As James Gunn prepares his DC Universe reboot starting with Superman: Legacy, the writer/director is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to “cameo porn.” The practice was particularly egregious in the recent DC Comics film, The Flash, where a scene in the film featured several brief cameos including both Nicolas Cage’s Superman and Christopher Reeve’s.
While engaging with fans on Threads, Gunn responded to a commenter who was getting tired of superhero movies where a “character appear on screen for 10 seconds to mark a checkbox.” Gunn agreed.
“I call that ‘Cameo Porn’ and it has been one of the worst elements of recent superhero films,” replied Gunn. “If a character is in film, they have to have a reason to be there story-wise.”
That said, Gunn is not entirely adverse to a fun cameo here and there. “That’s fine if it doesn’t disrupt the story,” Gunn wrote to another commenter. “It’s the plot contrivances that develop from a cameo, not the cameo itself.”
The writer/director also pushed back against accusations that his upcoming Superman: Legacy has a “large cast” filled with cameos like Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan), Hawkgirl (Isabel Merced), Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion) and possibly even Jason Momoa as Lobo.
“The whole point was it’s NOT a large film – I mean, not in terms of cast. It’s normal for single protagonist films to have other characters – much more unusual for them not to,” Gunn wrote. “None of those roles [in Legacy] are cameos.”
Superman: Legacy flies into theaters on July 11, 2025.
According to Doja Cat, she lives for all of the public’s attention, whether good or bad. On her album Scarlet, she used several verses across tracks like “Agora Hills,” “97,” and “F*ck The Girls” to address some of the online chatter. While it was clear for most of her bars who she was aiming at, “F*ck The Girls” was intentionally vague.
What’s The Meaning Behind Doja Cat’s “F*ck The Girls?”
Yesterday (December 14), during a sit-down with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, the rapper revealed that despite rumors that the track was a subtle shot at frenemy Nicki Minaj or any other musician, it was actually about stan culture (an ongoing feud for her).
“It’s me saying f*ck Stan Twitter,” she said. “There’s that obsessiveness behind it, all the malice towards women in stan culture. The condescending-ness of people being like, ‘Mother, oh my god, queen, mother,’ and expecting them to give and deliver and serve for the purpose of serving and not just expressing themselves. And in the same breath, they’ll insult that person as well as call them ‘mother.’ None of that sh*t is real, that’s where ‘F*ck The Girls’ comes from.”
Here’s Doja Cat’s spicy second verse for “F*ck The Girls.”
“Said suck my d*ck, clit, tits, I’m yellin’ “666” / I can’t believe how bold you think the line’s that thin / I’m gettin’ rich-rich-rich, how many lick-lick-licks / Is it gon’ take to feel the barrel of my / Now what the heck, darn, frick? Y’all want attention / Since when was y’all my bastard children? Go ‘head and raise y’all self / Come get ya badass kids, no need to mention / I been sittin’ on that thought for a minute, now I got time for a min / I’m never poppin’ no sh*t, I focus most on my craft / I stay on top of my sh*t, but y’all done got me convinced / That I’m the popularist, that’s why you watchin’ my moves / So check the time on ya wrist, that’s why my mama said.”
According to Doja Cat, she lives for all of the public’s attention, whether good or bad. On her album Scarlet, she used several verses across tracks like “Agora Hills,” “97,” and “F*ck The Girls” to address some of the online chatter. While it was clear for most of her bars who she was aiming at, “F*ck The Girls” was intentionally vague.
What’s The Meaning Behind Doja Cat’s “F*ck The Girls?”
Yesterday (December 14), during a sit-down with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, the rapper revealed that despite rumors that the track was a subtle shot at frenemy Nicki Minaj or any other musician, it was actually about stan culture (an ongoing feud for her).
“It’s me saying f*ck Stan Twitter,” she said. “There’s that obsessiveness behind it, all the malice towards women in stan culture. The condescending-ness of people being like, ‘Mother, oh my god, queen, mother,’ and expecting them to give and deliver and serve for the purpose of serving and not just expressing themselves. And in the same breath, they’ll insult that person as well as call them ‘mother.’ None of that sh*t is real, that’s where ‘F*ck The Girls’ comes from.”
Here’s Doja Cat’s spicy second verse for “F*ck The Girls.”
“Said suck my d*ck, clit, tits, I’m yellin’ “666” / I can’t believe how bold you think the line’s that thin / I’m gettin’ rich-rich-rich, how many lick-lick-licks / Is it gon’ take to feel the barrel of my / Now what the heck, darn, frick? Y’all want attention / Since when was y’all my bastard children? Go ‘head and raise y’all self / Come get ya badass kids, no need to mention / I been sittin’ on that thought for a minute, now I got time for a min / I’m never poppin’ no sh*t, I focus most on my craft / I stay on top of my sh*t, but y’all done got me convinced / That I’m the popularist, that’s why you watchin’ my moves / So check the time on ya wrist, that’s why my mama said.”
In recent times, there has been some tension between Kanye West and Kid Cudi, who released the collaborative album Kids See Ghosts in 2018. In April 2022, after he and Kanye both appeared on the same song from Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry, Cudi tweeted, “Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got w Pusha. I did this song a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye. I am not cool w that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz thats my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye.”
Did Kanye West and Kid Cudi end their beef?
Now, though, it looks like the two are on better terms.
Kanye and Ty Dolla Sign had a listening event for their upcoming album Vultures last night (December 14), and videos from the event show that Cudi was in attendance. One fan-shot video shows Cudi and Kanye happily sharing a hug. Another shows that during the event, Kanye and Ty played a new song featuring vocals from Cudi. So, at some point between Cudi’s tweet and yesterday, it appears Kanye and Cudi worked through their differences and got back on the same page.
In recent times, there has been some tension between Kanye West and Kid Cudi, who released the collaborative album Kids See Ghosts in 2018. In April 2022, after he and Kanye both appeared on the same song from Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry, Cudi tweeted, “Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got w Pusha. I did this song a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye. I am not cool w that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz thats my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye.”
Did Kanye West and Kid Cudi end their beef?
Now, though, it looks like the two are on better terms.
Kanye and Ty Dolla Sign had a listening event for their upcoming album Vultures last night (December 14), and videos from the event show that Cudi was in attendance. One fan-shot video shows Cudi and Kanye happily sharing a hug. Another shows that during the event, Kanye and Ty played a new song featuring vocals from Cudi. So, at some point between Cudi’s tweet and yesterday, it appears Kanye and Cudi worked through their differences and got back on the same page.
“Let Me Calm Down” rapper Nicki Minaj is having a ball with her Barb fans in Gag City. With the release of her long-awaited album, Pink Friday 2, and the supporting world tour slated to launch soon, she’s been swamped with press obligations. Nicki even recounted with streamer Kai Cenat for a broadcast party where she and the crew jammed out to her new songs.
Whether out of pure coincidence or planned timing, Kanye West is looking to tap into the hype surrounding Nicki by releasing their past collaboration “New Body” on his Vulturesalbum with Ty Dolla Sign.
Did Nicki Minaj Clear Her Verse For Kanye West’s ‘New Body?’
Based on her latest livestream, the answer appears to be no.
In a screenshot captured and shared by West, he reached out to Nicki via text message with his request but did not receive a response. So, he took to social media to tag the rapper, hoping fans would speed up the process.
Kanye West is asking Nicki Minaj to clear their “New Body” collaboration.
However, when followers asked Nicki about clearing the record during a broadcast, she expressed no interest in doing so. She said, “Child, that train has left the station, OK? No disrespect in any way. I just put out a brand new album. Now why would I put out a song that has been out for three years? Come on, guys. You know?”
Nicki Minaj says she will NOT be clearing her verse to Kanye West’s “New Body” for his new album.
According to rumors, that’s not the only uncleared contribution on West’s forthcoming album. The Backstreet Boys also reportedly did not give authorization to West on the record in which he sampled their 1997 song “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).”
As we near the end of 2023, the time has come for Steven and Ian to revive their most sacred annual tradition: The Indiecasties! Like the Oscars, the Indiecasties goes long every year, so we actually are splitting it up into two episodes. (Part two drops next week.) Before that, however, the guys do a quick Sportscast about a wild week in Wisconsin-based athletics, including a Packers loss to Tommy DeVito and Giannis losing his cool against the Indiana Pacers over a lost game ball. Steven and Ian also address the viral TikTok video by Bethany Cosentino about her disappointment over the reception to her 2023 solo debut album, Natural Disaster, and the long tail of Peak Indie disappointment.
Then it’s on to the Indiecasties! There are five categories in this episode: Most Valuable Annoying Music Story, The Album Cycle Of The Year, The Feel-Good Story Of The Year, The Most 2023 Album Of 2023, and the Most Hyped Album That Turned Out To Be Actually Good. Who won? And who “won” (since winning some of these categories doesn’t feel like a victory)? Listen and find out!
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 168 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
Rudy Giuliani is doing what anyone who might soon owe $43 million (money he doesn’t have) in damages to a pair of Georgia poll workers he defamed: feud with The Daily Show. “Yikes. This show hasn’t been funny in years. I didn’t even realize it was still running. I don’t even recognize the host other than to say he looks like a slob,” the slobbish former mayor wrote on X, referring to guest host Kal Penn. “…and what are you hoping for when you say, ‘the end of Rudy Giuliani?’ Sick people, and definitely not funny!”
Yikes.
This show hasn’t been funny in years. I didn’t even realize it was still running. I don’t even recognize the host other than to say he looks like a slob.
…and what are you hoping for when you say, “the end of Rudy Giuliani?”
Giuliani was replying to a Daily Show segment about his litany of legal woes, including his lawyer claiming that “if you award them what they are asking for, it will be the end of Mr. Giuliani.” Penn won’t be shedding any tears for the alleged groper. “The end of Rudy Giuliani? Oh no, that sounds… awesome,” he rejoiced this week. “The end of Rudy Giuliani is, like, the best-case scenario. Why is Rudy’s lawyer threatening the jury with a good time?”
Penn then imaged a scenario where Giuliani is “broke and sobbing like a little bitch” and “crying so hard, he pees his pants, and that pee gets all over the floor.” If only he could afford a new car to cry (and fart) in.
Has it really been less than a year since AMC announced that they were finally moving on the long-awaited Rick Grimes standalone series? Amazingly, yes, and after that early January news arrived, two other spinoffs — the thrilling throwback of Dead City and the big ass-kicker of Daryl Dixon — already released first seasons with followups in the works. Next up? The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
That would be the official title for the “Rick Grimes and Michonne” spinoff starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. Rick’s return, of course, has been a long time coming, although to be fair, it probably feels like the wait has dragged on forever, so let’s hash out why, along with what is coming.
Plot
Since it’s been awhile, let’s talk about the timeline, which is slightly blurry but not in an overwhelming sense. To clarify, Rick left The Walking Dead in Season 9, Episode 5, “What Comes After.” That episode aired in 2018, after which we heard both reports and supplementary speculation about a Rick Grimes movie. That never happened, given various other reasons that likely included the pandemic, but in The Walking Dead time, the show ended after Season 11, and Rick had been gone for a decade. The current three spinoff shows pick up shortly after the finale and run concurrently. Will they ever intersect? That has been neither confirmed nor denied.
Rick had ended his very bad final episode by falling off a horse, getting impaled, being pursued by a horde, and then blowing up a bridge to save his people. He was then swept off by Janis/Anne and the helicopter people, who ended up being the CRM. He was kept in servitude this whole time, as revealed in the series finale.
In the spinoff, Michonne will have been searching for Rick since the end of Season 10 after leaving Judith and R.J. (Rick Grimes Jr.) behind in the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Things have obviously changed at home, and hopefully, Rick and Michonne will make their way back to the kiddos. (If you’ll recall, also, TWD ended with Judith and R.J. declaring, “We’re the ones who live.”) A teaser, thus far, has shown that the first season of this spinoff shows Rick looking bloody and worse for wear.
AMC
This moment ^^ (from that teaser) has sparked speculation that Rick will (also finally) end up losing his right hand like he did in the comics. We can also expect him to be a little more off the rails, given what he has surely been through in CRM captivity. It’s no surprise that Rick looks like hell, and Michonne, the machete-wielding badass, is looking much better.
Janis/Anne (Pollyanna McIntosh) will also make an appearance in this spinoff, and that suggests that Michonne might be busting Rick out of CRM custody. Will there be revenge/hell to pay for how Rick ended up with the helicopter people? His life was saved, but he seemingly endured hellish conditions in the aftermath, being away from the group and especially Michonne and the children. Yet this will also be reunion time — Michonne had set off to find Rick after discovering that he was still alive after finding his possessions — so expect a fair amount of passion. I mean, Rick and Michonne will have business to take care of, but they are also only human and surely have some pent up “energy” to dispense with.
Would you like a nebulous and existential-sounding synopsis? Of course, and there will be more war to come:
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Cast
Obviously, Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are the only actors who could ever step into character as Rick and Michonne. Another familiar face, Pollyanna McIntosh) will appear as Janis/Anne from The Walking Dead and The World Beyond. Additionally, Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer) will embody Pearl Thorne, and Matt Jeffries will portray Nat.
Release Date
Although some of the promotional material for this series has looked Valentine-y, Rick and Michonne will flout the actual holiday and arrive later in the month. Expect this spinoff to debut on February 25.
Trailer
AMC released a sneak peek with some footage and Danai talking about the “crazy love” of these two survivors.
And the aforementioned teaser trailer surfaced to confirm that Rick unsurprisingly hasn’t been doing so hot.
At long last, Rick Grimes will hopefully not ride a horse in the The Walking Dead realm again when The Ones Who Live arrive.
Has it really been less than a year since AMC announced that they were finally moving on the long-awaited Rick Grimes standalone series? Amazingly, yes, and after that early January news arrived, two other spinoffs — the thrilling throwback of Dead City and the big ass-kicker of Daryl Dixon — already released first seasons with followups in the works. Next up? The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
That would be the official title for the “Rick Grimes and Michonne” spinoff starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. Rick’s return, of course, has been a long time coming, although to be fair, it probably feels like the wait has dragged on forever, so let’s hash out why, along with what is coming.
Plot
Since it’s been awhile, let’s talk about the timeline, which is slightly blurry but not in an overwhelming sense. To clarify, Rick left The Walking Dead in Season 9, Episode 5, “What Comes After.” That episode aired in 2018, after which we heard both reports and supplementary speculation about a Rick Grimes movie. That never happened, given various other reasons that likely included the pandemic, but in The Walking Dead time, the show ended after Season 11, and Rick had been gone for a decade. The current three spinoff shows pick up shortly after the finale and run concurrently. Will they ever intersect? That has been neither confirmed nor denied.
Rick had ended his very bad final episode by falling off a horse, getting impaled, being pursued by a horde, and then blowing up a bridge to save his people. He was then swept off by Janis/Anne and the helicopter people, who ended up being the CRM. He was kept in servitude this whole time, as revealed in the series finale.
In the spinoff, Michonne will have been searching for Rick since the end of Season 10 after leaving Judith and R.J. (Rick Grimes Jr.) behind in the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Things have obviously changed at home, and hopefully, Rick and Michonne will make their way back to the kiddos. (If you’ll recall, also, TWD ended with Judith and R.J. declaring, “We’re the ones who live.”) A teaser, thus far, has shown that the first season of this spinoff shows Rick looking bloody and worse for wear.
AMC
This moment ^^ (from that teaser) has sparked speculation that Rick will (also finally) end up losing his right hand like he did in the comics. We can also expect him to be a little more off the rails, given what he has surely been through in CRM captivity. It’s no surprise that Rick looks like hell, and Michonne, the machete-wielding badass, is looking much better.
Janis/Anne (Pollyanna McIntosh) will also make an appearance in this spinoff, and that suggests that Michonne might be busting Rick out of CRM custody. Will there be revenge/hell to pay for how Rick ended up with the helicopter people? His life was saved, but he seemingly endured hellish conditions in the aftermath, being away from the group and especially Michonne and the children. Yet this will also be reunion time — Michonne had set off to find Rick after discovering that he was still alive after finding his possessions — so expect a fair amount of passion. I mean, Rick and Michonne will have business to take care of, but they are also only human and surely have some pent up “energy” to dispense with.
Would you like a nebulous and existential-sounding synopsis? Of course, and there will be more war to come:
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Cast
Obviously, Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are the only actors who could ever step into character as Rick and Michonne. Another familiar face, Pollyanna McIntosh) will appear as Janis/Anne from The Walking Dead and The World Beyond. Additionally, Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer) will embody Pearl Thorne, and Matt Jeffries will portray Nat.
Release Date
Although some of the promotional material for this series has looked Valentine-y, Rick and Michonne will flout the actual holiday and arrive later in the month. Expect this spinoff to debut on February 25.
Trailer
AMC released a sneak peek with some footage and Danai talking about the “crazy love” of these two survivors.
And the aforementioned teaser trailer surfaced to confirm that Rick unsurprisingly hasn’t been doing so hot.
At long last, Rick Grimes will hopefully not ride a horse in the The Walking Dead realm again when The Ones Who Live arrive.
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