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Corporatism vs. Nerdom: Repeating Industry-Killing Mistakes
Spike | Jan 11, 2019 | 0
Mainstream entertainment companies are really working hard to take the “entertainment” out of the entertainment industry. Marvel, EA, Lucasfilm, Blizzard, Bethesda, Wizards of the Coast – to name a few – are run by executives who only understand the business aspect of the ecosyste...
Read MoreHBO Unveils First Look Footage of Watchmen
HBO is about to delve into Rorschach’s journal. In a recent look ahead at their 2019 slate, HBO has unveiled not only first-look footage of Game of Thrones but also their highly anticipated Watchmen drama series. While the Watchmen footage is brief, it’s certainly enough to get fans like me exc...
Read MoreGenre Tropes Vs. Homage Vs. Plagiarism
The films of 2018, and various debates surrounding them, have been increasingly making me wonder about the difference between genre tropes, homage, and just uninspired laziness. I definitely think there’s a defined difference, and I think this past year, in particular, we’ve gotten a lot of the ...
Read MoreWhy I’m Excited: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7
Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered during a very different time at Lucasfilm. The prequels had finished three years prior, and George Lucas was planning on moving into television. His goals were simple: To create a live-action TV show and 100 episodes of the CGI animated series. Although the live a...
Read MoreMarvel Could Start Planning X-Men and Fantastic Four Stories Very Soon
Marvel’s First Family and Mutant misfits may be back home a little sooner than we thought. On Variety’s iHeartRadio podcast “Playback,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that he might get the go-ahead from the Disney brass to start developing stories that incorporate the newly ac...
Read MoreWhy I’m Excited: Young Justice: Outsiders
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD! I’m a sucker for 90s animation. I remember watching Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s Batman: The Animated Series every night on Cartoon Network at 6:00 and 6:30 (yes, I remember the time; don’t judge me). It had a darkness to it, and a noir sensibility that, in many ways, is t...
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