Hollywood

Former Saturday Night Live star David Spade is blasting California Democrats Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the destruction of the film industry in Hollywood.

Spade spoke of his dismay over the fall of Hollywood during a recent episode of his Fly on the Wall podcast, during which he asserted that said “the Hollywood industry is dying” and that he’s “just trying to put the blame somewhere.”

Only twice before in recorded history have the Oscars attracted fewer viewers. In 2021, only 10.4 million tuned in. Then in 2022, only 16.6 million tuned in.

On Sunday, only 17.9 million tuned in.

Someone likened it to ‘killing the Golden goose,’ and if there was ever anything golden about Los Angeles, it was the glitter of its legendary film industry.

I mean, the celebrity culture and mystique of the movie industry was, next to palm tree-lined boulevards, the association most often made in the average American’s mind when asked what represented Los Angeles to him.

The strident incoherence of Hollywood’s pampered leftists is nothing new but the internet has made it harder to get away with.

The 98th Annual Academy Awards premiered on ABC last night and it was another left-wing awards show hate fest.

Host Conan O’Brien initially opened the show with a funny sketch, offering a brief moment of hope that this ceremony might be different than all the previous ones this season.

This year’s Oscars feel oddly bloodless. Not because there are no good films in the race, but because the ceremony increasingly resembles a formality. As far as the acting awards go, Michael B Jordan looks like a well-deserved shoo-in for best actor, and Jessie Buckley seems nailed on for best actress. Even more contested categories like Best Picture feel like a foregone conclusion. We all suspect that One Battle After Another is going to sweep up the awards. There is no sense that there is a genuine competition going on here.

It isn’t too often that conservatives can take a victory lap in the culture war, but Netflix’s announcement that it was abandoning its attempt to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is one of those occasions.

The collapse of the deal marked a rare moment when Washington, Wall Street, the conservative grassroots, and everyday viewers could all stand up and cheer.

Before we get started, I’d like to point out to the useless sycophants in the entertainment media that what I’m doing here is how it’s done.

You see, the news that The Bride! is a super-woke spin on The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) has been obvious for some time and became blatantly obvious when the reviews poured in — especially the “positive” reviews, because even the “positive” reviews were “positive” in a grudging and backhanded sort of way.

Pity. I like Maggie Gyllenhaal despite the stench of wokiness that lingers about her.

How fast things change in Trump’s America.

It wasn’t long ago that the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros looked a done deal, bar regulatory approval, after its board accepted an $82.7bn offer in December.

Now Netflix has walked away, declining to match Paramount Skydance’s new $111bn offer because the price has got too high.

“The deal is no longer financially attractive,” it said in a statement – so what happened?

It’s kind of a big deal.

‘David Ellison Scares the S— Out of Me’: How Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever

Ted Sarandos had just wrapped up a White House meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday when Warner Bros. Discovery released a statement announcing that Paramount’s latest bid for the media company was a “superior proposal” to the one that Netflix had offered. With his deal to buy the 100-year-old film and television giant hanging in the balance, Sarandos quickly consulted with a key team of executives, which included CFO Spencer Neumann and his co-CEO Greg Peters, who had been overseeing Netflix’s bid for Warners, sources say.