Moana Box Office Bomb, The Odyssey Press Tour Gets Worse, SFWA Loses Exec Director - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
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Moana Box Office Bomb Caps a Summer of Brand Slop Failing at the Multiplex
Disney’s live-action “Moana” opened to $43 million domestically and $95 million worldwide this past weekend, a number that barely clears the $42.2 million domestic and $87.3 million global debut of last year’s “Snow White” bomb. Against a reported $250 million production budget before marketing, the film is now projected to lose Disney roughly $100 mill…
Tired of What They Did to Your Favorite Franchise? Here's the Fix!
The Safe Place, book two of my Valiant Frontiers series, came out last week, and the trilogy’s third and final volume is on track to follow before summer ends. That puts a full three-book arc in readers’ hands inside a few months, a pace closer to serialized web fiction than the multi-year gaps traditional science fiction publishing usually forces on a …
The Odyssey’s Press Tour Has Become A Political Campaign, And Elliot Page Just Escalated It
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens July 17, and its cast has spent the weeks before release turning promotional interviews into a sustained defense of the film’s politics rather than its story.
Little House On The Prairie Returns To Netflix, And The Real Story Isn’t The One Critics Are Selling
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reboot isn’t just adding characters absent from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. It’s building an entire moral framework around the idea that the frontier’s traditional values were the actual problem, and showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine has said as much herself, repeatedly, on the record.
SFWA Diversity Hire Executive Director Out After Just One Year
Isis Asare is no longer Executive Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, just over a year after the organization installed her in the role. SFWA did not send members a dedicated announcement about her exit. Instead, the news arrived buried inside a broader year-end update, a single warm paragraph among other business, with no mention of why she left or what happens next at the top of the organization.
Patrick Stewart Admits He Was Wrong to Fight the TNG Reunion, as Star Trek’s Future Hangs in the Balance
Patrick Stewart contractually blocked a Next Generation reunion when he first signed on for Star Trek: Picard, and now, in a new interview with TV Insider marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, he says he’s glad the writers talked him out of it.
Patrick Stewart Admits He Was Wrong to Fight the TNG Reunion, as Star Trek’s Future Hangs in the Balance
Patrick Stewart contractually blocked a Next Generation reunion when he first signed on for Star Trek: Picard, and now, in a new interview with TV Insider marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, he says he’s glad the writers talked him out of it.
LitRPG Con’s Sold-Out Denver Weekend Shows Why The Genre Keeps Winning While Worldcon Empties Its Own Room
LitRPG Con is running this weekend, July 10-12, at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, and its schedule reads like a master class in the difference between a convention built for readers and one built for ideology. Compare its panel list against the Worldcon 2026 program covered here Wednesday, where 101 panels carried the “Inclusivity” tag and a search for “Christian” returned zero results, and the gap explains itself.