To be clear, some of the gray states were tied, whereas others were polled multiple times with different results.
Anyway, data found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statewide_opinion_polling_for_Hillary_Clinton_for_the_2008_United_States_presidential_election
Electoral College generator: https://www.270towin.com/2008-election/interactive-map
“Buddy, your movie has way too much violent and/or sexual content. We have no choice but to give you an NC-17 rating, which will severe impact your distribution prospects. Many theaters will refuse to carry movies with this rating, after all.”
“Okay, fine, I’ll just release my very violent and/or sexual movie without any rating.”
“Oh, alright, you’re good! Theaters won’t have any problem with this!”
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Obviously I’m radically oversimplifying the situation, but when it comes to something like The Terrifier series, I think you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Assuming they do eventually get around to making an Episode X and beyond, of course.
As everyone here knows, the first six Star Wars movies were distributed theatrically by Fox, and thus featured the famous fanfare before the opening crawl. Once Disney bought Lucasfilm, though, that connection was severed, and the Sequel Trilogy lacked this preamble. However, since then Disney acquired 20th Century Fox (rebranded as 20th Century Studios, to be clear), bringing all these elements back under the same roof. So, again, in the hypothetical instance that further mainline trilogies are added to the saga, should Disney bring back the fanfare, alongside the amended 20th Century Studios logo?
Personally, as someone who grew up with the franchise before Disney took control, I’ll admit that I found this omission a little jarring, and I wouldn’t mind a return to form. But what do you think?
Say whatever you will about The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, they proved that releasing movies in languages that nobody speaks anymore could still be commercially viable for mass audiences. And yet, it doesn’t seem like any other major American director has picked up that baton recently. Yeah, there may be smaller movies that technically do this, but nothing released widely by a major studio.
Robert Eggers has earned a lot of praise for the historical accuracy in his movies, but even The Northman wasn’t shot in Old Norse. And yeah, I know that the question of historical accuracy in The Odyssey has become this big culture war issue… but without debating the merits of a movie nobody’s seen yet, I think it would be cool to see an adaptation of Ancient Greek history or mythology realized in the appropriate language.
I don’t think ALL period pieces should do this, to be sure… but it’d be cool to see this happen more often. Just my two cents.
Source: https://www.cygn.al/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/23838-Cygnal-National-May26-NVT-Deck-Public.pdf
Found via this X/Twitter post: https://x.com/nick\_field90/status/2054631848676933737