Tag: TV Shows

Acolyte Pre-Production Costs $49 Million

According to Forbes, Disney reported spending $49 million on pre-production for its upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte. This figure doesn’t include the production budget or the marketing the show will require closer to airtime; pre-production costs include things like casting, writi...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 5, “Harvest”

“Harvest” is the point in a story where you kind of just want it to end. I enjoyed most of Secret Invasion in the beginning, but this episode makes it clear that the setup is not going to have a satisfying payoff. There are too many story strands to tie up in a week, too …

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Kenneth Branagh to Direct Live-Action Gargoyles Movie? Nah

Earlier today, The Belfast Telegraph ran with a story that Kenneth Branagh will direct a live-action cinematic adaptation of Disney’s Gargoyles. A number of sources have since reported it. The series, which ran from 1994 until 1997’s non-canon Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles, was creat...

Less Marvel Content Coming From Disney

Some of Disney’s biggest brands are going to make themselves scarce in the future. In an interview with CNBC – the same one in which he told the striking actors and writers to stop being selfish and accept their AI replacements – CEO Bob Iger discussed the recent failures of Disney-owned prope...

The Actors’ Strike is Happening and AI is at its Center

Actors are leaving movie sets for the picket lines. SAG-AFTRA – the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – will be going on strike at midnight tonight (Pacific Time), joining the continuing strike of the WGA, or Writers’ Guild of America. SAG has been threate...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 4, “Beloved”

“Beloved” is, for the most part, a return to form for Secret Invasion, an episode more in line with the first two, which were good spy thrillers, than last week’s “Betrayed,” which mixed some decent elements with another blatant Disney character assassination. There are some inconsistencie...