Recent content by Wombat

Keep in mind parent company Disney still owns Industrial Light & Magic, this was a separate group fired up to bolster Marvel's FX resources as the number of Marvel projects increased - and theatrical releases were still farmed out between a ton of effects houses. This doesn't particularly...

One of the weirdest bits of Justin Roiland's videogame High on Life was in it a theater shows the entirety of the movie Demon Wind with the guys commenting over it. When High on Life 2 came out, I didn't hear anything about the guys being in it, and figured they weren't in it due to the Roiland...

Historically, that's how network TV worked - at most you had one big name with a bunch of nobodies, because a lot of shows failed even with limited cast costs. Everyone but the star would be paid peanuts, at least until season 3 started, at which point season 4 was all but guaranteed, even if...

Historically, TV actors would push for (or even have negotiated) pay bumps 3/4 seasons in, as back in the syndication days, a show surviving that long would be in the black up to that point once those syndication deals were included. So networks (or streamers) have every incentive to film ~15...

It doesn't come out in the US until May 22nd. The usual box office projection model is based on people buying their tickets early, with some wiggle room based on genre (big action movies tend to have bigger presales than art house equivalents, because only one of those could potentially sell...

Rich is bringing his A-game to the a-lister on this one. Jack: "So if you had to put a genre to this, what..." Rich: "Oh, fuck you."

I guess I didn't post a review - as someone very familiar with the book, I liked it but didn't love it. 8/10 Now, as a techie, it's not too surprising I would prefer the more hard science of The Martian over this. And much like The Martian, it is clear that more of the book was filmed but cut...

The situation is a lot messier than that blurb - Long story short, "the NFL" is (legally) 32 distinct businesses that can (legally) collude in some ways, as in they can set universal salary caps, floors, etc., _only_ because they have an agreement between the teams and the NFLPA. Similarly...

There are a ton of issues with Voyager - it was really tough to recommend compared to a DS9 or Babylon 5 that were airing at the same time; most of the characters are wet blankets (the most interesting being The Doctor doing a Diet Data); the episodic (compared to serialized) nature meant that...

We already (briefly) argued financials ~ a month ago, but I still think Supergirl will do better than people think because of one reason - scheduling. There's 5 weeks between Supergirl and Mandalorian (not that I think that's going to be a breakout hit either) - by that point anyone who wanted...

The Woman of Tomorrow comic has been out for years, and it was clear from the teaser that this was a straightforward adaptation (cut out some of the weird planets in the middle for runtime and add Lobo). You can argue that marketing spoiled the movie again, but I am unconvinced anyone that...

"Thanksgiving Eve" That's just Wednesday. Sun to Wed is way too quick a turn around. Again, not to sound like a broken record, but add another bye week to the schedule, and just have the Thursday (or now Wednesday) edit: or international teams have a bye beforehand. Problem solved.

Since 2014, the NFL has had their centralized ref headquarters in NY that (theoretically) reviews all ref decisions, and since 2022 said headquarters communicates directly to the game refs through their headsets when needed. Not sure how this proposal changes anything from that 2022+ situation.

It was pretty well covered that D+ S1 was an abysmal showrunner-less mess made by Disney personnel until they halted production, brought in some Netflix veterans, and spliced in some new material to the existing episodes - and the only part of S1 anyone actually liked was the new material...

That's even weirder to me, as that hasn't been seeing updates recently (as in even the map has stayed the same, I think) - them killing it is (presumably) just to reduce server costs. Dark times when Fortnite is having problems paying the bills, even before the component-pocalypse screws up new...