Daredevil may be born again, but he’s not bringing Marvel with him. The Disney+ revival of the acclaimed Netflix series was supposed to be the turning point for Marvel’s streaming shows, the one that pleased fans and finally got people to subscribe – or resubscribe – to Disney+. They even ga...
Read MoreThe twin suns of Tatooine appear to be setting on Star Wars. There have been signs for a while that the sci-fi behemoth was losing its grip on the cultural landscape (and, by extension, Disney was losing its grip on the money they invested in it), like each successive movie doing less business, merc...
Read MoreMarvel’s newest series is not the win Disney+ desperately needs. The streaming service is still reeling from the embarrassment of The Acolyte, the Star Wars series from Leslye Headland that bombed so hard Disney quickly put the kibosh on any hopes of a second season, not that many people seemed to...
Read MoreDeadline reports that The Acolyte, the new Disney+ Star Wars show from Leslye Headland, has brought in 11.1 million views after five days, compared to Ahsoka’s 14 million five-day total. This is pulled from Lucasfilm’s own data, not a third-party analyst like Samba or Nielsen. It already wasn�...
Read MoreDeadline shared Disney+’s purported viewership of 4.8 million in one day for The Acolyte’s series premiere. For reference, Ahsoka amassed about 14 million views in 5 days. Disney+ hasn’t been very consistent or transparent with their streaming numbers, and they seem to only report on titles th...
Read MoreFallout, originally a video game and now a TV show streaming on Amazon Prime, follows “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters that are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly v...
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