Hollywood

Hollywood’s writers have been on strike for two months and soon the actors may join them, swapping the red carpet for the picket lines.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) contract expires at midnight local time on 12 July, following a deadline extension that delayed the possibility of a mega-strike by almost two weeks.

They would join the Writers Guild of America, which went on strike on 2 May after failing to reach a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), an umbrella group representing studios like Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

Visitors to Disney theme parks this summer are encountering something they haven’t seen in a while: elbow room.

Travel analysts and advisers say traffic to Disney’s U.S. parks, and some rival parks, has slowed this summer. Data from a travel company that tracks line-waiting time at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., shows that the Independence Day weekend was one of the slowest in nearly a decade.

All I know of Disney’s theme parks are the fight videos.

If something is falling apart but wants to stay afloat, it’s usually a pretty right time for making some changes.

It’s all but official. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will put Disney in the red.

Again.

The fifth and presumably final film in the iconic saga opened to a weak $60 million at the U.S. box office. Those numbers would be withering for most would-be blockbusters, witness fiscal failures like “The Flash” ($55 million) and “Black Adam” ($67 million).

“Dial of Destiny” arrives with a bloated $295 million budget (or worse) plus millions in P&A. That means it’ll take a cinematic miracle for “Dial of Destiny” to break even.

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.