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Skwirl posted:But often the opposite is true, the only reason there's 6 Resident Evil movies is because of overseas box office. Granted, but I think it depends on the type of movie as well. I imagine the received wisdom is that something like Justice League isn't supposed to need the foreign box office to ride to its rescue. I feel like the expectations are a lot higher for a Justice League than a Resident Evil movie. As for Fast and Furious and (at least until the most recent one) Transformers, I'd assumed those were pretty reliable earners in America. Happy to acknowledge if I'm wrong, though.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Granted, but I think it depends on the type of movie as well. I imagine the received wisdom is that something like Justice League isn't supposed to need the foreign box office to ride to its rescue. I feel like the expectations are a lot higher for a Justice League than a Resident Evil movie. Every blockbuster needs overseas sales to be successful. Avengers didn't earn a billion dollars in America alone.
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Skwirl posted:Every blockbuster needs overseas sales to be successful. Avengers didn't earn a billion dollars in America alone. Of course not, although I imagine there is a proportion of the budget which the American box office is expected to recoup for it to be deemed successful. What I mean is that if an American movie does poorly in America, that can be enough to make it a "flop" even if it does well overseas (I believe because a lot of the time, most of the money made overseas goes to the overseas distributors). Look at The Mummy with Tom Cruise, for instance. (heh dark universe)
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The reason why overseas box office sales are looked down upon are twofold. One is the very reasonable reason that they tend to retain less from those sales. Tariffs and other protectionist laws give more money to the local theaters per ticket than in the United States. So sales figures are actually smaller than the domestic. The second is less reasonable. It's ethnocentric belief that your own Nations more important that has permeated Hollywood for very long time and is why foreign releases of films, until very recently, were never even looked at for sales figures and succeeding overseas was looked at as a very shameful thing if it didn't succeed domestically.
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The US is more important than any other individual country for Hollywood. Significantly so.
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It's neat seeing Chinese production logos in front of blockbusters. Look at that fun thing.
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's neat seeing Chinese production logos in front of blockbusters. That's a happy logo.
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The foreign box office returns being kind of slim is part of why Justice League is considered to not be doing so hot. Although being outperformed by Thor 3 in its opening weekend isn't a good sign either.
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CB Cebulski has admitted that "Akira Yoshida," who wrote a number of miniseries and one-shots for Marvel around 2004-2005 before mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth, was in fact a pseudonym he used to get around a Marvel policy forbidding editors from writing for the company. I have a feeling that this is going to get picked up by mainstream news outlets fairly shortly, and that his half-assed quasi-apology here really won't suffice. Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Nov 28, 2017 21:10
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That’s just his response to Bleeding Cool. Anyone in comics who can avoid just saying “go gently caress yourselves” to them is a god drat saint. He’s probably going to have to release a real apology/statement officially now though.
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I mean, the thing to me that strikes me as bad isn't anything about 'but this white guy who lived in japan for good chunks of his life wrote about japanese-themed comics and we didn't know he was ACTUALLY JUST WHITE' so much as 'marvel hired a guy under a pseudonym that he faked for a whole year before getting hired by them under an entirely different name and now this guy is in charge of the company' which seems... sketchy to me, in a lot of ways. It's the sort of lie that comes up and begs 'okay, if this is the lie that got known, what else isn't true about him'.
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"I’ve had lunch with the guy–very nice guy. He’s a very cool guy. When we had lunch he showed me pictures of his immense Godzilla memorabilia collection–I was jealous!Well, there’s ONE conspiracy theory down the drains!!!” I can't mad at these goofballs scrambling to pretend they courted a real manga writer. e: "And as to the Akira Yoshida that Marvel people had met, including his bosses, that was a Japanese translator who had visited the offices – and yes, who had had lunch with Mike Marts – and who was mistakenly identified as Akira Yoshida. So everyone remembered having met him – even though they never did." Incredible. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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Nov 29, 2017 00:22
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I can't say that this is a scandal I particularly care to get heated about.
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Little Mac posted:I can't say that this is a scandal I particularly care to get heated about. I mean, considering it happened the same day as the tax bill looking like its set to vote and ruin the economy and practically kill poor people and a trump appointed judge ignored the law to put an anti-consumer trump appointee incharge of the consumer protection bureau despite the law clearly stating that this shouldn't happen, it's pretty hard to care about this.
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Teenage Fansub posted:"I’ve had lunch with the guy–very nice guy. He’s a very cool guy. When we had lunch he showed me pictures of his immense Godzilla memorabilia collection–I was jealous!Well, there’s ONE conspiracy theory down the drains!!!” For what it's worth, the West Wing names-changed version of the story from Gregg Schigiel's podcast that reignited this whole thing a few months back seems to imply that Marts (at least, I think that's who "Toby Ziegler" is) was in on the deception and lied about having met Yoshida to cover for Cebulski. Grain of salt, of course. Anyway, this has really blown up on mainstream media, with the likes of THR, the LA Times, Vulture, and The Verge all running stories on it. I don't think this necessarily has to end with Cebulski getting fired (this was over a decade ago, and it's not like he tossed racial slurs around or sexually harassed colleagues), but it's clear that Marvel needs to put a lot more thought into their next response than Cebulski did before hitting "send" on his half-baked apology. This is yet another example illustrating how Marvel Comics' corporate culture has simply not adapted to a world where mainstream news outlets hire reporters who are intimately familiar with geek culture and are actually willing to cover it critically. They still expect media to either regurgitate their PR line, to be so niche that no one beyond hardcore comics geeks will care what they say, or both. Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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Covok posted:I mean, considering it happened the same day as the tax bill looking like its set to vote and ruin the economy and practically kill poor people and a trump appointed judge ignored the law to put an anti-consumer trump appointee incharge of the consumer protection bureau despite the law clearly stating that this shouldn't happen, it's pretty hard to care about this. And yet here you are, posting in a comic book forum
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FoneBone posted:And yet here you are, posting in a comic book forum And if wasn't posting here and reading comics, I 'd probably kill myself.
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FoneBone posted:And yet here you are, posting in a comic book forum I mean it beats screaming into the void forever.
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Eho is doind luxus december?
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Covok posted:I mean, considering it happened the same day as the tax bill looking like its set to vote and ruin the economy and practically kill poor people and a trump appointed judge ignored the law to put an anti-consumer trump appointee incharge of the consumer protection bureau despite the law clearly stating that this shouldn't happen, it's pretty hard to care about this. I think that is sort of how life in the 21st century works. "Here are a bunch of huge problems that are going to have major effect. But they are complex things that you don't have the ability to effect. On the other hand here is a story that involves someone else. It is literally 1 millionth as important as the big thing, but complaining about it could have an effect." In a way I am sort of impressed at how this played out. Not only was their commitment to a lie just so one guy could get paid, he even seemed to bring in another guy just so he could pretend to be this fake writer and go to lunch with people.
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Little Mac posted:I can't say that this is a scandal I particularly care to get heated about. surely you can appreciate how goofy it is even if you don't "get heated"
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No, for sure. I think this will result in his firing though, which is kinda whatever.
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Covok posted:
Because the guy in that page is bald, I have always thought it was a jab at Bendis, who was a bit too much proud of writing Luke Cage at that time
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fatherboxx posted:Because the guy in that page is bald, I have always thought it was a jab at Bendis, who was a bit too much proud of writing Luke Cage at that time a) McDuffie was always on the record that 1970s Luke Cage was well-intentioned but kind of tone-deaf b) Bendis stripped pretty much all of that away from the character c) Bendis and McDuffie never spoke ill of each other at any point
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If it's supposed to be Bendis, it's possible that was the artist's choice. But please remember what Bendis himself said: "I am not all bald men"
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Lightning Lord posted:If it's supposed to be Bendis, it's possible that was the artist's choice. But please remember what Bendis himself said: "I am not all bald men" Yeah it's clearly BKV. Or Morrison.
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But I thought Morrison was skinny. And British.
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David D. Davidson posted:But I thought Morrison was skinny. And British. He's famously Scottish.
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Retro Futurist posted:Yeah it's clearly BKV. Or Morrison. I don't know how to break this to you guys, but he actually looks like my uncle. Mystery solved.
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Madkal posted:I don't know how to break this to you guys, but he actually looks like my uncle. Mystery solved. UnKal
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Lightning Lord posted:He's famously Scottish. Scotland is in Britain, for now.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Scotland is in Britain, for now. I know "Great Britain" technically refers to Scotland and Wales in addition to England but I don't think most Scottish people walk around calling themselves "British"
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I've recently started a job in a Library and its great, but there is sad showing for comic, graphic novels and Manga. After talking to the head librarian she said I could write up a list of recommendations for her to maybe buy for my Library. I've got a good list going but I'm wondering what you guys have got up your sleeves to rec, mostly its aimed at a younger group 11 - 19 so I'm looking for stuff along the lines of Lumberjanes, The Woods, Bone, Locke and Key, etc. And I'm trying to avoid bigger hero books on the basis that we cycle books through the local library area so if I request some of the bigger known stories I'll just be told to ask for it in from there, though stuff like Gotham Central I've asked for as that isn't one that your average teen knows to ask about. So what do you all think would be good reads for kids and/or teens?
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Agent_grey posted:I've recently started a job in a Library and its great, but there is sad showing for comic, graphic novels and Manga. After talking to the head librarian she said I could write up a list of recommendations for her to maybe buy for my Library. Ahem. Glad you asked. As someone who works in a library (though for older group than yours) here are my recommendations: Ms Marvel Essex County Blankets Black Hole Wicked and Divine Saga All-Star Superman Superma: American Alien Batman: Dark Knight Returns Batman: Black and white The arrival Batman: Long halloween Daytripper New Frontier Fun Home Ghost World Harlem Hellfighters I Kill Giants Kingdom Come Marvels March 1,2,3 Primates Sweet Tooth Seconds This one Summer We3 A few of those are aimed at the higher age of your reader's group (ie 16-19). If you have any questions let me know.
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Usagi Yojimbo.
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Agent_grey posted:I've recently started a job in a Library and its great, but there is sad showing for comic, graphic novels and Manga. After talking to the head librarian she said I could write up a list of recommendations for her to maybe buy for my Library. Sandman.
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The very first volume of Sandman has some pretty hosed up stuff if we're talking about comics for kids here
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Madkal posted:Ahem. Glad you asked. As someone who works in a library (though for older group than yours) here are my recommendations: So I went through the list above. Stuff bolded I guess you can say is fine for 12/13 year olds and stuff in Italics is good for teenagers.
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I'm going to assume there is a Kids Section and a Young Adults Section, otherwise everything Vertigo and Image can be axed.Madkal posted:Ahem. Glad you asked. As someone who works in a library (though for older group than yours) here are my recommendations: I would add Jimmy Corrigan, Habibi, Orange and The Silent Voice to these.
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