Discovery Entertainment purchased WarnerMedia from AT&T for $43 billion last week. Discovery Entertainment merged the two companies into Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav is the President and CEO. He was the CEO of Discovery Entertainment. Who knew Discovery could get its hands on $43 billion? According to Variety, Zaslav and other leaders in the company...
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Woke nerds are mad Raytheon sponsored the Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards were this past weekend. It’s the annual award show for science fiction and fantasy creative works. The award show took place at DisCon III, a science fiction convention held in Washington D.C. One of the sponsors for the event was Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, located in Arlington,...
Read MoreTarget raises the price of Funko Pop! figures by 28 percent
After going to Hot Topic yesterday morning to try to buy a Funko Pop! 2021 Fall Convention Exclusive Punchline figure, I stopped by Target to see if they had anything worth picking up. They had three new Target exclusive Demon Slayer figures. I decided to buy them. They weren’t for me. They’re a Christmas present for...
Read MorePia Guerra posts dishonest cartoon about Kyle Rittenhouse
Comic book artist Pia Guerra posted a cartoon she created to Twitter shortly after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. It depicts Kyle Rittenhouse standing over the dead body of Anthony Huber. Rittenhouse has his left foot on Huber’s corpse, smiling while posing with a Black Lives Matter flag in his hand as if it’s some sort...
Read More‘Dune’ continues its sandworm sized slide at the box office
Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel Dune enjoyed its third consecutive weekend in U.S. theaters and it continued to under perform at the box office. Last weekend Dune earned only $15,413,486 averaging $3,736 per theater. This weekend it earned $7,620,000 averaging $2,148 per theater. Dune also was shown in less theaters than...
Read MoreFunko Pop! collecting is quickly becoming an online-only hobby
Brick and mortar retailers appear to be moving on from selling Funko Pop! Figures. The amount of floor space these retailers set aside for the collectible vinyl figures is drastically shrinking. Walmart, Target, FYE, Hot Topic, Books-A-Million, Barnes & Noble, and GameSpot all have a much smaller footprint dedicated to Funko Pop! figures than they...
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