Trek Stars Vs. Paramount Merger, Marvel Comics Lay Offs Regret, Mandalorian Set To Fail - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Well Michael’s coming out this weekend. I never go and see any of these rockstar biopics. I don’t find rockstars to be that interesting. If I wanted to see them, I’d go to a concert, right? But they seem to perform really well. Why do you think that is?
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Star Trek Cast Joins Growing Anti-Merger Movement as Wilson Cruz Calls on Trekkies to Protest
Wilson Cruz, Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery, is urging the Trek fanbase to take to the streets over the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, delivering one of the most passionate calls to action yet from a franchise whose stars are increasingly united against the deal.
Marvel Comics Just Fired the Man Who Built the Omnibus Empire
David Gabriel spent 23 years at Marvel Comics doing the unglamorous work that kept the lights on. Disney cut him anyway.
Star Wars Returns to Theaters With Its Worst Projected Opening Since the 1970s
The Mandalorian and Grogu opens Memorial Day weekend. Early tracking puts its domestic debut at $70 to $85 million. Solo: A Star Wars Story opened to $84.4 million in 2018 and sent Lucasfilm into crisis mode. Solo had a $275 million budget and became the franchise’s first outright box office failure in the Disney era. Grogu’s budget is $166 million befo…
World Of Warcraft Designer Mark Kern Calls Out Bungie For SPLC Ties
The original World of Warcraft designer Mark Kern, known online as Grummz, posted a thread on April 22 that the gaming industry needs to read. One day after a federal grand jury in Alabama handed down an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, Kern went directly at Bungie, the studio behind Destiny and Marathon, for its years of vocal financial support of an organization now facing federal fraud charges.
Vox Day Just Animated His Comic With AI And Indie Creators Should Pay Attention
Vox Day posted one minute of animation with zero editing to his AI Central Substack last Monday, and the independent comics world should be watching.
Russell T. Davies Is Heading Back to Doomsday, And That’s A Problem
The official Doctor Who website dropped a quiet grenade last month. A UNIT in-universe blog post flagged Rose Tyler as a “complex space-time event” calling her a “2006 Cold Case,” and suggested someone keep an eye out. The post references the Vlinx scanning media channels. Maybe, it jokes, someone should tell it to check BBC1 on Christmas Day.