In the works . (again) Wonder if watching this will make you just as angry as playing it? :lol: Some people play chess, some people play Monopoly. 8) One involves abstract strategy, the other involves real-time financial survival, and profiting off other players' greed. Anyway, "Again" is the keywo...

But...they've already introduced the Multiverse in time for Dr. Strange 2, what other reason do they have for keeping the series going after it got ratings?

As for cutting movies in two, The Three/Four Musketeers and Superman did it first as pre-planned, pre-shot sequels in the 1970s, Back To The Future Parts II and III in the 80s. Tis not a new thing. No, but other producers besides the Salkinds doing it does seem to be rather exclusive to the 80s on ...

\And you’re behaving as though Across the Spider-Verse is being viewed as some kind of failure. It isn’t. At all. Doing your post in rhyme doesn’t change that. (beats Dacey over the head with a heavy wooden lesbian owl): NO! NO, NO, NO!! NO!!! :evil: Let's try it ONE...LAST...TIME. Slowly, and care...

Okay. For ultimate clarity, we'll try the Random House "I Can Read" version, by Dr. Seuss: To release a sequel an audience would like, One must remember to beware of a strike. Because sequels have put studios in a bit of a stew. Instead of just one, they now want to make two. You can't make just one...

Not sure about DVD sales in Japan, but when VHS arrived there, the industry was so corporatized that VHS was ONLY available as rental, and sell-through Disney or Ghibli for the home didn't even exist until the studios teamed up in '99. Because of that, Laserdisc was widely available for home sale, a...

Yes, and such a big hit that they made Across a huge, complex two-part story, with Beyond the Spiderverse wrapping up the saga in late 2023......er, okay, maybe '24. Spring '25 at the earliest. Just be glad it's not Deathly Hallows. :P (Please read more carefully before knee-jerking, Lumina, or at l...

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July 29th, 2023, 3:44 am

Absolutely no surprise Spideyverse 3 got pushed back…it hasn’t even finished being written (as a final script), let alone voice recorded.

Another lesson about trying to serialize hit franchise movies so that you "know what you'll be releasing next year".

I didn't say they WEREN'T, I said that historically any attempt to extrapolate sweeping North American home theater data from that is naive at best, and desperate at worst.

Paprika wasn’t nominated either. :wink: But Persepolis was. And so were - Triplets of Belleville - Howl's Moving Castle - The Illusionist - A Cat in Paris - My Life as a Zucchini - Mirai (You'll notice most nominated foreign animation tends to be French and Japanese. At least, I hope you'll notice....

I know Australia has a healthy interest in home theater, but I've lived through twenty years of panic articles trying to push the US narrative of (...) Format "dying", and trumpeting headlines of "Beginning of the End? - Frozen not to get Blu3D release in UK!" And then we would have to explain to al...

Is John Musker still there, or did he leave earlier?
Either way, we lost two of the last non-Pixar directors with a handle on story (even though it started to decline with Frog and Moana).

With any luck, that means ALF:TAS and ALFTales will now belong to the Shout Family, which means they'll be on permanent rotation at TubiTV and other streamers. Think they're there already, but never hurts to make sure. And again, it's better to have discs than trust streaming. (And yes, darnit, Rhon...

And the Shout Factory original-series Complete boxset has been announced for 10/17 - BUT - the two animated series (for now) only come with the Complete box of the LA series and follow-up TV-movie reboot. :( https://shoutfactory.com/collections/boxed-sets/products/alf-the-complete-series-deluxe-edit...

Or that Gremlins 2 already did the same gag, for the same Ted Turner reasons.