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For sure, there are winners and losers when you look at individual companies, but there seems to be more visual entertainment produced today overall than at any time in (at least) recent history, so more people are employed in the creation of that stuff than before. Just not specifically in LA...

Unless I'm just reading this too closely, you're conflating a couple things together here, no? The entertainment industry isn't failing per se and doesn't really need salvaging. The local Hollywood production economy? Sure. Because entertainment producers have found cheaper ways to work to help...

Come to the light side, where you can have fun stress-free when you visit a Disney park! Not coincidentally, me and my fam will be pulling into French Quarter tomorrow for a 4-day visit. Looking forward to it.

I apparently didn't pay attention to Frozen before it came out. I remember that there was a lot of redevelopment, but not the early promotion. I thought about this one, but didn't go look to see what the early teasers might've been.

Live in the now, man. Would Disney like to avoid bombs? Of course, but the hits are way more important. The profits from Inside Out 2 more than cancelled out the combined losses from the four biggest bombs from 2023 (The Marvels, Indy 5, Wish, & Haunted Mansion) all by themselves. Just so it's...

Seeing some good word of mouth from some of the common people on some Discords I'm on re: Thunderbolts* "Wow, Thunderbolts* was actually great. Watching it genuinely made me care about the MCU again. Quality-wise, it felt in line with a lot of the good phase 3 movies." "Thunderbolts* was very...

And people learned to turn their brains off nearly all of the time. Alas. Of course I am. You long for the original Star Wars to come back. I long for the time when people read things and thought about them and didn't just connect themselves to the funnel of algorithm-sorted content that their...

Why would you need to know who characters are before seeing a movie? If it's doing its job, you'll learn enough to know them by watching it.

Everything had a set time, outside of exploring the ship on your own or hanging out in the lounge, shop, or dining hall. The things that everyone got to do (lightsabers, bridge training) happened in fairly small groups. Everything else was dependent on what faction path(s) you were participating...

No, no. You fail to understand the game. It's not a tentpole/blockbuster, therefore it's not real work. [See Daisy Ridley, et al]

Any of them... Any of the options for Star Wars fans? Yes, of course. Having experienced it, though, I think this sort of thing would be fun for pretty much any IP, as long as it was well-designed and assuming I was at least moderately familiar with it.

I... don't really recall standing in any lines, though I'm sure you're probably referring to someone's experience from some video or other. The in-person missions, etc. seemed pretty right-sized where everyone got their own station to participate or a meaningful feeling job for the non-gamified...

It's obviously a dead horse, but we were one of the first parties onboard during our stay (which means we got an extra couple of hours to explore before muster kicks things off) and there absolutely was not enough time to do everything we would've wanted to do on the Starcruiser. A lack of...

I know this question wasn't for me, but we saw both Fighting With My Family and Midsommar in theaters in 2019. Absolutely broke my brain that it was the same person, and then to close out that year she managed to make Amy a sympathetic character in Little Women. She's been great in pretty much...

You must not be familiar with the trailer campaign for this movie.

Currently sitting with a 69 Metascore, which would make this the first and only Phase 5 movie that's above the mean (~65) for the franchise. And actually, 4 of the previous 5 movies are in the bottom 6 for the entire franchise (the outlier being Guardians 3 which still only got a 64), so critics...

Well, there you have it. That should mean that Disney had the three most profitable movies of 2024. The struggle is real.

But again... we're talking about kids here. Even if I take your descriptors at face value (not that I agree with them), 8-year olds watch all sorts of "digital trash" and grow up having warm, nostalgic feelings about it anyway. We really can't predict what the long-term feelings about them will...

Just saw the new trailer for the first time tonight in front of SW and it does look good, but boy, they really changed this a lot, didn't they? It seems like being mistaken as the leader of Earth and all that is completely gone now? I'm trying to think if Disney/Pixar have ever gotten to the...

I finally saw this tonight with my spouse and MiL and we all enjoyed it quite a lot. Despite all the discourse, I didn't really quite know what I was going to get, but after the first couple of minutes I just thought, "Okay, it's a broadly-played, big, stagey musical. Got it." and was...