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[msclaritea]

"Breaking: Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures are battling it out to snatch up Danny Boyle's #28YearsLater.

"Warner Bros. is the current frontrunner to land the horror package."

Great. We're never gonna be rid of this privileged bastard. They're basically saying that Cillian Murphy has already been handed the oscars 2024 and all the talk about Paul Giamatti is just that. Notice that they have Michelle Yeoh in endless horror films, too.

There are horror genre films being announced every goddamn day.

[dylanrosales25]

[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

"I don't have friends, I have ohana." #LiloAndStitch

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[ptbf2002]

Hanging Out In The Wood Forest

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[kingoftieland]

Xfinity TROLLED VIEWERS of Dark Phoenix watching On Demand! 📺

[pokemonblog]

Pokémon Jumping Halloween Party music show starring DJ Pikachu and DJ Gengar is officially returning to Universal Studios Japan starting September 4, 2025

The Pokémon Company and Universal Studios Japan are officially continuing their extensive partnership, which officially launched in 2022. Read on below for a translation of the announcement: Japan’s first! A flashy Pokemon show is coming to USJ for Halloween! Jump and dance with Pokemon… A special show that will make you super hot will appear for the first time in Japan at Halloween at USJ!…

[lizzystoddard]

Minion Rush - 10.0.2 Update

Run with the Minions in the latest update! Here's what's coming:

- A new chapter, "Energy Revolution," arrives in the "Minions and the Power of Nature" Season Pass starting July 2

- Soar to new heights with the brand-new Aviator costume (Legendary)

- Bug fixes and performance improvements to make your gameplay smoother

[jpyoerixfanxv]

Happy 113th Anniversary To Universal.

[bettercalljuniper]

Lilly: Comcast High Media Drama

[youthchronical]

Thanksgiving box office showdown shows importance of premium screens

Wicked, Gladiator II, and Moana 2 Movie Posters. Sources: Universal (L), Paramount (C) and Disney (R) Three heavyweight Hollywood blockbusters will face off at the box office in November, each vying for audience attention, ticket sales and time on theaters’ biggest screens. Universal‘s “Wicked,” Paramount‘s “Gladiator II” and Disney‘s “Moana 2” arrive in cinemas within five days of each other,…

[katy-griffin-saye]

Imagine if Dreamworks was never acquired by Comcast? Turbo, Croods, Penguins of Madagascar, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Home, Trolls, Boss Baby & Captain Underpants could have been on Disney+

[msclaritea]

Shelving Movies for Fun and Profit

Destroying Movies for Fun and Profit

If you ask any director, screenwriter, actor, stunt performer, gaffer, editor, cameraperson or other Hollywood worker, they’ll likely tell you a variation on the same story: “My dream, ever since I was a little kid making home movies, was to one day grant Warner Bros. a deduction for a loss sustained upon the abandonment of property (reported on Form 4797).” Yes, little is more exciting for an aspiring filmmaker than the idea that—with a lot of dedication and a pinch of luck—their years of driving Lyfts and waiting tables could pay off, resulting in a star-studded line item that will be shelved forever so that a major studio can claim a tax write-off. Ah, the magic of the movies!

This practice is back in the news because the powers that be at WB have gone back to their original decision regarding the hybrid live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme. Despite the film testing well and generating plenty of buyer interest, a team of execs who haven’t seen the finished movie look like they’re going to “unceremoniously delete it” for tax purposes. Sorry, filmmakers, but apparently it actually looks better to stockholders if WB doesn’t actually put movies out. “Hollywood accounting” has its reputation for a reason, but it’s never been so obviously broken.

It might seem like Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is a true innovator of idiocy, but the man behind the permanent shelving of movies like Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt is just ramping up a long tradition of burning art to save a quick buck.

After buying up DreamWorks, Universal decided to bury the musical-comedy Larrikins instead of selling it to Netflix. Universal president Jimmy Horowitz told Tim Minchin that “It’s schmuck insurance – if someone made a lot of money out of it, we’ll look like schmucks.” That mindset certainly applies here: Coyote vs. Acme is a creation from an earlier group of WB leaders, and would naturally be on the chopping block from a spiteful new C-suite who also happens to hate movies.

Even more relevant is a case from almost 100 years ago: Charlie Chaplin literally torched the film negatives of A Woman of the Sea back in 1933, in front of multiple witnesses, so that he could claim the movie as a loss for tax purposes.

The tax code may have changed since then, but the logic remains the same: Get rid of the movie so you can avoid all the final complications and lingering expenses associated with its “useful life.” If you cut that life short, pulling off an accounting assassination, you save a little immediate cash at the low, low cost of…art. It’s always been a crass practice, more often performed by resentful new regimes or moneygrubbers who’ve found themselves attracting the gaze of Sauron’s IRS. But now shelving movies, completed films that other companies want, is picking up steam as standard practice. Actually making things is such an outdated, small-time business model. It’s far more lucrative to remove things other people made.

For example, if Disney keeps all of its movies and TV shows on Disney+, it has to pay residuals to the people who made them. They’ve also spread out the costs of a movie like Crater (which was available to watch for a mere seven weeks during the summer of 2023) over the years that the movie will ostensibly be available to the public and, therefore, creating value for Disney. Remove these movies and shows from the streamer, or better yet, remove them permanently (like Disney did with Crater), and their value can be added to an impairment charge—basically, a claim to the tax man that something a company owns has become, suddenly, worthless.

Disney recorded a $1.5 billion impairment charge last year. As Julia Rock points out, this means that Disney is claiming something pretty odd: Both “that the assets were producing so little value that it’s cheaper to destroy them than to keep them and that the assets were worth $1.5 billion.” Huh. There’s no push for anyone to justify this contradiction. The IRS isn’t asking questions. It doesn’t matter if a movie is good, or bad, or somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter if it had the potential to one day be rediscovered as a cult classic. It certainly doesn’t matter that even the worst pieces of Z-grade trash are still worth preserving as cultural artifacts. As an aside, the HBO Original Fahrenheit 451 is still streaming on Max.

And sure, you can say that you didn’t want to watch those movies anyways. Kid movies! Superheroes! Cartoons, yuck. I get it, you’re tough and cool. But one day, this will happen to something that you were looking forward to. It will happen to something that would have moved you. Something you’d have remembered fondly, something that would’ve turned your day around. But even if you’re the most jaded, anti-art, movie-hating curmudgeon, you should remember that, released or not, you’re helping pay for this scheme anyways.

“When intertwined with public funding through state and federal tax incentives, the practice of movie and television write-downs represents a troubling exploitation of taxpayer funds,” writes tax attorney Andrew Leahey. “Coupled with rapidly expanding state tax incentives, it represents a multibillion-dollar Rube Goldberg machine that culminates in a nickel being pulled from your pocket, strapped to an Acme rocket, and fired directly into the bank accounts of movie studios.”

Every loophole taken by these studios doesn’t just rob us of art. It burns the work of countless artists. It steals from our quality of life by monkeying around with our broken tax system, allowing our most powerful corporations to skip out on their bills. It picks the remaining shreds of flesh off the bones of our culture, all to further fatten a few vultures at the top.

Politicians like Texas Representative Joaquin Castro are calling for the government to “review this conduct,” but the only people who seem to have the power here are those actually creating the movies. They can boycott the guilty studios, and we can support them, but there are so few left that aren’t exploiting this practice to its most predatory extremes. Cooking the books has always been a Hollywood practice. Burning them is new.

Jacob Oller is Movies Editor at Paste Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at @jacoboller.

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It's too bad that this Paste article was written by a Leftist, who let their biases show, ie pushing Castro, and the 'Sauron's IRS'. But otherwise, it is spot on. What the studios are doing to Intellectual Properties is a SIN. It's cruel, it's greedy and so fucking unnecessary. Just how much money do these studios and their shareholders, NEED? I better not find out that the Supernatural Planet Series was destroyed.

[dylanrosales25]

[ptbf2002]

Happy Heavenly birthday, Walter Lantz.

the guy who is known for Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy and other Universal Cartoon Characters

*Woody Woodpecker Laugh Gag*

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[pokemonblog]

Video: Watch DJ Pikachu and its Pokémon friends dancing to the beat at Universal Studios Japan

The Pokémon Company and Universal Studios Japan are officially continuing their extensive partnership, which officially launched in 2022. Read on below for a translation of the announcement: [Official] Special movie of DJ Pikachu and friends dancing to the beat | Universal Studios Japan Starting Thursday, September 5, 2024, Universal Studios Japan will be holding the “Pokémon Jumpin’ Halloween…

[lizzystoddard]

Minion Rush - 10.0.0 Update

It’s here! The Massive Update is live! Go bananas in the newly updated endless runner game!

What’s New:

- Completely revamped visuals and game experience

- Updated Minions with the same despicable fun

- Endless run mode for nonstop action

- New “Minions and the Power of Nature” Season Pass starts on May 21

- Unlock costume collections for boosts and skills

- Story Puzzles to uncover your favorite Minion moments

- Customize your profile with avatars, frames, trophies, and more

- Develop your unique play style with Gadgets

- Compete in Tournaments for epic rewards

- 3 new costumes: AFL (Common), Honey Badger (Legendary), and Jellyfish Stuart (Legendary)

- The normal Gameloft logo has been replaced by the “Gameloft 25” logo (Note: This is because the company is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025)

If you already have the game with the old version installed on your device, you can update it to the new version now.

Step into the New Generation of Minion Rush! Download the Massive Update now and play!