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Here is the backstory on how Disney got into this whole remaking business. Back in the early 2010s before the Disney remakes started, Warner Brothers were planning to remake some of the Disney animated classics into live-action films. Warner wanted to get "free rides" out of the nostalgia and popularity of Disney's animated classics, (i.e., it was free marketing and guaranteed box office.) The live-action Beauty and the Beast actually started as a WARNER BROTHERS project, before Disney even had a plan for a remake. Warner was going to make a live-action MUSICAL Beauty and the Beast, and Emma Watson was in talk with Warner to play Belle for the Warner remake. The fact that Warner was planning to make a musical was a clear sign that Warner wanted to get a free ride out of the nostalgia for and popularity of the Disney's animated film. Here: https://news.avclub.com/emma-watson-attached-to-guillermo-del-toro-produced-bea-1798226561Of course Disney had to react. Somehow, Disney swooped in and snatched Emma Watson from Warner Brothers. Losing Emma Watson effectively stalled the Warner project. If Disney was not going to make a live-action Beauty and the Beast, then Warner would. So Disney had every incentive to do it before Warner could, and the best incentive was stop and kill the Warner project. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/two-beauty-and-the-beast-films-underway-which-will-nab-emma-watson.html/Disney and Warner were in a race to see which studio could make and release the live-action Beauty and the Beast first. Disney moved quicker, and Warner had to cancel its version as a result. https://news.avclub.com/guillermo-del-toro-will-no-longer-direct-warner-bros-1798269398Another live-action remake battleground between Disney and Warner Brothers was The Jungle Book. The Warner Brother project actually started first, but Disney was able to catch up, complete and release its Jungle Book first. Disney's live-action Jungle Book pretty much killed Warner's Jungle Book and put Warner in a tough spot. In the end, Warner had to dump its Jungle Book to Netflix. So, Disney outplayed Warner again. https://variety.com/2016/film/news/jungle-book-disney-warner-bros-remake-1201755271/Universal was going to make a live-action musical version of the Little Mermaid, with Chloë Grace Moretz attached to play Aria. Again, that was before Disney started its live-action remakes. As soon as Disney got into the remake business, Universal saw what happened to Warner's Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book. Universal knew it could not compete with Disney, so it might have already killed its Little Mermaid project. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/news/a21822/little-mermaid-live-action-movie-guide/There are a few other similar projects at other studios. You can google them. You can google the remake battles between Disney vs. Warner to find out all the political intrigues and twists and turns. And here is the irony: It was the other studios that first thought of remaking Disney animated films into live action. They wanted to get "free rides" out of the nostalgia and popularity of Disney animated classics. After all, the nostalgia and popularity = free marketing and guaranteed box office. So, Disney had to act first and fast to stop Warner Brothers and other studios from stealing from Disney animated classic. Those other studios pretty much forced Disney's hand. Ironically, after Disney started the remakes, those movies have turned out to be a HUGE money makers for Disney. On the other hand: once Disney got into the remake business, all those other projects at Warner Brothers and other studios... they are all dead, dead, dead. I know a lot of people are bashing and blaming Disney for "why is Disney remaking all its animated classics?" I would not blame Disney for it. Warner Brothers and other studios pretty much forced Disney's hand. There is actually a lot of bad blood going on between Disney and Warner Brothers right now. I've heard that Zachary Levi (who plays the other Captain Marvel in the upcoming SHAZAM in the DC cinematic universe) actually wanted to show support for Brie Larson over the Captain Marvel controversy by attending the premiere of Captain Marvel. However, Warner Brothers pretty much told Levi, NO.

"A white aggressor-rapist-patriah has declared surrender on YouTube - ya! We won! We won!"

I posted the following comments awhile ago elsewhere as a reply to someone else: Link to my original post. I am not the only one who is being annoyed by those vermins.

Who is expecting this movie to make a billion dollars? This feminism nontroversy is ridiculous but what on earth is that number based on? 800 million seems like best case scenario. If this movie makes more than that, it could only be if that "boycott" backfires spectacularly. The alt-right trolls, deplorables and incels picked the $1-billion mark because they thought Captain Marvel had no chance of reaching $1 billion, and because $1 billion has become the new measure of success for solo superhero movies after both Black Panther and Aquaman made $1 billion in the past year. Captain Marvel has just made $153 million in the U.S. and $455 million worldwide on opening weekend. Every movie that made over $400 million on opening week went on to make over $1 billion. That means, by looking at the opening weekend numbers, Captain Marvel is pretty much guaranteed to make over $1 billion at the box office even if it suffers serious weekly box office drops. So, the alt-right trolls, deplorables and incels who called for the boycott of Captain Marvel have already lost this round of culture war over Captain Marvel. They saw the early box office results. They saw the writing on the wall. So right now they are scrambling to move the goal post and change the narrative even as we speak: "The movie made money only because of white men!" "The second-week drop will be huge, over 60% drop, because the movie is still bad and people hate it!" "The audience/user scores on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are so low, which shows that audiences hate the movie!" (Nevermind that everyone knows how easily audiences/user scores on those websites can be so easily manipulated, and that the best indicators of audience ratings for movies are the CinemaScore live audience polls, and Captain Marvel got the rare "A" CinemaScore.) "Captain Marvel may make $1 billion but it has killed the MCU, and future MCU movies will pay the price! The next MCU movie will bomb at the box office, just like what happened to Solo after The Last Jedi!" (So... Avengers: Endgame will bomb? The one that could potentially make $2 billion worldwide?) "No, not Endgame, but the next one after Endgame!" (Spider-man: Far from Home? I think people are eager to see another Spider-man movie after the Spider-verse.) "No, not Spider-man either... the next one!" (Um, yeah, whatever... MCU will be taking a full year off after Endgame, there is no MCU movie currently in production right now, so there won't be a "next" MCU movie for a whole year.) Those alt-right trolls, incels and deplorables are so triggered by the box office results of Captain Marvel that it is comical. I have not seen the "it is doing so well only because Disney bought 50% of all the tickets for opening weekend!" - i.e., the dumbest excuse that was used by the alt-right trolls, incels and deplorables for Black Panther when that boycott failed, but I expect that one is coming when the second-week box office is less than they are praying for.

So there is a "culture war" over Captain Marvel. The alt-right trolls and incels have been calling for the boycott of Captain Marvel. If the movie will break $1 billion at the box office. If it does, the alt-right and incel trolls will lose. If it does not, the feminists and social justice warriors will lose. That is the battleground: the $1 billion mark.

Frankly, I think this is the last straw for BioWare. Right now, BioWare is "dead man walking". The Verge: EA says it’s ‘aware’ that Anthem is crashing some PS4 consoles Eurogamer: EA asks for help to diagnose Anthem's alarming PS4 crashes This must have turned into the PR embarrassment and nightmare for EA. Even if EA was going to give another chance to BioWare after the disastrous sales of Anthem, now EA will definitely shut down BioWare over this disaster. I think EA will shut down BioWare before the end of 2019.

Stay away from that game if you value your console. EA has basically been shutting down any discussions or complaints of the problem as damage control - which has led to even more players unknowingly continue to play Anthem and damage their consoles. (The type of ethics as we can expect from EA.) Sony is currently offering refunds for Anthem on their end. Not sure if the refunds cover just the game or the game + damaged console. (Obviously do not expect to EA or BioWare to take on responsibility and pay for your console if their game destroys it; but I do expect an incoming class action. Customers might have agreed away their rights to sue over the game itself in an EULA, but that agreement does not cover the console.) Another nail in BioWare's coffin. Good riddance. As a former fan of BioWare, let me say this: EA should just put BioWare out of our misery already. At this point, I won't miss or feel sorry for BioWare if EA permanently shuts down the studio for good; BioWare totally deserved it.

Her name is Sakura Miyawaki. Apparently she is a pop star - an "idol" - in Japan.

In a MEXICAN restaurant. And, btw, he certainly spoke better English than the current First Lady, Melania Trump; she really should go tell Melania to GTFO of America. The manager should have called the cops and tell that white woman to NOT ever go back to that restaurant.

EA should just shut down BioWare, and then create another distribution client or engine, can call it "BioWare". Seems like a fitting end for BioWare.

Seems that Anthem is getting poor reviews and the sales will fall way short of projections. EA will very likely shut down BioWare if Anthem bombs. As a former BioWare fan, I say GOOD RIDDANCE. I hope that EA will shut down BioWare Edmonton - or, better yet, just close the whole BioWare altogether. Just put BioWare out of our misery already. BioWare is squatting in the precious top spot for WRPG developers, which BioWare no longer deserves. It needs to vacate that spot so that other better more deserving studio can take over. P.S. We should start a "Developer Dead Pool", and make bets on the order in which BioWare, Blizzard, or Bethesda will be dead.

Yup, it's time for Guard Dog to panic, because if the trend and Blue Wave of the 2018 midterm election continues into 2020, then any of the declared Democratic candidates will beat Donald Trump - and Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner of the Democratic primaries.

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