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    Comic-Con Watch: “Community” Moves Online

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    Joel McHale, from left, Gillian Jacobs and Jim Rash attend the "Community" panel on Day 1 of Comic-Con International on Thursday, July 24, 2014, in San Diego. (Photo by Tonya Wise/Invision/AP)

    Harmon: Web version of sitcom won't be too different

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) --

    Just because "Community" is going online to Yahoo doesn't mean it's in for a lot of changes.

    In fact, creator Dan Harmon says he has "no big, highfalutin plans" for its Web version.

    At a Comic-Con panel Thursday, Harmon revealed he doesn't want season six to feel radically different, especially to its loyal fans.

    "My philosophy is (to) attempt to make the same show, and let the lack of boundaries make themselves felt … I don't want to take the wheels off so much that people think, 'Well, this is just some new show.'"

    He also admits he wavered about the idea of taking the show to the internet.

    He then asked himself, "Does it really matter where we're doing this? I cannot be the one to not do this. Wherever this show is people will find it."

    Joel McHale says he "had no doubt it would be back," adding he had no qualms going to the Web, "I was ready to do a regional theater version of the show."

    Gillian Anderson recalls crying in her car when she thought "Community" was cancelled by NBC.

    "I didn't want to let go of the show because there are few times in your life when you get to work on something that is good, funny and as groundbreaking and heartwarming as this," she said.

    Sony Pictures Television and Yahoo struck a deal to make 13 episodes.

    Harmon says writing doesn't begin until the fall so season six shouldn't begin until at least Christmas

    The plan is to release one episode per week rather than all at once, like with Netflix's original programming.

    "Community" is about a group of misfit students at a Colorado community college.

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    Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    "Barbenheimer" was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn't stopped people from trying to make "Glicked" — or even "Babyratu" — happen.

    The counterprogramming of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office.

    And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, "Saw Patrol" ).

    This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic "Gladiator II." Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: "Wickiator," "Wadiator," "Gladwick" and even the eyebrow raising "Gladicked" have all been suggested.

    "'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more," actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of "Gladiator II" this week. "I think we should all band around 'Glicked.' It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it."

    As with "Barbenheimer," as reductive as it might seem, "Glicked" also has the male/female divide that make the fan art extra silly. One is pink and bright and awash in sparkles, tulle, Broadway bangers and brand tie-ins; The other is all sweat and sand, blood and bulging... Read More

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