When you’ve lost Rolling Stone, which has pretty much come out for every far left thing, that’s’ not good
There are multiple problems with this movie. 1st, they presented it as EPIC! when it should have been “come for some good, mindless summer entertainment!” They should have told Pascal to keep his stupid mouth shut. And, come on, the muppets in New Hope, Empire, and Return looked more realistic than Grogu. He looks like a dog’s chew toy. That was fine for the tv show, not when you’re paying all that money for it while going to the theater. And then there’s the notion that Pascal barely shows his face and his stuntman gets billing right below him, with people thinking he wasn’t really acting much in the movie.
On the flip side, it has a good Rotten Tomatoes of 89%, but, there are other high rated movies that lost money, and this could lose $100 million, and, with the changed times, they aren’t going to make that back on DVD rentals and sales, along with the stream at home. People who saw it are saying it was a good watch, they enjoyed it, no Woke, but, more like a 2 hour TV episode.
Is Star Wars dead? Mostly. If they were smart they’d dump the new universe and go back to the one as written by top tier scifi writers. Books that were on the NY Times best sellers list. How about doing The Hand Of Thrawn trilogy, which was the first big one? Do the Darth Bane trilogy, which was a 1,000 years before New Hope and established the Rule Of 2? Do the graphic novel about the establishment of the Jedi? How about the big Sith War 5000 years before? The material, great material, is available.
Iran seems to have set the Hormoz tariff at 10$ per barrel
They are in no hurry to negotiate
The new Supreme Leader is NOT going to give up his 60% U235