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Since we have a thread discussing the video game industry, I thought it would be appropriate to have a thread discussing the practices and going ons of the film and tv industries. Especially in light of recent news surrounding the sets of Batwoman and Rust.

This will not be about films and tv shows but rather about the practices and behind-the-scenes news affecting the industries.

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#3376: Feb 16th 2025 at 4:07:02 PM

Hollywood has a long story of having its head up its own ass, anyway.

Wake me up at your own risk.
Shaoken (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#3377: Feb 16th 2025 at 8:51:24 PM

A reminder that the failure of the Catwoman film convinced Hollywood executives that women and black people who weren't Will Smith or Denzil Washington couldn't sell action or comic book movies. You can always count on Hollywood execs to be incredibly out of touch.

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#3378: Feb 16th 2025 at 9:09:19 PM

Or using it to justify prejudices—execs are predominantly older, wealthy white guys who have a vested interest in things staying as they are.

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#3379: Feb 17th 2025 at 5:03:48 AM

A lot of it is "according to our hand picked focus groups we're right!" basically

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#3380: Feb 19th 2025 at 6:33:16 PM

News from Hollywood Reporter: a lawsuit is moving forward regarding Disney apparently hiding the costs for Disney+ from investors.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-streaming-court-battle-1236141437/

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Matchingbone from Somewhere between here and way over there. Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#3381: Feb 19th 2025 at 7:00:41 PM

From reading, this is unfortunately a Bob Chapek lawsuit that will go forward. Still a problem for Disney but I don't believe they will be hurt too much from this.

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#3382: Feb 20th 2025 at 6:41:06 AM

Variety says Amazon is taking creative control of the Bond franchise from its producers. https://variety.com/2025/film/global/james-bond-amazon-mgm-gain-creative-control-1236313930/

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#3383: Feb 20th 2025 at 8:14:48 AM

They're bound to make the exact same decisions MGM did, this seems like a waste of time.

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#3384: Feb 20th 2025 at 7:37:11 PM

Probably the same level of consistency under them like MGM but I noticed lacking enthusiasm to James Bond nowadays. Guess John Wick and Kingsmen took the spotlight from an aging franchise

Edited by M1gamiTensei on Feb 20th 2025 at 7:39:30 AM

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#3385: Feb 20th 2025 at 10:20:40 PM

[up] Also Mission Impossible, though Final Reckoning might be some sort of grand finale (or at least Cruise's retirement or something)

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#3386: Feb 21st 2025 at 12:23:53 AM

I feel like Mission Impossible is reaching that level of lacking excitement. Even discounting the last movie not doing as well in the box office even though it hit those good review scores

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#3387: Feb 21st 2025 at 5:38:43 AM

I mean, I have a feeling Tom Cruise is gonna still try and keep doing MI movies until he dies. Presumably on the set of one.

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#3388: Feb 25th 2025 at 3:35:11 AM

Puck is reporting that Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from Lucasfilm by year’s end.

https://puck.news/kathleen-kennedy-to-step-down-at-lucasfilm/

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#3389: Feb 25th 2025 at 4:44:55 AM

[up] Paywalled so I can't read it. But I think the damage might be done so Kennedy might be trying to step down before getting fired if she was capable of being fired. But the damage is done.

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#3390: Feb 25th 2025 at 4:49:19 AM

Politely,I'm shocked to see someone openly blame her like that

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#3391: Feb 25th 2025 at 8:02:49 AM

They've been predicting her leaving or quitting for years now, I'll believe it when I see it.

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#3392: Feb 25th 2025 at 1:43:33 PM

Alright, now a new report says she's not really leaving.

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#3393: Feb 26th 2025 at 9:59:57 AM

My bad.

Over at WB, according to Bloomberg, Zazlav is losing patience with DeLuca and Addy, especially after Joker 2 bombed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/warner-bros-movie-studio-spends-big-on-mickey-17-joker-sequel?sref=W6GJF3MS&embedded-checkout=true

It is paywalled.

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Shaoken (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#3394: Feb 26th 2025 at 10:01:49 PM

Honestly, I find the hate directed at Kathleen Kennedy to be mostly motivated by bigotry rather than genuine issues with her leadership of Lucasfilm. I note that she gets none of the credit for greenlighting any Star Wars media that people love but all of the hate for the ones they don't, and I contrast that to Kevin Feige from Marvel Studios who functionally has the same role there as Kathleen does with Lucasfilm but he gets praise when things are going good and usually the blame for things not going well and thrown at the director's.

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#3395: Mar 2nd 2025 at 5:38:27 PM

Flow is now the first Latvian film to win an Oscar , having won Best Animated Feature.

Anyone think Hollywood is gonna learn the wrong lessons from this?

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#3396: Mar 2nd 2025 at 5:43:09 PM

It shows that a few independent creators can be better than big budget ones.

I don’t think Hollywoo is going to learn anything. It’s just another good animated movie.

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#3397: Mar 2nd 2025 at 6:56:00 PM

[up][up] Well, Marvel's already banking its future on the popularity of Latverians, so I don't know what that would change.

(Genuine question though: What is the Wrong Lesson Flow might teach? I don't know enough about it to understand the insinuation.)

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#3398: Mar 2nd 2025 at 11:21:54 PM

I thought you said it was a Latverian film and I got confused if it was a real place, maybe ruled by a supervillain

Marvel Rivals brainrot

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#3399: Mar 3rd 2025 at 12:17:55 AM

Hhahahahaa... just want to imagine Dr. Doom funding Flow...

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#3400: Mar 3rd 2025 at 2:49:30 AM

“Doom requests the cute cat movie. Then Doom will accept award then proceed to footdive Adam Sandler. His outfit makes it pretty easy to be Doom’s target.”

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