Irrelevant But Awesome

If you’ve had the desire to check out the Netflix Marvel series recently, (We’re talking about the ones that make up The Defenders : Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , and The Punisher ) you may have seen a notification that states these shows will be removed from the service at the end of the month. This is likely to elicit one of two responses from you.  1. You might think “Of course. They’re Marvel series, and Marvel is owned by Disney, and Disney has their own streaming service. Why would Disney let Netflix keep these shows when they could be on Disney+ making money for the mouse? Especially with a revived interest in the characters with cameos that showed up in both Spider-Man: No Way Home , and the Hawkeye  TV show.  Or you might think… 2. Wait a minute, those shows were Netflix Originals. They were supposed to be on Netflix forever, no matter what. That’s the whole point of Netflix Originals. What gives? The answer, of course, lies somewhere in the...

Very soon, we will know what happens in The Avengers: Endgame . We will know how the story that we’ve been following for over ten years and across twenty-two movies comes to a close. This is the culmination of a storytelling project that has never before been attempted on film, and is obviously, without question, one of the most important moments in the narrative of cinematic history. But while it is all of these things, there is one thing it won’t be and that is “The End.” Yes, while this movie does have a air of “finality” around it’s release, it will obviously not be the final movie in the MCU. Financially this is the most successful franchise in cinematic history, and there’s no way that they’re going to just call it quits after whatever happens in Endgame . (Full disclosure, I haven’t seen Endgame yet so any comments about what might happen in it are pure speculation) While Endgame might have some moments letting us know what will happen in Phase 4 and beyond, there is still ...

Dear Disney, So you’re going to make a streaming service too? You’re going to make the Disney version of Netflix? You’re going to want me to pay somewhere between $5 and $15 a month for another streaming service to add to my monthly payments to Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Showtime, Starz, WWE, Amazon, DC Universe, and whatever other monthly subscriptions I might be paying for? (Lootbox, Playstation or Xbox Live, maybe Sling, possibly MoviePass for those still hanging on to that, and who knows what else.) Yeah, let’s face it, there’s a good chance I’m going to be getting this one as well, or at least trying it out. But Disney, may I call you Disney? Let’s talk for a moment, really, about this streaming service you’re proposing. You know Disney, you already has a streaming service. It’s called Hulu. Hulu is owned by a joint venture between Disney (30%), 20th Century Fox (30%), NBCUniversal(30%), and Warner Media (10%). Assuming that everything goes as planned with Disney buying up 20th...

Joel:  In an interview last month, Bob Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney company made a not very shocking, but treated as shocking, statement that the Disney company was taking a look at their plans for the Star Wars franchise and would likely be slowing down on their output for Star Wars movies, and saying that a movie every year might be too much. This of course caused a giant reaction, with reports of this interview concluding that this meant every Star Wars spinoff movie was canceled, including Rian Johnson’s planned trilogy, since it’s his fault that the franchise went off the rails in the first place. Ok, so obviously this is a situation that is once again, much more complicated than that. Yes, Star Wars , has hit a bump in the road over the past several months and changes are being made behind the scenes to correct that, but obviously, Disney didn’t spend $4.5 billion on Lucasfilm to make one last trilogy and two spinoff movies before calling the whole thing quits...