{"id":50075,"date":"2015-04-15T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/hulk-smash-puny-contract.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:55:03","slug":"hulk-smash-puny-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/hulk-smash-puny-contract.html","title":{"rendered":"Hulk smash puny contract!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, not even the Hulk can disentangle himself from the paper trail that disinclines Disney\/Marvel from making another Hulk movie &#8212; even though both Disney and Universal (which gets a cut of any such movie) would still probably make money hand over fist from it.  Pity, that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/io9.com\/oh-so-thats-why-marvel-hasnt-made-any-more-hulk-movies-1697783814'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Dw6mHxYIwfRTVXElyqcB76vhifH9Fkrk7bZbhj5i8yRo_BnzRiAqn9H61XKSoEEkUMYP6GmXHX32g4UqVysL86zgEjwfans0VVYJrBvfPN02v-vysQNvDvy3dAoNqT6JAntbnGbs=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/oh-so-thats-why-marvel-hasnt-made-any-more-hulk-movies-1697783814'>Oh, So That&#8217;s Why Marvel Hasn&#8217;t Made Any More Hulk Movies<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt seems completely obvious in retrospect, but it took a random interview with Mark Ruffalo to explain the likely reason why there&#8217;s been no solo Hulk movie yet &mdash; it&#8217;s Universal&#8217;s fault.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SfEjx67UK1u'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, not even the Hulk can disentangle himself from the paper trail that disinclines Disney\/Marvel from making another Hulk movie &#8212; even though both Disney and Universal (which gets a cut of any such movie) would still probably make money hand over fist from it. Pity, that. Oh, So That&#8217;s Why Marvel Hasn&#8217;t Made Any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/hulk-smash-puny-contract.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hulk smash puny contract!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,525,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41602,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/movie-review-the-incredible-hulk-2008.html","url_meta":{"origin":50075,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Incredible Hulk&quot; (2008)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Apr-14 6:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, I never saw it in the theaters, or on disc since then. 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