That's very interesting, I did not realize that was the case.
It is worth noting SAG is not allowed to promote struck properties, so she has to be careful in selecting guests who are not promoting struck movies/ shows. So far she has selected guests who do not violate the SAG strike, but I'm a little surprised she's toeing the line for the SAG strike, but not WGA.
Based off the article, it sounds like it was purchased quite recently as well. My personal guess is Embracer was buying up studios faster than it could support, counting on getting more funding down the line. Then Embracer had a deal fall through and realized they were laden with debt and had to drop the load.
Maybe Gearbox was giving the worst return on investment since it was such an expensive purchase which made it the prime target to sell.
I honestly can't even remember the last time I used Rotten Tomatoes. From its inception, it was always somewhat of a flawed concept in that it wouldn't tell you how good a movie was, but how favorable it would be to general audiences. If 100% of reviewers gave it a 7/10, it would still be "100% fresh."
I had heard that studios would only invite positive reviewers to early releases, and I had heard studios were gaming the Rotten Tomatoes reviews; so I'm not entirely surprised, but I am a little surprised to see an article about it.
My personal recommendation would be to find a reviewer/ critic who usually has similar tastes as yourself and follow them over the use of Rotten Tomatoes (though if I'm being honest, I've been checking those reviews less often too).
It's not a feature of Jerboa, but URLCheck provides that functionality system-wide. I had been missing that feature from RiF, but found URLCheck to fill that void nicely.
While I personally really enjoyed playing Stray, I'm having a hard time imagining it as a straight narrative.
While the setting was immersive and gorgeous to look at, and the gameplay was quite enjoyable; the narrative was quite light. The cat cannot speak and doesn't have much motivation beyond going home. Though the robot companion does have motivations and the ability to speak, it is not the main character of the game.
Regardless, I will be interested to see how the movie turns out.
Especially since I believe the estimated cost of agreeing to the requests would've been ~47M USD, which is literally less than a tenth of their current losses.
My feeling is this is not about the short term costs, but is about:
While this is specifically for SAG; anecdotally, it seems the WGA/ SAG strikes have inspired other unions to stand up for themselves too (auto workers and flight attendants unions).
Hopefully this might inspire the video game industry workers to unionize as well.
Hulu does not seem to have a good track record of keeping mid-tier comedies afloat. Last year they cancelled "Reboot" after a single season, and I thought that show had real potential.
I suppose it's not out of the realm of possibility that Hulu wouldn't be getting the "A" material, and what they get would be more cancellation prone. After all, Disney has several different TV branches that any given show could be funneled into: ABC, "Freeform", Fox, FX, Disney+, and finally Hulu. It's very possible that Hulu is getting the bottom of the barrel picks, but I thought that Reboot was quite solid, and HIMYF was OK (though certainly not great).
It really feels like Hulu is just very cancellation happy at this point.
It definitely doesn't look like it would be fun to play; but having played PowerWash Simulator, there is something very relaxing about the gameplay loop.
It definitely isn't for everyone, and it isn't the most challenging game; but that doesn't mean it can't be relaxing and fun.
In any case, I don't expect this to turn you around on the game, but it's not as ridiculous a premise as you'd think.
a movie where Iron Man enters a mini-golf tournament with Genghis Khan and the 1927 New York Yankees
Don't give them any ideas LOL.
Overall, I think you're completely correct. So far consumer LLMs cannot come close to anything a human writer can create, but I'm concerned that Hollywood would gladly take the hit on quality to save on writers. I hope the strikes succeed in preventing AI from entering the writing and acting space, but hopefully they don't need to make concessions to prevent it.
As an aside, if everyone could create their own movies with AI, I wonder if studios would simply become IP holding companies (more than they already are). Anyone could make Lethal Weapon 5, but only the studio with the likeness rights (and training data) of Rob McElhenney would be able to have it look like the original actors are present.
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