

20 Laying off 7% of their newsroom?

THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:21 PM (wtvvX)

21 The Bugs Bunny cartoon collection is the plum of Warner Brothers.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 16, 2025 01:22 PM (GPa4z)

22 NBC OUT is gone? A mere 4 1/2 months after Pride Month?! Heartless. Cruel. So sad.

Posted by: Overmilked Minotaur at October 16, 2025 01:22 PM (mFz+I)

23 "A bunch of hits," plus One Battle After Another, and Superman's James Gunn.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:22 PM (3tZV2)

24 I'm very concerned about NBC's ability to accurately report the news without these invaluable news assets.

Who will report the ghey news?

Who will accurately report how ICE is kidnapping undocumented Americans??

Dark day, my friends. Dark day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:22 PM (Ll5o9)

25 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!

Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

26
OUT: NBC OUT
IN: SCHADENBONERS

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (wtvvX)

27 Its Black, Latinx, and Gay DEI Unites

Units?

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (jc0TO)

28 19 You know, someone with bucks and brains could buy CNN and turn it into a worldwide straight news channel and it would again be successful. I know, ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 16, 2025 01:21 PM (PV3WW)

We need more Elons.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (BvTfc)

29 hiring swaths of talent from NBC News, the Washington Post, Politico

Their definition of "talent" differs greatly from my own.

Posted by: Unless being a mindless party hack is a talent at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (TbWk/)

30 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!
Posted by: Too White?

Explaining contrapuntally the cities we have lost!

Posted by: Tom Lehrer at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (a+4eV)

31 Speaking of reporters, saw a video of reporters streaming out of the pentagon....wow, there were a lot of them...and they had unfettered access up to this point which I didn't know.

Posted by: WisRich at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (G0vdT)

32 So all this time regular NBC news was geared towards straight, white men? Could have fooled me.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (y9ksN)

33 What did The Blade say last thread about Black Fatigue?

The recent embarrassing flop of the new Tron movie, of course featuring a Stronk Empowered Black Girlboss of Color, only shoved Hollywood's faces deeper into the shit.

Incredibly, they're blaming Jared Leto for the flop. Really? I didn't even know he was in the movie from all the promos I've seen. I never saw the trailer. But all the posters and print media I've seen just have a black dykey girl with stupid hair.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

34 “A mere 4 1/2 months after Pride Month?!”

And during John McCain’s funeral!

Posted by: Squid at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (R6ckG)

35 Paramount Skydance Brothers?

Skydance Warner Paramount?

Warner paramount skydance?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Ll5o9)

36 I liked Superman. It was fun. It also made money.
Minecraft made bank.
Sinners was a big it for its budget
F1, Weapons, several others all went over 100 million.

It was a good year for Warner Brothers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)

37 Those words you are using

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (bXbFr)

38 25 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!

Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley >>> Huntley-Brinkley

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (wtvvX)

39 Man I hate to be that guy... but; it's CANADA Goose... not Canadian Goose.

Your attention to this matter, yada... yada.
Posted by: Coldwarvet at October 16, 2025 01:18 PM

I'll have the Beijing Duck.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

40 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!
Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

You might be on to something there. AI newsreaders, with faces, voices, and body language perfectly crafted to generate feelings of trust in the viewers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (A62KL)

41 I have no idea why people are buying these things.

People are getting laid off by the trainload, people are buying things.

You're spotting dimes you're eating onions!

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (aTgV0)

42 I'll have the Beijing Duck.
Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

Is Peking Duck not good enough for you?

Posted by: Wade-Giles at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (pNkJD)

43 It was a good year for Warner Brothers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)

Except they kept getting locked in the water tower with Dot.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (y9ksN)

44 You know, someone with bucks and brains could buy CNN and turn it into a worldwide straight news channel and it would again be successful. I know, ain't gonna happen.
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I feel like somebody with bucks and brains could buy a movie studio and do NOTHING with it but produce mainstream action and comedies, and perhaps sprinkle in a couple of other genres BUT require all projects to have clearly defined broad appeal. ZERO "message" movies, and instead just stories put onto film about cowboys and doctors and nurses and lawyers and soldiers and race car drivers and soldiers and bartenders...and shenanigans, lots and lots of shenanigans.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (TN0g+)

45 35 Paramount Skydance Brothers?

Skydance Warner Paramount?

Warner paramount skydance?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Ll5o9)

Skywarn Mouthbreather

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (wtvvX)

46 If they replaced every journalist with AI, no one would know.

No one would care.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (Ll5o9)

47 Isn't there a risk, if all these so-called journalists are laid off, they will start to infest the rest of the nation?

If they're all concentrated in New Yakk City, the rest of us don't have to deal with them.

Think of the children!

Posted by: BurtTC at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (dGCAG)

48 31 Speaking of reporters, saw a video of reporters streaming out of the pentagon....wow, there were a lot of them...and they had unfettered access up to this point which I didn't know.
____

What do we want?

Unfettered access to Pentagon employees who would illegally leak secret information and gossip for money or sex!

When do we want it?

Now!

Posted by: "News" Reporters at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (Dv3i1)

49 33 Incredibly, they're blaming Jared Leto for the flop. Really? I didn't even know he was in the movie from all the promos I've seen. I never saw the trailer. But all the posters and print media I've seen just have a black dykey girl with stupid hair.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

=======

He was the face of the promotion for the last few weeks. He produced the film, having convinced Disney to fund it and put him at the center of it.

Hollywood has had a weird fascination with Leto that largely died in 2022 with Morbius, but Leto still had enough friends to make it work with Disney one last time.

He's done as a leading man in franchise pictures. He'll get supporting roles from here on out, maybe lead some indie stuff. But he's a name people recognize, not a face people care about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

50 *Canada geese

Posted by: one hour sober at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (Y1sOo)

51 43 It was a good year for Warner Brothers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)

Except they kept getting locked in the water tower with Dot.
Posted by: Josephistan at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (y9ksN)

Nice reference!

I did like Animaniacs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

52 40 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!
Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

You might be on to something there. AI newsreaders, with faces, voices, and body language perfectly crafted to generate feelings of trust in the viewers.

Also a Max Headroom vibe.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (PV3WW)

53 What abut that White gal with the big dick....Maddow is her name?
Is she still runnin the plantation?

Posted by: WINSTON ALABASTER at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (njGzd)

54 Man I hate to be that guy... but; it's CANADA Goose... not Canadian Goose.
===
F you, eh!!!! I got season tickets to the Leafs and i vote. I'm a canadian!!!

Posted by: Angry Goose at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (KZGYP)

55 What's it gonna be called.

I can see it being something like CNN24 or they will go retro 90's with like CNNMAX but that's too much like Cinemax, so maybe CNNXtreme or just CNNX.

Or maybe NitroCNN.

How about CNNTurbo (with electrolytes)

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM (XZ9Wx)

56 Warner Bros. is on a winning streak this year with a bunch of hits, but so what? The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.

There have been hit movies? Or were they just called hit movies? Either way, I haven't set foot in a theater since Maverick.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (2WIwB)

57 Also a Max Headroom vibe.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM

I would watch a Max Headroom newscast.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

58 Will the last Union Electrician in Hollywood please turn out the lights?

Posted by: Peggy Entwhistle at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (oftw2)

59 36 I liked Superman. It was fun. It also made money.
Minecraft made bank.
Sinners was a big it for its budget
F1, Weapons, several others all went over 100 million.

It was a good year for Warner Brothers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)

Superman did not make money. You have to play dumb to think they did. And just remember what was revealed about Rise of Skywalker this week only because of UK tax filing requirements.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (3tZV2)

60 Chet and David are attendees at a Dead Man’s Party. Who could ask for more? Everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door. Leave your body AND soul at the door. (H/t, Oingo Boingo)

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (pNkJD)

61 The average age of people who watch television news is in the seventies now. It won't be long before they are all gone. I wouldn't be spending any money to keep any of them alive, especially if pharma ads for aged pill poppers gets taken down by Kennedy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (0U5gm)

62 Anytime you take an action adverse to the interests of any blacks or gays that means you're acting out of "hate," right? Right?

= =

Oh it's so much worse. They're erasing blacks and gays. It's genocide. I'm so triggered right now I can't even.

Posted by: Freshman at Cal Berkeley at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (m0WlR)

63 40 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!
Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

You might be on to something there. AI newsreaders, with faces, voices, and body language perfectly crafted to generate feelings of trust in the viewers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (A62KL)

If we're getting AI holograms, I want Max Headroom back, screaming the news at me at maximum volume like an overstimulated autistic kid. The way Philip K. Dick envisioned the future.

Posted by: Overmilked Minotaur at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (mFz+I)

64 I sure as hell don't know why they'd want CNN.

==

to fire jihadi apologist Amanpour. out of a cannon.

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (g47mK)

65 I agree more Mexican weather girls are needed in this country. Every television station should have nothing but beautiful Mexican weather girls and make up for passed discrimination. And the stations will see ratings go up. A win-win for all.

Posted by: Case at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (9HFDU)

66 .......clearly defined broad appeal. ZERO "message" movies, and instead just stories put onto film about cowboys and doctors and nurses and lawyers and soldiers and race car drivers and soldiers and bartenders...and shenanigans, lots and lots of shenanigans.
Posted by: Crusader

I read 'shenanigans' as 'boobs'. I concur!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (Dv3i1)

67 NBC News president: Maybe we could try telling the truth.

Sycophants: That's just crazy enough to work!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (69TbH)

68 21 The Bugs Bunny cartoon collection is the plum of Warner Brothers.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 16, 2025 01:22 PM (GPa4z)

Somebody needs to buy the entire archives and return them to their original uncensored glory.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (wtvvX)

69 56 Warner Bros. is on a winning streak this year with a bunch of hits, but so what? The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.

There have been hit movies? Or were they just called hit movies? Either way, I haven't set foot in a theater since Maverick.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (2WIwB)

=======

Yes, most successful movie studio this year, helped in no small part by stuff like A Minecraft Movie and Weapons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

70 seriously , though, CNN "brand" still has cachet overseas

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

71 Darn, I misread the nood announcement of more news layoffs as more new layoffs and thought more fed layabouts were getting RIF announcements.

Oh well, shitty DEI based journos getting laid off is also happy news.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (kdHU2)

72 If those race and sexual identity units made any money they wouldn't be closing them.

It was all a very expensive virtue signal to begin with and now they can no longer afford their virtues.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (6ydKt)

73 Paramount Skydance Brothers?

Skydance Warner Paramount?

Warner paramount skydance?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (Ll5o9)

Skywarn Mouthbreather
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16

Big McLargehuge!

Posted by: Josephistan at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (y9ksN)

74 Max Headroom started as a prank, right? Someone hijacked the Chicago TV station.

Then it became a show.

Or maybe I am misremembering that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Ll5o9)

75 Bring back Huntley and Brinkley!
Posted by: Too White? at October 16, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)

You might be on to something there. AI newsreaders, with faces, voices, and body language perfectly crafted to generate feelings of trust in the viewers.
-------
I'd prefer my AI newsreader to resemble Karie Ross from her early ESPN work.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

76 Incredibly, they're blaming Jared Leto for the flop. Really? I didn't even know he was in the movie from all the promos I've seen. I never saw the trailer. But all the posters and print media I've seen just have a black dykey girl with stupid hair.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

=======

He was the face of the promotion for the last few weeks. He produced the film, having convinced Disney to fund it and put him at the center of it.

Hollywood has had a weird fascination with Leto that largely died in 2022 with Morbius, but Leto still had enough friends to make it work with Disney one last time.

He's done as a leading man in franchise pictures. He'll get supporting roles from here on out, maybe lead some indie stuff. But he's a name people recognize, not a face people care about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)
______

I didn't know Leto was in the movie until I read about them blaming him for the flop. All the print promo in NYC is just a closeup of the black girlboss. Literally just that.

I thought Morbius was good for what it was.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

77 57 Also a Max Headroom vibe.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 16, 2025 01:27 PM

I would watch a Max Headroom newscast.
Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

Bros. You're speaking my love language here. I don't want to alarm. But I think we're gay married in Massachusetts now.

Posted by: Overmilked Minotaur at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (mFz+I)

78 Or maybe NitroCNN.

How about CNNTurbo (with electrolytes)

CNN Super Maxi. With Wings.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (3nLb4)

79 Find a way to kill the Big Pharma ads and watch the "news" industry wither and die.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (A62KL)

80 65 I agree more Mexican weather girls are needed in this country. Every television station should have nothing but beautiful Mexican weather girls and make up for passed discrimination. And the stations will see ratings go up. A win-win for all.
Posted by: Case at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (9HFDU)

With fat, distended *****? No thanks.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (pNkJD)

81 Oh CNN Super Maxi. With Wings.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (3nLb4)

Oooooh how about CUNN

They put the "U" in CNN

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2025 01:31 PM (XZ9Wx)

82 76 I didn't know Leto was in the movie until I read about them blaming him for the flop. All the print promo in NYC is just a closeup of the black girlboss. Literally just that.

I thought Morbius was good for what it was.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

======

Morbius could be considered a masterpiece by the world, but it bombed horribly at the box office which is all that really matters when deciding if the leading man is worth tens of millions of dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

83 Totes WEIRD this is happening during the shutdown, huh?

Wonder if it’s related???

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:31 PM (Hkcdp)

84 I understand that coal mines are reopening and doing good bidness. Maybe they can learn to coal?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 16, 2025 01:31 PM (89Sog)

85 Hell yeah
Keep going!
Burn it all

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (61TgR)

86 Superman did not make money. You have to play dumb to think they did. And just remember what was revealed about Rise of Skywalker this week only because of UK tax filing requirements.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (3tZV2)

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/ title/tt5950044/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 (remove space)

over $300 million domestic, double that overseas.

Unless it cost 300 million to make, it made money.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

87 I just don't know why you'd want another movie studio when you already own two (Paramount and Skydance). Warner Bros. is on a winning streak this year with a bunch of hits, but so what? The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

Yeah it seems quite stupid, like Time-Warner buying AOL or AT&T buying DirecTV.

If they ever do buy WB then the entire conglomerate will probably be broken up again and sold in pieces within a decade, if that long.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (6ydKt)

88 Leto couldn't stop reading his own press.

He had a string of hits there for a bit though.

The ghey tranny in that McKawnyhay movie bout the aids.

Also that movie with Rami Malek.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (Ll5o9)

89
Morbius could be considered a masterpiece by the world, but it bombed horribly at the box office which is all that really matters when deciding if the leading man is worth tens of millions of dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

Hey get it right. It didn't bomb. It bombed TWICE! Because Sony was so stupid they thought "It's Morbin' Time" trending on Twitter meant that the movie was actually gaining popularity so they re-released it.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (3tZV2)

90 Back in the day, no reporters were inside the Pentagon. They'd flock to the main entrance, outside, and wait for someone to talk to them about bomb tonnages, which Viet Cong village was wiped out, and so on.

The fuckers have office space now.

In a building where space is at a premium for the people who actually work there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (Q4IgG)

91
Where would a person watch NBC BLK, NBC OUT, NBC Latino etc? Are these actual channels?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (ldc7S)

92 86 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/ title/tt5950044/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 (remove space)

over $300 million domestic, double that overseas.

Unless it cost 300 million to make, it made money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

========

Gunn insists it cost less than $200 million. He could be lying, but if it did cost less than $200 million, it probably made a profit, especially when you add in ancillaries.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

93 Is the MSNOW rebrand still happening or was that laughed out of the room?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (u3PEu)

94 Maybe that guy wants to buy CNN for its spectrum/channel.

Remember when Al Jazeera bought Gore’s cable channel to get a foothold in the US news market?
Better than starting from scratch.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (Hkcdp)

95 There have been hit movies? Or were they just called hit movies? Either way, I haven't set foot in a theater since Maverick.
Posted by: Diogenes

Mr. Diogenes, I read where you could wind up in a Del Webb Nursing Home. Do you know where he made some of his first big money? Before he owned a big part of the Yankees, before Sun City and Vegas, he built a huge Internment Camp for the Japanese in Arizona. Is that how you want to go out?

Posted by: Holiday Fun Camp at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (oftw2)

96 89 Hey get it right. It didn't bomb. It bombed TWICE! Because Sony was so stupid they thought "It's Morbin' Time" trending on Twitter meant that the movie was actually gaining popularity so they re-released it.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (3tZV2)

======

Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

97 Dear NBC and CBS:

Well

Bye

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:34 PM (Hkcdp)

98 CNN ain't got nothing on P.T. Barnum.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 01:34 PM (xvV+O)

99 Enormous Honker?

The Paolo?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 16, 2025 01:34 PM (MFmwI)

100 over $300 million domestic, double that overseas.

Unless it cost 300 million to make, it made money.
--------

I think the theaters keep half of the revenue. One source I read speculated that the movie is about break-even right about now once the marketing costs are included.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:34 PM (TN0g+)

101 Incredibly, they're blaming Jared Leto for the flop. Really? I didn't even know he was in the movie from all the promos I've seen. I never saw the trailer. But all the posters and print media I've seen just have a black dykey girl with stupid hair.

It's the same bald black chick from Star Wars: The Avatar, aka "THE POWER OF MAAAAANNNNYYYYY". She's the new fetch that Disney is trying to make happen.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:34 PM (2ocoG)

102 Max Headroom started as a prank, right? Someone hijacked the Chicago TV station.

Then it became a show.

Or maybe I am misremembering that.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I saw a documentary on that once, they wanted him to be a computer-generated thing, but couldn't make the program do the glitchy thing they wanted so they put a guy in makeup and prosthetics and had him act like a glitchy computer program.

Posted by: Tom Lehrer at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (a+4eV)

103 So its, "Learn to code," after all?"

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (YlWIZ)

104 19 You know, someone with bucks and brains could buy CNN and turn it into a worldwide straight news channel and it would again be successful. I know, ain't gonna happen.

this close to pride month?

Posted by: skinwalker ranch at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (v3pYe)

105 Oh no, where will gays, blacks and Hispanics ever get their news?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (yUhFq)

106 102 I saw a documentary on that once, they wanted him to be a computer-generated thing, but couldn't make the program do the glitchy thing they wanted so they put a guy in makeup and prosthetics and had him act like a glitchy computer program.
Posted by: Tom Lehrer at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (a+4eV)

========

Next thing you'll tell me is that Robbie the Robot had a man inside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

107 I would like to offer my service as the black gay DEI unit.

Would also like to offer the scent of my unit.

Posted by: Don Lemon at October 16, 2025 01:36 PM (Vu7A1)

108 did cnn belong to spies?

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 16, 2025 01:36 PM (EyfuW)

109 How can NBC Black and NBC Sodomy only make up 7% of the NBC News division? As a loyal watcher of NBC's prime time shows, blacks and gays make up 98% of the US population, with the other 2% split between low IQ white people and hookers.

Posted by: Wally at October 16, 2025 01:36 PM (EnKfA)

110 What happened to MSNBC Now?

Is it MSNBC Over and Done??

Posted by: dantesed at October 16, 2025 01:36 PM (Oy/m2)

111 "Where would a person watch NBC BLK, NBC OUT, NBC Latino etc? Are these actual channels?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

They are incorporated into and completely taken over regular NBC News

Posted by: Ripley at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (GUOwU)

112 99 Enormous Honker?

The Paolo?

harper

Posted by: anachronda at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (v3pYe)

113 You know, someone with bucks and brains could buy CNN and turn it into a worldwide straight news channel and it would again be successful. I know, ain't gonna happen.

this close to pride month?
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Anderson Cooper hardest hit.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (TN0g+)

114 how does putting an extra space in a link not blow the margins by an extra space? Lucy, can you splain that to me? Lucy.....?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (89Sog)

115 Disney also rebranded its internal DEI efforts last week to "Opportunity & Inclusion,"
===

Unless you are a White man, then it is appropriately called "No Opportunity & Total Exclusion" by corporate.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (xvV+O)

116 105 Oh no, where will gays, blacks and Hispanics ever get their news?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 01:35 PM (yUhFq)

ABC?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (xcxpd)

117 Leto has the same pass that Pedro Pascal has.

They're what Hollywood wants men to be, so that's who gets cast.

(casted)?

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (aTgV0)

118 The verticals?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (63Dwl)

119 I like catching the 6:30 pm newscasts. NBC is worse than CBS which is like trying to decide which ugly disease riddled hooker you're going to bang without a condom.

But there were times where CBS covered stories 'more fairly' than NBC. They hide their contempt and loathing for President Trump better.

My friends brought me food by the way! Noodles with something on top. I'm so blessed. I'm amazing for them too.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (Sco7b)

120 Iirc, one of the first things Hegseth did was kick the journalists out of their fancy office space and move them into recently cleared sparse office space, with far less access to VIPs at the Pentagon.

Love the recent flounce by the JournOlists!
I’m sure it will work out for them.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (Hkcdp)

121 In today's edition of The Blade's Garage of Awesome, we go to the exotic car arena. You'll all be happy to know that Ferrari has said they'll launch 20 new models over the next 5 years.

It's probably no secret by now that I think Ferrari builds overpriced crap cars and treats their customers like shit. Yet still buyers line up. Never underestimate brand prestige or Veblen appeal when it comes to selling the highest-end luxury products.

Of these 20 new "models," I suspect at least half are going to be very limited-run variations of existing models that are sold to their richest buyers. This is quick and easy way to make piles of money for doing basically nothing.

There may also be quick facelifts of the new Testarossa and 12Cilindri. The new TR has been universally hated for its exterior design, with the 12C not far behind. Ferrari does not like to be mocked.

https://tinyurl.com/4yvpbtrr

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

122 117 Leto has the same pass that Pedro Pascal has.

They're what Hollywood wants men to be, so that's who gets cast.

(casted)?
Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (aTgV0)

Cast is past tense.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (Ll5o9)

123 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.

Posted by: And a far more interesting supporting character at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

124 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/ title/tt5950044/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 (remove space)

over $300 million domestic, double that overseas.

Unless it cost 300 million to make, it made money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

Tax filing documents in Ohio had put the budget at $350 million. But even with Warner Bros claimed budget, it likely lost money.

https://youtu.be/2S9ancIUEOo?si=PgpFnBkeEkFosil5

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (3tZV2)

125 Well matt smith actually knew what kind of film it was and went all out while leto thought it was a serious character study

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (bXbFr)

126 114 how does putting an extra space in a link not blow the margins by an extra space? Lucy, can you splain that to me? Lucy.....?
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (89Sog)

it's a line break, so it is no longer unbroken text. Long text strings blow the margins or so I understand.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (xcxpd)

127 118 The verticals?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (63Dwl)

WE CONTROL THE VERTICALS...

Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (wtvvX)

128 It's probably no secret by now that I think Ferrari builds overpriced crap cars and treats their customers like shit. Yet still buyers line up. Never underestimate brand prestige or Veblen appeal when it comes to selling the highest-end luxury products.

The Heckler & Koch of the automotive world.

Posted by: You suck and we hate you at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (TbWk/)

129 I know, I know, have Barry make a video about it. And if he doesn't show up dub something over the Prop 50 spot. You're welcome.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (YlWIZ)

130 I haven't watched a legacy dinner-hour news program in decades.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (rj6Yv)

131 123 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.
Posted by: And a far more interesting supporting character at October 16, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

The movie also features Mister God Damned Terrific too. He's fun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (xcxpd)

132 117 Leto has the same pass that Pedro Pascal has.

They're what Hollywood wants men to be, so that's who gets cast.

(casted)?

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:37 PM (aTgV0)

Castrated

Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (wtvvX)

133
LURN 2 KODE!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (Tv15w)

134 Did they dump Sharpton?

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (jZ3ZM)

135 131 The movie also features Mister God Damned Terrific too. He's fun.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (xcxpd)

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I watched it really drunk a couple of weeks ago.

I was very meh on it.

I would have written about it, but...nearly 2 bottles of wine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

136 I feel like somebody with bucks and brains could buy a movie studio and do NOTHING with it but produce mainstream action and comedies, and perhaps sprinkle in a couple of other genres BUT require all projects to have clearly defined broad appeal. ZERO "message" movies, and instead just stories put onto film about cowboys and doctors and nurses and lawyers and soldiers and race car drivers and soldiers and bartenders...and shenanigans, lots and lots of shenanigans.
Posted by: Crusader
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I think the future is probably streaming as theaters one by one go out of business. That means narrowcasting 'movies' will continue if streaming is the primary audience.

I think the whole 20th century of mass marketing and big institutions are dying because big nowadays cannot satisfy a diverse heterogeneous market.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (WDjG6)

137 WB has a titanic amount of debt going back well past the AOL-Time-Warner merger. Their film/TV library is tremendous, but in this modern era, that means less and less to the tiktokers and gamers and streamers who couldn't give less of a damn about any film made pre-2010, let alone B&Ws from the 30s & 40s. WB could have Avatar-level hits every time at bat for the next decade and it still wouldn't close out all the debt.

Posted by: Mister Fabulist at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (x8eGV)

138 65 I agree more Mexican weather girls are needed in this country. Every television station should have nothing but beautiful Mexican weather girls and make up for passed discrimination. And the stations will see ratings go up. A win-win for all.
Posted by: Case at October 16, 2025 01:28 PM (9HFDU)

Then I have to listen to their stupid Spanish accent every time they say Canon Perdidio or Carrillo street and it's super annoying and I want them to pronounce the french and Italian words with accents as well, that would entertain me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (BvTfc)

139 For an advertising class I took in high school I promoted the radio stations KUNT & KOCK The organs of the people.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (xvV+O)

140 I sure as hell don't know why they'd want CNN.

Skydance has quietly been doing minimally/non-political films that don't specifically advertise themselves as such for 5 or 6 years now. They produced Top Gun: Maverick, most famously, and some decent stuff for Apple TV+. So the word was that they want CNN just to put Bari Weiss in charge of that too and make Wolf Blitzer cry.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

141 87 Yeah it seems quite stupid, like Time-Warner buying AOL or AT&T buying DirecTV.

yeah, that's fun. at&t keeps trying to sell directv, so they've decided to split the billing back out (after having consolidating it after they bought it). so when i log in to at&t to pay my directv bill, it sends me to the directv website. which promptly sends me *back* to the at&t website.

i had to call them and have them send me paper bills again because they can't fix their damn website.

Posted by: anachronda at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (v3pYe)

142 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.

Fillion's an a-hole in real life? That's unfortunate. On screen, he always comes across like a guy who knows not to take himself too seriously.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3nLb4)

143 Gunn insists it cost less than $200 million. He could be lying, but if it did cost less than $200 million, it probably made a profit, especially when you add in ancillaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

And James Gunn has proven himself to be a liar. That enjoys watching his wife get filmed making out with John Cena.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3tZV2)

144 Executives described the decision as an efficiency measure to eliminate overlap and streamline operations across NBCUniversal’s news division. More like eliminate anything that supports marginalized communities and only tells the lies of rich white supremacists

It's likely the real reason is to avoid drawing the ire of the Toddler-in-Chief and the associated legal bills if he cooks up an excuse to punish them.

Ironically, this sort of action shows weakness, and thus a Trump shakedown probably became more likely. if you bend the knee once, you will continue to bend it.

From the lavender scare to the woke scare. We're ruled by tyrannical, delusional right-wing snowflakes.

NBC, Nothing But Cunts. Don’t trust corporations to save you.

Good! Those verticals were stealing ad dollars from grassroots LGBTQ news organizations and journalists. Most of the time they were run by cis/het people or inexperienced college students who wound up covering obvious stuff or tv shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is a good thing for LGBTQ people. No love lost. Bye assholes!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

145 The movie also features Mister God Damned Terrific too. He's fun.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (xcxpd)

=======

I watched it really drunk a couple of weeks ago.

I was very meh on it.

I would have written about it, but...nearly 2 bottles of wine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

I'd say something about your taste in movies but I'm actually enjoying the Mario Bava films.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

146 137 WB has a titanic amount of debt going back well past the AOL-Time-Warner merger. Their film/TV library is tremendous, but in this modern era, that means less and less to the tiktokers and gamers and streamers who couldn't give less of a damn about any film made pre-2010, let alone B&Ws from the 30s & 40s. WB could have Avatar-level hits every time at bat for the next decade and it still wouldn't close out all the debt.
Posted by: Mister Fabulist at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (x8eGV)

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They're going through a divestiture that's going to split the business in two.

The movie side will have no debt. The TV side will have a lot of debt.

It's a solution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

147 74 Max Headroom started as a prank, right? Someone hijacked the Chicago TV station.

Then it became a show.

Or maybe I am misremembering that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 16, 2025 01:29 PM (Ll5o9)

You're thinking of this:
Max Headroom signal hijacking (Wiki)
https://tinyurl.com/whzttjhj

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (6ydKt)

148 145 I'd say something about your taste in movies but I'm actually enjoying the Mario Bava films.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

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Style over substance for the win!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

149 142 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.

Fillion's an a-hole in real life? That's unfortunate. On screen, he always comes across like a guy who knows not to take himself too seriously.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3nLb4)

I THINK he means Guy Guardner is an asshole. Which Guy is, indeed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)

150 142 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.

Fillion's an a-hole in real life? That's unfortunate. On screen, he always comes across like a guy who knows not to take himself too seriously.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3nLb4)

No, no, no, Guy Gardner is the likeable asshole.

Posted by: Ambiguity - the devil's volleyball at October 16, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

151 Nathan Fillion's best role:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R6Ibz31DtE

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

152 MacCallum: "Should Hamas give up their weapons?"

Zohran: "I believe that a future here in New York City is affordable for all."
----

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:43 PM (TN0g+)

153 But whats-her-name from Jeopardy is still around.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (YlWIZ)

154 152 MacCallum: "Should Hamas give up their weapons?"

Zohran: "I believe that a future here in New York City is affordable for all."
----

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 01:43 PM (TN0g+)
========

"So, you think all guns should be given up?"
"Yes."
"All guns. No exceptions?"
"Yes."
"What about Hamas?"
"I have no opinion about that."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

155
I don't know how media companies are structured, so I need someone to draw me a picture of this:

>>The verticals NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT will no longer have dedicated teams bolstering their coverage. The verticals will continue to publish stories related to the specific groups and NBC News may ultimately retain up to five staffers who will contribute coverage on the verticals to the newsroom, according to one source, as the dedicated teams focused exclusively on these verticals are sunset.

At first it looks like these "verticals" used to run stories from both NBC News, probably other sources like News Channel and News Source, and from their own dedicated teams -- but now they won't have the dedicated teams.

But then "The verticals will continue to publish stories related to the specific groups." So they'll get the stories from other services, like the aforementioned News Channel and News Source?

And then NBC News might have ~5 staffers who will -- makes no sense, seems like they'll get content from the verticals for the newsroom...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (ldc7S)

156 Leto has the same pass that Pedro Pascal has.

Cum on his mustache?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (IXK4c)

157 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/ title/tt5950044/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 (remove space)

over $300 million domestic, double that overseas.

Unless it cost 300 million to make, it made money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

========

Gunn insists it cost less than $200 million. He could be lying, but if it did cost less than $200 million, it probably made a profit, especially when you add in ancillaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
___

True, but the very fact that Gunn has to mewl that his major, splashy, heavily-pimped reboot of a very valuable IP might have turned a profit is pure cask-strength copeium. There's no way he and WB aren't secretly furious over this. They were clearly expecting at least 50% more box office, and probably double.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

158 It’s like the DUmmies have never noticed that layoffs happen when sales/business has been down.
They’re not cutting jobs to accommodate Trump, they’re doing it to stay afloat.

Economics is haaaard.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (Hkcdp)

159 And James Gunn has proven himself to be a liar. That enjoys watching his wife get filmed making out with John Cena.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3tZV2)

A movie producer who lies about budgets and productions? Let me get my shocked face out of storage.

Gunn can write characters and action and he doesn't start shooting a movie until the script is done. That is sadly rare in the Superhero genre.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

160
how does putting an extra space in a link not blow the margins by an extra space? Lucy, can you splain that to me? Lucy.....?
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80

The extra space is what gets swapped into the broken up URL for the CR/LF that was used to break the URL into shorter lengths in order to get around the "text too long, so I am not posting this" roadblock.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (Tv15w)

161 One forgets he did bargain basement horror like slither

Peter jackson did too but he rose to the material

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:45 PM (bXbFr)

162 So- MTG is becoming a penis sipper? First she’s against the strike on Iran and now she’s apparently for illegal immigrant healthcare and that Republicans are responsible for the shutdown. Got it, idiot. But she’s totes on your side.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2025 01:45 PM (AW6h8)

163 MS NOW
.....

I don't want multiple sclerosis.

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2025 01:45 PM (UjdFS)

164 Yeah it seems quite stupid, like Time-Warner buying AOL or AT&T buying DirecTV.

If they ever do buy WB then the entire conglomerate will probably be broken up again and sold in pieces within a decade, if that long.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Profits just are not there anymore and this is what happens in declining industries. TV is declining, radio is nearly dead, and papers are dead. Movies are transitioning to streaming rather than showings at theaters. And streaming is still struggling to make a buck for some.

That is probably why Paramount is eying Warner Bros--HBO Max is one of the few streaming services making money supposedly. And a streaming service requires a catalog of work as people tire of some tv shows/movies and switch to another service for variety. I think HBO Max is one of the few resisting that trend of flux.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (WDjG6)

165 Another signal hijack was the "Captain Midnight" incident where an electrical engineer took over HBO for a few minutes to protest them charging $12.95 a month and scrambling their signal.

https://tinyurl.com/52xxwvua

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)

166 25 words or less. LOL

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (YlWIZ)

167 Anderson Cooper hardest hit.

Posted by: Crusader
===

Like with the "Sandy Green Dildo of Life?"

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (xvV+O)

168 Haven't seen the new Superman, but I did enjoy watching the clips of Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner. Total asshole, but a likeable asshole.

Fillion's a goody-two-shoes 99% of the time so I'm interested in seeing it for that as well. I still watch his show The Rookie even though it devolved into self parody with occasional over the top woke (LA is most threatened by racist white Southerners. Really). The chick he cast to be his wife is decent eye candy when she's on at least.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

169 Anchoring the superman franchixe to peacemaker is a mistake

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (bXbFr)

170 True, but the very fact that Gunn has to mewl that his major, splashy, heavily-pimped reboot of a very valuable IP might have turned a profit is pure cask-strength copeium. There's no way he and WB aren't secretly furious over this. They were clearly expecting at least 50% more box office, and probably double.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

And?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (xcxpd)

171 And then NBC News might have ~5 staffers who will -- makes no sense, seems like they'll get content from the verticals for the newsroom...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I'm so old, I remember when everyone got their news from the UPI or The AP.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (IXK4c)

172 Mamdani is a coward but on the other hand, as someone running for a loyal executive position, he is correct not to have an opinion on foreign matters.
The concern is his two-tier ethic. He has always been quick to denounce Israel.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 16, 2025 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

173 This is perhaps the most catastrophic result of the Government shutdown yet.

No Kings Day is Saturday, October 18th.
World Menopause Day is Saturday October 18th.

This is worse than the double- (or shudder!) triple-booking of a conference room!!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 01:47 PM (0sNs1)

174 I don't know why they would even want the debt-plagued WBD.

The answer is two words: Oak Island. He who controls the Arc of the Covenant rules the world! Everyone knows that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (AdHga)

175 . The chick he cast to be his wife is decent eye candy when she's on at least.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

I first read that as "decent eye candy when on a leash".

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (rj6Yv)

176
Did they dump Sharpton?
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot

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Sharpton was interviewing the esteemed Rachel Maddow just last week.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (ldc7S)

177 161 One forgets he did bargain basement horror like slither

Peter jackson did too but he rose to the material

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:45 PM (bXbFr)

I learned very recently that the first feature film Francis Ford Coppola directed (and wrote!!) was Dementia 13 for producer Roger Corman.

Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (wtvvX)

178 Fillion's a goody-two-shoes 99% of the time so I'm interested in seeing it for that as well. I still watch his show The Rookie even though it devolved into self parody with occasional over the top woke (LA is most threatened by racist white Southerners. Really). The chick he cast to be his wife is decent eye candy when she's on at least.
Posted by: Ian S.

He was better as irreverent Malcom Reynolds, the Brown Coat.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (IXK4c)

179 Mitch is trying out for the Paralympics again.

https://tinyurl.com/4h2jwapw

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (abIsI)

180 MS symptoms can vary widely and may include:
Numbness or tingling in the limbs
Muscle weakness
Difficulty with balance and coordination
Vision problems (e.g., blurred vision, double vision)
Fatigue
Cognitive difficulties (e.g., memory loss, difficulty concentrating)
Bladder and bowel problems

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (UjdFS)

181 It's probably no secret by now that I think Ferrari builds overpriced crap cars and treats their customers like shit. Yet still buyers line up. Never underestimate brand prestige or Veblen appeal when it comes to selling the highest-end luxury products.

The Heckler & Koch of the automotive world.
Posted by: You suck and we hate you at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM (TbWk/)
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I had to look that one up ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

182 162 So- MTG is becoming a penis sipper? First she’s against the strike on Iran and now she’s apparently for illegal immigrant healthcare and that Republicans are responsible for the shutdown. Got it, idiot. But she’s totes on your side.
Posted by: Vengeance

Her career is going nowhere. Ga GOP specifically told her to butt out of the Senate race and governor's race. Her attempt to climb the house ladder ended with Kevin McCarthy and she is on the outs with current speaker. And to get attention, she figured that riding the Epstein case might get her some which it hasn't.

If she continues, she may get primaried and removed if someone with enough pull in her district enters the race.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)

183 177 I learned very recently that the first feature film Francis Ford Coppola directed (and wrote!!) was Dementia 13 for producer Roger Corman.
Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (wtvvX)

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Scorsese's first professional feature film was Boxcar Bertha for Corman.

Jonathan Demme started with Corman. So did Ron Howard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

184 Predictive text addiction. Won't you help?

175 . The chick he cast to be his wife is decent eye candy when she's on at least.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

I first read that as "decent eye candy when on a leash".
Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (rj6Yv

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (YlWIZ)

185 Mostly
Stupid
News
Organization
[for]
Woketards

Posted by: one hour sober at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (Y1sOo)

186 Anchoring the superman franchixe to peacemaker is a mistake
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM

I wonder if John Cena is Jennifer Holland's bull.

Posted by: toby928 at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (jc0TO)

187 121 It's probably no secret by now that I think Ferrari builds overpriced crap cars and treats their customers like shit. ...

There may also be quick facelifts of the new Testarossa and 12Cilindri. The new TR has been universally hated for its exterior design, with the 12C not far behind. Ferrari does not like to be mocked.

crap car? clearly, the 12c is 10 better than a 2cv, the math says so!

Posted by: anachronda at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (v3pYe)

188 Gunn can write characters and action and he doesn't start shooting a movie until the script is done. That is sadly rare in the Superhero genre.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 16, 2025 01:44 PM (xcxpd)

He can write "quirky" characters. He didn't know how to write Superman until he figured out he could make him a self-insert because of Krypto, which he based on his own dog. Plus Superman gets "cancelled" online.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (3tZV2)

189 No Kings Day is Saturday, October 18th.
World Menopause Day is Saturday October 18th.

The Venn Diagram of the participants is a single circle.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (wtvvX)

190 McConnell fell again, there’s video. Pelosi tells reporter asking about J6 to shut up, then scolds her like a toddler.

Why don’t these people ever retire gracefully?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (Hkcdp)

191 So- MTG is becoming a penis sipper?

Wait, we're against chicks sipping penis now? Did garrett take over or something?

Posted by: Next the mandatory vajazzled Crocs at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (TbWk/)

192 Mitch is trying out for the Paralympics again.

https://tinyurl.com/4h2jwapw
Posted by: Maj. Healey
......

guy needs a wheelchair or at least a walker.
These fools refuse to retire.

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (UjdFS)

193 159 And James Gunn has proven himself to be a liar. That enjoys watching his wife get filmed making out with John Cena.
Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (3tZV2)

I’m surprised he hasn’t filmed himself making out with John Cena.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 16, 2025 01:50 PM (TBCjf)

194 184 Predictive text addiction. Won't you help?

175 . The chick he cast to be his wife is decent eye candy when she's on at least.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

I first read that as "decent eye candy when on a leash".

and smelling a glove?

Posted by: nigel tufner at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (v3pYe)

195 The Heckler & Koch of the automotive world.
Posted by: You suck and we hate you at October 16, 2025 01:39 PM

Speaking of which, rumour is that production of the 416 has ended.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (0sNs1)

196 That is probably why Paramount is eying Warner Bros--HBO Max is one of the few streaming services making money supposedly. And a streaming service requires a catalog of work as people tire of some tv shows/movies and switch to another service for variety. I think HBO Max is one of the few resisting that trend of flux.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 01:46 PM (WDjG6)

I don't know how much debt Skydance has taken on to buy all these companies but it's got to be sky high.

If Hollywood thought the past few years were rough wait until this massive conglomerate starts the layoffs and starts using more AI to pay off that debt load.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (6ydKt)

197 183 177 I learned very recently that the first feature film Francis Ford Coppola directed (and wrote!!) was Dementia 13 for producer Roger Corman.
Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (wtvvX)

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Scorsese's first professional feature film was Boxcar Bertha for Corman.

Jonathan Demme started with Corman. So did Ron Howard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

HOLY SHIT! Roger Corman basically was the grandfather of the movie business!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (wtvvX)

198 I thought the Superman trailer looked terrible.

Like there was a pee colored filter on the camera.

Everything was pee colored.

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:52 PM (aTgV0)

199 From Gateway Pundit. Haha!

"The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Maryland against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account during his 2018–2019 tenure.

The investigation centers on documents labeled Secret and Confidential related to weapons of mass destruction, as well as personal notes resembling a diary that may contain additional classified details.

Prosecutors argued that Bolton willfully removed, retained, or transmitted national defense information in violation of sections of the Espionage Act of 1917."

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 01:52 PM (Sco7b)

200
The movie side will have no debt. The TV side will have a lot of debt.

It's a solution.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

That's a common ploy used by companies that are spinning off less profitable businesses. In a manufacturing environment, that part of the company that was doing better will try to foist as much of the firm's environmental exposure (read: costs) onto the part that is getting turned out to pasture to pursue "new and exciting opportunities".

Some time later, the part left with the sacks of shit finds the courage to haul its former parent into court to seek redress for being left with said sacks of shit. Good times!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:52 PM (Tv15w)

201 Afternoon, everyone.

Posted by: NORM!! at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (LxER7)

202 197
HOLY SHIT! Roger Corman basically was the grandfather of the movie business!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (wtvvX)

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The only producer who should be respected more than Roger Corman is Irving Thalberg, the man who made MGM a force and created the star system.

Corman's practical film school was one of the most important things to happen to American cinema after the fall of the studio system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

203 Oh no. Who will think of the precious La-Tinks...

Anyway...

Posted by: XTC at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (6Uni8)

204 WB has a titanic amount of debt going back well past the AOL-Time-Warner merger. Their film/TV library is tremendous, but in this modern era, that means less and less to the tiktokers and gamers and streamers who couldn't give less of a damn about any film made pre-2010, let alone B&Ws from the 30s & 40s. WB could have Avatar-level hits every time at bat for the next decade and it still wouldn't close out all the debt.
Posted by: Mister Fabulist at October 16, 2025 01:40 PM (x8eGV)

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They're going through a divestiture that's going to split the business in two.

The movie side will have no debt. The TV side will have a lot of debt.

It's a solution.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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True, but the deal is much more complicated than that. I did some research and wrote a detailed comment on it a while back. The side with the debt gets substantial ownership in the side without the debt, it's all public so they have to find buyers (suckers?) to buy it, and the TV side despite some clunkers has some very valuable IP.

Will it work? Who knows? It will make banks rich.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

205 off topic, if only we went back to being respectable losers: michael steele from msnbc:

But Trump-era Republicans do not want to govern for the American people anymore. They want a king. The same party that once celebrated individual liberty and limited government now demands loyalty to a single leader, punishes dissent and attacks the free press. Which is why any unrest this weekend will be used to justify further erosion of our civil liberties. But the protesters gathering on Saturday know this. They are not radicals; nor are they a dangerous threat except to those who seek to strangle Freedom of Speech. They are citizens who refuse to accept authoritarianism as the new normal.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (CWTWj)

206 198 I thought the Superman trailer looked terrible.

Like there was a pee colored filter on the camera.

Everything was pee colored.
Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 01:52 PM (aTgV0)

Same cinematographer as The Flash. Which James Gunn declared was the best superhero movie he's ever seen.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 01:53 PM (3tZV2)

207 some more:

But the deeper question remains. Where are the other voices? As citizens are rising against a wannabe tyrant king, only one former president, Barack Obama, has spoken with clarity and courage about the danger of authoritarianism. He has warned about the “violence against truth,” condemned Trump’s abuses of power, and called out the moral decay that comes when institutions submit to fear.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (CWTWj)

208 I learned very recently that the first feature film Francis Ford Coppola directed (and wrote!!) was Dementia 13 for producer Roger Corman.
Posted by: The Outer Limits at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (wtvvX)

=======

Scorsese's first professional feature film was Boxcar Bertha for Corman.

Jonathan Demme started with Corman. So did Ron Howard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
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You're missing the biggest name of all: James Cameron.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

209 Find a way to kill the Big Pharma ads and watch the "news" industry wither and die.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 01:30 PM (A62KL)

Never going to happen. The huge amount of money spent to change the law that prevented those ads from playing on TV or radio (or advertised in newspapers) was astronomical. Congress will not be denied their grift. Both sides.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (5xuJ/)

210 Ripe for Willowing:

We just did a logic project with my two home schoolers. We watched BBC Frozen Earth II, S. 1, Ep. 5, "Frozen Lands," while we counted instances of instances of "climate, "change," "warm/cold," "carbon," and instances where you reacted "Aww," sad/ominous music was played, and/or an animal died (predators mainly).

Then, after counting all the instances of such, we reflected on the entirety of the message, animals are able to withstand extremes of the Arctic, seasons change and warm through Spring and Summer, BUT if we don't do something, climate change (yada yada) could be one challenge too many that will cause all these cuddly animals to die - typical Attenborough stuff - to demonstrate a common appeal to emotion.

The oldest is studying Logic, and the youngest is still eager to ape our opinions on things (which we also noted was similar unthinking behavior).

1/2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (i24o9)

211
...John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account...

"You've got Top Secret / Eyes Only mail!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Tv15w)

212 Point is that, yesterday, YD was ranting about having to teach obedience and respect for government indoctrination center groomers, and I made the point that one could still building independent, critically thinking kids, even if home school does not work for you. The potential for lessons are all around.

2/2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (i24o9)

213 Bolton used his AOL account???
Did he learn nothing from Sid Blumenthal’s hack?
It’s what triggered the Hillary email scandal.

Dang, the arrogance!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Hkcdp)

214
I don't know why they would even want the debt-plagued WBD

Depends on what old films/TV shows they have in their libraries. Some of that stuff is going to be lucrative, if handled correctly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 16, 2025 01:55 PM (y9nCu)

215 WB is still eating shit through its video game division, too, I think.

They've been trying to see it off for years.

Posted by: XTC at October 16, 2025 01:55 PM (6Uni8)

216 Rumors are that the 'Stach's arraignment is imminent.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 01:55 PM (0sNs1)

217 I thought I read that Leto had a reputation for underage women, and has a number of accusations from various unrelated sources dogging him.

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2025 01:55 PM (dIske)

218 From Gateway Pundit. Haha!

"The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Maryland against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account during his 2018–2019 tenure.

The investigation centers on documents labeled Secret and Confidential related to weapons of mass destruction, as well as personal notes resembling a diary that may contain additional classified details.

Prosecutors argued that Bolton willfully removed, retained, or transmitted national defense information in violation of sections of the Espionage Act of 1917."

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 16, 2025 01:52 PM (Sco7b)

He should be indicted for using AOL past 1998.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:55 PM (i24o9)

219 208 You're missing the biggest name of all: James Cameron.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, to be pedantic, Cameron never rose above a tech under Corman. But yes, his first movie jobs were under Corman.

He does tell a funny story from Battle Beyond the Stars where he learned that if he pulled workers off of uncompleted sets, Corman would love it, but if Corman found the sets being worked on, he'd hate it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

220 lol... what exactly does "resembling a diary" mean?

"Dear Notes that Totally Aren't A Diary,

Today I got a call from that cute Chinese spy. I got nervous and let it go to voicemail. I hope that didn't make him mad. I might shave my mustache. I emailed him some nerdy army missile junk to say Sorry. Also I like ponies."

da fuq.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 01:56 PM (JwNbV)

221 and smelling a glove?
Posted by: nigel tufner at October 16, 2025 01:51 PM (v3pYe

My Dennis Miller detector just lit up

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 16, 2025 01:57 PM (YlWIZ)

222 ...John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account...

"You've got Top Secret / Eyes Only mail!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Tv15w)

The wife's and my first movie date, 27 years ago.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:57 PM (i24o9)

223 Orson - Yes, yes he does.
Leto has been rumored to doing creepy stuff at his home built over a former underground military site (iirc) . Allegedly 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2025 01:58 PM (Hkcdp)

224 Russ Meyer produced 29 of his 25 cinematic masterpieces.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 01:58 PM (0sNs1)

225 da fuq.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 01:56 PM (JwNbV)

LMAO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 01:58 PM (i24o9)

226 The media 'correcting' after the USAID money tap getting welded shut.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at October 16, 2025 01:59 PM (XjTSo)

227 Same cinematographer as The Flash. Which James Gunn declared was the best superhero movie he's ever seen.

Oh, so he's the one who saw it? I figured somebody had to have.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2025 01:59 PM (3nLb4)

228 Sorry, 35 cinematic masterpieces.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (0sNs1)

229
off topic, if only we went back to being respectable losers: michael steele from msnbc:

How's that old Donk mole doing?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (y9nCu)

230 The media 'correcting' after the USAID money tap getting welded shut.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at October 16, 2025 01:59 PM (XjTSo)

Pharma shrinkage after COVID money spigot is closed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (i24o9)

231 You're missing the biggest name of all: James Cameron.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Well, to be pedantic, Cameron never rose above a tech under Corman. But yes, his first movie jobs were under Corman.

He does tell a funny story from Battle Beyond the Stars where he learned that if he pulled workers off of uncompleted sets, Corman would love it, but if Corman found the sets being worked on, he'd hate it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)
_______

JC was basically the effects superviser -- and did most of the work himself -- on BBtS and GoT. JC was second unit director for GoT.

JC basically ripped off that "stalking" scene in GoT for the very similar scene in Aliens.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

232 Mitch is trying out for the Paralympics again.

https://tinyurl.com/4h2jwapw

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2025 01:48 PM (abIsI)

Remember when we laughed about all the old men running the USSR?

Good times. Good times...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (A62KL)

233 Canada Goose?

Nah. Sky Carp

Posted by: Common Tater at October 16, 2025 02:00 PM (WmF8p)

234 Saw on X just now that the Feds found proof Kinzinger was doing illegal shit to frame J6ers. That oughta be good.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)

235 Gunn can write characters and action and he doesn't start shooting a movie until the script is done. That is sadly rare in the Superhero genre.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Ironic, when you consider the 70+ years of published superhero stories of characters still popular today.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (JCZqz)

236 The Heckler & Koch of the automotive world.
Posted by: You suck
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Oh ?

Posted by: 100's of thousands of MP5's at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

237 234 Saw on X just now that the Feds found proof Kinzinger was doing illegal shit to frame J6ers. That oughta be good.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)
========

"Using lawfare to go after law breakers of the opposition party is uncouth!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

238 I like that the Arc de Trump plan enrages the Left. But I don't think we should build a triumphal arch until America proves it can, ya know, win a war. Which I'm not interested in proving any time soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (BI5O2)

239 I think the future is probably streaming as theaters one by one go out of business. That means narrowcasting 'movies' will continue if streaming is the primary audience.
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You may be entirely correct.

But that kind of future makes me a little sad. I don't go to more than one or two movies a year these days, but there's just nothing like watching a well-made film on a 25 foot or larger screen. And I'll always remember the 80s and 90s when going to one or two movies a month was just part of American life. A future without movie theaters is a downer.

Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (TN0g+)

240 I don't know how much debt Skydance has taken on to buy all these companies but it's got to be sky high.

If Hollywood thought the past few years were rough wait until this massive conglomerate starts the layoffs and starts using more AI to pay off that debt load.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Daddy Ellison (Oracle and other tech money) is worth about as much as Musk. More on some market days. Son wants to run a media conglomerate using Daddy's money as leverage and so far has.

I think any investment in infotainment now is risky for what returns one might get in the future.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (WDjG6)

241 Saw on X just now that the Feds found proof Kinzinger was doing illegal shit to frame J6ers. That oughta be good.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)

If true, that is likely beyond any protection provided by Congressional speech and debate privilege.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (i24o9)

242 239 I think the future is probably streaming as theaters one by one go out of business. That means narrowcasting 'movies' will continue if streaming is the primary audience.
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You may be entirely correct.

But that kind of future makes me a little sad. I don't go to more than one or two movies a year these days, but there's just nothing like watching a well-made film on a 25 foot or larger screen. And I'll always remember the 80s and 90s when going to one or two movies a month was just part of American life. A future without movie theaters is a downer.
Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (TN0g+)

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This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

243 But that kind of future makes me a little sad. I don't go to more than one or two movies a year these days, but there's just nothing like watching a well-made film on a 25 foot or larger screen. And I'll always remember the 80s and 90s when going to one or two movies a month was just part of American life. A future without movie theaters is a downer.
Posted by: Crusader
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I think there will always be a couple of movie theaters around but like bowling allies, etc. much diminished in scale.

You might actually see a pickup in amateur theater too.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

244 This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.
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Ker Chunk. You can't get that live.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (AdHga)

245 The Capitol, both House and Senate, are just a glorified nursing home. Smells like urine and Ben-Gay. Too addled and infirm to be trusted. If you hear someone screaming in there, it's just the staffers trying to give the legislators their weekly bath against their will.

Posted by: A Place For Mom at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (oftw2)

246 244 This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.
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Ker Chunk. You can't get that live.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (AdHga)

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Or that people won't go to sports games because they can watch them on TV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

247 This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM

Given the difficulty in sourcing 8-track tapes these days, it seems that predicting musical groups will tour is the way to go.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)

248 Oh, Quislinger doesn't have Democrat Immunity. If they can throw that little bastard in the slammer, I'll laugh my butt off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (BI5O2)

249 You might actually see a pickup in amateur theater too.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

I just edited my first video with wipes and fades. Look for my small screen release in 2026.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (i24o9)

250 241 Saw on X just now that the Feds found proof Kinzinger was doing illegal shit to frame J6ers. That oughta be good.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)

Didn't Biden pardon him and rest of the J6 "committee"?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (VE6XX)

251 Or that people won't go to sports games because they can watch them on TV.
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This is why they have lime green dildos to throw.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:06 PM (AdHga)

252 Didn't Biden pardon him and rest of the J6 "committee"?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (VE6XX)

That was Otto Pen.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:06 PM (i24o9)

253
I think any investment in infotainment now is risky for what returns one might get in the future.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (WDjG6)

Especially when YouTube is now kicking broadcast/cable ass in ratings and ad revenue.

They've got to be seeing the writing on the wall but they'll keep soldiering on until the last Boomer dies and their audience with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 02:06 PM (6ydKt)

254 238 I like that the Arc de Trump plan enrages the Left. But I don't think we should build a triumphal arch until America proves it can, ya know, win a war. Which I'm not interested in proving any time soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (BI5O2)

If we win the War on Woke? HELL YES.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 02:06 PM (wtvvX)

255 I'd be fine with a future with no movies at all. They're all terrible.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:07 PM (BI5O2)

256
So the layoffs from NBC and CBS...

This will include the lower-level assistant producers, editors, promo producers, those kinds of people?

Where will they go? Scott Adams suggests they'll join staffs of podcasts as podcasts get more sophisticated. I agree. That and the explosion of laptop-produced movies that's about to happen thanks to AI.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 02:07 PM (ldc7S)

257 I like that the Arc de Trump plan enrages the Left. But I don't think we should build a triumphal arch until America proves it can, ya know, win a war. Which I'm not interested in proving any time soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:02 PM (BI5O2)

If we win the War on Woke? HELL YES.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 16, 2025 02:06 PM (wtvvX)

Hear me out. Giant Emperor Trump statue. Surrounded by trap doors.

It'll work better than scoops.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (i24o9)

258 ...John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account...

"You've got Top Secret / Eyes Only mail!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 16, 2025 01:54 PM (Tv15w)

Bolt was "allegedly" sending restricted-access docs to the broad plains of the Internetz, but not of his own volition. He was compelled to "allegedly" disburse those naughties by the power of His Mustache.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

259 255 I'd be fine with a future with no movies at all. They're all terrible.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:07 PM (BI5O2)

All the recent ones are and I mean anything after 1970

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (VE6XX)

260 I think the movies in the Alien franchise are ripe for rebooting, especially if they do them in the order they should be viewed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

261 This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.
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Ker Chunk. You can't get that live.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (AdHga)

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Or that people won't go to sports games because they can watch them on TV.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, in both your examples, the "live" version is a different experience and even a different product.

Seeing a band live isn't the same as listening to their records. But watching a movie in a theater is literally the exact same thing you'll see on streaming or disc. The experience is not the exactly the same, but it's close.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

262 Can we make France pay for it?

....

How about Quebec?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (JwNbV)

263 I think the movies in the Alien franchise are ripe for rebooting, especially if they do them in the order they should be viewed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

Awful idea, and I am exercising extreme restraint in my criticism here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (i24o9)

264 We are poised for a huge comeback and have secured funding to restart with a BANG!!

Posted by: Panteges Vaudeville, Inc. at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (oftw2)

265 .John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account...

Someone Johnny Boy is worst at this stuff then Hillary.

Anyway... "LOCK HIM UP"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

266 What are the odds that One Battle After Another kills Leonardo DiCaprio's film career? Not to mention working with Sean Penn.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (AdHga)

267
I think the movies in the Alien franchise are ripe for rebooting, especially if they do them in the order they should be viewed.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

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NOOOoooo000ooOO!!!

The only thing that needs changing is that silly DOS computer that says things like "Does not compute" and "Unknown."

Alien franchise should have stopped at Alien II, by the way. After that it was stretching the content thin and trying to top itself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (ldc7S)

268 261 Well, in both your examples, the "live" version is a different experience and even a different product.

Seeing a band live isn't the same as listening to their records. But watching a movie in a theater is literally the exact same thing you'll see on streaming or disc. The experience is not the exactly the same, but it's close.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Seeing a movie with a crowd is a different experience from seeing it alone, and people keep going to event films in large numbers for that experience.

People like communal experiences. Movies can be one. The movie theater will diminish over time, but it won't go away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

269 they'll build in a credit card system in your yuge flat screen tv so you can watch a movie at home and eat popcorn you made in your kitchen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2025 02:10 PM (CWTWj)

270 I just don't know why you'd want another movie studio when you already own two (Paramount and Skydance). Warner Bros. is on a winning streak this year with a bunch of hits, but so what? The movie business is entirely hit-and-miss and cyclical.

I think they're still looking at streaming.

They're looking at a future with 1-3 major entertainment channels.

Soooo-

Netflix (maybe)
Disney (probably)
Movie Studio-CinemaGodzilla (yeah, probably)

If you watch streaming at all, you'll notice not very much new but lots of old popular movies filling up the channel along with mostly their older streaming crap.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (iJfKG)

271 Hear me out. Giant Emperor Trump statue. Surrounded by trap doors.

It'll work better than scoops.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (i24o9)

I'm sure we can scrounge up enough dough for a couple dozen car batteries.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (JwNbV)

272 The experience is not the exactly the same, but it's close.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 02:09 PM

There's just something you can get in a theatre that you don't get at home.

Posted by: Pee Wee Herman at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (0sNs1)

273 Alien was a good horror movie

Aliens was a good action movie

And every other Alien movie was somewhere between bad and arguably the worst movie ever made.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

274 Live sports is the biggest moneymaker broadcast/cable has and now that streaming is getting into that game as well, they're really are going to be scrambling to figure out how to make a profit.

Disney my have to start a porn channel just to get any eyeballs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (6ydKt)

275 This is like predicting musical groups won't tour anymore because people can buy the music on an 8-track tape.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Rick Beato has already shown that there are no new bands rising up on the charts--basically as too costly for producers and record companies compared with promoting solo artists that have a large number of followers already.

Recording deals have declined to the point that legacy bands rely on touring for their bucks, not recordings and in many cases have already sold off their rights to private equity to exploit. Bowie, Springsteen, Pete Townshend/Who, Michael Jackson, the Beatles music publishing are all owned by large equity firms now.

If you take a look at the current spotify top acts, most of that publishing revenue goes to a producer/writing team and not the artist who gets the performing revenue. During streaming, the low royalty rates paid by streaming have essentially reduced performance royalties to a fraction of what they used to generate. Radio, which pays better, and record sales, ditto, are dwindling except for nostalgia acts and the very top artists like Tay Tay.

So to earn a living, they must tour even oldsters.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

276 They could have gone to the alien homeworld but covenant ruined that

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (bXbFr)

277 Well, in both your examples, the "live" version is a different experience and even a different product.

Seeing a band live isn't the same as listening to their records. But watching a movie in a theater is literally the exact same thing you'll see on streaming or disc. The experience is not the exactly the same, but it's close.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

Perhaps better a example is Youtube killing music videos on TV.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 02:12 PM (3tZV2)

278 I think the movies in the Alien franchise are ripe for rebooting, especially if they do them in the order they should be viewed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

Give it a few more years, until after Hollywood loses its mania for trannies and girlbosses.

Of course, in 2030 Ripley will probably be a loud and proud furry.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 16, 2025 02:12 PM (A62KL)

279 Disney my have to start a porn channel just to get any eyeballs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Well considering what happens to Disney Channel princesses when they leave, they are already well along with grooming new 'talent' for a pron channel.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:12 PM (WDjG6)

280 Live sports is the biggest moneymaker broadcast/cable has and now that streaming is getting into that game as well, they're really are going to be scrambling to figure out how to make a profit.

Live sports...like watching someone else play a sports video game...well wondering if they were bribed to lose or not...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2025 02:13 PM (sKqQm)

281 Corman got a lot of acting work after his students became directors . The senator are in the Godfather , a politician in Apollo 13 and many ithers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 02:13 PM (yUhFq)

282 If you watch streaming at all, you'll notice not very much new but lots of old popular movies filling up the channel along with mostly their older streaming crap.
Posted by: naturalfake
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A fair take.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)

283 But of course they'll continue making horrid dreck movies and shows forever. There really is some kind of amazing psychological grip motion pictures have - no matter how low the quality drops, people will always want to watch them. It's like some kind of hypnotic spell. Which means we'll eventually have that "ASS" movie from Idiocracy. It's not even so far from Chuck Lorre's body of "work."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2025 02:13 PM (BI5O2)

284 Disney my have to start a porn channel just to get any eyeballs.

100% chance one or more Disney producers already have some XXX rated movies they made with their talent...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2025 02:13 PM (sKqQm)

285 274 Live sports is the biggest moneymaker broadcast/cable has and now that streaming is getting into that game as well, they're really are going to be scrambling to figure out how to make a profit.
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Should model ESPN Ocho: Cornhole, whiffle ball, pickel ball. Riveting stuff.

Posted by: WisRich at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (G0vdT)

286 Oh look, another clown judge, another red-ass ruling.

This time, ordering FEMA to pay NYC "anti-terrorism" grant money.

Donkey says that withholding the funds is arbitrary and capricious.

So?

The law says, and the Supreme Court has affirmed, the lawsuit must be brought in Claims Court.

Donkey can't read?

"But muh feelz!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (75GUL)

287 But that kind of future makes me a little sad. I don't go to more than one or two movies a year these days, but there's just nothing like watching a well-made film on a 25 foot or larger screen. And I'll always remember the 80s and 90s when going to one or two movies a month was just part of American life. A future without movie theaters is a downer.
Posted by: Crusader at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (TN0g+)

One of our Multiplexes in the next town has two theaters with 60 foot screens, stadium seating and 48 channel Dolby Atmos sound. The only way to watch a movie. Saw Top Gun Maverick there as well. Fantastic.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (5xuJ/)

288 There's just something you can get in a theatre that you don't get at home.
Posted by: Pee Wee Herman

You're the reason I don't go to movies and hardly go out in public. If anyone is going to be wanking while watching a flick, it's me, myself, at home.

Posted by: Pee-Wee's Popcorn Box at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (oftw2)

289 MSNBTHEN

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (XZ9Wx)

290 Should model ESPN Ocho: Cornhole, whiffle ball, pickel ball. Riveting stuff.

I ran across clips from the World Championship of Pillow Fighting recently.

So...anything can get made nowadays

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2025 02:14 PM (sKqQm)

291 Saw on X just now that the Feds found proof Kinzinger was doing illegal shit to frame J6ers. That oughta be good.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 16, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)

If true, that is likely beyond any protection provided by Congressional speech and debate privilege.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:03 PM (i24o9)
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Wasn’t he given a pardon by Biden?

Posted by: redridinghood at October 16, 2025 02:15 PM (NpAcC)

292 [Babylon Bee Headline:]

"Clarence Thomas Gently Explains To KBJ That Not All Black People Are Mentally Disabled, Just Her"

Posted by: ShainS -- Muslim Commie Mandami is a Qatari Manchurian Candidate at October 16, 2025 02:16 PM (Js6QB)

293 Wasn’t he given a pardon by Biden?
Posted by: redridinghood at October 16, 2025 02:15 PM (NpAcC)

I think so

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2025 02:16 PM (VE6XX)

294 The fbi director in silence of the lambs

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 16, 2025 02:16 PM (bXbFr)

295 "I ran across clips from the World Championship of Pillow Fighting recently."

0_o

I don't think even Andy Warhol saw that one coming.

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 02:16 PM (aTgV0)

296 I just edited my first video with wipes and fades. Look for my small screen release in 2026.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Good on ya. I did a video project on con law back nearly a decade ago producing educational video shorts for teacher and student education for a contract.

The software has gotten a lot better nowadays.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

297 I ran across clips from the World Championship of Pillow Fighting recently."

0_o

I don't think even Andy Warhol saw that one coming.

Posted by: eleven at October 16, 2025 02:16 PM (aTgV0)

Nor the ONT's presentation of the Excel World Championships.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:17 PM (i24o9)

298 "I ran across clips from the World Championship of Pillow Fighting recently."

Are we talking sorority girls in nighties? If so, you know the rules here.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 16, 2025 02:18 PM (LxER7)

299 The software has gotten a lot better nowadays.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

KDEnlive is pretty slick. Mind you, I am just starting to scratch the surface here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:18 PM (i24o9)

300 So to earn a living, they must tour even oldsters.
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This was always true. The inversion was the 60s when a band with a big album became millionaires on record sales. The old model is back - you record a hit to sell tickets to perform.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2025 02:18 PM (AdHga)

301 This and similar stories make you wonder how much financial hemorrhaging was going on in order to indulge and pander to what statistically was and is a very low percentage of the population. All for the sake of appeasing noisy AWFLs.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 16, 2025 02:18 PM (CwhoI)

302 Kinzinger was pardoned by Mush brain. It would be great to see his pardon used as a test case . The Dems would have to waste money on behalf of a Republican

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 02:19 PM (yUhFq)

303 Hear me out. Giant Emperor Trump statue. Surrounded by trap doors.

It'll work better than scoops.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2025 02:08 PM (i24o9)

I'm sure we can scrounge up enough dough for a couple dozen car batteries.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 16, 2025 02:11 PM (JwNbV)
>>

Here's the prototype, scaled-up and I mean really "up".
(2019)

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/3d83pp3u

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2025 02:19 PM (rj6Yv)

304 This was always true. The inversion was the 60s when a band with a big album became millionaires on record sales. The old model is back - you record a hit to sell tickets to perform.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yep.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:19 PM (WDjG6)

305
The AI Elvis shorts on YouTube are astounding.

Hollywood will be completely broke in a couple years

Posted by: Auspex at October 16, 2025 02:19 PM (Y8DZL)

306
All for the sake of appeasing noisy AWFLs.
Posted by: Citizen Cake

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I thought it was boomers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 02:20 PM (ldc7S)

307 Best thing I ever did for myself was squeeze a really nice theater into a modest space. Watch a movie in 4k on a screen that fills a wall in the comfort of your home curled up with the lass and you will never want to set foot in a dumb sticky theater again.

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2025 02:20 PM (XZ9Wx)

308 I thought it was boomers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 02:20 PM (ldc7S)

Slowly, I turned..........

Posted by: Boomers at October 16, 2025 02:21 PM (XZ9Wx)

309 Nood Rubio

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2025 02:22 PM (yUhFq)

310 Gunn insists it cost less than $200 million. He could be lying, but if it did cost less than $200 million, it probably made a profit, especially when you add in ancillaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Marketing on big releases is typically 1.5 to 2 x the initial budget. So, no, it could not have made money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)

311 310 Marketing on big releases is typically 1.5 to 2 x the initial budget. So, no, it could not have made money.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 02:22 PM (mlg/3)

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The matched marketing cost, assuming $200 million, would put it right about at break even with the $600 million box office.

The split is usually 60-40 from studio to theaters on box office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

312 All I can say is, "GOOD." It is good. It is all very good to disembowel the media any way possible.

I think the last movie I saw in a theater was "The Passion of Christ." I could not deal with anyone yapping on a phone or being weird. We pick and choose what we like at home.

We went to our first concert in two decades this summer: Alison Krauss and Union Station in a botanical garden, under the stars. It couldn't have been more perfect. 3K people there, mostly around our age, mostly white (not that I care, but I did notice), as bluegrass is not on many Lantix! or black's choice. Polite and respectful crowd.

However, and we were all in camp chairs we dragged in for a picnic, there was one sow cow who just had to stand up and "dance." She looked the fool as I know how to dance. She did not impede my vision from her VIP roped off section, but the girl's diagonally behind me. As I am always willing to fight for others if I like them, I asked a volunteer if they could as fatty to sit down. They could not. Some of us yelled at her to sit down, which aroused her passive agressive self to stand til she got tired. The offended girl did move a bit and life went on, no problem.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 16, 2025 02:24 PM (6PCLE)

313 KDEnlive is pretty slick. Mind you, I am just starting to scratch the surface here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Open Shot is the old standard of free video editing on windows and linux. That has improved quite a bit. Right now though, Power Director is probably the cat's meow if you really want all the bells and whistles but expensive now as a subscription service. Includes all sorts of royalty free music and visual add ins. Plus the latest and best video compression algorithms.

Older video software I used was Camtasia (decent but limited) and Premiere. Premiere got silly expensive as most Adobe products have become and as I said, Camtasia is old school but even there has become a subscription service.

None of these are professional grade but equal to what you would have found for much more back before 2010 or so.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

314
People like communal experiences. Movies can be one. The movie theater will diminish over time, but it won't go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Exciting new movies in gigantic, beautiful theaters right down the street from Hollywood was so damn fun back in the day I can't even tell you. Premieres were huge. People brought sleeping bags to Westwood and spent the night on the sidewalk and then sat in line all day to be first in. (That's how safe Westwood was back then.) You would see directors, movie stars, anyone else you might recognize in the crowd. The audiences were half-rowdy -- you could feel all the emotions a movie was evoking. Maybe someone can bring that experience back. Maybe it will be live theater instead, which is doubly intense.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 16, 2025 02:25 PM (ldc7S)

315 michael steele from msnbc:

All I read was "Whiny loser complains about his anticipation of the shoe pinching when it's on the other foot"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2025 02:26 PM (a+4eV)

316 The split is usually 60-40 from studio to theaters on box office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That used to be the case for the 1st 2weeks of release, then it went to theaters' benefit. But, now with streaming the whole ratio is a mess. “Nobody knows anything.” - William Goldman

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 02:27 PM (mlg/3)

317 307 Best thing I ever did for myself was squeeze a really nice theater into a modest space. Watch a movie in 4k on a screen that fills a wall in the comfort of your home curled up with the lass and you will never want to set foot in a dumb sticky theater again.
Posted by: ...

But the popcorn. That microwave crap just doesn't cut it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 16, 2025 02:27 PM (0Htd1)

318 Also, China does not 'do' that ratio. Ever. You have to hork up like 25% just to put it in Chinese theaters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)

319 Also, I like horror movies. They're enjoyed best in the company of a roomful of strangers all getting scared at the same time.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 16, 2025 02:28 PM (0Htd1)

320 316 The split is usually 60-40 from studio to theaters on box office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That used to be the case for the 1st 2weeks of release, then it went to theaters' benefit. But, now with streaming the whole ratio is a mess. “Nobody knows anything.” - William Goldman
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2025 02:27 PM (mlg/3)

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Early weeks are much more beneficial to the studios, sometimes as much as 90% of ticket sales.

The 60-40 is average over the life of a theatrical run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

321 Watching the left get torn out by roots and all is amusing and I am here to be grateful for it.

So sick of the . 01%of deranged lunatics control of things the past 15 years. Good riddance to bad rubbish

Let this be a lesson America
Stop chopping your tits and dicks off because social media said it was a good idea.

Holy shit we may finally be waking up

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 16, 2025 02:32 PM (61TgR)

322 Early weeks are much more beneficial to the studios, sometimes as much as 90% of ticket sales.

The 60-40 is average over the life of a theatrical run.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 16, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

Probably closer to 50-50 now though due to the reliance on overseas markets, where the split is much less favorable to the studio. Like China's box office, Hollywood only gets something like 25% of the box office. That's probably the worst split but other countries aren't a great deal better.

Posted by: buzzion at October 16, 2025 02:35 PM (3tZV2)

323 Older video software I used was Camtasia (decent but limited) and Premiere. Premiere got silly expensive as most Adobe products have become and as I said, Camtasia is old school but even there has become a subscription service.

None of these are professional grade but equal to what you would have found for much more back before 2010 or so.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2025 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

DaVinci Resolve is supposed to be pretty good, too.
I haven't tried it myself.

It's also a free version.
You can upgrade later and pay for DaVinci Studio which adds more features.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 16, 2025 02:39 PM (6ydKt)

324 I guess CNN All Access is totally different then CNN+.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at October 16, 2025 04:22 PM (XrFOd)

325 NBC suffers the Backlash the Peacocks going home for the Day

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 16, 2025 05:27 PM (wGqjj)

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