‘Fantastic Beasts’ Is Dead in the Water at Warner Bros.

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | October 26, 2023 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | October 26, 2023 |

After the box office continued to drop for each nonsensical installment, Fantastic Beasts director David Yates has confirmed that the franchise is “parked” at Warner Bros. While he later says the series is most likely just “paused,” he also revealed that he hasn’t spoken to the studio or J.K. Rowling for a while now. Speaking of the transphobic latter, the whole five movies thing was apparently something she randomly sprung on everybody at a press screening. According to Yates, it was the first anyone had heard about it. (Total Film)

Meg Ryan is ready for her comeback. (Lainey Gossip)

Steve Coogan: Royalists are “idiots” who support oppressing the working class. (Celebitchy)

The creepy religious extremism of the new House Speaker Mike Johnson. (Wonkette)

Folks, you might think I’m joking when I often say Star Wars is addicted to making backstories for every single item on-screen. I assure you I’m not. (The Mary Sue)

Musk’s first year of owning Twitter has been a case study in how to rapidly lose users and advertisers like it’s your job. (Mediaite)

Following the release of Britney Spears’ memoir, you can no longer comment on Justin Timberlake’s Instagram. Fo shiz? (Page Six)

Oh damn, She Rides Shotgun is a solid little crime book from Jordan Harper, and I can definitely see Taron Egerton as Nate. Looking forward to this. (Variety)

Because Twitter is also hooked on a similar delivery system of confirmation bias and in-crowd circle-jerking, this thread about TikTok has been catching some flack even though the author makes some concerning points. Christ, we watched a similar thing happen with the train derailment in Ohio as people claimed TikTok was more reliable than the mainstream news. It was not. (Twitter)

Unless tonight’s Loki episode goes completely off the rails, again, I agree. Tom Hiddleston has become the best actor in the MCU. (A.V. Club)

Alexander Payne has a point. (IndieWire)

Sofi Keren picked S.C. Hunter’s Vampire Menstrual Syndrome for its title and cover and loved the characters too. “They pun with reckless abandon, something I can truly identify with, while trying to figure out how to keep Vanessa alive (or, undead).” When has a book title excited you? (Cannonball Read 15)