How is jane fonda even still relevant? I only hear her name when i listen to kill the poor these days.
She’s relevant because she’s Hollywood royalty, and when she speaks, the media covers it. Simple as that. That’s all it takes to be relevant. If you don’t care to hear what she has to say, don’t listen.
I found a well situated booth and sat there well into the night talking to fantastic actors and others including Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin, Cameron Diaz, P. Diddy…
I’ve never rooted for Comcast in my life, but even I know that they were best of a very bad bunch who had any chance at winning this bidding process.
There was NO good outcome from this sale, but Netflix is the worst possibility.
Say what you will about the Ellisons, they aren’t actively trying to destroy cinema (just pervert it), nor are they running the biggest slop machine in existence, but Netflix is, on both accounts.
This isn’t saying I think it would have been good if Paramount won, just less bad than Netflix, as at least HBO would have probably survived.
The Ellisons are actively trying to destroy the US government and replace it with a surveillance state. Fuck those people.
They make Musk look like a Boy Scout. Musk is just looking for his own self-aggrandizement. The Ellisons want to take over the world.
They have already gutted the CBS News division, once considered the Gold Standard of broadcast news, firing dozens of people this week. They can reconfigure the news division quickly, since it is on a 24 hour cycle, but general programming will take longer.
Over the next few months, you can expect them to cancel any shows they think is Woke (Colbert is already a casualty), and will be greenlighting shows with a right-wing direction. It will take a while to get shows into production, so we’ll probably see the first rollout in the Fall.
Expect the suspects in their new Copaganda shows to be immigrants and minorities, and the victims to be all lovely wealthy white people.
Yeah their goal with buying media companies is to fundamentally reshape culture towards the more bigoted.
im not sure bigotry is the goal as much as control is.
The rich may have material investment in bigotry, but don’t discount that they also develop emotional investment in it as well. Even if Vivian Wilson were her father’s sole heir and fully on board with continuing his financial and business empire, none of these right wing billionaires would ever tolerate their child marrying her.
It’s the same reason Frederick the Great of Prussia had a childhood boyfriend killed by his father.
I’ll take poor production quality and early show cancelations over right wing billionaire propaganda any day of the week. I don’t understand why you would downplay the significance of the Ellisons taking over WB and TikTok simultaneously. It’s clear what the intentions are.
My thoughts exactly. If I had to choose between these two evils, I would consider Netflix to be the lesser one.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care about cinemas and Hollywood at all. I go to cinema like once per 3 or 4 years, and I watch like 5 movies per week at home.
Haven’t gone to a cinema since COVid. Got a nice home theatre and see no reason to ever go back.
The reality is home cinema is cheap now. You get a better quality of picture and sound without being surrounded by corn grazing morons.
I tried shouting, “stop the film! I need to take a shit!” but they ignored me.
I used to love going to the cinemas but I’m just a working slob and eventually the cost became too much for me to go regularly.
Pre-COVID I went several times a week. COVID broke theater etiquette and now I dont go because I dont want to have toget an usher again because someobe feels the need to play on their phone during the movie.
Landman is on Paramount+ and the whole script is full of oil and gas bullshit.
Pick your poison.
The Ellisons will eventually fail at Paramount because the culture is largely against their brand of politics, and WB, HBO, etc. could have survived long enough to have be sold off once that happens.
Netflix is going to destroy a load-bearing structure of Hollywood for the sake of streaming slop.
But it’s all speculation anyways, and none of it matters, since they opted for your choice of poison, not mine.
Netflix is going to destroy a load-bearing structure of Hollywood for the sake of streaming slop.
Hollywood destroyed itself, from decades of short-term thinking, riskless projects, trendchasing, and curbstomping creativity wherever it may hide.
+1
And now they’re mad their little club is being undermined.
I’m not a Netflix apologist, but Hollywood brought this upon themselves.
My choice would be a functional regulatory system that entirely prohibits harmful media consolidation and monopolistic behavior but that’s not on the table. The next best choice is keeping neo-Nazis from controlling the airwaves as much as possible.
Slop we have always had slop you know those direct o video movies.
And how exactly is Netflix trying to destroy cinema? The thing they rely on?
Film and TV aren’t the entire entertainment industry, it might actually be fine or even good if that part of the industry collapsed.
People might go to more community theatre, or there might be a rapid proliferation of independent media.
I too believe that the ornithopter should replace the passenger jet.
That’s a funny way to spell zeppelin.
Well for 0 mana it’s an easy sell
I know anecdote is not the plural of data. But I and my immediate family are largely out of the reach of a lot of the traditional providers and their ads. We don’t watch local or network television outside of news and weather broadcast anymore. And we don’t have cable. Honestly, when it comes to what movies, et cetera, are currently in theaters, I get more information from the fediverse than I do from traditional sources. We now watch far more small independent creators on YouTube and even peertube now.
The tools are absolutely there. It’s possible for someone sitting in their bedroom to produce content, rivaling or surpassing some major studios in many instances. But while the tools are there now, the other pillars are still a bit lacking. With things like peertube distribution as a pillar is slowly shoring up. Supporting the material conditions of the creators is one of the areas that’s lacking or lagging behind. We aren’t there yet, but it’s something I could see perhaps being solved in the next decade or two. So long as the internet doesn’t get cordoned off and sawed up.
What kind of privileged take is this 😂
The kind that doesn’t give a fuck about wealthy hollywood actors and companies?.. And thinks that groups of people supporting local theatre might be better for them, in that it’s a community and group event that involves seeing real people that you know in a community setting?
What about all the working class folks who work in film? Not everyone on that movie set or working in that theater are ultra wealthy and in fact most are not.
You don’t just not give a fuck about the elites of Hollywood. You seem to not be thinking of the working class folks there either.
This is the same argument of trickle down economics. These people will find work elsewhere.
How is it the same as supply side economics?
Oh yeah, I just heard how great the job market is. Only 32,000 jobs lost last month.
So your answer to this is to perpetuate a propaganda machine that normalizes a few chosen having it all because the people who get scraps will not have the scraps anymore? I’m fairly certain the overwhelming majority of hollywood workers will find other jobs, the actors though… Highly doubt it.
No. My answer to this(your statement) is that the job market sucks and people are really struggling to make ends meet in today’s economy.
Do you also know how expensive that is for the average person RN? Do you know how much would it cost to hire a reliable babysitter for someone with kids? Or tickets for a whole family? Plus transportation or gas money? What if you live in a place with shit theater? Or maybe no theater at all? What if the closest theater is two hours away and it’s shit? What if your country is so religious and closed off that theater is barely even allowed?
What if you barely have time for a movie, let alone for the trip back and forth to a theater because you’re overworked to death and tired all the time?
What if you’re disabled and mobility is an issue?
Do you live on Earth with the rest of us? Or in your idealistic theory where your version of reality is the only one?
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I just reported and moved on, TBH. I hope you’re getting the help you clearly need.
