By There are people who’ll tell you that Japanese folklore fantasy Monkey airing at 6pm on Friday nights in the 1980s was the highpoint of post-school, pre-bedtime TV scheduling in the UK. Let’s not tell them that they’re wrong; let’s just pity them for having mistimed their childhood by a decade. The 1990s
Feige Had A Condition For Wolverine’s Return
Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige reportedly had one condition for the inclusion of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine into the Marvel Cinematic Universe – and it all had to do with his outfit. “Deadpool & Wolverine” director Shawn Levy along with Jackman and Ryan Reynolds were in Shanghai the other day to
The Rise of GameStop: Michael Burry’s Influence
Will Buckner, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction GameStop Corp. (GME) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. Founded in 1984 as Babbage’s in Dallas, Texas, the company expanded rapidly, rebranding as GameStop in 1999. Over the years, GameStop became a prominent name in
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Skydance-Paramount Merger Announced
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