Fearing lousy reviews, the Disney Grooming Syndicate is reportedly limiting critic screenings for The Mandalorian & Grogu.
“Disney appears to be cutting back on showing the film to critics,” reports World of Reel. “Some journalists are complaining online that they’ve been told by publicists that The Mandalorian and Grogu won’t be screened for critics in their area, which is odd considering no other Star Wars movie has been treated this way before.”
Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan has defended his casting decisions for his upcoming epic The Odyssey following online backlash.
With the release of the newest trailer last week, online chatter attacked the film for some of the casting decisions, such as rapper Travis Scott. Speaking with TIME in a lengthy profile, the acclaimed filmmaker said he wanted Scott as a symbol for stories like Homer’s The Odyssey being passed down as oral poetry.
Reports of transgender actor Elliot Page — formerly Ellen — playing Achilles in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey, have sparked fierce backlash. “You could have paid me to tank this movie and I wouldn’t have thought of this,” actor Kevin Sorbo reacted.
But wait there’s more …
Elliot Page gave $25K for a community well in N.S. It’s still not running and he’s not happy
The late great author Michael Crichton gave Hollywood one of its biggest franchises, Jurassic Park — still going strong — and the television monster hit ER. Most of his novels became major films, including The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Rising Sun, and Timeline. Yet today, were Crichton a live white male instead of a dead one (he died in 2008), producers would ban him for having opposed their woke mind virus before it metastasized.
No one is wondering that it will be a woke mess. It just is.
Laverne Cox, a transvestite and one of the stars of the pro-Communist, anti-Trump Animal Farm, is demanding that men be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Here’s his rationale…
I didn’t need another reason to avoid this crappy abuse of Animal Farm.
Co-writer and director Andy Serkis took Animal Farm, one of the totems of classic literature, and woke-warped it into something unrecognizable.
George Orwell’s 1945 novella Animal Farm is a scathing reenactment of the 1917 Russian Revolution brilliantly told through talking farm animals.
The latest (dumb) idea floating around to protect actors from AI is something called the Tilly Tax, or a tax that tries to remove the incentive of choosing an AI-generated actor over a human actor.
Over at Forbes, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, an AI scientist, has written a truly superb article that looks at this tax scheme from all angles. Unlike most of the analysis you see about AI vs. Hollywood, Eliot’s write-up is informed, comprehensive, and loaded with the kind of context the entertainment media are afraid to highlight.
Good read … Hollywood’s New Math Favors AI Actors Over Human Actors And Taxing Won’t Stop The Rise Of Synthetic Movie Stars
Award-winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz is embracing AI and predicts that “in two years from now nobody will care” if actors are real or AI.
Kassovitz arrived on the scene as a respected international filmmaker 30 years ago with his 1995 masterpiece La Haine, a critical and financial hit that won him the Best Director prize at that year’s Cannes Film Festival.
So long as the AI creations refrain from calling me a racist because I didn’t vote as instructed I won’t care.
A judge in Los Angeles has ruled that a civil lawsuit accusing Alec Baldwin of acting negligently in the deadly 2021 shooting on the set of his western film Rust can proceed to trial.
According to Variety, the superior court judge Maurice Leiter issued a summary judgment on Friday allowing the case to move forward. Leiter’s ruling – obtained by the outlet – said that “a reasonable jury could find that Mr Baldwin recklessly disregarded the probability that pointing a gun in the direction of someone, with the finger on the trigger, would cause emotional distress”.
h/t Hermes
The Disney Grooming Syndicate laid off around 1,000 staffers this week, including a whopping eight percent of the staff at its flailing Marvel division. It’s specifically where the Marvel layoffs occurred that I find interesting…
“[N]early the entire Academy Award-winning visual development team at Marvel Studios is being let go,” reports Financial Express
With the now thoroughly disgraced former Congressman and California candidate Gov. Eric Swalwell resigning his seat in Congress and suspending his gubernatorial campaign, the left-wing Hollywood celebrities who were so loudly backing him have all of a sudden gone quiet.
Andy Serkis’s polished animated film changes just enough of George Orwell’s classic allegory to undermine the very lesson that made it endure.
he famous allegory for Stalinism that is Animal Farm is a classic for a reason. One of George Orwell’s most famous works, the story drives home a powerful but straightforward message about the dangers of revolution and how power corrupts.
The new animated film of the same title by Andy Serki doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.
Talk about a disturbance in the force… That stupid-looking new Star Wars movie hits theaters next month and failed to rank on a list of the ten most anticipated summer movies.
Pretty much every movie scheduled for a summer release beat Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, including the new Insidious and Scary Movie sequels.
As America celebrates faith, military triumph, and space exploration, a woke film industry faces layoffs, lost audiences, and the collapse of its own ideology.
It was a glorious Easter Sunday to wake up to in America, for three reasons. Christ is risen, Navy Seals rescued a downed airman from behind enemy lines in Iran, and U.S. astronauts neared the Moon. But the people in one area, Hollywood, are not celebrating this Easter, also for three reasons. They hate Christians, who worship the first triumph. They despise Trump, who effected the other two. And they’ll probably soon be out of a job.
Hollywood is locked in a death spiral that it may never be able to reverse, a report claims.
The days of La La Land may be numbered with the pressures of how people consume entertainment continuing to undergo massive shifts. And the legacy studio system is struggling to respond and reinvent itself accordingly, especially in the U.S. as productions of movies and TV shows flee California in droves and even increasingly head to other countries looking for far cheaper costs.
