Hollywood

HBO is bringing back the ratings flop Girls for a five-episode seventh season.

One of my favorite pastimes is pointing out just how much the elites in the corporate media, most especially in the entertainment media, pretend something is a cultural phenomenon when no one watches it.

It’s a mystery.

I often cite the famous quote from my late mentor Andrew Breitbart that politics is downstream from culture, because it has proven so true. But not this year. In three weeks, politics can help save the culture from more leftist rot. A vote to repel the Marxist Democrats at the ballot box November 3rd is a vote to dispel the utter garbage their acolyte storytellers have been passing as art, and shut them up for a while in the bargain. Dropping liberal movie bomb after bomb on the public clearly hasn’t stopped them or slowed them down. Now we can do the latter.

Hollywood celebrities like Henry Winkler, John Legsizamo, and many others denounced the Pentagon’s proposed plan to livestream the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

But their cool with Trump being killed.

This weekend’s box-office mega-bomb, Digger, could not have come out at a clearer moment. To understand why, you must accept that much of the history and news people consumed for a hundred years has been anti-Western spin by the leftist mainstream media. During all that time, voices and writings challenging the mass deception were quashed or marginalized, including this very magazine.

Warner Bros. went all in on star Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu by pouring about $250 million down the shitter into Digger, which is now not only a confirmed flop, but a historical flop.

With a production budget rumored to be around $180 million and a promotion budget that must have grazed at least $70 million, Digger opened to a dreadful $8 million despite a massive release into over 3,300 theaters.

Former Hollywood giant Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting his former assistant, Miriam Haley, more than six years after the disgraced producer was first convicted.

Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday in New York for forcibly performing oral sex on Haley at his apartment in 2006. A jury convicted Weinstein of the charge during a retrial last year after the state’s highest court overturned his original conviction.

It’s astonishing how California’s leftists delude themselves about the sheet awfulness of their one-party rule of the state.

For weeks, they and their allies been claiming that mighty 100-year-old Paramount Studios, one of the historic big five of Hollywood, and which along with Warner Brothers, still makes more than a quarter of the movies released in the U.S. every year, is just bluffing about whether it will pull up stakes and move to Tennessee.

Hollywood and Los Angeles were once so inextricably intertwined that you could hardly mention one without picturing the other. So much more than just a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, Hollywood simply was the entertainment industry — a name that conjured all the glamour, glitz, beauty, wealth, thrills, and tabloid debauchery of a magical place that could only exist in America.

Viewership for the 78th Emmy Awards cratered by 9 percent from last year with just 6.7 million viewers tuning in, with analysts already speculating the Monday night airtime may have been a factor.

Your eyes are rolling so hard at the moment at the headline that I can practically hear the friction all the way to central Texas. Come on, man, you must be thinking. There is no chance at all that Tinseltown will go full MAGA!

A Pompeii resident looking out his window at Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79 would have noticed something was amiss from the black smoke emanating out the top. He might have fled the city before it got destroyed, salvaging what he could. Movie mogul David Ellison has been observing the virtual darkness menacing Hollywood, and is taking steps to rebuild elsewhere.

Entertainment industry luminaries are going berserk over the looming Ellison merger of Paramount and Warner Bros studios. As usual with them, for all the wrong reasons. They warn about the resultant reduced production, fewer jobs, less competition (four major studios instead of five), and that Ellison may move the entire conglomerate out of Los Angeles. Which some astute insiders see as a good thing, given what the recent studio regimes and political leaders have done to the physical location and its workers.

It wasn’t that long ago when Hollywood’s decline would have been considered a national tragedy.