Consumers continue to dump their cable and satellite subscriptions at an accelerated pace as the industry continues to see a fall in earnings across the board and for the first time ever, more people are watching on streaming than on cable.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, earnings are down for the second quarter.
Alec Baldwin appeared on far-left CNN this week and once again made the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins all about Alec Baldwin. Oh, and Orange Hitler.
Baldwin is on defense again after the FBI released a forensic report that said the gun used to kill Hutchins could not be fired without pulling the trigger.
The entertainment industry is putting woke indoctrination ahead of entertainment.
There is little doubt that the American entertainment industry has emerged as one of the key drivers of the culture wars today.
Wokeness is already hegemonic in Hollywood and in mass-entertainment media like Netflix. So much so that culture warriors are now attempting to colonise new sectors and genres that have previously resisted their ideological influence.
One such example is country-and-western music. Woke elites are now using their influence over Nashville’s radio and recording industry to try to separate country music from its traditional roots.
Why does the actor still have such a hold on film executives?
If Warner Brothers’ expensive superhero film The Flash is released next summer — and does not follow the fate of this year’s Batgirl, which has been summarily canceled — it will be fascinating to watch what the publicity circus does with its leading man. Or, to be more exact, leading human, as its star Ezra Miller has dismissed conventional ideas of being pigeonholed as anything conventional. They declared in 2018 that, “Queer just means no, I don’t do that. I don’t identify as a man. I don’t identify as a woman. I barely identify as a human.”
Alec Baldwin on Tuesday blasted the media for keeping up its coverage of the investigation into the shooting that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, as he doubled down on his denial that he pulled the trigger of the gun.
In an appearance on the YouTube show “The Chris Cuomo Project,” the disgruntled actor singled out The Post while whining to host Chris Cuomo about the media not dropping the story of the deadly on-set shooting.
“I used to think The Post was something cops would read for the sports page … but I was surprised to learn some of the people who read The Post,” Baldwin said in the episode that aired Tuesday.
The shooting death of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” last year was an accident, New Mexico’s Office of Medical Investigator determined.
The medical investigator’s report, which was completed following an autopsy and a review of police reports, was made public Monday by the Santé Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
I bet he was driving Anne Heche’s car.
The gun used in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set could not have been fired without pulling the trigger, according to an FBI forensic report obtained Friday by ABC News.
Actor Alec Baldwin shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western, which he was producing and starring in, last year. The actor believed he was handling a “cold gun” — one without live ammunition — when it went off and a live bullet struck Hutchins, killing her. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was also wounded in the shooting.
Anne Heche has been officially declared brain dead and will be taken off life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery LA car crash last week, her friends and family have said.
The actress, 53, who is in a coma and in critical condition, will stay on a ventilator to determine whether any of her remaining organs are viable to be donated, per Heche’s wishes.
From House of Mouse to house of gauche.
An upcoming series on Disney+ is set to feature a drag queen in a starring role. Shea Couleé, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will be appearing in a currently unspecified role in the Marvel superhero series Ironheart. The series focuses on the adventures of Riri Williams, a 15-year-old black female genius inventor who creates her own Iron Man–esque suit of armor. While Couleé’s role remains unclear, it appears as though the actor will be a “series regular.” Couleé was previously the inspiration for a drag queen character in the Marvel Iceman comics.
Visiting Zelensky has become the latest Hollywood PR stunt
The saying goes that there is nothing that celebrities can’t make about themselves. As it turns out, that includes a war in Ukraine caused by an invasion of Russia that’s already seen thousands of casualties.
It’s almost as though there are two wars happening at once: one on social media, where guerrilla clips from the front lines show bodies, shelling, and damage to homes, and one playing out in the pages of Vogue magazine.
The Hollywood whistleblower and veteran screenwriter, who has worked in high levels of show business for over 30 years, had to conceal his identity during his appearance on “In The Trenches With Teddy Daniels,” going only by the name of “Mike” and not showing his face. Throughout the interview, Mike offered an inside look at the demented underbelly of America’s entertainment industry, long accused by many of being a cesspit of pedophilia.
Harvey Weinstein’s life story would make a great movie. A tragedy, to be specific.
The Oscar-winning producer had the film industry under his thumb, but along the way he used that power to sexually punish starlets. He’s sitting in jail now for his crimes, but the investigative report that sealed his downfall will soon be a major motion picture.
She Said recalls The New York Times reporters whose expose ended Weinstein’s reign of terror.
The new entertainment industry will be even more woke.
Peak TV, a stunning era during which Big Tech and traditional studios entered into a furious competition to make a bewildering amount of content, is dead. The 559 scripted shows from last year represent a historic hubris that everyone, especially investors, is recovering from.
That was the year that Netflix announced that it was spending $18 billion on content.
The creative elites are completely out of touch with ordinary people.
It’s slightly disconcerting when you make a decision that you think goes against the grain of the generality, and then you find out everybody else is doing exactly the same thing. When I cancelled my Netflix subscription earlier this year I thought I was being thrillingly unconventional. But only a few days later, the news broke that I was definitely not alone. Maybe we were all sat there, millions of us it transpires, sighing as we scrolled sideways along those seemingly endless menu cards – each one representing somebody’s creative dream, each one utterly generic – all of us thinking: ‘This may be popular with the rude masses, but none of it appeals to my highly refined taste!’
I do subscribe to Netflix and also to Amazon Prime.
Through the worst of last year there were many long nights that I sat numb in front of the TV binge watching whatever looked like it might promise escape.
My sleep was badly disrupted and whenever I did awake I would tune back in for the “company” if the automated shut off had kicked in.
I discovered Netflix has some good content and I have been impressed with a lot of the Euro series, DARK, Money Heist, Babylon Berlin, Norsemen – who knew Swedes could be funny?
Now I fall asleep having failed to find anything that looks bingeable. I literally wake up with the clicker in hand having watched nothing.
On occasion I have tuned in a show only to remember that I did in fact sorta watch it through the longest hours of last year but it somehow left no impression.
My tastes in flicks are not as refined as Kathy’s and I miss watching her recommendations together. Even her taste in “Junk” was more sophisticated than mine.
I suspect I will cancel Netflix. Prime and “free” Tubi offer enough to fall asleep by and the budget says one has to go.
While studios continue to make spin-off, sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes of superhero movies no one asked for — each seemingly more woke than the last, see