Young Washington Beats Supergirl, Correia Slams George RR Martin, The Odyssey Disaster - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
I took a little bit of a break yesterday but still managed to get a good amount of content up over 4th of July weekend! I went up to the lake, got mostly offline (most of the work was scheduled) and enjoyed myself and America. Now I’m off to watch World Cup. USA!
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Angel Studios Opened Young Washington to $20.8 Million on July 4th Weekend, And Hollywood Should Take Notes
Angel Studios released Young Washington on July 3, 2026, and it opened to $20.8 million over the holiday weekend — the studio’s second-highest live-action opening ever, behind only the animated David, and ahead of Sound of Freedom’s $19.6 million three-day debut. The film recouped its entire $20 million production budget in a single weekend.
Larry Correia Says George R.R. Martin Killed an Entire Generation of Epic Fantasy Authors
The fantasy shelves at Barnes and Noble in 2026 look nothing like they did in 2010. The dominant properties are romantasy titles with sprayed edges and foil covers, designed for BookTok discovery and enemies-to-lovers arcs. Epic fantasy occupies a fraction of the space it once did. Baen Books author Larry Correia posted a thread on X this week explainin…
The Odyssey’s Press Tour Is Starting to Look Like Supergirl’s And The Dislike Counter Is Hitting Crazy Numbers
The Odyssey opens July 17. The official @odysseymovie account on X has turned off comments on recent promotional posts. The countdown trailer now sits at 428,000 dislikes against 60,000 likes on a Greek-language YouTube upload alone. The London premiere footage posted to X shows Zendaya in a white gown on the Thames, receiving 35,000 views and 865 likes…
Xbox Is Shutting Down the Studios That Made Its Best Games, And Game Pass Killed Them
Nine days after Ninja Theory appeared on stage at the Xbox Games Showcase to announce Senua, the third entry in the Hellblade franchise, the Cambridge studio’s employees were called into a meeting and told they were done. The announcement of a new game and the announcement of the studio’s closure arrived in the same two-week window. Nobody who bought a …
RUMOR: Disney Is Phasing Out Marvel Comics Publishing
The comic industry is in bigger trouble than it’s letting on, and there are changes on the horizon at Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
“I Don’t Think Gunn Survives” The Supergirl Post-Mortem Is Already a Career Obituary
Supergirl opened June 26 to $37 million domestic and $62 million worldwide on a production budget reported between $170 and $186 million, and this last weekend has shown a big drop off where the film barely broke $100 million at the box office total. It’s looking like it will be posting a loss that will be past $100 million once marketing is factored in. Superman, the first Gunn DCU film, opened to $125 million domestic in 2025. Supergirl opened at less than 30% of that number and it’s looking like this might torpedo James Gunn’s entire DC Universe.
John Byrne Tells the New York Times the X-Men Were Not Originally A Black Civil Rights Or LGBTQ Allegory
John Byrne gave a rare interview to the New York Times this week, timed to the release of X-Men: Elsewhen — the 31-issue alternate timeline story he spent three years drawing as unpublished fan fiction before Abrams ComicArts and Marvel brought it to print. The first printing of 25,000 copies sold out before a single copy reached a shelf. The second pri…
Brianna Wu Says the Q Has Hijacked the LGBT Movement
Brianna Wu, also known as Literally Wu, the trans activist most famous for riding GamerGate to a political career, posted a lengthy Facebook statement this week endorsing a recent New York Times essay arguing that gay and lesbian Americans have had their movement taken over by people who have nothing in common with them.
Star Trek And Doom Novelist Dafydd ab Hugh Reportedly Passees Away At 65
Dafydd ab Hugh, born David M. Friedman in Los Angeles on October 22, 1960, died this week at 65. Ansible reported the news. Few details are available. He had been largely absent from public life and online presence for several years.
