Bleeding Fool

With sad word of the passing of Patrick Stewart this week, here are my top-10 Captain Picard moments from Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1) Defending Data’s right to self-determination: “Starfleet’s directive is to ‘seek out new life’ — well THERE. IT. SITS!” (“The Measure of a Man,” season 2.) 2) Facing off against a conspiracy-minded Starfleet admiral: “With the first link, the chain is forged.

It: Welcome to Derry is heading to 1935 for its second season, trading its Cold War setting for a Depression-era story that showrunner Brad Caleb Kane described as “a Warner Bros.

The video game industry wanted to change its audience. Now it’s learning that its existing audience can and will go elsewhere. After years of swollen budgets, modern progressive messaging, and corporate promises about the future of gaming, the industry’s most reliable product seems to be the layoff announcement.

Artefuse wrote about an exhibition of the art of Roy Lichtenstein, a now famous artist who drew inspirations from comics artwork, at the Whitney Museum, and the odd thing about this review is that the writer says Lichtenstein “appropriated”: Roy Lichtenstein was a real New Yorker. There are not many of those anymore.

James Bond has been played by just six actors in the official film series, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig. As Amazon MGM Studios searches for the next actor to play Ian Fleming’s British secret agent, a reported front-runner has emerged. Jack Lowden is reportedly the “clear favorite” to become the next James Bond after final auditions at Bray Studios, according to The Sun. Amazon MGM Studios hasn’t announced who will replace Daniel Craig as 007.

Julien’s Auctions and East Continental Gems today announced that the Marvel Infinity Gauntlet replica — a one-of-one piece set with six exceptional gems, each representing one of the Infinity Stones — will be offered at auction. This December in Abu Dhabi, the 1-of-1 Infinity Gauntlet will be a headline lot of Julien’s Celebrity & Culture Experience during the Pop Culture Legends Evening Sale on December 8, 2026 at Rosewood Abu Dhabi on Al Maryah Island.

A Hollywood producer who’s taken his case for American filmmaking directly to President Donald Trump is putting money behind a new partnership with Lionsgate. Variety is reporting that Steven Paul’s SP Media will make a “significant” investment in a joint venture with the studio. The companies didn’t disclose the amount, but a source familiar with the deal said the initial investment would be around $100 million. A similar investment could follow.

The Shepherd Express of Milwaukee wrote about the history of the medium’s Jewish contributors, now the subject of an exhibition at their local Jewish museum: Superman was invented in 1938 by two Jewish kids from Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. They grew up on a diet of pulp sci-fi and Sunday comic strips, fields where Jewish Americans held a prominent place.

David Spade is questioning Hollywood’s habit of putting race and gender ahead of the work, arguing that the industry’s political labels can undercut its message of equality. During a recent episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast, Spade and Dana Carvey took aim at the way award shows and TV productions highlight those differences. Spade said Hollywood should “stop separating us like that.” He pointed to award announcements that single out a winner’s race.

The fight over AI and voice acting in games has mostly been framed as performers versus publishers, and that framing is fair. Somewhere below the boardroom, though, solo and small indie developers are using Text to Speech for something much less sinister: holding a game together while it gets built. The difference between those two uses matters, and it deserves more attention than either side tends to give it. Big studios have given everyone good reason to be suspicious.