The truth about Eleven & Hopper
And Disney messed up
The truth about Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour’s bullying scanda
Let this be proof you should always wait for a second source — because I was not going to cover the Brown and Harbour situation.
In case you’re not aware, The Daily Mail posted a story on November 1st that Millie Bobby Brown filed a bullying and harassment complaint against David Harbour on the set of Stranger Things before they started shooting season 5. And, “there were pages and pages of accusations. The investigation went on for months.”
While this was a big story, I didn’t cover it because The Daily Mail was the only outlet reporting it and they’re not exactly the most reputable source. So I chose to ignore it and wait until another more respected outlet confirmed it.
And well last Friday, Variety confirmed that quote “there was an investigation into Brown’s complaint, and that it was resolved.” And then Deadline reported Saturday, “According to sources. .. she did complain about his behavior, however it might not have been as recent as the report suggested but earlier in the series’ run. It was dealt with, and there haven’t been issues since”
So there you have it. I don’t think this lets David Harbour off the hook entirely as clearly something happened at some point. But now the images of them being friendly on the red carpet last week certainly make more sense. Or maybe it’s all theater — and the trades are part of the cover up.
Is Paramount censoring South Park? Matt & Trey speak
South Park surprised everyone this year when started going hard after Trump, but South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker just explained to The New York Times why that is. Saying they didn’t change, the world did.
Parker said “It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture,” They considered keeping South Park mostly apolitical but quote “there’s no getting away from [MAGA]. It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look, Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.”
Stone added that the show is always trying to cross new taboos, “Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey.” But they still claim to be centrists. Parker said “We’re just very down-the-middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
But is it hilarious to their new boss David Ellison, the conservative-tied billionaire who bought Paramount? Stone says Paramount has been hands off, “they’re letting us do whatever we want, to their credit.”
Despite Trump’s cultural dominance now, Matt and Trey are already thinking about the future, saying “If there’s one thing we know, it is that our show will be a lot longer than [Trump’s administration]. So, we just got to do this for now.”
Emmy-winner Sarah Paulson says Hollywood should abolish award season
Or at the very least change it up dramatically. Award season is an entire micro industry within Hollywood. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on hype campaigns every year in the pursuit of awards.
But Sarah Paulson, who won a Tony and Emmy and has been nominated for dozens of more awards, just told Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on the Las Culturistas podcast that the entire thing is kind of nonsense — because how do you measure art up against other art?
She said, “Why are we doing this to each other, because it’s so subjective. What is the greatest? And why are you turning it into this thing of ‘this is better than that?’ All of the things that go into what make a great performance. Like there are so many variables. It’s like it’s such a really psychotic thing to do to [performers]“
Paulson then compared it to being a race horse with a carrot dangled in front, but they keep moving it farther it away. She also lamented the unnecessary competitiveness awards season brings to the craft And then later in the pod, after they discussed some silly examples of certain actors winning over others. She said, “This is why we should just abolish it all.”
Her suggestion for award shows: “Just like have a party. Everybody’s nominated. You all get your certificate. Everybody should get a statue.” Which is kind of what the Peabody Awards do. Anyway Paulson summed it up, “Something should change.”
Disney seriously messed up.
It just let the rights to a classic movie slip through its fingers. Disney has always been hardcore about its copyrights and intellectual property. For example, in the 90s, the company successfully convinced Congress to extend copyright term lengths, so Mickey Mouse wouldn’t fall into the public domain.
So it’s extremely surprising that Disney reportedly just let the underlying rights to an Oscar-winning box office hit revert back to its original author. But that’s exactly what Roger Rabbit writer Gary K Wolf is claiming. You see, Wolf wrote the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Which Rober Zemeckis, Spielberg, and Disney adapted into the hit 1988 movie.
But in a new interview with the YouTube channel ImNotBadTV, Wolf says that because of the 35-Year Copyright Reversion Clause. He was able to legally reclaim his Roger Rabbit back from Disney.Wolf called the legal process to do so “very civil, very courteous, very straightforward” And, “I now have the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects,”
And he’s got back big plans for the franchise. First up, he’s planning “a live-action Jessica Rabbit movie based on the book Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business. It’s probably the one that’s furthest along right now.” Wolf also said that future projects will more closely adapt the books than the 1988 film, including the “word balloons” and some of the characters that were omitted.
But he’s aware of the movie’s legacy, saying any project “has to be as good, or better than, what we did before.”
Wicked For Good is already setting box office records
And it doesn’t come out for another week. When Universal first announced it was splitting Wicked into two movies, some fans were skeptical. But obviously, that was the right decision, financially speaking. Because the 1st film was a box office smash, and the 2nd one is about to do the same.
According to Deadline, Wicked For Good is Fandango’s best advance ticket seller of 2025, meaning this movie has done more presales than Minecraft, Lilo & Stitch, Superman, and Fantastic Four. But get this: Wicked For Good is also Fandango’s best PG-rated pre-seller of all-time, meaning no other PG movie in history has sold more pre-sale tickets on the site.
Wicked For Good is selling better than the live-action Beauty and the Beast, Frozen 2, and the first Wicked movie, which is partially why box office experts are predicting the movie will open to $180M domestic. If that happens it would surpass Minecraft as the biggest opening this year and it would put it in spitting distance of the biggest PG opening ever: the 2019 Lion King, which did $191 million.
At this point, I think it’s safe to say that Wicked For Good is going to top $1 billion dollars total at the global box office and could very well beat Minecraft and Lilo & Stitch to become the year’s top US release. That is until Zootopia 2 comes out a week later and than Avatar 3 hits in December. But anyway, it looks like the box office is about to get a necessary shot in the arm.