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The New Warner/Discovery company is so heavily leveredged that they are cancelling basically everthing and praying that a new vertically integrated DCCU with merch and video game tie-ins puts the company back on their feet. They cancelled most new HBOMax series to direct resources to the new DC HBoMax tie-ins and today they just cancelled ALL scripted TV programs at TBS and TNT. Somehow, the most shocking part of this news to me is that they have been producing new episodes of American Dad for almost 20 years and are just now cancelling it (technically, cancelling it after its current contract expires in 2024, but still). https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1519044895817707520 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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quote:Somehow, the most shocking part of this news to me is that they have been producing new episodes of American Dad for almost 20 years and are just now cancelling it (technically, cancelling it after its current contract expires in 2024, but still). What? No, that can't be right Oh my god
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Apr 27, 2022 14:42
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I half expected that when the new CFO came out saying that there were a lot of weird projects from the previous leadership that amounted to wasted money. https://twitter.com/sherman4949/status/1518951682230607872
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Apr 27, 2022 14:44
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Xealot posted:TBF that's a pretty common aspect of conservative narratives about Left ideologies. That the framers of those arguments are just power-hungry demagogues, never "true believers." Think of every "anti-socialist" meme posted by conservatives in the last several years. They're usually these portraits of a kleptocracy where the revolutionaries seized everyone's wealth and the common person they pledged to elevate has even less than before. I never said the movies weren't right wing, I just said that Bane, Joker, and Ras aren't actually coded as Communist, Anarchist, or Islamic Terrorists (!??!?) because hey, they aren't. Bane is an Occupy guy (and was written by a guy who was obsessed about the "false liberation" he thought Occupy represented), Joker is a wrecker, and Ras is just a typical supervillain who wants millions to die for vague and foolish reasons (to "wipe out crime". lol). Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The New Warner/Discovery company is so heavily leveredged that they are cancelling basically everthing and praying that a new vertically integrated DCCU with merch and video game tie-ins puts the company back on their feet. This probably means no Warrior Season 4, which is a tragedy.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:48
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RBA Starblade posted:What? No, that can't be right Pilot aired in 2004 and the first season was 2005. If they cancel it after the current contract is up, it will have been 19 years and 19 seasons of American Dad. All of it continuous, except for one 5-month period where they transitioned from Fox to TBS. It kind of blows my mind. I remember the massive deal they made of either the first real season 1 episode or the pilot episode and they debuted it immediately after the Super bowl that year. There would be 378 episodes of American Dad, which is just over half of the total for The Simpsons. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 14:51
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American Dad is also apparently not only still good but actually better than it started, and better than Family Guy currently is.
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Apr 27, 2022 15:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:American Dad is also apparently not only still good but actually better than it started, and better than Family Guy currently is. There's no comparison, American Dad has only gotten better with age
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Apr 27, 2022 16:07
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That blows. Hopefully American Dad can make the jump to another network. It didn't start out on TBS. Ridiculous that Futurama is gonna be getting new episodes and American Dad is getting the shaft.
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Apr 27, 2022 16:47
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Are there unironically 15+ years of American Dad I should legitimately be watching? "Better than Family Guy" is a vague term that could set the bar very low or very high depending on who is saying it.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are there unironically 15+ years of American Dad I should legitimately be watching? It's legitimately and unironically great. It started out as "political" Family Guy. I remember hating the pilot back in the day. But it ended up being way zanier and way funnier than it had any right to be. I don't even think there's a specific moment where it "gets good." It's just always been on a steady quality rise. Their Christmas specials are always a highlight because Christmas is a terrible time for the family. One of them is an Escape From New York parody where the Anti-Christ is basically just The Riddler.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:This probably means no Warrior Season 4, which is a tragedy. Oof. I’d been thinking about Raised by Wolves, but completely forgot about Warrior. Would be a shame to lose them to a refocus on cape nonsense.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's legitimately and unironically great. It started out as "political" Family Guy. I remember hating the pilot back in the day. But it ended up being way zanier and way funnier than it had any right to be. I don't even think there's a specific moment where it "gets good." It's just always been on a steady quality rise. Their Christmas specials are always a highlight because Christmas is a terrible time for the family. One of them is an Escape From New York parody where the Anti-Christ is basically just The Riddler. Yeah it really improved after the first season or so when Family Guy properly came back so they could do their own thing instead of trying to be slightly different Family Guy.
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Wait Family Guy is still on?
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Pillowpants posted:Wait Family Guy is still on? Holy crap
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I've been waiting for like four years for HBOMax's Circe series adaptation and if those assholes retool it so she's fighting Wonder Woman, I am going to be mad. I think American Dad got good in the first Christmas special when they do a typical Christmas Carol parody, but when Stan is brought back in time, he runs off to go murder Jane Fonda. But then he realizes that is wrong, but in the process he accidentally got Martin Scorsese to quit coke so he never made Taxi Driver which led to Reagan not getting shot which cascades into the Soviet Union winning the cold war. So, in the end of the episode they have to go back to shoot Reagan in order to set things right. But the stinger is they didn't shoot Brady, so guns are completely free. The show was also an incubator for Gravity Falls creator, Alex Hirsch.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I've been waiting for like four years for HBOMax's Circe series adaptation and if those assholes retool it so she's fighting Wonder Woman, I am going to be mad. Yeah, their Christmas episodes are loving bonkers, in the best way possible.
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RBA Starblade posted:Holy crap Lois
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The announcement was for new shows and shows currently in pilot development. They haven't said anything about currently airing shows.
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Can TBS or TNT air old episodes of Legends of Tomorrow? They've reached the magic number of 100 episodes.
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Edward Mass posted:Can TBS or TNT air old episodes of Legends of Tomorrow? They've reached the magic number of 100 episodes. It's owned by and produced by their parent company, so they definitely could.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's owned by and produced by their parent company, so they definitely could. Then they definitely should 
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's legitimately and unironically great. It started out as "political" Family Guy. I remember hating the pilot back in the day. But it ended up being way zanier and way funnier than it had any right to be. I don't even think there's a specific moment where it "gets good." It's just always been on a steady quality rise. Their Christmas specials are always a highlight because Christmas is a terrible time for the family. One of them is an Escape From New York parody where the Anti-Christ is basically just The Riddler. The Christmas episodes are basically something like Treehouse of Horror episodes, but one consistent plot and also batshit insane. Also iirc there's actually a continuity for the ongoing bloody feud between the Smiths and Santa Claus. Apparently, Stan of Arabia is considered to be about when the show was no longer just 'Family Guy but political' and blossomed into its own thing. Also kinda funny how they handle the gimmick characters; Roger being able to be anyone and do anything is pretty useful, it turns out, while there's something of an ongoing meta-joke about Klaus being useless.
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I cannot stress how good American Dad becomes after the first season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJb1n3060w
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:Huh? Nolan's Batman is entirely defined by being a right-wing fantasy. He fights Islamic terrorists, anarchists, and communists. What I wrote was towards the sentiment that the characterization of Batman as a ‘billionaire who runs around beating up poor people’ as outdated per the last few film iterations (I have not seen The Batman, so will not comment on it) So, part of Nolan’s project of grounding Batman was the attempt to push him leftwards from the usual position, starting with his parents’ education of Bruce about the importance of public infrastructure and Rachel’s chastisement of Batman’s simplistic view of crime, which leads towards something that somewhat resembles a structural critique. We then get Batman's failed attempt to elide class struggle with the energy project, which directly leads to the story's return to the underclass with Zizek's insight of the evocative (non)image of a dictatorship of the proletariat. With Snyder’s Batman, although we get the escalation of brutality to signify his official villain status, the critiques throughout the film still apply to all Batmans (That he could be far more effective with the Bruce Wayne persona, that there’s no such thing as a non-killing Batman, that he terrorizes the poor, that it's horrifying that he works with the cops, that his entire crusade has not accomplished anything, etc.). And it's Batman’s self-awareness of these critiques and of his impotence that necessitates the generation of a Superman figure to be murdered. KVeezy3 fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Jimbot posted:I half expected that when the new CFO came out saying that there were a lot of weird projects from the previous leadership that amounted to wasted money. It was so funny how CNN+ had funding yanked for it the exact second the deal went through. So clearly the pet project of a brain dead idiot.
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Nucleic Acids posted:It was so funny how CNN+ had funding yanked for it the exact second the deal went through. There's no shortage of that in upper management.
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https://twitter.com/ClunkSpider/status/1519721207725281281 https://twitter.com/spectoristic/status/1519740024463724544 Raimi's comments here remind me of what Taika Waititi said in a profile that he enjoyed the process of making Ragnarok because of how easy and flexible it was. Waititi and Raimi have worked with very small budgets, where even minor tasks or changes take a ton of effort to accomplish. I'd imagine working on a movie where you have hundreds of people on hand to get things done has to be a refreshing experience, even if it's not as personal an expression as you're capable of.
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American Dad better find a new home, dammit.
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pospysyl posted:https://twitter.com/ClunkSpider/status/1519721207725281281 "You're not going to have ten storyboard artists, you're going to have twenty. And they've been working for us for years before you even signed your contract."
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First video doesn’t fill me with hope but by now we know what a Disney Marvel movie is. So eh.
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Freakazoid_ posted:Not sure what the problem is? Doesn't sound any different from Sean Paul. Must be a language thing cause to us he sounds like a nasally nerd.
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pospysyl posted:https://twitter.com/ClunkSpider/status/1519721207725281281 He's saying nothing most "cinema-savvy" nerds or whatever already know tbh.
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teagone posted:He's saying nothing most "cinema-savvy" nerds or whatever already know tbh. Yeah, it's not like "they let me do mostly what I wanted, but I couldn't completely remake the franchise" and "working with near unlimited resources is much more fun than fighting with a studio about resources all production" are super hot takes.
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The MCU has definitely had some cases of pulling the rug under from what they were building up because of dumb marketing reasons or something, like with Howard Stark, but I gotta say it's still shockingly cohesive for as long-running and sprawling a franchise as it is. Yeah, most of the worldbuilding stuff is puddle-deep and doesn't make any sense on thought, but that's on brand for comics.Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, it's not like "they let me do mostly what I wanted, but I couldn't completely remake the franchise" and "working with near unlimited resources is much more fun than fighting with a studio about resources all production" are super hot takes. Would make sense that Disney signs on indie darling directors with that carrot and stick; they aren't getting the creative freedom they're used to but budget and management problems can be buried under shitloads of money.
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The one thing I wish they would have taken creative control away from Raimi on is that he said he really likes the new "RealD 3D" technology, insisted that he be allowed to shoot some scenes with that in mind, and for the movie to be made available in 3D. Just let it die Raimi.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The one thing I wish they would have taken creative control away from Raimi on is that he said he really likes the new "RealD 3D" technology, insisted that he be allowed to shoot some scenes with that in mind, and for the movie to be made available in 3D. I'm down with 3D by directors who actually want to do it. It killed off shakeycam the first time around, at least.
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Sandwolf posted:Can’t do the Zapata Brothers because they don’t own them! So they went dumpster diving for a Lucha antihero? My personal fan-casting of the Zapata Brothers has been Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero M. But considering they debuted in a Moon Knight comic, the idea of them popping up in a hypothetical season 2 is just too bizarre to comprehend. Then again, they also teamed up with Deadpool once, so just toss them into Deadpool 3 and call it a day.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm down with 3D by directors who actually want to do it. It killed off shakeycam the first time around, at least. Yeah exactly. If a director wants to shoot 3D, more power to them. Look at Hugo!
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This is actually a funny bit, like the car in Lord of the Rings. https://twitter.com/jc_leonard/status/1519987831330033664 pospysyl fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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