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- Bill Maher Compares ‘Cancel Culture’ Mentality to a Stalinist ‘Purge’
- Superman ‘78 Sounded Promising… Then We Saw the Artwork
- Streaming Series of ‘Waterworld’ is Officially in the Works
- Netflix Gives Season 2 Order for “Sweet Tooth’
- What’s Behind Big Tech’s Desire to Censor Online Manga?
| Bill Maher Compares ‘Cancel Culture’ Mentality to a Stalinist ‘Purge’ Posted: 01 Aug 2021 04:45 PM PDT
On Friday night’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to the firings of Olympic officials for their previous words and conduct by calling it a “purge… a mentality that belongs in Stalin's Russia.”
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"This is called a purge. It's a mentality that belongs in Stalin's Russia. How bad does this atmosphere we are living in have to get before the people who say cancel culture is overblown admit that it is in fact an insanity that is swallowing up the world? … And that is not a conservative position, my friends. My politics have not changed. But I am reacting to politics that have, and this is yet another example of how the woke invert the very thing that used to make liberals liberals. Snitches and bitches, that's not being liberal."
Later, he addressed cultural appropriation, saying:
"This new idea that each culture must remain in its own separate silo is not better, and it's not progress. And in fact, it's messing with one of the few ideas that still really does make this melting pot called America great. … And that's the great thing about cultural mixing, it makes things better for everyone. BTS can be a hit in America and I can get kimchi on a taco, isn't that better than everyone walling itself off from outsiders? I thought walls were supposed to be bad. But we're living now in a world where straight actors are told they can't play gay roles and white novelists aren't allowed to imagine what it would be like to be a Mexican immigrant, even though trying to inhabit the life of someone else is almost the very definition of empathy, the bedrock of liberalism."
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| Superman ‘78 Sounded Promising… Then We Saw the Artwork Posted: 01 Aug 2021 02:36 PM PDT
Beginning this fall, decades after Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve's Superman: The Movie introduced generations of fans to a silver screen version of DC's Man of Steel, DC returns to this beloved property to tell new stories set within this world with the publication of Superman ’78 by writer Rob Venditti (Hawkman) and artist Wilfredo Torres (Batman ’66).
In Superman ’78, bystanders are surprised and delighted by Superman's abilities, and Lois Lane doesn't (yet!) know that Clark Kent is secretly Superman. The sheer thrill of seeing a man fly, leap, or stop a bullet will be reflected in this environment where Superman has just been introduced! Inspired by Donner's classic, timeless style of superhero storytelling, in Superman ’78 Venditti and Torres will remind fans that a man can truly fly.
Unfortunately, after stellar work applied to their previous flashback titles like Wonder Woman ’77 and Batman ’89, both the interior artwork and most of the covers for this series look absolutely pedestrian. Which is a shame, because I have enjoyed most of Torres’ work on Batman ’66, The Shadow, Aliens: Colonial Marines, etc, but frankly I thought these pages were embarrassing. It looks like he’s tracing a lot of this.
For my tastes, it would’ve been far more inspiring and appropriate to employ an artist like Gary Frank, or the fantastic Nacho Castro for this assignment. Perhaps DC will get a variant cover by one of them. A few samples of their Christopher Reeve Superman renditions are below.
I realize art is subjective, and your mileage may vary, but I’m not impressed with the DC Comics previews of this title and I’m a huge fan of the Richard Donner films. If you like what you see, Superman ’78 #1 by Rob Venditti, Wilfredo Torres, Jordie Bellaire and Dave Lanphear arrives on August 24 with a main cover by Torres, plus variant covers by Evan “Doc” Shaner (open to order) and Torres (1:25).
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| Streaming Series of ‘Waterworld’ is Officially in the Works Posted: 01 Aug 2021 10:30 AM PDT
Proving that in the streaming era, every well-known genre title has reboot potential: A TV series sequel to the 1995 film Waterworld is in the works. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the project is in early development at Universal Content Productions, where the original film’s producers, John Davis and John Fox, have a first-look deal. Waterworld was the story of a post-apocalyptic world where the polar ice caps had melted (the film was admittedly prescient on the global warming front) and the entire planet was covered by water. Kevin Costner played an underwater-breathing, web-toed trimaran-sailing loner, The Mariner, who came to aid of a woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and a girl (Tina Majorino) seeking the fabled "dry land." The project is planned as a continuation of the film picking up with the same characters 20 years later, though no actors are yet attached. The producers have said that Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is on board to direct.
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| Netflix Gives Season 2 Order for “Sweet Tooth’ Posted: 01 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT
Sweet Tooth has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, Variety reports.
The second season will consist of eight, one-hour episodes. News of the renewal comes just under two months after the debut of the first season, which dropped on June 4.
"It's been equally thrilling and heartwarming to experience how people around the world have been falling in love with our deer-boy," said series showrunner Jim Mickle. "We couldn't be more excited to continue our collaboration with Netflix and keep following Gus and his friends on their extraordinary journey."
Sweet Tooth is based on the DC comic book series of the same name by Jeff Lemire. The series takes place ten years after "The Great Crumble" wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrids — babies born part human, part animal. Unsure if hybrids are the cause or result of the virus, many humans fear and hunt them. After a decade of living safely in his secluded forest home, a sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus (Christian Convery) unexpectedly befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd (Nonso Anozie). Together they set out on an extraordinary adventure across what's left of America in search of answers— about Gus' origins, Jepperd's past, and the true meaning of home.
The series also stars Adeel Akhtar as Dr. Singh, Will Forte as Richard, Stefania LaVie Owen as Bear, Dania Ramirez as Aimee Eden, Aliza Vellani as Rani Singh, and Neil Sandilands as General Abbot; with James Brolin as the voice of the narrator. The post Netflix Gives Season 2 Order for “Sweet Tooth’ appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| What’s Behind Big Tech’s Desire to Censor Online Manga? Posted: 01 Aug 2021 05:30 AM PDT
It all began with this statement made by Kadokawa Future Publishing:
The video game designer Mark Kern followed up:
They shouldn’t even work with US publishers, or TV producers, and I’m honestly disappointed in the authors of Cowboy Bebop for selling the adaptation rights to Netflix so they could make a live action series that’s just as obsessed with diversity pandering as anything else on the terrible channel, yet at the same time gets rid of Faye Valentine’s shorts because they’re supposedly inappropriate, and if any jarring violence by contrast is allowed, that’ll merely expose their hypocrisy.
Well see, this is why I can’t understand for the life of me why anybody would almost automatically want to create an account on Twitter, of all places, instead of a wider variety of choices for social media servers. What’s so great about Twitter and Facebook that’s not so great about MeWe, to name one example? Those who’ll solely turn to the most obvious choices aren’t proving they have what it takes to look far and wide to see what’s available, and judge by quality of management.
That’s not good either if search engine results are restricted, and buying choices limited. But then, isn’t that why there should be a wider variety of engines, and even online stores? If anybody worried about censorship, in the USA and abroad, wanted to, I’m sure they could’ve developed a wider variety of alternatives long ago. So if Japanese mangakas and animation producers are really concerned, that’s why they’ll think of how build alternatives.
What’s in discussion above is something that was bound to happen, because too many in the west weren’t realist enough to get into the businesses and develop competition in various ways. It reminds of rivalries in the US medium in the past, that ruined a lot of good publishers, and now, we could end up seeing an extension of the damage abroad as well. That’s why all concerned should take these problems and possibilities seriously from the start if they want to ensure business will work well.
Update: it looks like Kadokawa’s apologized for the uproar they caused. And as far as social media’s concerned, one could argue this is a case where a company apologizes for the right reasons. If so, thank goodness.
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