Nolte: Lousy Streaming Choices Keep Daniel Day-Lewis in Retirement

What’s keeping Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in retirement is looking at 7,000 streaming choices and realizing not one of those choices is worth a damn.

In an interview with Screen Daily, Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan explained why Day-Lewis, who has starred in three of Sheridan’s films, has no intention of coming out of retirement.

Shock personal revelation: I was not bowled over by Oppenheimer, it came across as a daytime soap opera.

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Alec Baldwin ‘rushed’ film crew to reload weapon on Rust set

Alec Baldwin rushed crew members to reload his weapon while filming a scene in Rust which required him to fire blanks in the direction of the camera operator, a court in New Mexico was told.

Hannah Gutierrez Reed was in charge of weapons safety on the set of the western film and is accused of involuntary manslaughter over the death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

She was killed near Santa Fe in October 2021 when the revolver Baldwin was rehearsing with went off.

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Production Reduction, Peak TV Decline Spur Blue Collar Recession in Hollywood: ‘We’re All Looking for Work’

Blue-collar Hollywood crew members are reportedly struggling to find work as the end of “peak TV” plus deep budget cuts across major studios have brought about a marked slowdown in production.

The result has been economic devastation for the so-called “below the line” people who keep Hollywood sets up and running.

Hollywood will soon be pumping out their woke crap for a lot less thanks to AI.

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Disney Exec Blames Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans

A little less than magical.

Few would deny Disney is in serious trouble.

Stock woes. Box office flops (“Wish,” “Haunted Mansion,” “The Marvels“). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, “Star Wars,” the MCU).

There’s a cottage industry of alternative media outlets documenting Disney’s decline.     

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Report: Disney‘s ABC Struggling to Sell Commercials for Oscars Broadcast Just Two Weeks Away

Disney’s ABC is reportedly struggling to sell commercials for its upcoming broadcast of the Academy Awards, with ad space still available a mere two weeks from the March 10 show.

The lack of advertiser interest comes amid growing public disaffection for the Oscars and the woke celebrities who have turned the once must-see event into a platform for progressive grandstanding.

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Rust trial: Armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was ‘sloppy’ before Alec Baldwin gun fired

A movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer was “sloppy”, her trial has heard.

“Negligent acts” by armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, led to Halyna Hutchins’ death during the production of Rust, prosecutors told the court.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers laid the blame at the feet of Mr Baldwin, who they argued violated basic safety.

Mr Baldwin, 65, is also charged over Hutchins’ death on 21 October 2021.

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Nolte: Like All Rob Reiner Movies, ‘God and Country‘ Flops with $38K Opening

Like all Rob Reiner movies, Rob Reiner’s documentary, God & Country: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism, didn’t just tank at the box office, it was humiliated.

In 85 theaters, Reiner’s bigoted attack on Christians who dared to vote for Donald Trump earned just $38,415 over four days. As one website put it, that’s “averaging $451 [per] theater over four days, which is incredibly low.” If you assume it only had “one showing each day (and likely it had several), it brought in around 112 dollars a day, or ten people a day spread across however many showings.”

Typical Hollywood bigot.

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Hollywood’s Dystopian Dream: Kristen Stewart Plans to ‘Acquire’ Children

Kirsten Stewart – Celebrity Idiot

“Acquiring kids” is Hollywood’s newest dystopian dream.

Kristen Stewart, of the Twilight movie franchise fame, was recently featured on the February cover of Rolling Stone for an “uncensored” exclusive punctuated by frequent vulgarities and accompanied by vaguely pornographic images, including one of Stewart wearing a jockstrap.

The actress, who came out as lesbian in 2017 on Saturday Night Live and accepted her now-fiancée’s marriage proposal in 2021, made her “gayness” a central part of interview with Rolling Stone.

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Rob Reiner Attacks Politically Active Christians: You Are ‘Antithetical to the Teachings of Jesus‘

Hollywood Biden cheerleader Rob Reiner is once again pushing the left’s “Christian nationalism” boogeyman, saying conservative Christians who are politically active are “antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”

Rob Reiner — who remains one of President Joe Biden’s biggest Hollywood fundraisers — spoke to Newsweek to promote the upcoming documentary God & Country, which Reiner produced.

Tone deaf bigot who lives in a bubble.

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Hollywood’s finances are collapsing, and it brought this on itself

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood is experiencing a disastrous winter. People aren’t going to the movies, opting instead to stay home. Obviously, part of the issue is streaming, which has upended the old business model. However, one cannot ignore the fact that today’s movies are awful, whether because they’re mechanical, recycled garbage, or because they’re preachy, painfully woke garbage. Watching a couple of movies from 51 and 50 years ago, respectively, will help you appreciate just how bad most modern movies really are.

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Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today

Though it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and the wave of revisionist westerns that came out of Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s, Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles doesn’t need any artfully hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography to upend Old West mythology. True, it is a comedy where a horse gets cold-cocked, a Native American chief (one of three characters played by Brooks) speaks Yiddish and Count Basie’s orchestra makes an appearance on the plains. Yet from the opening sequence, where Chinese immigrants and recently freed Black slaves work under the white man’s whip to build a railroad, this irreverent Looney Tunes spoof of the genre takes a dimmer view of frontier life than the classics it parodies.

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Nolte: Another Year of Anemic Grammy Ratings

The sixty-sixth annual Grammy Awards drew only 16.9 million viewers “across CBS, Paramount+ and other digital platforms, according to early data from Nielsen,” reports the far-left Deadline.

While this is a 34 percent improvement from 2023, until the arrogant, smug, preachy Woke Gestapo era began in 2017 with the election of President Donald Trump, the Grammy Awards averaged around 25 million viewers for nearly a decade without breaking a sweat.

Social media has exposed and over exposed the “Stars” of our era as weak tea.

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