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#1 on Max off the boost from the Superman trailer. Good episode too.

No one has to migrate to those hours anymore. Even nowadays the big measure of success for Adult Swim originals is their Max viewers. It’s why you could tell MAWS and Ninja Kamui were doing well but comparatively IFG is bombing. We are in the twilight of linear cable. And this is just an example of those shifting audiences.

When the shows are available on demand everywhere else a Friday afternoon block was not going to do great. Meanwhile Eternal did surprisingly well on Netflix so it’s clear Dumpling Head is blame free.

July 2025.

They didn’t buy it outright. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-19/sony-becomes-largest-shareholder-in-kadokawa-in-january/.219255 They bought 10% of the stock. Enough to influence the company and provide it liquidity to avoid a takeover (and as per Kadokawa executives, influence a shake up of upper management) but they don’t own it completely.

Aqua Teen gonna never be cancelled… Only Brak gets canceled and stays canceled.

We need the Adult Swim version of this -

DanDaDan 11 Ranma 1/2 11

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-13/crunchyroll-announces-release-schedule-for-winter-2025-season/.219009 As per Crunchyroll's release of their Winter 2025 schedule, the Daima dub is exclusive to them. Hope you're all ready for Flop Girl reruns.

Final total was under $5 million and DeMarco should never be allowed to produce original anime again.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kraven-the-hunter-box-office-bombing-1236087005/ $5 million domestic, $4 million international. Proportionally it’s not as big a bomb as Joker 2: Society Harder, but it’s still a terrible performance for a Warner that peaked performance wise with Dune 2.

Creature Commandos is holding strong at #3 on the Max Top 10 and Flop Girl is nowhere in sight.

The Flop Girl getting a marathon is an extremely inauspicious start to the new year. I'm fully expecting Lazarus to come out sooner rather than later now that they revealed the opening theme. I'm also expecting that to be another DeMarco disasterpiece. 2025 is going to be rough, especially since all the good stuff Toonami could theoretically get access to is either behind Max's paywalls or Crunchyroll's. If things were like they were in 2018, we'd have Solo Leveling leading off the block for the new year, not a marathon of the Flop Girl. Hell, at this rate, I'd settle for Harley Quinn and that show has fallen off big time since Season 3 (it's suffering a terminal case of Moonlighting Syndrome).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kraven-the-hunter-box-office-bombing-1236087005/ Film is now tracking for $5 million. DeMarco’s got the Eye of Zaslav upon him.

They haven't fully committed to the spin-off, but the restructuring is signaling an intent to do so, which means that if they do next fiscal year, then Cartoon Network is likely boned.

2025 is going to be a very, VERY interesting year for Toonami and arguably Adult Swim as a whole, especially if Zaslav goes forward with his plan to divest the networks from WarnerMedia.

More negative reviews!

My Christmas party with the dudes at the gym always gets far more emotions out of me than any work party ever could. Admittedly doing it at the Brazilian steakhouse helped.

No sex in this episode, just a lot of good old fashioned ultra-violence. I think DeMarco would be down with a lot of the themes as well.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-1236085034/ They are beginning company restructuring that would allow the spin-off to occur.

The initial estimates were for $10-$12 million. It’s now tracking for $5-$6 million opposite a $30 million budget, a pittance by modern Hollywood’s bloated standards, but he may not make a third of that when you add in theater take and marketing.

Box office predictions are showing a bigger bomb than Joker 2. Less than $10 million domestic. For reference, the Demon Slayer recap film pulled down $11.4 million opening weekend. Even a Solo Leveling recap film still pulled $2.4 million domestic over the weekend despite a relatively low amount of theaters (it bested the indie release Y2K to be #8 at the box office). This film might be DeMarco’s last stand. Honestly, I could see him being fired over it as the scapegoat.

DeMarco was completely right that it felt hypocritical for fans of a franchise that does most of its movies by a committee to decry the work of the man who's made cinema like Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Casino, and countless others. But everyone ALSO was right that the guy responsible for bringing us the FLCL sequels and is about to bring us a cash grab Lord of the Rings film isn't the arbiter of good cinema.

Lazzo was all about "Fuck nostalgia, fuck the past, full speed ahead". It was one of his peccadillos with the block along with "Bring the funny or ELSE."