The Superhero Cinematic Civil War of Tomorrow Thread - Part 62

[FrankenCastle]

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JAMES GUNN HAS A SECRET SUPER HAREM!!!!!!

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

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Two sneaks but I'm gonna keep it cute.

 

[Kane52630]

Two sneaks but I'm gonna keep it cute.

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How dare you.

 

[Drizzle]

Two sneaks but I'm gonna keep it cute.

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[Shinobi Shaw]

How dare you.

I wasn't referring to Ratcatcher 2

 

[Drizzle]

I wasn't referring to Ratcatcher 2

Supergirl and Gunn's wife?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Supergirl and Gunn's wife?

But *ding ding ding*

 

[Drizzle]

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But *ding ding ding*

Process of elimination. I figured if you were talking about Brosnahan and Merced you'd be flirting with the mods changing your username again because I know you're a glutton for punishment.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Process of elimination. I figured if you were talking about Brosnahan and Merced you'd be flirting with the mods changing your username again because I know you're a glutton for punishment.

For the record, Brosnahan puts the BAD in baddie:



Because DAMN.

But the other two, they are not unattractive by any means, it's just 'baddie' is a strong category to put them in, IMO.

 

[Drizzle]

For the record, Brosnahan puts the BAD in baddie:

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Because DAMN.

But the other two, they are not unattractive by any means, it's just 'baddie' is a strong category to put them in, IMO.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

So bad she had her husband standing on his tippy toes to compete with Superman

 

[Drizzle]

Slight topic change but still DC adjacent, Absolute Batman looks like nightmare fuel.

 

[FrankenCastle]

What the hell is that Joker?

 

[Sithborg]

People didn't cancel their D+ subscription when Disney forbade a grieving father from putting Spider-Man on his child's gravestone; they didn't cancel their subscription when that woman died of food poisoning in that Disney restaurant, and the husband couldn't sue because of a clause in the terms and conditions of D+. They surely won't cancel it because freaking Tatiana Maslany told them so.

All extremely minor stories compared to this. And if you think its Maslany leading this, you are not aware of the current situation. Target is still feeling the effects of them cancelling "DEI". There is a reason why we are getting reports of those at Disney being scared of the repercussions. Paying a bribe is one thing. Censorship is a whole other ballgame.

 

[FrankenCastle]

All extremely minor stories compared to this. And if you think its Maslany leading this, you are not aware of the current situation. Target is still feeling the effects of them cancelling "DEI". There is a reason why we are getting reports of those at Disney being scared of the repercussions. Paying a bribe is one thing. Censorship is a whole other ballgame.

Eh, I get the Kimmel mess is blowing up here and Maslany's call-out is adding fuel, but I still don't see Disney+ taking a real hit. Those US ratings for Kimmel were already scraping bottom from what I read. and he's barely a blip overseas where most Disney+ subs are anyway (around 65% of 124.6 million). Markets that are hooked on Marvel and Star Wars, where government overreach is just another tuesday and where Jimmy Kimmel is a complete stranger (they don't dub late night shows).

Target’s DEI fallout and hell let's add in the Bud Light’s boycott sure hit these companies hard, but it’s mostly a US thing. Target’s stores are almost all domestic, none overseas. Bud Light’s sales crash after the Mulvaney ad? Also US-centric; it’s barely a player in Europe or Asia where local beers dominate. Disney’s global reach is way bigger (Disneyland Paris is always packed) so Kimmel's unjust termination probably won’t dent them much. Also, we all know Kimmel's not done, he's coming back.

 

[Sithborg]

Eh, I get the Kimmel mess is blowing up here and Maslany's call-out is adding fuel, but I still don't see Disney+ taking a real hit. Those US ratings for Kimmel were already scraping bottom from what I read. and he's barely a blip overseas where most Disney+ subs are anyway (around 65% of 124.6 million). Markets that are hooked on Marvel and Star Wars, where government overreach is just another tuesday and where Jimmy Kimmel is a complete stranger (they don't dub late night shows).

Target’s DEI fallout and hell let's add in the Bud Light’s boycott sure hit these companies hard, but it’s mostly a US thing. Target’s stores are almost all domestic, none overseas. Bud Light’s sales crash after the Mulvaney ad? Also US-centric; it’s barely a player in Europe or Asia where local beers dominate. Disney’s global reach is way bigger (Disneyland Paris is always packed) so Kimmel's unjust termination probably won’t dent them much. Also, we all know Kimmel's not done, he's coming back.

There is a reason why domestic numbers are more important for movies than foreign. China may still overtake domestic in terms of overall box office, but the north american market is still considered the top market. The same applies to streaming and their parks. If their top 2 parks suddenly becomes a lot closer to #3? That is a problem. And there is a clear reason why they stopped to report subscriber numbers last month.

 

[Spider-Fan]

The PR for Kimmel is hurting them. That's why you're already seeing headlines saying things like "Negotiations " are happening. Disney wants the backlash to stop. Yeah, the ratings for Kimmel have not been great. But that isn't what this is about. We are seeing a lot of people saying they won't work on Disney projects already. If that sentiment grows, that's a bigger problem than simply Kimmel's ratings are.

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, I don't think ABC was going to pull Kimmel by themselves. Sinclair and Nexstar sort of forced the issue.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I mean, I don't think ABC was going to pull Kimmel by themselves. Sinclair and Nexstar sort of forced the issue.

Absolutely true

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Kimmel has 20 million subs on Youtube, his audience skews younger.

If anything they need to move some of these shows to daytime and internet live broadcasts. Joe Rogan doesn’t put his stupid show on at 12AM on TV.

 

[Venom 1988]

Eh, I get the Kimmel mess is blowing up here and Maslany's call-out is adding fuel, but I still don't see Disney+ taking a real hit. Those US ratings for Kimmel were already scraping bottom from what I read. and he's barely a blip overseas where most Disney+ subs are anyway (around 65% of 124.6 million). Markets that are hooked on Marvel and Star Wars, where government overreach is just another tuesday and where Jimmy Kimmel is a complete stranger (they don't dub late night shows)

That has nothing to do with this situation though. ABC/Disney didn't come out and say they cancelled him because of ratings. They only reacted because the FCC threatened them.

 

[Drizzle]

Kimmel has 20 million subs on Youtube, his audience skews younger.

If anything they need to move some of these shows to daytime and internet live broadcasts. Joe Rogan doesn’t put his stupid show on at 12AM on TV.

Realistically late night talk shows being watched on an actual TV is more or less a dying art. But there's still life in the format yet via YouTube. They still get ad revenue and viewers benefit by choosing which segments they want to watch without having to wait or fast forward through the parts they aren't interested in. Trump's archaic ass only focuses on ratings and probably has no idea how YouTube traffic works.

 

[FrankenCastle]

I see Jimmy Kimmel as a patsy, someone who got caught up in a larger political and corporate power struggle. It's too simplistic to say that his termination was a result of his direct comments, I think that it's a convergence of multiple factors. His declining ratings, Disney's pending approval for ESPN's acquisition of NFL Network and Nexstar's pending acquisition of Tegna, which both require FCC approval, the hyper politicization of the show in a deeply polarized and politically charged era. His departure is so sudden that I truly believe the higher-ups at Nextstars used this a an excuse so that Bob Iger can bail out of an increasingly contentious situation, they were waiting for Jimmy to slip and that was it.

 

[Lily Adler]

The Kimmel situation is different because he made a remark about the Trump admin exploiting someone's death to go after their enemies (trans community are on a terror watchlist now). That's why this is different. An acting president is using his power to silence his critics. First Colbert, now Kimmel, and FCC chair says this is only the beginning.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

How the **** do we get out of this dystopian nightmare?