Neil Turitz

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Disney is primed to obliterate every record out there (it already beat the one for fastest to $1B, which it did in just 128 days), and even with a change in leadership in the offing, there are plenty of reasons to think that upward trend will continue apace for some time. This is part two of our weekly series analyzing the current state of the studios.

We’re nearly halfway through the year, and would you like to take a guess at how many mainstream sequels have hit theaters thus far? From Zoolander 2 and Divergent: Allegiant to Alice Through The Looking Glass and Now You See Me 2, audiences may be coming down with a real case of sequelitis.

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No one, not anyone before or since, ever transcended so much at once as did the man born Cassius Clay. He was bigger than sports, bigger than entertainment, race, politics, you name it. I think most everyone has a Muhammad Ali story, and I’m no different.

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The only thing Ghostbusters director Paul Feig owes his audience is entertainment. Other than that, fans of the original movie are entitled to exactly nothing, and the fact that so many people are prejudging it further fuels a much bigger problem in fan culture.

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The next actor to play Bond will spend the next dozen or so years of his life doing all the heavy lifting in a beloved, increasingly action-heavy and physical role, while also suffering the slings and arrows of those fans who will judge him simply for playing the part. So, who’s up for it?