Ah, right, yeah, was foolishly expecting them to stick with things that worked, even if they didn't provide a promise of swimming around in money like Scrooge McDuck.
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If you aren't thinking "How do I make enough (/more) money to swim in?", you have no place on the board of a for-profit corporation.
The source of the information is Forbes.
Where is literally any information about this on the internet that says it could be less than 2x (for major blockbusters mind you, because you'll find some indie movie where it was like 1.5x or some shit, then I say for blockbusters obviously, then you claim I moving goal posts...)? 2x is at the very low end of what it can be. We know from Simon Pegg that Mission Impossible needed to make 3x, or is he also a culture warrior?
Or we could just use basic common sense...Latino is white as per the census graph you provided. Why aren't you putting the guard in the white section?
You aren't using the census data until it is convenient for you. You clearly are using a different definition. Here:
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This is the same census, but using your definition of white, which just means Europeans (it includes Hispanics). They make up 58% of the US population. It changes your story when you are using a different percentage
Here's another one (Not the definition you have used)
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Non-Hispanic whites - Wikipedia
This removes Latinos and Hispanics but adds Arabs, Egyptians, Turkics and other Middle Eastern and North African ethnic groups back in
(So, now we are looking at the EXTRAS and seeing if they fit demographics? I thought we were talking about lead actors? No thanks)
Edit: My mistake. You are doing the second graph, excluding Latinos from being white. If you pick this one, it does mean that Osama Bin Laden is white. Also, you should be very upset with all the white people being murdered by the IDF in Gaza right now
When something doesn't make any sense, it stands out whether it's extras or not. Kingdoms, countries, communities, factions, etc have a common look of people that comprise it (especially the farther and farther you go back in time). You would never see anything like that in say Game of Thrones for example. Not only does having every faction super diverse stand out like a sore thumb, it also makes it hard different between all the fractions.
You would think they'd just put all their content on a streaming service and just rake in money. What parent isn't going to subscribe to a Disney streaming service that has all those movies on it. I wouldn't think you'd need too much new content considering how much kids enjoy rewatching their favorites. Or just license it out to other services and rake in money for nothing essentially.
But the whole problem with streaming is that.
It generally works and is profitable. Many smaller and nieche ones show this. But it doesn't really grow, so idiots pump more money into it to steal viewers from the competition. And now all the big streaming services put out super expensive productions that never bring back their money because those need to be exclusives, costs balloon, marketing gets fierce and whole company gets/stays in the red.
It is a bit like the AAA games industry, where making decent games with decent revenue is not good enough and people chase the big money with huge investments and then are never able to meet the ever more ridiculous expectations.
Sure, there are some people out there who still use TV and don't stream. But most people who would stream, do so already. And they won't consume much more per person in the future as they don't have more time.
I don't know why you'd make this argue or why you'd care. If you are so offended by all the extra skin colour not matching, I would suggest that common sense is needed
Edit: Why would you write this? This clearly shows your definition of white does not match the census definition. You're proving my point
You used data that says the white population is 20% higher than your own and then complain why we aren't matching the higher percentage. It doesn't match your definition, you don't get to use it
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Exactly. Half the time when people are complaining about race, there's actually not much to complain about.
Like black Vulcans in Star Trek. One can argue that Vulcan is a desert planet and very sunny places will probably favour dark skin (protection from skin cancer) so if the Vulcans didn't need dark skin as per their first appearance, why would any be black? The simplest of simple ways to defeat that sort of specious bullshit is "They're made up aliens, who cares?"
Snow White, somewhere, is vaguely referenced as having skin as white as snow in one of the key versions of the written tale. But so what? Not a single essential part of that story hinges on her skin colour. Even the name "Snow White" doesn't have to reference her skin colour. Maybe her innocence, purity or goodness. Or the clothes she wears. Or it just her name, because. Whatever else you want to make up. It doesn't cause any problem at all for Snow White to played by an actress who isn't the palest of pale white in complexion. It so transparently isn't a problem, you just makes yourself look like an ass arguing it a problem.
don't know a thing about sports talk ppl but seeing one Stephen A Smith go off on reactionaries tickles a neglected part of the soul lol
The only part of it I saw was when Ramaphosa apologized to Trump for not giving him a free plane, and brought him a picture book of South African golf courses.
The detail of the "cost of the film" of ~350m is from Forbes, though it doesn't specify that's just the production budget, and is ~200m short of the revenue.
He's just talking about Mission Impossible. He's not setting a standard. 2 - 3x have variously been claimed by different places; the fact is it varies and we don't know, because these numbers aren't public knowledge in most cases.
I'm satisfied with acknowledging we don't know. Yet you seem intent on definitive statements of a massive loss, without anything beyond shitty non-source online magazines to back it up.
Walking indictment of America's education system Marjorie Taylor Greene got into an argument with Grok, X's AI platform.
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She claimed that "Grok is left leaning and continues to spread fake news and propaganda". Grok, which Elon Musk has claimed is the world's "smartest AI", has previously denied the Holocaust and pushed the narrative of "white genocide".
Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into X fight with Elon Musk's AI bot
Greene called xAI's Grok "left leaning" after the bot said her actions "contradict Christian values of love and unity."
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She claimed that "Grok is left leaning and continues to spread fake news and propaganda". Grok, which Elon Musk has claimed is the world's "smartest AI", has previously denied the Holocaust and pushed the narrative of "white genocide".
jesus kunting christ if you wanna hear the wealthiest kuntos on earth attempt their own podcast and yap amongst each other within their own gated habitats, here ya go fill ya fckin boots kiddos - there's always something to learn by enduring such psychic damage, none of it wholesome and certainly not hopeful
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Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials
A mother was arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition, tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said.
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how do ppl afford to pay these bonds at all? Is more more than I ever seen in my lifeMother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials
The Texas woman was allegedly not concerned about her son's threats.
May 15, 2025, 6:02 PM
Mother allegedly buys weapons for son's planned attack at middle school. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday after she bought ammunition and tactical gear to assist in her son's attack aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit.
A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her 13-year-old son, whose behavior demonstrated plans for a "mass targeted violence" aimed at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, according to an affidavit obtained by ABC News.
Back in January, Pardo's son was first contacted in reference to "drawings of the local school he currently attended," the affidavit said. These drawings included a map of the school -- labeled "suicide route" -- and the name of the school written beside a rifle, the affidavit said.
The son, who was not named in the affidavit, was contacted by officials at the time and described a "fascination with past mass shooters," according to the affidavit.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she bought ammunition and tactical gear to assist in her son's threats to attack his middle school. Bexar County Sheriff's Office
In April, the son was found researching the 2019 Christchuch mosque shooting in New Zealand -- a tragedy that killed 51 people -- on a school-issued computer, the affidavit said.
He was "subsequently suspended and later in the day attempted suicide with a straight razor causing significant injuries and requiring over 100 stitches," the affidavit noted. The boy attended an alternative school until May 7, according to officials.
His grandmother, with whom he had been staying "on various occasions," contacted police on Monday after she found her grandson "hitting a live bullet with a hammer," the affidavit said.
The middle schooler told his grandmother he received the bullet from Pardo and that she had "guns and ammunition at her house," according to the affidavit.
The grandmother told officials Pardo had been taking the boy to a local surplus store and bought him magazines, a tactical black vest "capable of concealing ballistic plates," a tactical black helmet and various army clothing, the affidavit said.
On Monday, the boy told his grandmother he was "going to be famous" before being picked up by his mom and taken to school, according to officials.
The grandmother then looked through the boy's bedroom, where she found magazines loaded with live rifle ammunition and pistol magazines loaded with live ammunition, the affidavit said.
She also found an "improvised explosive device" -- a mortar-style firework wrapped in duct tape -- among the boy's belongings, the affidavit noted. The explosive device had the words "For Brenton Tarrant," referencing the shooter in the 2019 mosque attack, along with multiple "SS" symbols and "14 words" -- referencing white supremacy -- written on it, according to the affidavit.
Along with the weaponry, the grandmother found a handwritten note referring to previous mass shootings, mass shooting suspects and the number of victims in each incident, the affidavit said.
Pardo had been aware of the threats made by her son, expressed to the school her support of his "violent expressions and drawings" and said she did not feel concerned for his behavior, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit noted that Pardo was purchasing the gear and ammunition for her son in exchange for babysitting his younger siblings.
The school told officials that on Monday, the boy arrived wearing a camouflage jacket, mask and tactical pants and left shortly after, the affidavit said.
In a letter sent to parents on Monday, Rhodes Middle School Principal Felismina Martinez said Pardo's son was "detained off-campus and is being charged with terrorism."
"Please know we take all potential threats seriously and act immediately to protect everyone in our care," Martinez said in the letter. "We will always remain vigilant to ensure our learning and working environment is safe and secure."
Pardo was released on a bond of $75,000 on Tuesday, according to jail records. She will return to court for a pre-indictment hearing on July 17, according to court records.
Police said during a press conference on Thursday that the boy remains in police custody at the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Facility pending a judge's decision.
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Belgian princess left in doubt about her Harvard future following Trump's foreign student ban
Belgium’s Royal Palace says Princess Elisabeth is waiting to find out whether she can return to Harvard for her second year after U.S.
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I'd not get your hopes up. I imagine Trump's very willing to make exceptions for royals and oligarchs. Different rules for the upper class and plebs is a pretty big deal of Trump's ''ideology''.Excellent. I hope that iniquitous waste of tax money gets its teeth kicked in. No sarcasm.
Belgian princess left in doubt about her Harvard future following Trump's foreign student ban
Belgium’s Royal Palace says Princess Elisabeth is waiting to find out whether she can return to Harvard for her second year after U.S.
Look, France ain't gonna invade itself, and I hear Belgium makes for a wonderful detour on the way there this time of year.
Though given how the US is our enemy now I'd consider it disloyal for our royals to go study there
I mean, show me one Snow White with skin that's actually white as snow... You can't because it doesn't exist, because she'd look like a fucking ghost.
So unless she looks like this...
But we all know why the neo-nazis didn't like Zegler in the role. Snow White could've looked like a tanned blond woman and they wouldn't have complained, so long as she's caucasion.
It's further worth noting that complaining about demographics in performance pieces is straight up historically illiterate. The performing arts have been using demographic lines as a jump rope for decades, centuries, or even millennia, depending on how you count. "What if King Arthur was a lady?" We've got that in Fate/Stay Night. "What if Othello was the only white in an otherwise African cast?" Patrick Stewart starred in that one in 1997. "What if Swan Lake was all male?" We've got numerous productions of that, with probably the most famous being Matthew Bourne's in 1995.
Brandy Norwood played Cinderella in 1997. Much Ado About Nothing had Keanu Reeves as Denzel Washington's half-brother in 1993. Ertha Kitt played Catwoman in the 60s. Black actors started doing Shakespeare in the 50s. Hell, on that note, Othello is explicitly black, but was portrayed by a white man in black face until Ira Aldridge finally played the role in the 19th century.
Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet in 1899. Kabuki theater has been famously all-male since the 1600s (ironically, this only happened because the all-female incarnation that preceded it was banned), with the actors playing female roles being known as 'onnagata'. The Takarazuka Revue has been doing all-female productions since 1914. Hell, in England, women weren't allowed on-stage until 1660, so in Shakespeare's life even the likes of Juliet and Lady Macbeth were played by men (Heck, one of the characters in a Midsummer Night's Dream is an actor who's upset that he'll be playing the leading lady in an upcoming play, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the same practice), and this dates back easily to ancient Greek Theatre. And this is before we get into things like the Wiz, Tegonni, and West Side Story that reimagined extant stories and localized them.
Hell, you know what I was explicitly taught when I studied stagecraft in undergrad? That as a producer or director, a production is only worth putting on if you can add your own spin to it. And that meant anything from changing the setting (such as changing the set and costume design for Macbeth to evoke the WW1 trenches) to deliberately shaking up the casting choices, or adjusting intonation or line delivery to change - or even invert - their meaning.
Ever see Taming of the Shrew? It's distinctly curious because the production can change radically depending on the physicality of the leads, ranging from psychological horror all the way to comedy of errors and satirical farce by doing nothing more substantive than changing how Kate and Petrucio deliver their lines throughout the play. At one extreme, Kate is as thoroughly dominated as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four. At the other extreme, she one-ups Petrucio by simply playing the long game and giving him the appearance of what he wants. And in productions that fall somewhere in between? They practically treat the conflict between the leads as a form of foreplay, not dissimilar to William Powell and Myrna Loy in the Thin Man series of films.
Breaking tradition and changing things up is not just accepted but celebrated in the theatre. So making a brouhaha about how the most recent adaptation of Snow White has the eponymous character played by a black woman is more than a little silly.
We have a whole cottage industry around Bail Bondsman: Some guy agrees to pay the bond in exchange for keeping a percentage, like 10% or whatever. That's how they make money, because the government returns the bond when the client goes to court, so in this case the Bondsman makes like $7500. If a client *doesn't* go to court, the Bondsman would be out the $75,000, so they are or employ quasi legal Bounty Hunters, like the titular Dog: the Bounty Hunternew type of american discovered
Mother allegedly buys ammunition, tactical gear for son's planned 'mass targeted violence' at middle school: Officials
A mother was arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition, tactical gear for her son's planned "mass targeted violence" at his middle school, officials said.
how do ppl afford to pay these bonds at all? Is more more than I ever seen in my life
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