Well, the drama for Skydance is over for the time being. With the amount that Hollywood activists have been flipping out about it, I believe it can only be a good thing. Hopefully they’ll dial back some of the relentless propaganda that we’ve had on TV and in movies in recent years.
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Paramount Skydance Closes $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Deal and Takes On Nearly $80 Billion in Debt
Paramount Skydance closed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, handing David Ellison control of the Warner Bros. film and TV studios, HBO, DC and CNN. The combined company now goes by Skydance, and its shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange the same day. It starts life carrying net debt of nearly $80 billion.
Chaosium Renames Lovecraft's Shub-Niggurath for Call of Cthulhu: Old Ones Origins
Chaosium is changing the name of Shub-Niggurath, H.P. Lovecraft’s Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, to “Shub-Gorath” in its upcoming board game Call of Cthulhu: Old Ones Origins. The publisher announced the change in a Gamefound backer update dated October 2, and the reaction from inside the hobby has been sharp.
Silent Hill 2 Remake Consultant Admits He Sexually Assaulted His Ex-Girlfriend
Jacob Geller is an American video essayist with a channel of about 1.5 million subscribers. He interned at Game Informer, wrote for Polygon, and became a regular on MinnMax. His essays are long video pieces about art in video games, movies, and architecture.
Forgotten Sci-Fi Legends: Bruce McAllister, From a Debut at Sixteen to Two Hugo Slots
Bruce McAllister sold his first story to Worlds of If in July 1963, at 16, and he has been publishing ever since. About 140 stories later, two of them have made the Hugo ballot, in 1988 and 2007, and a third landed in The Best American Short Stories 2007
Doctor Who Former Showrunner Russell T. Davies Sure Likes ‘Em Young
One of the strange scandals surrounding the end of the Doctor Who era at Disney Plus is former showrunner Russell T. Davies, who’s 63 years old, engaging in a homosexual relationship with a 27-year-old fan that began with Instagram flirting during the show’s tenure. As Davies is about to release his autobiography, The Queerest of Folk, he is bizarrely giving interviews stating that people are accusing him of being a groomer and a pedophile, which raises eyebrows about the age gap and the timing.