Jman

The one night stand with the corp rep, and Panam.

Of course not. I think...

Still probably cheaper than the PSVR2.

This is another license rescue that got held up, similar to their recently announced Bioshock project.

At least the only thing the Metaverse has killed is Zuckerberg’s net worth.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-adam-box-office-tops-another-slow-weekend-1235256273/ Black Adam wins the weekend at a very slow box office while OP makes significantly less than DBZ, Kaisen, and Demon Slayer, but still within expectations. Unsurprising given OP’s general middling popularity here (something I know Toei wants to fix with the…*sigh* Netflix show). Adam is still not doing anywhere near the higher level of expectations though.

To be fair, anime films tend to have poor legs at the box office, with strong first weekend results then weaker followings. It's still way more money than they've pulled down prior. The hierarchy of power has made Black Adam look like less of a bonafide hit than Zaslav was presumably praying for it to be, and next week is Wakanda Forever, a film that looks like garbage, but carries enough goodwill from the original Black Panther and Chadwick Boseman's tragic passing that it will likely annihilate all comers at the box office.

https://collider.com/one-piece-film-red-friday-box-office-4-million/ Quiet weekend at the movies. But still…ouch.

Hey, Zaslav canceled something that wasn’t animated!

High Rise is an assured case of "So bad and blunt, it comes out the other end and is amazing." Netflix is weird because they release stuff that becomes honest to God mainstream hits in a way that's virtually impossible for other anime...while having tons of other stuff on the service that's ignored or otherwise there to fill time. It's part of why I find their adaptations interesting, because of the attention the successful ones do get. That and the complete lack of any censorship outside the self-practiced stuff from the studio itself. You just have to wade through a lot of junk in the interim. Edgerunners had CD Project Red paying for it, and the dub cast getting Gus to do Faraday. No clue about Kotaro or Komi--san, and I like Komi-san.

Highlights!

He’s doing the Q3 conference call right now. I’ll give out the highlights when done.

Yes, that is the same Adam from Adam Ruins Everything. And yes, he blames Zaslav and his fiscal chainsaw.

This was inevitable following those accusations. Tiffany Haddish is for all intents and purposes radioactive.

Lionsgate apparently still has the Naruto rights. They even had a director (dude behind The Greatest Showman), but I bet the contract has long expired.

Chainsaw Man 2 - The most horny on main lead in a shounen since Meliodas.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2022-11-01/kadokawa-announces-acquisition-of-anime-news-network-media-business/.191434 ‘Unexpected.

I'm more or less showing my displeasure at the need to make a live-action Your Name. How about give the actual Your Name a wider release, or some streaming play?

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/raya-and-the-last-dragon-director-carlos-lopez-estrada-your-name-anime-remake-1235418682/

People have been pointing out odds are good Zaslav killed any attempt at making Pibby a series because it uses recognizable IP.

I’m thinking it’s a coin flip. Toei values the TV time because to them there is something very impressive about their products airing on big Western television (it was the reason the late great Antonio Inoki loved competing in Madison Square Garden, he felt it made him look like a big deal) and streaming is a relatively new market that’s only starting to make headway there (we’re only two years past Japanese streaming overtaking their physical media offerings in total value). Conversely, there are a LOT of fingers in the One Piece pie. Film Red has an IMAX screening thanks to Crunchyroll (and Jaime Lee Curtis attended the screening while promoting Halloween Ends). Netflix legitimately believes their adaptation of OP can be the next Game of Thrones hence the enormous amount of money being thrown at it (and Curtis flat out said if the show doesn’t suck she would be first in line for a Kureha audition). This is arguably not on anyone over here, but on Toei, if they value that cable TV presence, no matter how diluted, over the promises of CR and Netflix.

Apparently the other suggestion is a full on remake of the anime, which I find very unlikely.