Hollywood

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest list of television’s most inclusive shows reveals that a majority of those shows are no longer on the air or have not been renewed.

Gee, I can’t imagine why.

Disney learned the very hard way what conservatives have been warning us for years.

Go woke. Go broke.

The Mouse House’s horrendous 2023 is finally over, but an attempt to revitalize its prized IP already has a whiff of woke to it.

It comes courtesy of “Star Wars: New Jedi Order” director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Throughout all of 2023, the late night comedians told a total of 9,518 political jokes, and of these 7,729 or 81 percent were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political spectrum, an MRC study has found.

More and more Americans are canceling their streaming services, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

“About one-quarter of U.S. subscribers to major streaming services … have canceled at least three of them over the past two years.” That’s up from 15 percent two years ago, “according to November data from subscription-analytics provider Antenna.”

Woke went broke, or at least lost money, in 2023.

America 2023, as surrealistic as anything witnessed on the New Year’s Eve Twilight Zone marathon, morphed from Old Republic to Banana Republic.

Donald Trump began the year free of legal charges and down in the polls. He ended it facing 717.5 years in jail and leading in the polls for president of the United States. Does any better proof exist that Americans hate when their government tells them what to do?

It was a year of change for late night comedy. The Late Late show was cancelled by CBS after 5,300 episodes since 1995 after James Corden decided to return to England, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show used a series of temp hosts after Trevor Noah walked away at the end of 2022, CBS host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert finally stopped giving Donald Trump the He Who Must Not Be Named treatment, and then, of course, there was the strike that forced them off the air for five months. One thing that did not change, however, was the heavy amounts of leftism, so in the spirit of David Letterman, here are the bottom ten moments from late night 2023.

Taylor Swift’s performative activism is getting tiresome — and transparently hypocritical.

Now that she is the Democrats’ official cultural vector for promoting their left-wing agenda, the mega pop star has become more than ubiquitous. She is being forcibly crammed down everyone’s throats. Her media saturation level is somewhere near Hurricane Katrina. Even NFL fans who just want to enjoy the game have no choice but to watch Clockwork Orange-style as she cheers on her Kansas City Chiefs boyfriend in cringeworthy style.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is projected to open to a disastrous $40 million over the four-day Christmas weekend. That is lower than The Marvels, which opened to $46 million over a three-day weekend and is widely considered a five-alarm catastrophe.

In the end, The Marvels only ended up grossing $84 million stateside and another $121 million overseas for a global haul of just $205 million — well, Well, WELL below its production budget.

I became aware of Leave the World Behind, a new film that’s now streaming on Netflix, when Julia Roberts mentioned it a few days ago on the Graham Norton Show, where she co-guested with Cher, Tom Hanks, and Timothée Chalamet. Her sales pitch was impressive. She said that when the producers were casting it, they sent her a copy of the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam on which it’s based. She dove into it at once, but took a long time getting to the end because it was so terrifying that she had to put it down at sunset.

Disney has spent the last year developing and refining its destructive habit of producing films infected by woke themes — and it’s become surprisingly good at it. The result, of course, has been disastrous for the mega-entertainment company; almost every film Disney sent to theaters this year flopped at the box office.

Zegler got told to shut up after single handedly sinking the movie prior to production.

You can’t have Snow White played by a whiny leftist.

I bet the plug gets pulled.

Hasbro Toys has just announced the layoff of 1,100 souls a few weeks before Christmas, which comes two years after extending a deal with the Disney Grooming Syndicate to sell Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones toys.

… I can’t recall when a major corporation like Disney changed its shooting schedule or marketing for a movie in response to a small studio’s challenge.

Disney did precisely that. Right after The Daily Wire announced that it would be releasing a Snow White movie as counterprogramming to the troubled Disney production, Snow White and the Diverse Forest Creatures of Endor, or whatever it will be called.