Madame Web’s failure may not be surprising, but the scope of its fallout is. The Hollywood Reporter has a piece on the new superhero film’s disastrous opening weekend, and watching them try to make sense of its dismal performance is funny. (“I don’t get it! They used obscure characters; th...
Read MoreMadame Web may be the first movie I’ve seen where the red carpet premiere was more interesting than the film itself. Granted, the red carpet premiere featured this showdown, but the larger point is that this is one terrible movie. Every aspect of Madame Web is a catastrophe; it’s laden down wi...
Read MoreDisney is turning to maybe the one entertainment platform where their name hasn’t yet become a joke: video games. In a statement released today following the company’s quarter 1 2024 earnings call, Disney revealed that they would be buying a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games and will be creating ...
Read MoreWhat’s up, Geeks + Games? It’s ODIN! There is no doubt that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a shadow of its former self, with the 2023 releases accounting for some of the biggest box office bombs of any studio that year. Not only does Disney clearly overspend on the budgets and marketing for ea...
Read MoreThe best there is at what he does has been exposed a little early. A week ago, Insomniac Games was hacked by a group called Rhysida, who threatened to release the stolen files online unless the video game studio paid them $2 million. Insomniac declined, so the hackers followed through with their thr...
Read MoreMarvel is bringing out the big guns for its next Disney+ show – or, at least, parts of a disassembled big gun. At a press screening of the first two episodes of What It…? season 2, Marvel unveiled their 2024 Disney+ slate, and it included a new animated series called Eyes of Wakanda. This will ...
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