chickenwing

He was a big fan of the books and the games. He wanted some creative control because the writers were going off source material. I don't blame him for leaving. His reputation was on the line as he was the main character.

The only other franchise he was in was the Witcher. Both the Witcher and Superman failed due to bad writing not the acting.

Sounds like these "grassroots backers" work for Warner Brothers to me.

The 9/11 attacks put the CIA on a dramatically different course. The agency went from an emphasis on traditional spy work — collecting intelligence and recruiting foreign spies — to a focus on paramilitary operations.

This quote is a huge lie. The CIA has been involved in paramilitary ops and coups in South America and other places since its inception. This article tries to pin all of the CIAs sins on the Bush administration which is a lie by omission and a hostile lie as it's praising the agency on the Ukrainian Russian war. This puff piece was meant to make it seem like the CIA is in the moral right to be anti Russia but made a misstep on the war on terror. It's propaganda and it is a terrible way to stay informed.

Yeah that puff piece was full of lies.

Independent journalist and smaller outlets. Unfortunately places like Vice and The Intercept started out pretty good but they have changed for the worse. But the one place I'd never recommend is any government funded news source and no I don't care if it's only a little bit. Also it's better to follow journalist then to follow outlets. Plenty of journalist write on substack and other places to remain independent.

Much more than one. They are always on the side of the military industrial complex. So is the New York Times so it's not just npr but acting like they are beyond reproach is dumb.

Sure they got a lot of stuff in the Fox archive I'm just not sure it was 70 billion worth. Amazon bought MGM for much less. Disney also sold their Mirimax catalog years ago for less than a billion. Having a big back catalog is nice but not if it comes with an insane amount of debt. They could have made a deal with Fox for their catalog and their IPs for less money but they bought all their studios too and then fired a bunch of people. Only movie Searchlight put out this year was a flaming hot Cheeto movie.

I think MS buying Activision is also a losing play but MS is in a better position to spend that kind of money compared to Disney.

If the strategy was to kill Hulu then why keep it around? Just axe it or sell it and put all your stuff on one app. I also don't get the Paramount+ and Showtime strategy. If you are trying to beat Netflix by having better content why split it into 2 apps?

Streaming could be a whole other post really. All these companies have bought into having their own app and they are all losing big time. Might be time to reevaluate streaming in general.

I don't think I have a chip in my shoulder at all lol. I don't have any beef with Disney or fox. I'm just thinking it was a bad investment. Look at it with their past purchases on mind. They bought Star Wars for 4 billion made quick use of it too. Same with Marvel and Pixar. All of these were great deals for Disney. They made their money back in no time. 70 billion is a lot more than 4 billion. It will take a very long time to recoup the money and from my perspective I don't think it was the right move.

You could put out 5 Avengers movies that make Endgame level money and still not even get close to paying that back. It will take a decade or more to pay that off. It's been 4 years and they don't have much to show for it.