November 13, 2026

SORRY ABOUT THE SONG BUT THIS IS WHAT COMES AFTER THE WHITE PILL:  Staying Alive.

Posted at 12:24 am by Sarah Hoyt

November 12, 2026

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE:

Posted at 10:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and I want you to be happy.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GOTHAM CITY’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S SATIRE — OR IS IT…?

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM WOKE 2.0:

Earlier from George MF: How Hollywood Lost the Hollywood Press. The economic incentives of the two camps have begun to fatally diverge.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DESERVES GOT NOTHIN’ TO DO WITH IT: Pete Hegseth doesn’t deserve to be impeached.

But it’s okay. Impeachment doesn’t mean anything anymore. And yes, the GOP started this with the Clinton impeachment, which was stupid. If it had succeeded Al Gore would have been the incumbent, which would probably have pushed him over the top in 2000.

Posted at 8:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JOHN NOLTE: Skydance Fears James Gunn’s Superman Sequel will Lose $100M, Report.

A report now says Skydance is so worried that James Gunn’s Superman (2025) sequel, Man of Tomorrow, is a loser that it might not even warrant a theatrical release.

The report adds that the best the studio is able to hope for is cutting its losses at $100 million.

Unceremoniously firing DC Studios’ co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran five months before their contract was up and eight months before Man of Tomorrow — which probably cost $300 million — was scheduled to hit theaters next July, is an insight into how little faith Skydance CEO David Ellison has in Man of Tomorrow.

Ace of Spades adds:

Matt McGloin has scoops about the upcoming James Gunn Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, being canceled, Batgirl-style, with all money spent so far being taken as a tax write off.

Or, he suggests, Man of Tomorrow might be given a cheap post-production budget and just dumped on HBO Max.

I don’t think this is true.

But if it is true, I have a theory about it. Grace Randolf, an idiot SJW biased critic who was nevertheless right that James Gunn was a very poor fit for DC, has been predicting that the new regime at Skydance wants to give Gunn “notes” about the movie — demands about what must be cut (for example, Supergirl’s presence) and what new scenes need to be shot in reshoots.

But James Gunn’s contract states that he gets final cut over the movie.

So: Is it possible that Skydance is putting out word they will straight-up cancel the movie (which has already been almost completely shot) if James Gunn does not give up on his final cut power and accept studio notes?

That’s a scenario that seems plausible to me.

That said, I still don’t know if we can credit any of these “scoops” as true. This seems like a really, really big decision to make. This is an expensive movie. Canceling it saves the money for post-production (editing, music, and of course special effects and marketing), but cancelling it locks in the substantial money already spent as a loss.

I know, I know:

They write it off, Jerry. They write it off.

Posted by: Kramer

If Gunn calls their bluff and says “Fine, cancel it,” do they go forward with the threat?

I don’t know.

Like I said, I don’t know how much of these claims, from a fairly obscure geek-culture news site, are true.

I could see the movie being dumped to streaming, but I would doubt David Ellison wants to begin his tenure as CEO of Skydance’s combined Paramount/Warner Brothers behemoth by doing what David Zazlav became infamous for during his time as Warner’s CEO and taking the tax write-off by Batgirl-ing a perceived dud of a movie: Art Is Dead and David Zaslav Has Killed It: The Dangerous Precedent Warner Bros. Sets by Shelving Completed Films.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SOUNDS RIGHT.

Posted at 7:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YES:

And here’s Kurt: Red State GOP Organizations Need to Get Their Act Together.

There’s no one fatter and lazier than a deep red state’s Republican organization, with few exceptions, and this bit us badly on the butt last week. Now, California is not a red state — not anymore, though it was when I grew up there — but this little story kind of sums up the problem with Republican organizations. They aren’t about winning; they are social clubs. I was at some GOP event and sat down for rubber chicken next to somebody who proudly announced he was the Republican chair of, say, the 69th District and had been for 20 years. I asked him when the last time a Republican won in the 69th District was, and he looked at me like I was insane, like it never occurred to him that electing people might be a remotely relevant consideration for a district chair. The answer, of course, was “Never.” The Republicans had never won it. But he had his gig, a nice seat on the dais, and that was what mattered. Not victory. Just his place in the social club that is the California Republican Party.

In the red states, we got too used to winning easily. Far too used to it. We got so used to winning that it never occurred to us that we might not win, and it never occurred to us that we might have to work to win. We forgot that we need to earn votes, that we don’t just inherit them by right. Sure, some marquee candidates were awful,  but it wasn’t just the marquee candidates who lost. It was everyone from governors down to assistant deputy dog catchers. If you had an R by your name, you were about as popular as an openly herpetic participant in a polycule orgy.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

Posted at 5:55 pm by Stephen Green

THIS JUST IN: Pretty Girls Sell Automobiles! Annie Leibovitz Photographs Florence Pugh for Jaguar’s New Type 01.

Annie Leibovitz has teamed up with Hollywood star Florence Pugh and British carmaker Jaguar.

Jaguar has undergone a rebrand in recent years, culminating in the launch of the Type 01, a bold electric GT that doesn’t look like classic Jags. The British car firm will start taking orders for the Type 01 in 2027.

Pugh is an English actress, known for films like Oppenheimer, Black Widow, and Little Women. She has signed on to become Jaguar’s first-ever brand ambassador.

And notice she’s doing so without the hideous septum piercing she wore when she was promoting Oppenheimer in 2023:

It’s certainly a much more conventional way of advertising cars than whatever this was:

I think Don Draper would approve the new campaign. But on the other hand, if Jag doesn’t move any product, they can blame the lack of sales on the same Annie Leibovitz curse that’s doomed numerous leftist politicians. Or as Iowahawk observed in 2022, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make pose for Annie Leibovitz.”

Posted at 5:40 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT OUGHT TO LOWER HOME PRICES RIGHT AWAY:

Posted at 4:37 pm by Stephen Green

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! The Logic-less Crusade That Just Killed a Data Center.

The data center was set to be constructed on a piece of land that once held a mall. That mall closed 24 years ago, in 2002, and the area has been vacant since. Upon hearing the news that the lot was set to be developed, Taylor Frazier McCollum recalls that she “was like, ‘Oh, hell no.’” Why? Were the weeds sacrosanct? Were the server racks destined to be installed atop ground that, in happier days, played host to a beloved Foot Locker? Did the ghosts of a defunct Zales call out to her in the night? “Why would you want to bring water-polluting, diesel-generating data centers right down the street from where people live, work, play?” McCollum asked. “It just didn’t make sense to me.” That the plans “didn’t make sense” to her is no doubt true. But it is true because she is evidently ignorant, reckless, and, in this particular case, allied with a Marxist group that is directly linked to China.

Is it rude to say that? So be it. Where, I wonder, does Taylor Frazier McCollum think that money comes from? Where does she expect that Prince George’s County is going to get the funds it will need to close its budget deficit or to pay for her grandfather’s new roof? Most of what McCollum believes about data centers is hysterical nonsense — the product of a rolling, Luddite moral panic that has activated the worst instincts in the electorate. Still, suppose, for the sake of argument, that McCollum is correct to assume that a data center would be less desirable than a new mall, or a museum, or a field full of daisies. So bloody what? We do not live in Eden. We will never live in Eden. Life is full of trade-offs. If we want energy, we need energy infrastructure. If we want paychecks, we need jobs. If we want tax revenue, we need businesses to provide it.

Earlier: The single mom who blocked a data center from replacing an abandoned mall? She collaborated with a communist group funded by China.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll