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The local papers are trying to make this seem competitive and Zeldin has been surprisingly good at drumming up support (he lost two prior elections before winning a House seat) but the polls all show Hochul comfortably ahead. New York hates its current rank and file like that fucknut Eric Adams, but we’ll vote for them over GOP 8 times out of 10 unless the GOP member is a moderate, something increasingly rare with them.

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.

This is a temporary injunction, not a decision on the merit. It’s the usual loophole BS.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/1/7374403/ Continued heavy losses for Russian forces as winter approaches. Everyone is wondering what the breaking point is.

It's almost like Twitter was a bad investment.

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

Because we all figured the guy who ran Tesla had at least some idea of how to run a business. We clearly overestimated him.

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/

Lottery is $1 billion tonight, so I’m dusting this off for funsies. To be fair, you don’t see a lot of that money since Uncle Sam wants his share first. This website breaks down what’s owed by state, as well as how much one gets if they choose installments vs a cash pay out. https://www.usamega.com/powerball/jackpot

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

…He does realize that by being the sole head, he’s also the sole target for legal action, right?

This is a literal case of the mouth writing a check he couldn’t cash.

I imagine it’s all to a legal defense fund. $44 billion was already fucked as a purchase price, now add the lawsuits that likely are headed towards his ass for libel.

Then people will shoot back. That’s the inevitable result of this rhetoric. People shoot, others shoot back. Is that what you want to hear?

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.

There was another last week actually! More crunch accusations and treating LBGTQ+ employees like crap while paying lip service to social Justice. This essay is mostly about how the show they made was dogshit because the writers did not understand anything about the genre and were busy sniffing their own farts instead.

Can you sue a social media platform for libel? I imagine we’re going to find out soon.

There are a lot of fingers in the One Piece pie for a multitude of reasons. Film Red coming out and Crunchyroll having a firm grip on new episodes, Netflix gathering old episodes and preparing a LA series that they apparently think can replace Stranger Things (doubtful) and that leaves Toonami out in the cold.

Kamen Rider Black Sun 1-2. A political/social drama that just happens to use tokusatsu monsters as its allegory for oppressed minorities, with the main heroes being a teenage protestor and an insect man with a bike.

I heard. To be fair, California isn’t exactly lacking for day gig actors. I have no doubt people are going to get fired, and that they will likely be compensated very well by their contracts and in high demand. Musk’s fun now will be financial pain come spring.