Hollywood

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) will be taking its strike to Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year: “Prime Day.” Starting on July 11, Amazon “Prime Day” offers some of the best deals the retail behemoth has to offer, with some deals going as high as 65 percent off. The WGA will be reframing this as “Crime Day,” the WGA will be picketing at the Amazon Culver City Studios on Wednesday, according to Deadline.

I post these updates just to remind myself that the writer’s strike is still a thing.

My impression is Hollywood and the writers are expediting their own irrelevance.

Tired of movie critics falling over themselves to praise ‘box-ticking’ box office duds? Luckily, one lifelong film buff has the antidote

Politics, banking, schools, corporations, the military: the dread woke agenda gets everywhere these days. And regrettably, even film reviews aren’t immune. While writing about the latest cinema releases, critics are increasingly pushing an insidious leftist agenda in their work – the same one being covertly peddled by the Hollywood studios themselves. Or at least, that’s the claim of a small but flourishing new website which has, since February, been trying to bring a very different voice into the mix.

It appears that audiences around the world were not much interested in seeing an octogenarian swashbuckling archaeologist being berated by his niece for two hours as Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny could only dig up $2.3 million for its opening day in China, a mere $60 million for its domestic weekend, and “lackluster” box office numbers elsewhere.

Disney’s Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has spent the last decade destroying everything she touches and has done so deliberately. She obviously hates what made Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow so iconic, and so, she used her shallow, divisive reactionary politics to express that hatred by defiling all three into something unrecognizable.

Prosecutors in the “Rust” case allege that the film’s armorer handed a bag of cocaine to another person on the evening after Halyna Hutchins was killed.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was charged last week with evidence tampering for allegedly handing off the drugs in October 2021. Prosecutors allege that by doing so, she interfered with the investigation into Hutchins’ death.

According to various box office projections, Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is looking at a Thursday night opening between $6 and $7.5 million.

We’ll update you with the final figures, but either way, this could be glorious news of yet another devastating flop for the Woke Reich that runs the Disney Grooming Syndicate.

Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Other A-Listers Threaten to Strike If Actors Union Demands Not Met

A-list actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and others have all vowed to strike against the studios if they do not meet the proposed demands from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union.

I forgot all about the writer’s strike. Frankly Hollywood on strike is probably good for the collective mind.

We’ve long been critical of Hollywood’s lack of fresh, new ideas and its apparent fascination with rebooting past films or giving us a sequel decades later. Sadly, merely paying homage to the original material is insufficient. Instead, producers opt to incorporate “wokeness,” believing it will be more appealing to modern viewers, but in the process, they end up taking something beloved and turning it into garbage that the masses don’t want to see.

Who doesn’t wanna be entertained by racialized lesbian grievance mongers?

The Walt Disney Co. is estimated to have lost a stunning $890 million on its last eight studio releases, including The Little Mermaid and Elemental, according to a box office analyst.

Disney could see even more red ink since these titles are all destined for the Disney+ streaming service instead of other streamers, like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, where they could generate additional revenue.

Prosecutors have charged the Rust film armourer with evidence tampering in connection to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has already been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

She will face an additional charge in relation to “the transfer of narcotics to another person”, prosecutors said.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed will plead not guilty to the new charge, her lawyer said, calling it “retaliatory and vindictive”.

Disney’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Latondra Newton is, exiting the grooming company, per various news reports.

Newton has led the grooming outfit’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for six disastrous years. In a Tuesday memo, Disney’s chief human resources officer, Sonia Coleman, told the Disney staff that Newton decided to leave to “pursue other endeavors.” The far-left Deadline reports that Newton is moving on to destroy her own company: “We hear that she plans to join a corporate board and focus on a creative company she owns.” Please do put identity over merit at your own company, Latrondra, so we can watch that crash and burn like Disney.

It ill behoves Hollywood — the most venal and exploitative workplace ever invented — to tell the rest of us how to behave

Is anyone actually watching the Oscars anymore? Until “The Incident” between Messrs Smith and Rock last year the direction of travel was clear. Between 2014 and 2020 the televised Academy Awards lost almost half their viewers, the number falling from 43 to 23 million. This year, in March, they were at 18 million with punters only tuning in perhaps to see some bitch-slapping between Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep.