Hollywood

Hollywood, specifically the film industry, is going through a legitimate, serious, and potentially fatal phase.

No one likes the movies anymore.

The key to a healthy industry—audience goodwill—is evaporating quickly.

Entertainment giant Disney is set to eliminate up to 4,000 jobs as part of CEO Bob Iger’s $5.5 billion budget cut plan as the company faces repeated box office bombs, billions in losses over its streaming service, and political setbacks due to its radical left-wing policies in Florida.

Too tarnished to ever resurrect.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods opened to a pathetic $3.4 million on Thursday night.

The sequel to 2019’s modest hit is already predicted to bomb with a $35 million opening weekend. The news of this awful Thursday night take is making those predictions look wise and accurate

With a pathetic 18.7 million viewers, it’s official: the Academy Awards are doornail dead.

It’s over.

There’s no coming back from this.

Two of the biggest movies in history were in this year’s Oscar hunt — Avatar: Way of the Water and Top Gun: Maverick. Still, fewer than 20 million tuned in.

There used to a buffer between “The Stars” and their public, access was controlled.

Social media has made it much easier to be disgusted with Hollywood and Celebrities. That’s a good thing.

The Oscars are once again nigh, and this year’s awards attendees are getting a swag bag worth $126,000, nearly two times the yearly income of the average American — but drastically reduced in value compared to just a few years ago.

Alec Baldwin will face a two-week evidentiary hearing in a Santa Fe courtroom in May, as prosecutors seek to show there is enough evidence to try him for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

At a brief status conference on Thursday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer scheduled the preliminary hearing to begin on May 3.

After only two weeks in release, a little Christian film called Jesus Revolution has grossed $30.5 million, which is a better domestic take than five of this year’s Best Picture nominees. In fact, it’s a better domestic haul than four of those Best Picture nominees combined.

And only an idiot is surprised by this news.

Americans are so turned off by Hollywood, Oscar-bait, and prestige films that they are not only flopping at the box office; they are being ignored at their respective streaming platforms.

“While prestige films’ woes at the post-pandemic box office have been dissected at length, there’s been much less discussion of another side of the equation,” reports the far-left Variety. “For most such movies, large audiences haven’t been showing up on streaming, either.”

Hollywood is just not the cultural epicenter it was.

The blame rests on their shoulders.

All those “smartest people in the room” types kept telling huge swaths of their audience they hated them.

I still watch movies but at the first sign of “woke” I’m outta there.

I’ve found that the European offerings tend to focus on creating a movie rather than a tiresome lecture.

Three crew members from the ill-fated Western Rust have filed suit against Alec Baldwin, claiming they suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety due to the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The woman whose testimony put predator Harvey Weinstein behind bars for an additional 16 years has until now been known only as “Jane Doe 1.”

But now, she’s ready to tell her story.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, former actress and mother of three Evgenia Chernyshova revealed that the disgraced media mogul and serial sexual predator had raped her in a hotel room in Beverly Hills in 2013, opening up about the trauma she suffered and her struggle for justice in the years afterward.

For more than two decades, chart-topping R&B singer R. Kelly had faced allegations of sexual abuse.

The accounts went back to the start of his career in the 1990s, with many centring on the predatory pursuit of teenage girls.

In 2022, he was jailed for 30 years after being found guilty of eight counts of sex trafficking and one of racketeering in a New York court.

Months later, he was convicted of child sexual abuse in a second federal trial in Chicago.

A California Democrat mega-donor who worked as a prominent real estate developer by day and directed hardcore porn movies by night has pleaded guilty to tax fraud, with authorities saying he failed to report almost $6.9 million in income on his tax returns.