Absolutely.

I’ve seen the Broadway show and when they announced they were splitting the film into two I thought it was a huge mistake. It just seemed so unnecessary. After watching the first film I admit I was completely wrong.

The first film covered the first half perfectly. Excellent story and excellent music. I walked out thinking… Oh shit… What the hell is the second film going to look like?

When you watch the Broadway show you kinda forgive the weaker second half. You judge the whole thing together and it comes out ahead. But if you have to focus on just the second half. If you have to stretch it out to match the runtime of the first… The cracks are going to be obvious and the weaknesses highlighted.

It’s the weaker film, but it’s a fun conclusion.

As they say, no one stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd, and Uncle Ben. At this point only Uncle Ben stays dead. So comics are always reviving people.

It they want to revive Foggy and have a good story for it, I’m in, but otherwise it’s ok if he stays dead.

I mean no one really cares that Zendaya plays MJ Watson in the MCU and doesn’t match up with her comic book appearance.

That being said if you’re adapting a character, that characters appearance is part of the discussion on what to adapt, and superficial things like hair are easy to change. If you change too much of a character, you might instead consider just creating/using a different character.

I don’t think anyone cares if Sadie Sink is a redhead, blonde, brunette, neon green with blue streaks head. But right now, she’s a redhead, so people assume a redhead character.

Emma Stone, as you pointed out, is a weird one because she was also known as a redhead, who is naturally blonde.

I mean if you’ve watched Daredevil Born Again… Yeah. Foggy is dead. They really don’t try and make it ambiguous.

Now he’s rumored to appear in some flashbacks in the future, but that’s a flashback.

I wish he wasn’t dead, but he is.

“Reunion episodes” have been a thing for years. Wikipedia even has a whole list of them.

Originally most of them were just getting the cast back together to talk about the show. The TV show Friends did a version of this a few years ago.

We also got the film or TV movie that revisited the cast and story, usually a few years after the show ended. The TV show Psych did a handful of these.

And of course more recently, as you noted, we’ve started to get the new seasons version. King of the Hill would be a good recent example of this format.

It’s fun to revisit the worlds these shows created. Some suck. Some are great. Some are just sorta in the middle.

Dick Van Dyke was dancing on tables in his 90s, I want the same for Hugh.

I mean, they’d get more money for a theatrical/streaming release.

The argument and implied reason for scrapping the film is that they wouldn’t. Look at “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” on a budget of ~$125 million the box office return was ~$135 million. Add in the theater split, any level of marketing, etc and the film lost money. For a streaming release you need to ensure you’ll retain, ideally gain new subscribers.

The number crunchers ran the numbers and said it wasn’t worth it. Although the funny thing is, with all the news about it, they could probably release it now and it would do fine.

That said I don’t agree with what happened, it just seems ridiculous.

You’re absolutely right. There is IMAX, “IMAX,” and IMAX?

I do have a theater near me that is proper IMAX IMAX, but it’s a rare once a year maybe treat.

I was fully against splitting Wicked into two films. That being says part one was basically a perfect adaptation. I’m planning to see part two next weekend (purely for scheduling reasons) and I fully expect it will be excellent.

Mayday, daughter of Spider-Man (Tobey McGuire) and Mary Jane. Rumors have Tobey McGuire appearing in Doomsday, and then possibly Secret Wars. Mayday is also going to appear in the third Spiderverse film, so while not MCU the character will be on everyones mind.

Odyssey is part of the galaxy. It even goes to the moon.

(I also think the only reason it’s called Galaxy is so we can pick up Rosalina.)

I mean there is plenty to crap on in the film, the romance being one of them, but overall I enjoyed more of the movie than I disliked it.

I think if they had dropped the anime eyes gimmick the film would have been better received. I know I saw them and just disregarded the whole film, it just looked so ridiculous. It wasn’t until after a friend said it was an excellent film and bet me to watch it that I did (and they were right).

Speculating, this film will have Toussaint (aka T’Challa II) taking on the role of Black Panther and Shuri will return to her technical role, leaning into a little bit if politics but M’Baku will remain in charge. Denzel as the villain, Namor as partial villain who turns out to be more helpful than he planned.

Since Shuri giving up the Black Panther mantle will feel like a demotion we have to give her some really cool tech to work with. Adamantium is one option. Something mutants is another.

If we haven’t met Storm in the MCU by the time this film comes out, she’ll debut in here somewhere.

It feels like that line was inserted into the article automatically and not reviewed. Clicking the link says,

the series will average a lean 31 minutes per episode across its eight entries.

But… it has also been reported that the series will drop all at once.

Echo dropped all 5 episodes in January 2024, and (my own speculation) it looks like that was probably 6 episodes trimmed down to 5.

So is this 8 trimmed down to 6, or just a mistake? I’m guessing mistake.

Will it be all at once? I’m guessing Ironheart style in two drops one week apart.

Disney usually drops a little social media graphic about a week before, so that’s when we’ll probably know for sure.

They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.

I understand your first sentence, and I agree that for some of them that might be the case, but I still think more are made for entertainment and winning or being nominated can provide a positive signal.

To be clear I’m not saying that winning an Oscar is an automatic “best movie ever” signal. It’s a signal to take another look.

And honestly looking only at last year’s nominees and winners it is a pretty weak signal overall. But if I go back a year, I look over the winners and nominees there…

I never would have seen “Anatomy of a Fall” if it hadn’t been nominated and/or won for best original screenplay, but after it did and I read about it, I decided to watch it and really enjoyed it.

Similarly Emma Stone winning best actress for Poor Things got me interested in it. It’s not a film I thought looked interesting, but I like Emma Stone. So I decided to give it a chance. Now I don’t think I liked it as much as other people, but I think the film was worth watching, worth my time.

Awards let me know that other people have enjoyed something. If I think something looks boring, but then it suddenly wins a bunch of awards, maybe I misjudged it. Maybe I saw the wrong trailer or read the wrong synopsis. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood at that time.

Sure but what sort of signals are you looking for?

Would, “Film won an Oscar” not be a positive signal?

Why would it be a negative?

Liu hits back at the wave of criticism that’s been hurled at superhero movies. “It’s kind of fashionable now to hate on it,” he says. “I think there are valid critiques of the way that movies are made, the way that production budgets are handled, I think that there are a lot of valid things to say, but this idea of shitting on superhero movies as a genre, I don’t know. I don’t know I because I am speaking as somebody who just absolutely loved watching them as a kid.”

This is why I’m a big Simu Liu fan.

I think this was a proof of concept, so you don’t need to have a profitable business model just yet.

I expect the next version will create a complete individual with video of them “playing at bars” or “small concerts”.

The goal will be to not be AI, but a real person.

Heck they may even sell it as a service. If you pay me $10,000 you can be a country music star.

Rebecca Black’s parents paid $4,000 to make a music video. I don’t think they intended it to become this popular thing, but it did.

Would you (or could you imagine someone might) pay a little more to be a guaranteed success?

@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today You’ve got an extra “%20” at the end of the URL.

Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/chadwick-boseman-to-receive-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-this-month