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“Babylon 5” Revival Unlikely According to its Creator

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During an extended series of tweets on yesterday evening, #Babylon5 creator J. Michael Straczynski stated that his award winning sci-fi series’ current television rights holder (Warner Bros.) has no intention of either doing anything with the license themselves or allowing anyone else to do anything with it either.

This is in stark contrast to J. Michael Straczynski’s optimism that he’d had 4 years ago at San Diego Comic Con (2014) when he told an audience that he was looking to do a feature film as a reboot with new actors.

Unfortunately, while J. Michael Straczinski owns the film rights to “Babylon 5”, no studio has expressed interest in filming a movie without the accompanying television rights that Warner Bros. is unwilling to license.

Warner Bros. execs unwillingness to budge on the “Babylon 5” TV rights license may stem from a longstanding grudge related to a now defunct TV network called PTEN upon which B5 originally aired and which some WB execs were not permitted to play with even though WB was a part owner of the network.

Sadly this is simply bad news for fans of the B5 franchise.

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“Black Panther”: 5th Highest Grossing Movie of All Time (Domestic)

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As the 5th highest grossing movie of all time domestically, #BlackPanther isn’t just the highest grossing superhero movie of all time now (having out-performed #TheAvengers from 2012), it has also out-performed “#StarWars VIII: #TheLastJedi”!

The top 7 grossing domestic films of all time as of March 28, 2018 are as follows:

  1. “Star Wars VII: The Last Jedi” (2015): $936,662,225
  2. “Avatar” (2009): $760,507,625
  3. “Titanic” (1997): $659,363,944
  4. “Jurassic World” (2015): $652,270,625
  5. “Black Panther” (2018): $635,634,080
  6. “Marvel’s The Avengers” (2012): $623,357,910
  7. “Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi” (2017): $619,999,185

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