Last week, I watched my Criterion Blu-ray of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019) and was shocked when the Netflix logo appeared.
I had forgotten The Irishman was a Netflix movie — a streaming feature funded, produced, and distributed by a streaming outlet.
NEW YORK (AP) — TV late-night comedy scribe Greg Iwinski, 38, was still only an aspiring writer when Hollywood writers held their landmark strike in 2007-2008.
But as he manned the picket lines Wednesday — the day the current strike hit its 100th day, matching the length of the previous one — he was keenly aware of all the history involved.
Hollywood is simply not loved by a huge segment of the general public who’ve learned to ignore LaLaLand. I doubt I will ever feel deprived of their product.
Similar to Trudeau’s pissing match with Big Tech people wish both sides could lose.
I associate Disney with two things now, Corporate perversion and fight videos at their seedy theme parks.
The Hollywood writers’ strike is entering day 100, and the far-left Washington Post would like to share some tales of woe about a group of people who hate us.
One writer is down to her last three months of savings.
Another writer has had to return to his old job as a man-whore gigolo male escort, where he clears $8,000 to $10,000 a month.
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and the rest of the leftist late-nighters have been off the air since May.
Has anyone noticed?
I didn’t even know that left-wing bigots like Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were airing reruns, which tells you just how little impact these woke echo chambers have nowadays.
To be honest I didn’t know they were MIA.
A new poll shows that while Americans support the striking Hollywood writers and actors more than the studios, a clear majority of Americans either do not care or feel ambivalent about the situation.
Surveying 1,002 adult Americans between July 28-30, the Los Angeles Times/Leger poll showed that the striking writers and actors do not have majority support, even though 60 percent of those polled admitted they had “somewhat” of an understanding of the grievances due to mass media coverage. Only 38 percent of Americans polled sympathized with the strikers while just 7 percent sympathized with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
I can’t say I care. Hollywood earned the public’s antipathy having deliberately squandered the goodwill of so many of us “little people.”
Warner Bros has apologised for replying to tweets about Barbie and Oppenheimer that used the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the background for jokes.
The hashtag #NoBarbenheimer began trending in Japan over the weekend, with hundreds of posts taking memes to task for making light of the atomic bombings and criticising an official Barbie film Twitter account for engaging with them.
There is no need to come to Japan.
There is no need to release films in Japan.
Did your mother teach you that it is ok to discriminate and laugh at war victims? Or did God teach you that?#NoBarbenheimer pic.twitter.com/yumhhhKB30
— 桐生らいらぷす (@Laelaps_jp) July 31, 2023
Japan has never come clean as the Germans have with their record of atrocity in WW II.
Experts have been predicting the demise of Hollywood for as long as Hollywood’s been around. Not me.
People love stories. They love movies and TV, and that will never change. But the entertainment industry is in serious trouble today, primarily because it has painted itself into several corners. There will always be a Hollywood, but what the industry looks like in five or ten years could be very different from what we see today.
A NEW phenomenon is sweeping the digital stratosphere – the movie double bill of Oppenheimer and Barbie, kitschily named on social media ‘Barbenheimer’.
A film about as grim a subject as the invention and deployment of the first atomic bomb seems a strange pairing with the story of a pink-clad plastic doll whose goal is to empower women. Barbie, manufactured by Mattel, has seen her status bolstered under licensing and distribution deals with the entertainment conglomerate Warner Brothers and an array of global brands including Chanel, showcasing their out-of-reach (to us mere mortals) products in almost every scene.
Life is so good that, according to various box office projections, the groomers at Disney have just released another expensive flop into theaters.
This flop is called Haunted Mansion (2023). It cost a whopping $150 million to produce. Once you add in promotion costs, you’re looking at a $225 to $250 million investment that’s about to open somewhere between—lol—$25 and $30 million.
Haunted Mansion also feels like the most Disney movie ever. Get this… It’s a remake of a 2003 movie based on a theme park ride.
Maybe you noticed that for the first time in 63 years, both the writers and actors’ unions are striking together. With TMC, Netflix, and the summer weather, perhaps not.
Most of us minions have other pressing concerns like paying our bills and buying food while coping with record inflation that the woke left now calls “Bidenomics.”
Disney’s upcoming live-action adaption of the 1937 film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” made by “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and featuring a non-white Snow White and racially diverse, multi-gendered, size-inclusive dwarfs, is about to be another girl-boss blockbuster committed to dismantling yet another beloved classic tale.
This has mega-flop written all over it.
Did this weekend’s box office smash, Barbie, break the box office curse of Get Woke, Go Broke?
Well, let’s hope so! Seriously, let’s hope Hollywood believes woke sells and starts producing more woke movies because watching these movies flop is much more entertaining than anything Hollywood’s produced in years.
We are edging into the third month of the strike by the Writers Guild of America, called because of shrivelling residual royalty payments from streaming movies and TV, as well as concern about AI such as ChatGPT being used to generate story ideas – and indeed to write scripts. Hollywood’s screenwriters have now been joined by the 150,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, which was demonstrated very visibly by the cast of Oppenheimer walking out of its UK premiere last week. ‘We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines,’ said union president Fran Drescher. Susan Sarandon has said of AI: ‘I would hope that in the future people understand the difference between real people making real choices and something that’s basically animation.’
But here’s an uncomfortable fact. When it comes to scripts, I’m not sure using AI instead of flesh and blood writers would make a whole lot of difference.
Warner Bros’ Barbie film is tracking for a huge opening weekend, beating Guardians of the Galaxy 3 to take the crown for the best Thursday previews box-office haul of the year. But early reviews have revealed the Greta Gerwig-directed picture devolves into a series of moralizing monologues — not the light, fun adventure promised in its marketing.
Disney goes full pervert.