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PEOPLE can confirm the legendary actress died in California. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson.
Keaton rose to fame in the 1970s thanks to her role in The Godfather films and her collaborations with director Woody Allen. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1977’s Annie Hall. Her long career included movies like The First Wives Club, multiple collaborations with director Nancy Meyers and the Book Club franchise.
The actress was born in Los Angeles in 1946 as Diane Hall, and was the oldest of four children. Her father was a civil engineer, while her mom stayed at home.
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Another NHL season is upon us.
Vancouver wins it’s hone opener 5-1
Only 81 more games to play!Of course this town parties like we’ve won the Cup!
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No, I’m left coast (gateway to the Pacific) Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sometimes I’ll root for Toronto (not always), Trump being a bully has seen the country band together quite well (although I am rooting for Seattle as I grew up going on vacation down through Washington State and Oregon. Miss those days).
I feel for American distillers (U.S. booze sales dropped 85%) and American border towns, American tourist resorts.
But when that idiot is gone we can go back to being friendly nations?
I hope.Focusing only on yourself doesn’t work, and I hope the entire world learns from this.
Have to work together in good times and especially in bad times.I also wonder how we got here at the same time.
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Toronto defeats NYY, advances to ALCS for first time since 2016
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Bill Burr Fires Back at Critics of His Riyadh Comedy Festival Appearance: “Sanctimonious C***s” – Hollywood Reporter
The veteran comedy superstar “doesn’t give a f***” what anyone thinks of his recent trip to Saudi Arabia: “If it affects my career, I’ve been to LAX enough in my life, I’ll f***ing sit home for a little bit.”
Conan O’Brien and the crew from his SiriusXM podcast took over Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre on Sunday night for a special live recording of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. After an introductory segment featuring co-hosts Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley, the Fonda’s lights dimmed as O’Brien readied to reveal his surprise guest — Bill Burr.
“Hi, I’m Bill Burr and I feel wonderful about being Conan O’Brien’s friend,” said the veteran actor-comedian from a podium to rousing applause from the capacity crowd, which included The Hollywood Reporter. But he wasn’t exactly feeling wonderful about the week he’d had. “It’s been fucking fantastic,” he quipped after taking a seat. “Jesus Christ.”
O’Brien was quick to note that his longtime friend and frequent guest had “been in the news” that week, an observation that likely did not come as a surprise to anyone in the room. Burr was among the 50 or so high-profile comedians who traveled to Saudi Arabia for the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Taking place from Sept. 26 to Oct. 9, the event welcomed a who’s who to the country for stand-up sets, a roster that included Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schulz, Aziz Ansari, Jim Jefferies, Jo Koy, Sebastian Maniscalco, Mark Normand, Tom Segura, Bobby Lee, Jeff Ross and more.It O’Brien was quick to note that his longtime friend and frequent guest had “been in the news” that week, an observation that likely did not come as a surprise to anyone in the room. Burr was among the 50 or so high-profile comedians who traveled to Saudi Arabia for the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Taking place from Sept. 26 to Oct. 9, the event welcomed a who’s who to the country for stand-up sets, a roster that included Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schulz, Aziz Ansari, Jim Jefferies, Jo Koy, Sebastian Maniscalco, Mark Normand, Tom Segura, Bobby Lee, Jeff Ross and more.
Burr’s tone had changed by Sunday night as he unleashed on his critics with a barrage of expletives, slamming the online outrage as being stirred up and inflamed by bots and reiterating that the festival itself was a sign of forward progress for the Middle East.
“The general consensus is, ‘How dare you go to that place and make those oppressed people laugh, you fucking piece of shit. I can’t believe you went to that place. I can’t find it on a map, and this bot said I was upset about it so now I am,’” Burr said in recapping the outrage. “It’s one thing to wear clothes made by sweatshop labor. It’s quite another to go to the factory and make ’em laugh. I can’t believe how much anger I had about this issue after it went viral.”
To that, O’Brien joked, “So, you’re here to apologize.” Spoiler alert: He did not apologize. If anything, he delivered a warning that recent events in the United States have indicated “we’re moving towards them.” “Jesus Christ, we’re fucking grabbing moms and dads and sticking ’em in a van for making illegally made fucking tacos to go to Alligator Alcatraz,” Burr said of the ICE raids. “It’s fucking insane. It’s insane. And someday they’re gonna be out of brown people to put in those vans, they’re still gonna have the vans, so you shouldn’t be feeling comfortable about it, thinking that you’re not gonna be in it.”
He continued by noting that he was one of the comedians who got “the most amount of shit” about his appearance from other comedians whom he declined to name. “All of these sanctimonious cunts out there … who don’t really sincerely give a shit,” he said. “If you actually give a fuck about those people and how they’re living over there, there’s gonna have to be these types of things to pull them in. And I will tell you, the Cheesecake Factory in Riyadh, it’s incredible. It’s right next to Pizza Hut and KFC, and if you want a pair of Timberlands, it’s across the street next to the Marriott, catty-corner to the fucking Hilton.”
Though he didn’t mention her by name, Burr gave a nice shout-out to fellow comedian Jessica Kirson, who was on the Riyadh Comedy Festival bill. “Openly gay, went over there and just did her fucking act. And she was in the middle of her act and two of the diplomats got up and she said to them, ‘What, are you guys going to go get on Grindr?’” Burr detailed. “Dude, 33 years of comedy, that’s the biggest balls of anyone I’ve ever seen.” But then she received backlash from “hardcore psycho gays,” Burr said, adding, “Fucking lunatics, man.” After the outrage, Kirson apologized in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter and revealed she would be donating her fee to a human rights organization.
Burr said he had “no fucking idea” the festival would inspire such controversy from people that aren’t able to locate Saudi Arabia on a map. “One time I did Abu Dhabi and somebody [texted me], ‘Oh, you’re going over there to get that blood money, right?’ And I go, ‘Hey, just for the record, I’m also doing London, England, on that tour, which is arguably the bloodiest fucking money out there,’” he said.
He stated that he doesn’t “give a fuck what all these phony fucking people are saying,” nor does he care if his appearance negatively impacts his career. “I really don’t give a fuck, Conan, and if it affects my career, I’ve been to LAX enough in my life, I’ll fucking sit home for a little bit. I will actually tell you LAX is slightly sadder than Saudi Arabia.”
But he did say that while the outrage was exploding, he never heard from his agent. “I’ve been going through this bullshit the whole week. My agent never even called me. He’s been under his fucking desk,” he joked. “He heard me on the podcast, saying what I said here, that I had a good time and it was a positive thing so he thought that was the mindset that I was in through the week.”
He was in contact with his tour manager, who shared with him some of the feedback he was getting. “One of my favorite things is this scumbag club owner texted my tour manager because he heard I was over there [in Saudi Arabia]. He goes, ‘Bring back a burka and a sweatshirt in size oppression.’ That was his joke. So I wrote back to him, ‘Why don’t you concentrate on not ripping off comedians? You fucking piece of shit.’ And he never wrote back,” Burr said.
In closing, Burr said that events like the Riyadh Comedy Festival “have to happen” in order to push progress forward. “It was necessary. It felt right afterward,” he said. “I vibed with them and they were funny. Fuck, they were funny fucking people. I don’t know what to tell you. I had a good time.” And he had a good friend in O’Brien. “I love doing the podcast, man, and I appreciate you having me on, especially during all of this bullshit. You are a real friend, dude.”
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Bill Burr blasts critics of Saudi Arabia comedy festival visit in expletive-laden interview
Uh, sorry, I just posted a Fox News story.
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Yes, the Toronto Blue Jays have spoken and have taken a 2-0 lead in a best of 5.
Yay!
So, left coast has the Seattle Mariners winning first playoff home game since 2001.
East Coast decision?
With 3 minutes left to 8:00 (Pacific) we’ll immediately go to the lead story of the awesomeness of Toronto.
Then at 8:00 we repeat the same story of the AWESOMENESS OF TORONTO.I get it, and go fuck yourself.
All in same minute.Did you expect any less?
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Vladimir Guerrero Ramos Jr.
Grand Slam
In the 4th inning of game 2.
9-0 TO over NYY
Seriously, Boston is screaming at the screen, “we lost to those bitches?”
(NY beat Boston to be here).Oh, another 2 run homer as I type.
4th inning still on.11-0
Inning is over.
I know you have to play the game, but cruelty be damned.
Stop it now, or make their moms cry.
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But yeah, this market?
Finally Toronto and Seattle (American League) teams both have home field advantage.
Just win and face each other next round (winner goes to World Series).Like it’s perfect, right?
But they have to do it.I know my flag, yet my heart is here (less than 3 hours north of Seattle).
And the Mariners (and Brewers playing the Cubs) have never won. Don’t wish that on anyone.
Ouch, Seattle only team to never reach the final.Detroit hasn’t won in 41 years (playing Seattle).
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So, the subtle nuances of baseball escape me.
I need to be told.But when the camera showed two Yankee pitchers warming up (a leftie and a rightie) during the fucking second inning?
Bit of a panic showing?
Yeah, the Blue Jays can be good.
They can also ask for help to point the shotgun at their feet.So NY shut it down.
3rd inning now.
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Have they genuinely edited it? What a travesty.
Hope for the 4K Blu-Ray Steelcase Box (giggle) Set
Getting a bit silly, but in the theatre I was right beside my mom, who let out a “whoa”…
Not like I was going to unzip, right then anyways.
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By the way, when Wendy told him “You’re not really Peter Pan”, I half expected her to actually say “You’re Willy Wonka” :)
Same! Totally thought of Dave’s quote.
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‘Something Is Killing the Children,’ ‘Lumberjanes’ Among Boom! Studios Titles Heading to Webtoon (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter
‘Fence’ and ‘Wynd’ also getting the scrolling digital treatment as Boom! becomes the latest publisher to strike a partnership with the webcomic giant.
Indie comic book company Boom! Studios is the latest publisher embracing the ever-growing power of scrolling digital comics.
Webtoon Entertainment, the media company that arguably paved the way for the global mainstream acceptance of the mobile webcomic format, has partnered with Boom! to bring some of the publisher’s most popular franchises to the Webtoon platform.
Webtoon will become the exclusive home to vertical scrolling webcomic editions of Something Is Killing the Children, the horror title written by James Tynion IV and drawn by Werther Dell’Edera. SIKTC is Boom’s top-selling comic, with over five million copies sold across various formats. It is now poised to be discovered by a whole new readership under this deal.
Other comics in the first wave falling under this deal include fantasy Wynd, also written by Tynion, coming-of-age story Fence, and Boom’s best-selling 2010s sensation, Lumberjanes.
“Boom!’s catalog has earned recognition from fans and industry professionals alike for its inspired storytelling,” said Webtoon chief strategy officer and head of global Yongsoo Kim in a statement. “We’re excited to partner with them to bring modern classics and genre-defining series like Something Is Killing the Children to new audiences on Webtoon.”
Stated Boom! president Jen Harned, “Boom! Studios is always looking for more ways to reach new and current fans, and Webtoon’s unique platform provides a great opportunity to experience our content.”
Wynd, drawn by Michael Dialynas, follows Wynd, a young boy harboring the secret that magical blood runs in his veins. When his secret is threatened, he embarks on a dangerous adventure with his best friend.
Fence, which combines sports comics and manga style to tell the story of young fencer Nicholas Cox as he makes a name in the world of competitive fencing and lives up to his father’s reputation. C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad is the team behind the comic.
Lumberjanes was one of Boom’s early hits and was created by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Gus Allen and ND Stevenson. The comic told of a group of girls at a scout camp that is surrounded by supernatural occurrences and creatures. The comic won two Eisner Awards and was nominated for three GLAAD Media Awards.
Launch dates for each series will be announced at a later date.
It’s been incredible to see how Something Is Killing the Children and Wynd have connected with fans,” stated Tynion. “I’m eager to see them in vertical scroll, and grateful for the opportunity to bring them to new readers.”
Webtoon and Boom! will be teaming up at New York Comic Con for a panel on the reformatting of the established print comics in a panel titled Legends Reborn: Iconic Comics, New Adventures on Webtoon on Oct. 10.
Webtoon has been making considerable inroads in recruiting traditional comics publishers to its platform. In the spring, it made a deal with IDW to convert acclaimed serial killer story Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Joe Hill series Locke & Key, and a Godzilla story, among others, to scrolling reading. Other collaborations have occurred with DC Comics and Archie Comics.
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hope Hawley has some good performance-enhancing drugs at hand because I need him to be working 24/7
Huh? In the film industry?
I jest, just finished True Romance.
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A Surprising Update About An ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 – Forbes
I am a bit surprised to be writing this at all, as I figured with Alien: Earth already being the longest Alien project ever, by nature of being a TV show, it was probably just going to exist as a miniseries, no matter what critic and audience reception was (and it’s extremely good, of course). That does not appear to be the case.
It doesn’t seem like the plan was ever for this to be a miniseries, where the idea would be that it now may break out of that because of performance. Creator Noah Hawley is direct in talking about season 2 and if he knows where it might go. Here he is in an interview with Evolution of Horror:
“I do. I do. I mean, I think that I have a destination in mind story-wise, which allows me to know what the story is I’m telling, what it means. And I don’t know how long it takes to get there, but I do have a sense of where we go in success. And you know, the question becomes: how streamlined can we make the process so that you’re not waiting for three, or four, or five years for more?”
This extends back to FX boss John Landgraf who was already talking about this back in 2024, saying that they want Hawley to prioritize the show:
“We’re pretty bullish on Alien: Earth and we’ve told him that assuming, as we hope, Alien: Earth is a returning television series, we want him to focus on at least writing two seasons of it before returning to a possible sixth season of Fargo.”
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Jon Stewart is taking over the Daily Show desk tonight (he usually only does Mondays).
I think he might have something to say.
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ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments – Hollywood Reporter
The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.
Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show is being suspended by ABC over his viral comments about Charlie Kirk.
A network spokesperson said Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be “preempted indefinitely.”
The network’s action came just after Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the country — including 28 ABC affiliates — said it will preempt the series for the immediate future. A source said that ABC had also heard from at least one other station group about the show, suggesting that an affiliate revolt may have played a role in the decision.
The dramatic move follows Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr threatening to take action against ABC affiliates in the wake of Kimmel suggesting the Kirk shooting suspect was a MAGA Republican during a monologue earlier this week.
A source tells The Hollywood Reporter Kimmel was prepared to address the backlash on Wednesday night’s show. He planned to explain what he said and demonstrate how it was taken out of context.
When asked by THR, the source said that Kimmel was not planning on apologizing. He felt that what he said did not require an apology.
“I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing,” Carr told THR. “Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values. I hope that other broadcasters follow Nexstar’s lead.”
Kimmel’s original comments were as follows:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Then on Wednesday, Carr went on a podcast where he slammed Kimmel and declared that affiliates should “push back” on ABC and say, in effect, “Listen, we’re not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out because we’re running the possibility of license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion.”
Nexstar currently operates mostly in small or midsize markets, though they include the ABC stations in New Orleans and Salt Lake City.
The decision by Nexstar comes as the broadcast station is seeking FCC approval for its $6.2 billion mega deal to acquire Tegna, a deal that would make Nexstar by far the largest owner of local TV stations in the country.
The FCC would have to raise the 40 percent ownership cap in order to let the deal advance. It is not clear if Tegna will follow Nexstar’s decision. Tegna operates 13 ABC stations, including in Austin and Sacramento.
Carr has used his perch to launch investigations into broadcasters that have caught the ire of President Trump, with their DEI policies the most frequent target. However, he has also sent letters about select content, and the FCC investigation into last year’s CBS 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris remains open.
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A co-worker had to tell me there was a school shooting the same say Kirk died.
I hadn’t heard a thing about it.Assassination in Utah, school shooting in Colorado: one day in US gun violence | US gun control | The Guardian https://share.google/T36rpJIddD3LNLa7J
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Fucking stupid all over.
Saw Kirk’s wife, and basically, they’re setting him up as a martyr, and prepping for war.
Of course murder is wrong, and that should never have happened.
But the pure evil on a small ruling percentage of the right, coupled with pure silence from those that should protest makes a powder keg.
Yes, calling them Nazi’s is appropriate.
Preaching hatred, preaching stupidity, and bullying is just plain fucking wrong.But now things are going to get worse.
They don’t see what they are, but now they see themselves as the victim, but ready to fight back.(Side note:
Honestly believe 30% of the right has just lost perspective and goes with it, another 30% has no support and cowardly goes with it.
A small percentage is really the problem, but wow, never have I seen it this bad)
Just… arrgghh)The news just showed Kirk talking about the second amendment and how some shootings will have to be acceptable.
Asshole! I hated the fucking guy, and not sorry he’s gone.
(Sorry for saying that if it pushes a button)But it did not help, not at all.
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A friend in town, so a small group of us downtown in Vancouver’s skid row at the Richshaw Theatre.
Holds 600 people max, very intimate, very loud.
Baroness the headliner, playing their best two albums, Red & Blue in their entirety (I believe).
First band at 8:00, 12 minutes away
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Greg Rucka On Dark Times At DC Comics With Dan DiDio & Geoff Johns – Bleeding Cool News
John Siuntres of the podcast Word Balloon just interviewed Greg Rucka about his work in and outside comic books. That included his return to DC Comics with the Cheetah & Cheshire Rob The Justice League mini-series with Nicola Scott and why he may have been away for so long.
Siuntres mentioned that DC Comics was republishing the 2008 War Of The Supermen comics book event ahead of the Supergirl movie, which saw writers Greg Rucka, James Robinson and Sterling Gates working together. Or not. Greg Rucka says;
“That was me at my absolute lowest at DC. That was in the deep end when everybody was lying to me, using me, betraying me, abusing me. My relationship with James was a bad one. He was writing whatever he wanted. We were not collaborating well. Collaborating with Sterling was great—literally was the best thing about that period. But it was just a repeated kick between the legs.”
He elaborated, talking about DC Comics executives, former Publisher Dan DiDio and former CCO Geoff Johns.
“It was toxic when I was there and remained toxic until Dan DiDio left. It was an abusive, manipulative environment. Geoff Johns was an incredibly manipulative person to me – used me, lied to me, played me off against people. DiDio did the same thing. I was made promises repeatedly, and they were always broken. When I left in 2009, I was mentally ill. I was severely depressed, suicidal. I nearly took my life. And that’s all the direct result of the way I was treated from 2006 through 2009, it was done with malice. The people I’m speaking about are bad actors. I’m not in a place where I will ever defend them again. They did what they did with malice of forethought.”
Greg Rucka returned to DC Comics for Wonder Woman and DC Rebirth in 2016, and again with Brian Bendis’ Wonder Comics in 2019. He recalled;
“When they came to me in 2016, they were on their knees, saying, “We have a Wonder Woman movie coming out, and we’ve forked the character into a cocked hat” … “screwed the pooch.” They said, “We need to get it fixed. We want you to do it. What will it take?” I gave them a list of demands, made them put it in writing, which is how you got me back in 2016. At the end of that first year, they said “well, we’re going to do it again, we want you to keep going”, and I said “this isn’t sustainable. And I told you I could only do it for a year”. So that’s when I walked away. In 2019, I came back because Brian Bendis and Matt Fraction were coming in, and there was an intention we’d work together. And when I came in at that point, I was told, “We don’t need to make guarantees because we’ve proven we’ll do what we said.” Like an idiot, I said, “Okay,” and they proceeded to fork me… So when that ended, I walked away. They came back a couple of times, but I stayed away.”
So what changed?
“June of last year at Heroes Con, an editor whose name escapes me, came by and said, “Cully [Hamner] said I should talk to you. Are you willing to talk?” I said, “I’m always willing to talk.” Word got back that the door was open. So Rob Levin called me and said, “Here’s what we’re doing.” He poured enough poison in my ear about the Cheetah and Cheshire thing to make me go, “Ooh, now I’m intrigued.” We had a serious conversation. I said, “I’ve had bad experiences. I’m not going to do that again, I’m not going to go back to that.” He said, “I know what you’re talking about, and I know what you are describing, and that’s not us now.” When I was there, literally, editorial groups were at war with each other. That’s not on the editors, that’s from the top down, that’s from the COO and that’s from Dan. They didn’t allowing it to happen, they made it happen.”
At the time, Bleeding Cool reported on what we called an intercine rivalry between the coasts of DC Comics, of Dan Didio and Geoff Johns, and how that played out in the New 52 or the treatment of Poison Ivy, with Scott Snyder Island as some kind of Switzerland neutral state. It would eventually lead to Dan Didio being fired in 2020 after then-President Diane Nelson resigning and Geoff Johns was pushed out in 2018. There were also a lot of staff layoffs that followed. But it seems that things have really changed at DC, and for the better. Greg Rucka writes;
“I’m going to be perfectly honest right now, it’s a different company right now. The people there—it’s healthy… Rob made it clear to me, he said “it’s different now. Editorial gets along and we communicate”. And I said, “All right, well, I’ll believe that when I see that, but I’m happy to talk.” And then I got to see it. And Rob is absolutely correct. There are three group editors that I am in communication with, and they talk to each other so much it’s almost a problem, right? It creates an environment where that’s putting out somne of the best stuff DC’s done in the last 10 to 15 years… It’s a positive environment. People are working together, and they’re not working in fear, they’re collaborating… I’ve never written anything that couldn’t benefit from another set of eyes. I want to be able to talk to an editor and be able to say, “This is what I’m thinking. I’m not sure if this works.” And have them say, “Okay, I don’t think it does work, but have you thought about this?” I am working with three separate editors at DC right now. All of them have been terrific. The last time I was able to work with editors who were that good was in 2016 when I was able to pick the editors I was working with. And before that, I got to go back frankly to Denny’s [Dennis Oneill] bat group. And that’s not to say the editors that I worked with, for instance, on Gotham Central, Matt Idleson, Nachie Castro, were bad people or bad editors. They were great at their jobs. But the environment was growing more and more toxic crazy.”
“I’ve really come to a place where I’m like, “Oh, no. I can see I can see what was done.” And I can see now the truth of it. And I can see also some common denominators of things. There are certain things that I have realized about people who I was working for and working with who were very careful about hiding it about themselves… I’ve had a lot of realizations in the last year, and some of them have been like, “Oh, oh, this person was an anti-semite from the start. this person didn’t like me because I was a Jew… I’m not interested in protecting anybody’s legacy anymore. I’m just not. I’m not.”
And as for returning to Gotham Central, the seminal series he wrote with Ed Brubaker, there is a possibility. He writes
“I did it without Ed for 15-20 issues, so I’m not precious about it. An editor mentioned doing a Gotham Central Black Label thing, and I could see it if I had an idea. For Detective Comics #1100, they wanted something Gotham Central-ish. I didn’t have an idea initially, but Jessica Barby, an associate editor, suggested a story about a coroner or medical angle. I’d been watching The Pit and reading The Knife and Gun Club, about Denver’s trauma center. It got me thinking—what’s Gotham like before and after Batman if you’re in a trauma center? I kind of want to do a medical drama set in Gotham now. But when we proposed Gotham Central, they wanted to call it Batman: Gotham Central, which meant Batman had to be in it. That’s not what it’s about—it’s about Batman’s effect. People love Gotham Central, but it never sold well. We’re barely moving copies of Cheetah and Cheshire now, so I don’t see DC approving a six-issue series about Vanity working in Gotham General.”
And as for Marvel Comics?”
“Marvel has never ever liked me. Every time I go to Marvel, it ends badly. They say, “Come here, come here, please, please, please.” And then I inevitably get fired or lied to. Marvel is never going to call me and say, “Please come and play in our yard.” And that’s fine. Marvel’s yard only has a few characters I’m actually interested in. DC’s Yard is where my heart is. I’m not saying no, but I’ve never been the flavor of the month at Marvel. As I am fond of telling people, I am the only guy to take Wolverine out of the top 10. He was he was selling great until Darick Robertson and I took over. And then they were like, why is he not wearing a costume and stabbing people all the time? And I was like, that’s not the story we’re telling. And Marvel is like, “Oh, what have we done?” You know, when is he leaving the book?”
As for that darkest time he mentioned earlier,
“wasn’t really telling people about it. I was in the hole. But yeah, literally December 2012, I had to call a friend to say, “I need you to come here and take this firearm out of my home. Because I am afraid of what I will do with it if I am left alone.”
We are glad to hear that Greg Rucka is in a better place. But Bleeding Cool would like to remind readers that if you or someone you love is in crisis, there are several ways of seeking help. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org
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Okay, so we’re still alive.
Kept hitting a “this website has had a fatal error” message for the past almost 48 hours.
Thanks for the fix, whoever you are.
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Just saw a Near Mint Condition video on the Archive Edition of Secret Wars (first one from the ’80’s).
Good looking book and frickin’ huge.
I woukd be all over that but just got the last HC omnibus in 2023.
Not going to double dip on this one.However, it has now drawn my attention to the Archive Edition of Spider-Man: The Black Costume Year One.
And just ordered as I type…Someday I’ll have to reign in my spending, just hopefully not for a long while.
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Superman Adventures Compendium Two – June 2nd 2026
Paperback – 984 pgs.
… collects issues #29–66
New X-Men Modern Era Epic Collection: Planet X – June 2nd 2026
Paperback – 336 pgs.
Concluding acclaimed writer Grant Morrison’s revolutionary NEW X-MEN run!
COLLECTING: New X-Men (2001) #142-154Thor Epic Collection: The Surtur War – March 3rd 2026
Writer/artist Walter Simonson’s groundbreaking Thor run starts here!
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Oh no! Where will I get suits I can’t afford to buy?
Giorgio Armani, Legendary Italian Fashion Designer, Dies at 91 – People
Armani brought power suits into the American fashion lexicon in the 1980s and has dressed every Hollywood A-lister
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Box Office: ‘Weapons’ Wins Quiet Labor Day With $12.4M, ‘Jaws’ Beats ‘Caught Stealing,’ ‘The Roses’ – Hollywood Reporter
The holiday closes out a fraught summer for Hollywood, with domestic revenue barely able to match last year’s disappointing haul.
A half a century later, Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws still has plenty of bite as the troubled 2025 summer season comes to a close.
The original summer blockbuster, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is opening in second place at the four-day Labor Day box office behind Zach Cregger‘s August sleeper hit Weapons, which remains in first place for the fourth weekend in a row with an estimated four-day gross of $12.4 million and $10.2 million for the three-day weekend proper. The horror pic, yet another win for Warner Bros. and New Line, looks to finish Monday with a global tally of $234.6 million.
Booked in 3,200 cinemas, Jaws is looking at a four-day haul of $9.8 million — rival studios show it coming in north of $10 million — and $8.1 million for the three days. Either way, that’s enough to swim past Darren Aronofsky‘s new movie starring Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz, as well as Searchlight’s The Roses.
The fact that a 50-year movie is doing better than the two studio offerings underscores a rough-and-tumble summer for Hollywood studios and exhibitors, with domestic revenue barely able to match last year’s disappointing $3.67 billion, which was down from 2023’s $4.09 billion. Comscore is estimating that 2025 domestic summer ticket sales will come in 0.2 percent behind 2024, or a difference of $7 million. Heading into summer, most were confident that the season would match 2023’s $4 billion-plus.
Despite strong reviews, Sony and Aronofsky’s crime caper is opening in third place with an estimated four-day gross of $9.5 million from 3,578 theaters and $7.8 million for the three days (that’s in line with muted expectations).
Disney’s holdover Freakier Friday is holding in fourth place with an estimated $6.5 million for three days and $8.3 million for the four.
Both Caught Stealing and The Roses were slapped with a tepid B CinemaScore from audiences. Exits were stronger on PostTrak, however.
The Roses, an update of the classic divorce comedy, is rounding out the top five in North America with an estimated four-day gross of $8 million from 2,700 locations, and $6.3 million for the three days. It opened to a stronger $9.2 million overseas — Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman lead the cast — for an estimated launch of $17.2 million.
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Yeah, like they realize they battered the brand.
Decent/okay numbers plus good reviews and positive word of mouth are the key here.
Everything pointed upwards.Still going to be analyzed as time goes, and only a James Gunn production has a pre-approved budget of that caliber.
Supergirl and others of a moderate budget not failing is a plus, but also not scary.
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Has anybody done the opening credits thing like this before? It’s genius,
Yes sir! I think about posting that every time I see it, just would rather keep watching.
Yeah, if we’re watching all we need is a reminder.
“Previously on ‘We think the audience is stupid’…” is not for us.And of course this was the perfect testing ground for that.
Noah Hawley and Alien had a built in ‘definitely going to try it out’.
Well, it worked, and if anyone is like me we have sent word out to people ‘on the fence’.Not disappointed by this.
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A YouTube comment made me laugh.
“This album (Master of Puppets) is my neighbors favorite album of all time, whether he likes it or not”
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Here’s the best metal album of all time.
Bold statement sir!
Not calling you out, or saying I disagree, just what is Metal?Like, there’s always the apples/oranges thing going on.
I would say Slayer’s ‘Reign in Blood’is the epitome of thrash. Their follow up album ‘South of Heaven’ is just as glorious, but in a different way and I wouldn’t use those words to describe.And I’m pretty sure I had a long educated point to keep going, just kinda lost my way.
Plus it’s Labour Day weekend, and that beer’s not going to drink itself.
Hey, maybe I’ll put on Master of Puppets.
Good call!Edit: oh yeah, and copy and paste the link and spread the love!
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So on a family group text my brother sends out “It’s that time of year! Pumkin Spice everything!”
Now do I really want Pumkin Spice in my cheese?
I do think it’s overused, but maybe I should just try it once before I slam it. Maybe I’ll like it.Then my brother-in-law throws down “I see your pumpkin spice cheese and raise you a ketchup smoothie”
Kraft Heinz and Smoothie King Weigh in with First-Ever Tomato Ketchup Smoothie
What in the actual fuck!
The adult in me (last 16 years) says no, absolutely not.
The kid in me (the first 40 years) says I have to try this.Hmmm
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From the desk of Ed Brubaker (e-mail newsletter):
Okay, the book is finally out in comic shops today — I don’t want to say anything that will spoil the book, so below here are a few random favorite pages to tease you. I think this is one of my favorite things we’ve ever done, it’s got several story strands that wind around each other until the big conclusion. It’s 200 pages long and stars Jacob (from Bad Night and Bad Weekend) and Angie (from Coward and My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies) and Tracy Lawless, from most of the other Criminal books.
that’s not it for me and Sean’s output this year. In early December we have the CRIMINAL XMAS SPECIAL dropping, featuring a novella-length story about Ricky Lawless and a bunch of cool extras, including a CRIMINAL RPG module by Kieron Gillen. And stuff like this:
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The Knives is out at your LCS.
If you ordered through a bookseller, then it’s Tues. Sept. 9th for you.
Dammit.The Knives: A Criminal Book OGN Reviews (2025) at ComicBookRoundUp.com https://share.google/vbmTqh5ISoXgljelZ
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Didn’t know where to put this.
Maybe we should have a ‘streaming’ thread?—————
You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon – Hollywood Reporter
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can “buy” a movie when they’re purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.
A little known fact about movie and TV show “purchases” online: What’s being bought isn’t actually ownership of the title but rather a limited-time license for viewing access. Consider the $4.99 director’s cut of Alien on Amazon Prime Video. Cheap, right? But if the tech giant loses the rights to that version, the movie can be replaced with a different cut, like the one for theaters. And if Amazon loses the rights to the film altogether, it’ll completely disappear from the viewer’s library.
So should Amazon be able to say a consumer is “buying” that movie? Some people don’t think so, and they’ve turned to court.
On Friday, a proposed class action was filed in Washington federal court against Amazon over a “bait and switch” in which the company allegedly misleads consumers into believing they’ve purchased content when they’re only getting a license to watch, which can be revoked at any time.
The issue came to the forefront at the California legislature in 2023 when gamers discovered that their access to The Crew would be cut off once Ubisoft shut down servers for the game. After, the “Stop Killing Games” movement was born to stop publishers from destroying titles consumers had already bought.
Lisa Reingold, who filed the lawsuit, says she bought Bella and the Bulldogs — Volume 4 on Amazon in May for $20.79 but soon lost access to the title. It’s not an uncommon occurrence, similarly affecting consumers across digital stores, like those hosted by Apple and Google. If you bought Downton Abbey through Amazon as the five seasons came out from 2010 to 2015, you’d no longer have them by 2024.
The way in which digital transactions are structured, the lack of transparency around them and the streaming landscape is partly why physical media is kind-of-sort-of cool again. DVDs offer the ability, now and forever, to bypass the complicated web of licenses that leave fans unable to access their favorite titles.
The lawsuit accuses Amazon, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, of misrepresenting the nature of movie and TV transactions during the purchase process. On its website and platform, the company tells consumers they can “buy” a movie. But hidden in a footnote on the confirmation page is fine print that says, “You receive a license to the video and you agree to our terms,” the complaint says.
The issue is already before a court. In a 2020 lawsuit alleging unfair competition and false advertising over the practice, Amazon maintained that its use of the word “buy” for digital content isn’t deceptive because consumers understand their purchases are subject to licenses. Quoting Webster’s Dictionary, it said that the term means “rights to the use or services of payment” rather than perpetual ownership and that its disclosures properly warn people that they may lose access. The court ultimately rebuffed Amazon’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit outside of a claim alleging a violation of Washington’s unjust enrichment law.
Recent legislative changes may make the lawsuit even more viable. Earlier this year, a California law went into effect barring the advertisement of a transaction as a “purchase” unless it offers unrestricted ownership of the product. Under the statute, sellers must obtain acknowledgement that buyers are aware they’re actually buying a limited license, in this case movies or TV shows, that can be revoked.
Amazon “does not meet the standards set by the statute for a clear and conspicuous notice that the thing they are purchasing is a revocable license to access the digital good,” writes Wright Noel, a lawyer for consumers looking to sue the company, in the complaint. “The warning is buried at the very bottom of the screen, in font that is considerably smaller than the other text on the screen.”
The lawsuit claims violations of California unfair competition, false advertising and consumer legal remedies laws. It seeks unspecified damages, including disgorgement of profits and punitive damages for allegedly intentionally malicious conduct.
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MONDAY AM: Sources tell Deadline that Netflix/Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters Singalong is coming in at No. 1 with $19.2M over Saturday and Sunday. Note that rival studios are all over the map still on estimating this, but that’s where we are seeing the anime movie from directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans after a $10.1M Saturday and $9.1M Sunday.
Netflix kept quiet about numbers all weekend, which is very odd given how it provided guidance when it had the limited Thanksgiving play of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which did $15M in its first week at 696 sites. In addition, the streamer isn’t shy about proclaiming to the world its internal measurement of its shows and movies’ viewership. That two-day take for KPop Demon Hunters, which wasn’t even booked at No. 1 chain AMC, isn’t anything to be embarrassed about. In fact, the rest of exhibition can get down on its knees and thank the Almighty as Netflix has delivered the manna of an extra $19M in what is the slowest weekend of summer, now estimated at $79M.
Without KPop Demon Hunters, the entire marketplace would be at $60M, per ComScore. I’m told that exhibition was told by Netflix to shield its ticket sales in ComScore, so that rival studios couldn’t figure out how to compute KPop‘s box office. But it’s 2025, and there are other ways to calculate KPop Demon Hunters’ box office. As such, official box office reports from ComScore show Warner Bros/New Line’s third weekend of Weapons winning the frame with $15.4M ($115.6M running cume).
If a major filmmaker has a No. 1 win at the box office with a Netflix movie going forward, will the streamer continue to hide such victories?
Rival motion picture studios long have predicted that Netflix eventually will give in and book a handful of movies on a wide theatrical basis. Netflix brass publicly have denied that, underscoring that it’s simply a subscription business. Theatrical windows, of course, is the big debate with exhibitors when it comes to Netflix, but none of them (except AMC) had a problem playing KPop this weekend. Netflix typically takes a handful of movies out theatrically on a limited basis during the year, especially during the latter half of Q3 and Q4 to qualify for Oscars.P
Netflix has Greta Gerwig’s Narnia opening in Imax on Thanksgiving Day 2026 in 90 countries across 1,000 auditoriums in advance of the movie’s Christmas Day debut on Netflix.
Other under the hood for KPop Demon Hunters over the weekend:
When it comes to the share of attendance, Regal and Cinemark were neck-in-neck at 30% each, according to box office stat firm EntTelligence. In regards to box office, however, Regal had the bigger share of sales over Cinemark, 32% to 30%. Marcus Theatres was a distant third at 6% in attendance in sales. Top cities for KPop were Los Angeles (12%), San Francisco (5%), New York City (5%) and Dallas (4%). On Sunday, 68% of the audience for the anime pic attended cinemas before 5 p.m.
“The success of KPop Demon Hunters underscores the power of the collective experience,” said Brooks LeBoeuf, SVP U.S. Content for Regal Cineworld. “When fan-favorite content plays on the big screen, surrounded by the passion of fellow fans, it becomes something extraordinary. This weekend’s tremendous results demonstrate that cinema is still the ultimate amplifier of culture, and at Regal we remain deeply committed to delivering these kinds of unforgettable theatrical experiences.”
Netflix stock at the time of this report is up 1.85% to $1,226.89. Currently, there aren’t any plans for Netflix to extend the run of KPop Demon Hunters Singalong, this version of their second-most-watched movie literally just dropped on the OTT service at midnight.
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