She said "What are you, autistic or something?"

Don't worry, not infantilizing - i'm autistic too.

Stunt people get hurt all the time. That’s what we pay them definitely not enough for.

I dont have an answer but thanks for reminding me of Raising Hope, Ill need to binge it again soon.

Die Hard 6, please. “The Next Generation.”

What do you mean? Complements are nice.

When Bloys took over HBO Max originals in 2020, it had already been established with HBO-like product. But with cost-conscious Discovery coming in, it was clear that there would need to be more of a delineation. “The kind of shows they were going to were a little bit too HBO-adjacent,” Bloys says. “Now on the one hand, I’m thrilled because a good show is a good show. But from a business point, of view, what I want to make sure is if I’m spending a certain amount of money on HBO programming, any money I’m spending beyond that, I want to make sure that those shows have a job to do — which is to push out from the HBO programming.”

This whole article is a puff piece for Bloys but this article did give us some insight into Bloys and Zaslav’s plans for the remaining Max original shows. There will be a lot less of them, they will have lower budgets, they will be more IP focused, and they will not be HBO style shows but shows that reach for different demos and audiences such as Sex Lives of College Girls.

It is interesting that both Bloys and Orci felt like Max was ordering shows that could easily have been HBO shows and was not broadening the audience of the service enough as a result. They probably have a point but I’ll absolutely miss shows like Station Eleven, Julia, Tokyo Vice, The Staircase, Warriors, and Our Flag Means Death. Even the upcoming Love & Death miniseries feels very much like an HBO limited series.

All that said, I did enjoy Peacemaker, The Flight Attendant, and Sex Lives of College Girls so hopefully this new direction for the Max originals still delivers us some very watchable shows.

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You're crazy. It's fantastic.

Was that before or after he got Winstead pregnant?

Little Jessica Bennett is all growed up.

Winstead is great in everything. After that bathtub scene in Fargo, Ewan probably thought “Okay, you can destroy my life.”

No one says this:

>4x to 5x their production costs to break even

You are wrong.

Everybody starts somewhere. Most creative types don’t jump out of the gates with a masterpiece. George RR Martin is another example - he was writing small-scale, niche horror and sci-fi stories for more than 20 years before the release of the first Game of Thrones novel

People are fascinated by what scares them. I kind of chalk it up to how men will watch war movies. The threat of having to go to war is a lot more real for men than women with selective service and such.

Being stalked or sexually assaulted or being targeted by a serial killer who hates women is more of a threat to women. So it's a more visceral fear to explore for then.

It's kind of odd because I hate to hear about that stuff. But I live with an elderly religious woman. She can't handle cursing at all. Her daughter had to stop watching shows on HBO and such because she'll always complain about how much the cursing bothers her. But half the time I go by her room I get to hear about awful stuff done to some poor woman being described by a narrator.

Uhm yes.

Spielberg and several other directors have explained this in full in various interviews, which you can find online.

Production cost of movie
Marketing domestic and international
Cut off each ticket that goes to the theatre that shows the movie
Various other costs
Add all of the above up, and you need to make 4 to 5 times the production cost to break even.

Super bowl trailer spots in commercial break went as much as 30 million dollars.

That would've been terrible

There is actually a Walking Dead channel that's on SlingTV, maybe other cable-like streaming services. It's an AMC subchannel or something.

They show TWD of course plus "Ride with Norman Reedus" which is a pretty cool casual viewing show.

knowing that will have zero effect on my reaction lol

(but it is still good to know, thanks)

Same here, it was just not that interesting by the end of Rick's story. Also it always bothered me that they kept Negan around instead of feeding him to the zombies.

It’s got a decent amount of violence but the show doesn’t seem to just revel in violence.

Most of the more violent scenes are plot related and there a few times where violence is shown off screen so that you know it happens but there’s no need to show it.

You don't need to look outside the same show to see someone showing Andrew Lincoln how to do a better accent. Just listen to Darryl and Rick talk. Norman Reedus is doing a real Southern accent, and Andrew Lincoln is doing a half-ass fake one.

Sometimes Rick sounds like he's strolled in from a Gone With the Wind scene with that drawn out overdone accent.

"Achievement unlocked" is then the very next sentence 🤣.

Tl;dr issa PR puff piece for Casey.

I guess I don't remember the joke then. I only remember the bit where he was kinda fucking with her so I thought you were just another "well meaning" person infantilizing us.

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