579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
The January Canon: 20 good movies released during Hollywood’s worst dump month
AV Club,
Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith. Sandwiched between the holidays and the Super Bowl, these four weeks are generally treated like a write-off season, as bad… Read more...
6 things you have to watch on TV this weekend
Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, January 19 to Sunday, January 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.] Read more...
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan line up an original "mystery" project
Out of the four feature films that Ryan Coogler has directed to date—Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever—not a one of them has gone down without Michael B. Jordan on hand, typically in a leading role. (Not even being dead in the MCU stopped Jordan from making a brief return… Read more...
What the hell is going on with the casting for this Minecraft movie?
Every now and again, Hollywood seems to spontaneously decide it’s going to throw an inordinate amount of resources at a project—time, attention, the precious, life-giving energies and recognizable faces of marketable stars like Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Danielle Brooks—in order to get some damn thing it’s been… Read more...
Meet the Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'
Gizmodo,
The legacy of invention and technology that comes out of Disney Imagineering is some of the closest we’ll get to a sci-fi future. And two of Disney Parks’ most recent incredible projects come from Lanny Smoot, a Disney legend who has already patented over 100 inventions, 74 of which are at Disney… Read more...
Madonna being sued by fans for “wanton exercise in false advertising” after starting concerts late
When you attend a live performance of some kind, it’s generally accepted that the event will not necessarily start right at the time it’s supposed to. Maybe the performers are just enjoying their time backstage, picking through a bowl of M&Ms to make sure the right color has been removed, or maybe they want to keep… Read more...
DC Is Already Preparing For Its Heroes' Public Domain Era
The arrival of Steamboat Willie—and with it, the first steps of Mickey Mouse himself—into the public domain at the start of 2024 has been a milestone that, in just under three weeks, already seen a bevy of horrifying riffs and a look ahead to what other stalwarts of culture will join him next. At Warner Bros., just as… Read more...
Disney World's Massive Arts Festival Knows Its Fandom Best
Walt Disney World’s best and most underrated festival is going on right now at Epcot. Disney Parks’ International Festival of the Arts happens at the start of the year and showcases amazing artists debuting Disney-inspired art—and it’s truly any fandom print collector’s dream destination. Read more...