Reuben Baron

But he's not "hands off" anymore with what happened with Elio and Win or Lose, so he's not just "saying" things but doing shitty censorship - probably more out of fear than conviction given the stuff he greenlit earlier, but it sucks nonetheless.

The current available alternative to rainbow capitalism, it turns out, is not a liberated society where all queer artists have the freedom to make whatever they want without fearing the censor or the creditor- it's TPUSA as the Chief Censorate.

Ehhhhh, Don Bluth's a conservative Mormon who probably considers gayness the scariest reality...

They’ll probably be personal (they’re saying Hoppers “toned down” its environmentalism and it’s still a very environmentalist movie that made every point its director wanted to make). They just won’t be even the slightest bit gay.

Depressing if true

Lee Unkrich seems cool, he just reference The Shining and be bisexual, eat hot chip and make viewers cry

I mean beyond all of the loathsome obvious shit about allllll of this, the director of the fucking INSIDE fucking OUT movies saying “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" is a level of self-unawareness I can only marvel at

The most forgivable interpretation of those words is he was taken out of context by a homophobic writer and the “therapy” comment meant “therapy for the directors” rather than “therapy for the kids,” but even that’s… not great

Uk you're literally worse than the us scotus

They just had to choose the songwriter with THE most litigious estate

And when all these publications dissolve, Google will have nothing to scrape for new information.

Killing jobs and killing industries that will eventually lead to their own demise.

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Do we know what that Pixar casting call for Romani actors (a teen girl musician and an old man) was for? Maybe it's for Domee Shi's musical, but the character descriptions are so Coco-esque that I half-wonder if the plan is to make Coco an anthology series with each film in a different culture.

Spoiler: It turned out to be a very shitty situation causing a lot of American artists to suddenly not have jobs.

This is so cute, their little faces 😭

This is like when conservatives respond to Epstein stuff with “oh so it’s illegal to have friends now?”

“Hollywood understands anime/asian culture now!”

I just heard from someone at Disney that the success of KPop Demon Hunters sent the entire executive team into a “we need demon hunting anime” frenzy that lasted months

Yes, they STILL think it’s anime

the amazing part is actually in the second half of the clip, where he starts complaining about an interpreter condensing his "long beautiful flowing language" presumably into something comprehensible

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

The White House shitter account posted a pro-iran war propaganda video that included clips of the yugioh anime, so I figure this is a good time to remind everyone that Kazuki Takahashi was staunchly anti-war and he died a hero, unlike any american in Iran right now.

There's a line that Meryl Streep's Insect Queen uses to describe the main character that is—I'm told—a direct quote from a note that Bergman gave.

Sadly Pete Docter is NOT going to bat for gay characters - and somehow Jim Morris is claiming Hoppers WAS "toned down" still despite Chong's claims to the contrary? archive.is/202603070040...

As I said, REALLY rich coming from the guy who made Therapy: The Movie (Inside Out)

The stuff about Hoppers' message being "toned down" is very confusing to me. Daniel Chong denied the rumors last year, and the finished movie is still very environmentalist, but now Pixar's president is saying it's true? How was it actually toned down?

Seems the BeFri was gonna be directed by Kristen Lester (director of Purl).

Rosanna Sullivan (Kitbull) has left Pixar, so her project ain't happening either.

Aphton Corbin (Twentysomething) is still at Pixar - will she be the one SparkShorts director to get her own film?

The original Pixar projects they talk about still making sound good at least, but also I am 90% certain the “platonic breakup” movie BeFri got canceled because they feared it would read as gay.

I don’t know what to do with Pixar right now.

And Jim Morris bragging about “toning down” Hoppers, which is still very much an environmentalist movie and which the director has claimed still contains all the messages he wanted to deliver, is just the most bizarre marketing-to-conservatives nonsense.

Now in a weird position where I’m like “YES, HOPPERS IS GREAT, GO SEE IT” but also feeling real “PETE DOCTER, WHYYYYY!?!” The director of fucking Inside Out (THE therapy movie) describing gay characters as “hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy” is rich... archive.is/202603070040...

Nah, the “promise the kids a rapping kangaroo, turns out it’s just one minute of a bad adult comedy” marketing campaign would have killed it just as bad now

Russia is helping Iran potentially kill Americans but we're not allowed to talk about it because it would make Putin sad.

I also truly think Rogan plays up the idiot persona partially to get those ppl on but also to appeal to ppl who think it’s actual ‘debate’ when it’s pure propaganda. Esp thinking of how often he pretends to be just a moderate stoner “asking questions”