Hollywood: Crap or Rubbish?

Netflix is the most left-wing of all media behemoths -- except for Disney. They're tied.

Netflix has just slashed 1000 jobs.

Netflix (NFLX.O), opens new tab is laying off 6% of its workforce, or roughly 1,000 employees, in its biggest cuts since ​2022, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, as the streaming pioneer ‌faces tough competition for viewers from legacy rivals and YouTube.

The bulk of the job cuts would be in Netflix's product, tech, legal and human-resources teams, the email Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos sent to ​employees on Wednesday showed.

They're getting no criticism for this. Leftists play life on its easy settings.

WDW_Pro points out that Mark Ruffalo and his other communist antisemite pals attacked Skydance for a year over hypothetical future reductions in workforce. Skydance was going to destroy Hollywood and California itself with layoffs.

But when the company he demanded be allowed to purchase Warner Bros. cuts 1000 jobs, he says NOTHING. Because he's a taqiyya communist and lies are like breaths to him.

They also point out that the other super-left media company, the Disney Groomer Corporation, just cut 600 jobs. No objections from Ruffalo.

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The entire continued freakout over @bariweiss and CBS News is simply because the left believes they are entitled to controlling the media narrative and feel threatened that even one major news organization might present the other side.

If you follow the news closely, you will see that they act like a herd and always cover the same stories from the same perspectives. Far more important is what they choose not to cover. The factual stories and perspectives that they simply ignore because they don't fit the narratives that the so many of the activists in their news and editorial rooms prefer.

They don't even want people exposed to those stories/views if it's not coming from outlets they can dismiss like FNC or the NY Post because it might allow people who aren't openly partisan choose how they understand these issues for themselves. That's the entire threat.

It's not that CBS News might become ideologically right-wing. There is zero evidence Weiss is pushing for them to only report things from that perspective and plenty of evidence that's not true. It's simply that it could expose people to the other side, and that can't be allowed.

So the tantrums will continue.

I'm sick of this brain-damaged rummy and I'm glad he's aging like milk.

Actor Ben Affleck went on the attack against those who support the deportation of criminal illegal aliens -- support that has long been bipartisan -- and insisted that supporters off President Donald Trump's immigration policies are rooted in "xenophobia."

He also claimed that it is "totally false" that Democrats have been refusing to prosecute illegal migrant murderers and rapists.

Speaking of aging: Captain Kirk is now 95 years old. He doesn't look 95. He looks 65. This guy was living out of his station wagon for years when he couldn't get work after Star Trek.

Metallica's James Hetfiled told an audience he wasn't going to share his political opinions because that's not his job. His job is to rock.

Unfortunately, as you know, you're not allowed to say you want to stay out of Current Day Politics. You are required to pledge yourself to the One True Faith of the Communist-Islamist Alliance.

Jew-hating, Hamas loving ex-rocker Roger Waters attacked him, claiming Hetfield is a "nobody" (seriously?) and has "an IQ of 3."

Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx also said he didn't want to talk about politics:

And speaking of hard rock and leftism....

The trailer for the C.S. Lewis' adaptation of The Magician's Nephew debuted.

This is the "modernized" version by Barbie director Greta Gerwig. She gender-flipped the character standing in for God/Jesus, Aslan, who will be played by Meryl Streep. Because eff you, Hollywood makes like four Christian themed movies and that's too many. Any Christian themed movie must be subverted, deconstructed, and "modernized" to not offed TikTok harridans. A Christian story has to be made for atheist efminists.

The trailer's getting a lot of praise for featuring an altered version Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."

Greta Gerwig claims this is the very first time that Led Zeppelin has allowed anyone to use their music in a movie trailer.

Except, I guess, for the prominent use of "The Immigrant Song" for Thor: Rangarok.

Or "Whole Lotta Love" in the trailer for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Using a remixed version of a Led Zeppelin classic in the trailer for a fantasy film? What a great, creative, never-been-done-before new idea.

Here's the trailer.

I think it suffers from the "Two People Standing in a Room Made Entirely of Greenscreen and Computer Pixels" problem. People are tired of this. We've seen it and seen it and seen it and seen it. And then when Ant Man: Quantumania came out, we decided not to bother seeing it at all.

Another fantasy flop, A Wrinkle in Time, also featured "Two Kids Standing in a Room Made of Greenscreen and Computer Pixels" and flopped hard.

No one is impressed by this, and no one thinks it looks real.

The best part of the trailer, to me, is the beginning, when they're filming in an actual crumbling building in England.

The movie cost $280 million. With some saying it cost even more than that.

There are reports that the film is "awful."

The InSneider is now further reporting on friction between Netflix film chief Dan Lin and Greta Gerwig over 'Narnia,' the fantasy epic that's reportedly carrying a $280M budget, with some saying it's much higher than that.

One source tells Sneider the tension is very real, and that people at Netflix think the movie is "awful," calling it "a genuine problem.” A second source, who attended a test screening over the summer, compared it to Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time," the 2018 Disney adaptation that reportedly lost the studio close to $100M. According to that source, the mood in the room was deflated once the lights came up.

That screening reportedly led Netflix to order reshoots. The same source flagged a structural issue that may still be fixed in post: the characters apparently don't reach Narnia until the third act. For a movie called 'Narnia,' that's a curious choice.

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[W]hen multiple sources are describing what seems to be a problematic movie, Netflix has reason to worry. I have no idea what the final result will be, but I had also heard about the mixed test screening reactions, but that was also a cut with barely half-finished VFX.