Variety: CNN Mood "Like a Funeral" After Paramount/Skydance Takeover

But their ratings are so good, why should they worry?

CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount's Warner Bros. Win Casts New Haze on Next Steps

Just when staffers at CNN thought the news giant's path to the future was becoming more clear, new fog has set in.
In recent weeks, the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet appeared to have found its groove. Yes, its linear ratings are down noticeably from the era when it won notice for its aggressive coverage of President Trump's first term, and there are serious questions about whether they will ever come back. But the company appeared to be making some gains with digital audiences with its recently launched "CNN All Access" subscription service, where CNN has been testing new programming formats.

LOL. Their ratings are in the crapper but they're making "some gains" with digital.

Like CNN Plus. You remember CNN Plus, right?

On the traditional side, despite the viewership challenges, CNN has seen personnel like Abby Phillip and Harry Enten gain some traction.

"Some" traction.

This propagandist is really straining to find ways to claim that CNN is performing well in "some" ways. They say that Warner Bros. claims that CNN will post a profit this year, but I've heard Disney's Bob Iger claiming everything is going great at the Groomer Network, so I don't put much stock in corporate predictions of plenty.

Now for the truth:

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The mood at CNN is "like a funeral," says one person familiar with the operation.
CNN personnel have reason to worry. Paramount's management of CBS News has been controversial, and has not been good for the business of the news unit. Changes made under Bari Weiss, installed last year as editor in chief, have brought unnecessary scrutiny to news reports, and anchors have made public entreaties on Instagram when people post notes suggesting that Weiss' background as a digital entrepreneur and provocative opinion writer have muddied the newsgathering at the network.

The right has brought "scrutiny" to left-wing media reporting for 40+ years but this was never before seen as a problem. Now that lefties are complaining about editorial decisions, it's a National Concern.

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But staffers are also concerned about the company's business plans being changed -- yet again. "What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst -- finally -- of reshaping the business," says one CNN staffer.

Expert opinion: Companies that are performing well are not subject to frequent leadership changes, just as winning teams aren't frequently subjected to new coaching staffs.

CNN employees have reason to wring their hands....
Without a boost from new digital revenue, CNN's business will likely decline, according to projections from Kagan, a market-research unit of S&P Global Intelligence. CNN's cash flow is seen falling to $735.3 million in 2027, according to Kagan, down nearly 10% from $815.9 million in 2025. A projected spike in 2026 is due to midterm election coverage, which typically draws broader audiences. Advertising is projected to fall about 6.6% to $457.6 million in 2027, according to Kagan, compared with $489.8 million in 2025. Cash from distribution, however, is expected to keep rising.
CNN must also grapple with how much independence it will have under Paramount. Paramount Skydance CEO has put CBS News into unorthodox situations by holding a private dinner with personnel from the news division and the Trump administration and by hiring a factotum ombudsman to monitor CBS who has staunch partisan ties.

It's not unusual for "news" personnel to meet with politicians, as Jake Tapper could tell you of his fly-fishing with Gavin Newsom or freindship-building dinners with Anthony Fauci.

But what is unacceptable is meeting with conservative politicians.

News rivals wonder why CBS News seems so eager to put U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into so many of its programs -- he was a big "get" interview during Tony Dokoupil's first "CBS Evening News" telecast and appeared on last week's season premiere of "60 Minutes" -- when Hegseth's Pentagon has been so hostile to traditional press outlets.

Yeah why would a "news" organization want to interview the Secretary of War during a war? Inconceivable!

Now on to the deal struck with the left-wing AGs -- which they admit is largely just a paper notion on a press release.

The solution -- for now -- is to be found in the formation of a board designed to govern both CNN and CBS News. Under the terms of an agreement unveiled Monday between Paramount and a set of attorneys general who were blocking the merger, this board is expected to set up guiding principles for "accuracy, independence, fairness and journalistic integrity."
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Such bodies have proven largely ineffectual in the past.

More: CNN staffers are in "a panic."

"People are very nervous," one CNN staffer told the outlet. "It's dark. It's like when you do hurricane coverage. You see the storm spinning off the coast of Haiti and moving towards Florida and you're just waiting and you're like, 'Oh, s--t'."
"Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided. "That's the next big step -- slashing and burning," while others also drew death-by-takeover comparisons.
The outbreak of fear and loathing at CNN goes back as far as June this year when, as Breitbart News reported, many CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch," according to a report.
CNN staffers were worried over Paramount boss David Ellison's connections to Trump -- as well as that of Ellison's father, Larry, who is a huge Trump donor.
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Now their worst nightmares have been realised.

Hello! Happy Midweek!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:24 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:24 PM (bFu5X)

2 HAHAHAHAH

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 23, 2026 12:24 PM (N1DT3)

3 Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2026 12:24 PM (2UnvF)

4 Mmmmmmm.... Schadenfreude.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 23, 2026 12:24 PM (N1DT3)

5 S' up, Ace?

The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (bFu5X)

6 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (YwEeS)

7 Tangential news:

Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (38W+X)

8 Is there an address where I can send them all booze, pills and unassembled rope?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (Sco7b)

9 Party's over at CNN. So sad. NOT.

Posted by: Gref at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (5rh/l)

10 Quivering lower lips...

What mewling bitches.

Learn to Code, dildos. Learn to code.

You could even learn to code dildos if you wanted. I'm sure that's a thing now.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:26 PM (gLYp7)

11 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (38W+X)

That's great news.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 23, 2026 12:27 PM (N1DT3)

12 If only it was a real funeral.

For CNN.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 12:27 PM (2Cry5)

13 >>>S' up, Ace?

s'up brah

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2026 12:28 PM (1wjle)

14 "People are very nervous," one CNN staffer told the outlet. "It's dark. It's like when you do hurricane coverage. You see the storm spinning off the coast of Haiti and moving towards Florida and you're just waiting and you're like, 'Oh, s--t'."

Who are these people who end up at CNN?!?!

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 12:28 PM (Oy/m2)

15 Harry Enten and Scott Jennings will be fine

Posted by: Oglebay at September 23, 2026 12:28 PM (2ap+5)

16 11 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (38W+X)

That's great news.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 23, 2026 12:27 PM (N1DT3)

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And I have hope that it'll get a 4K disc release from Criterion. Netflix releases many of the streamer's bigger director-driven films on disc (Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is the most recent, but they've also done his Pinocchio, The Irishman, Roma, and a few others).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:29 PM (38W+X)

17 I looked it up a few weeks ago.

CNN's ratings were about 670,000 people.

Including the incarcerated and trapped viewer's at airports.

And given the US population, that sucks. I follow young, pretty actresses with more followers.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

18 Second look at CNN+ for the useless deadweight staff?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 23, 2026 12:29 PM (E2K/A)

19 It turns out that CNN was never an apple nor a banana. It's a lemon.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (0MjtC)

20 I will continue to diligently not watch cnn. But it is nice to hear they are suffering.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (ElWmm)

21 Such bodies have proven largely ineffectual in the past.
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Yeah, because despite what those in power would like us to believe *facts* are different than opinions, and facts aren't subject to committee approval--they merely exist.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (TN0g+)

22 Isn't this the point in time when the media staffers usually compare themselves to victims of historical events?

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (dIske)

23 Now their worst nightmares have been realised.

1. Faggy UK spelling of realized.

B. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (bFu5X)

24 22 Isn't this the point in time when the media staffers usually compare themselves to victims of historical events?

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (dIske)

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The Holodomor?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:30 PM (38W+X)

25 HLN is pretty much Forensic Files 24/7. I suppose they can put that on CNN also.

Posted by: True Crime Junkie at September 23, 2026 12:31 PM (Fn+3X)

26 Please no CNN and funeral jokes. We are better than that.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:31 PM (/9X1x)

27 26 Please no CNN and funeral jokes. We are better than that.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:31 PM (/9X1x)

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You think way too highly of us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:32 PM (38W+X)

28 >>>S' up, Ace?

s'up brah
Posted by: ace at September 23, 2026 12:28 PM

Work. Waiting on several days of crappy weather about to hit. Standard New England Autumn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:32 PM (bFu5X)

29
Fun to watch commie state A.G.'s freaking out over their propaganda monopoly being euthanized.

Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:32 PM (Y8DZL)

30 >>>Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.

yeah that looked kinda cute. we'll see if Sam Rockwell can finally lead a successful movie.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

31 Just imagine how depressed Goebbels' staff was in early 1945....same energy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (s1VwS)

32 237 Most of the hysteria promoted by the left has the result of reducing births.

Posted by: Black JEM
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In 68 Tricky Dicki was back and so they dreamed up the population bomb.

1968 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford professor says that we’re all going to be dead in 10 years by the Malthusian overpopulation trap. So all of you go out and adopt one baby and have one or better yet have none and we destroyed the fertility rate.

And then Reagan was running for re-election in 84 and he was going to win against a weak Mondale and they got the – what are we gonna do? - what are we gonna do? We’ve already done the population –
Ah, I know what we’re going to do, Nuclear winter…..

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (iLKq8)

33 30 >>>Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.

yeah that looked kinda cute. we'll see if Sam Rockwell can finally lead a successful movie.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (1wjle)

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I just discovered that he played Bob Fosse in a limited series about him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (38W+X)

34 I tell people this all the time, view things through the long view. What happens with deals like this, and power currently in the hands of Republicans when the other side takes over?

The simple answer is they will turn these powers in the other direction and use them as weapons. Because that what Democrats and their media dick warmers do.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 23, 2026 12:33 PM (yv1Au)

35 CNN? Funeral?

Yikes on bikes!!!

Posted by: lesbian long-covid survivor on BlueSky at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (1wjle)

36 Will it be Open Casket?

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (Fn+3X)

37 Please no CNN and funeral jokes. We are better than that.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:31 PM (/9X1x)

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You think way too highly of us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:32 PM

He's right, TJM. They should be in the form of limericks or haiku. A Smart Military Blog is above mere prose jokes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (bFu5X)

38 I love the idea of all of them bopping around, miserable, trying to cope. Trying to figure out how everything got so sepulchral so fast.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (gLYp7)

39 They play Texas Holodomor on Poker Stars Ukraine. No matter which cards you get dealt, you lose.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (ElWmm)

40 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

Looks interesting. At least it's not Madagascar 27. I wonder what's the point of hiring "name" actors for voice roles. I mean, is there a real block of people who are going to say "Yeah, I was going to give it a pass but I really want to hear Sam Rockwell's voice?"

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (vTZFs)

41 The threads been alive a bit. I have stuff to do but GatewayPundit had THIS.

Lol GhettoApes going wild.

Newly released law enforcement bodycam footage obtained by the California Post reveals a chaotic 4:20 a.m. confrontation outside Miami’s notorious 24-hour strip club and nightclub E11EVEN, where officers were forced to draw a taser directly at WNBA player Paige Bueckers.

The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:35 PM (Sco7b)

42 The theater kids have a sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:35 PM (RIvkX)

43 >> Under the terms of an agreement unveiled Monday between Paramount and a set of attorneys general who were blocking the merger, this board is expected to set up guiding principles for "accuracy, independence, fairness and journalistic integrity."

I laughed so hard I puked. The media is constantly reminding us how fair, accurate and independent they are. lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (yv1Au)

44 Just imagine how depressed Goebbels' staff was in early 1945....same energy.

Are you kidding? Kolberg was getting boffo reviews!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (guGkK)

45 Yikes on bikes!!!
Posted by: lesbian long-covid survivor on BlueSky at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM

That story is still equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (bFu5X)

46 36 Will it be Open Casket?
Posted by: Goodbury and Graves at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (Fn+3X)

or a urinal?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (s1VwS)

47 40 Looks interesting. At least it's not Madagascar 27. I wonder what's the point of hiring "name" actors for voice roles. I mean, is there a real block of people who are going to say "Yeah, I was going to give it a pass but I really want to hear Sam Rockwell's voice?"

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (vTZFs)

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It's the fault of Shrek.

Before that, voice actors were their own thing. After the success of the film with names like Mike Meyers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy, every animated movie needed big names to help sell the film in marketing's mind.

It's a stupid subsection of the movie star myth that Hollywood should let go of.

But, as ace obliquely made mention of: Sam Rockwell is not a real movie star. He's a recognizable actor who acts in movies, but he has no box office draw.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (38W+X)

48 Please no CNN and funeral jokes. We are better than that.

You must be new here. There are donuts in the break room on Fridays. If you bring 'em.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (vTZFs)

49 Kara Swisher Says She's Leaving CNN Following Ellison Merger. She is peacing out of CNN. It's been real, it's been fun, but it sucks to have legacy media owned by right wing billionaires

That is so sad to hear but so happy to hear that some have morals and not conform. I enjoyed every minute. 👌

Most of the great journalists and reporters at CNN will never conform. NEVER. Truth will prevail. F Ellison.

It's so funny watching the Dems sit silent on this issue after folding. Keep pretending it's for any other reason than enriching themselves. They ain't playing 4D chess you sound like a maga with that crap

Hey stupid, the republicans are playing into their hands. The way to really screw someone over is to fuck them with their own dick. We are better off without hourly speeches from dumbfuck.
And people like you would vote against democrats if they were blocking the gas chamber for you. Grow up

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (t19vo)

50 44 Just imagine how depressed Goebbels' staff was in early 1945....same energy.

Are you kidding? Kolberg was getting boffo reviews!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (guGkK)

snort

nice one

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (s1VwS)

51 CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral'
There was booze and finger food?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (dEqns)

52 48 Please no CNN and funeral jokes. We are better than that.

You must be new here. There are donuts in the break room on Fridays. If you bring 'em.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (vTZFs)

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If you get there before Todd.

Fucking Todd...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (38W+X)

53 He's right, TJM. They should be in the form of limericks or haiku. A Smart Military Blog is above mere prose jokes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (bFu5X)

Trump 45, well he sucked,
Said the Left, telling us to get fucked
So he took 4 years off
But Joe's brain got too soft
Now Trump's back - y'all should have ducked!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (gLYp7)

54 ...CNN has seen personnel like Abby Phillip and Harry Enten gain some traction
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Sure, Jan. Abby Phillip is dumb as a post but plays "Slay, Kween!" on TV.

Harry Enten is a nebbish. Look it up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (RIvkX)

55 Is"CNN All Access" anything like CNN Plus?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2026 12:38 PM (Cqx++)

56 49 Kara Swisher Says She's Leaving CNN Following Ellison Merger. She is peacing out of CNN. It's been real, it's been fun, but it sucks to have legacy media owned by right wing billionaires

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (t19vo)

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Better to have the NYT owned by a Mexican billionaire with cartel ties.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:38 PM (38W+X)

57 "Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided.
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Empty promises!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:39 PM (RIvkX)

58 Huh. There is a lot of paramount woke shit. Weiss has not exactly turned CBS news into Alex Jones Central. But the biggest outcry seems to be that they are under ANY editorial scrutiny whatsoever.

Why do these people mind people checking their work? Confident people usually do not have that problem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 23, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

59 duh, we all know why abby phillips is gaining traction: not because of her, because of Jennings

Posted by: docweasel at September 23, 2026 12:39 PM (IuCAX)

60 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:32 PM (38W+X)
___________________________

I looking forward to "Wild Horse Nine"

https://tinyurl.com/523b4hz4

Martin McDonagh has a good track record, and it's a solid cast. (Rockwell, Malkovich, Buscemi...)

Bonus: Mark Rufalo left the cast, and they replaced him with Buscemi. I'm starting to wonder if Rufalo is box office poison, and they've figured that out.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)

61 Fucking Todd...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (38W+X)

He doesn't even know why the carpet's all wet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (gLYp7)

62 47 40 Looks interesting. At least it's not Madagascar 27. I wonder what's the point of hiring "name" actors for voice roles. I mean, is there a real block of people who are going to say "Yeah, I was going to give it a pass but I really want to hear Sam Rockwell's voice?"

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:34 PM (vTZFs)

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It's the fault of Shrek.

Before that, voice actors were their own thing. After the success of the film with names like Mike Meyers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy, every animated movie needed big names to help sell the film in marketing's mind.

It's a stupid subsection of the movie star myth that Hollywood should let go of.

But, as ace obliquely made mention of: Sam Rockwell is not a real movie star. He's a recognizable actor who acts in movies, but he has no box office draw.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:36 PM (38W+X)

Oh celebrity voice actors (and the controversy of hiring them instead of pros) goes further back. Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells, The Hobbit had Richard Boone. Disney's Miyazaki dubs mostly had 'name' actors with....uneven results.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (s1VwS)

63 57 "Bloodbath coming, including at CNN," a TV executive confided.
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Empty promises!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:39 PM (RIvkX)

*pouts*

Posted by: Elizabeth Bathory at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (Y/06r)

64 Most of the great journalists and reporters at CNN will never conform. NEVER. Truth will prevail.

Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 12:37 PM (t19vo)

Journalists??? Where?

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (Oy/m2)

65 58 Huh. There is a lot of paramount woke shit. Weiss has not exactly turned CBS news into Alex Jones Central. But the biggest outcry seems to be that they are under ANY editorial scrutiny whatsoever.

Why do these people mind people checking their work? Confident people usually do not have that problem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 23, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

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One of Skydance's newest live action films is Mayday, released on AppleTV.

It's an exercise in moral relativism between the US and the USSR that includes a lesbian character for little reason.

Just because the left freaks out about something doesn't make it true. Ellison may be open to supporting Trump, but he doesn't exactly run Skydance like The Daily Wire's film division.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (38W+X)

66 Still waiting to see Christiane Amanpour working the Wendy's drive-through window.

Posted by: A Man Can Dream at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (Fn+3X)

67 CNN: Putting the "Fun" in Funeral

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)

68 66 Still waiting to see Christiane Amanpour working the Wendy's drive-through window.
Posted by: A Man Can Dream at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (Fn+3X)

Or a glory hole in the park

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (s1VwS)

69 here's an idea for cnn: drop you most left leaning prime time featured personality and replace him/her with a genuine conservative. see if your ratings improve after 3 to six months: if so try again

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (CWTWj)

70
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Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (4x8xD)

71 Have you ever seen Kara Swisher? Yikes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (RIvkX)

72 60 I looking forward to "Wild Horse Nine"

https://tinyurl.com/523b4hz4

Martin McDonagh has a good track record, and it's a solid cast. (Rockwell, Malkovich, Buscemi...)

Bonus: Mark Rufalo left the cast, and they replaced him with Buscemi. I'm starting to wonder if Rufalo is box office poison, and they've figured that out.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (dIske)

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I like McDonaugh's movies. I've heard good things about this one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (38W+X)

73 I don't know how to comment on the right-hand column, but here goes... Richard Harris made an awesome appearance on Letterman, evidently in Jan 1994. I was in high school and must've caught it by accident, as I've rarely in life watched late night shows. He tells 3 great stories and the 3rd involved him and O'Toole (about 9 mins into the link below). Hilarious. It's bad resolution, but you can hear and mostly see everything. Whole thing is funny...

"Madame, if you think I'm drunk, wait until O'Toole comes out..."

https://tinyurl.com/378breud

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (Bhsk7)

74 Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells

To be fair, if that's the voice you want for your character, you're not getting from anyone else.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (vTZFs)

75 62 Oh celebrity voice actors (and the controversy of hiring them instead of pros) goes further back. Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells, The Hobbit had Richard Boone. Disney's Miyazaki dubs mostly had 'name' actors with....uneven results.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (s1VwS)

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It's not that Shrek was the first to do stunt voice casting with a big name, just that it started the trend where every animated film needed a recognizable name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (38W+X)

76 It's the fault of Shrek

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

I thought it started earlier than that, when Disney used Robin William's name to promote Aladdin despite his specific request that they not do that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (vJrRc)

77 The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale
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They dropped the charges a month later. We will continue to get bad behavior if nobody enforces the rules.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

78 Please no CNN and bloodbath jokes. We are better than that.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:43 PM (/9X1x)

79 I'm not a poet...

Winter sadness strikes
CNN going to hell
Casting couches weep.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:43 PM (Sco7b)

80 Have been worried about losing their jobs since June, four months ago?

I wonder how many of them have been sounding out the market for employment elsewhere? Or are they all just entitled little snots whose concept of job loss is unpossible?

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (bufu1)

81 Oh no... Well anyway.....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (+gK6I)

82 HLN is pretty much Forensic Files 24/7. I suppose they can put that on CNN also.

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If they changed it back to "CNN Headline News " and brought back Van Earl Wright to give the sports update, that might actually increase the ratings.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (E2K/A)

83 Well I'm sure all of these overpaid and soon-to-be-unemployed (and unemployable) CNN douche nozzles were smart and invested their money wisely, right? RIGHT???

Posted by: Travis Kelce Investment Advisors, LLC, A Fly By Night Cayman Islands Enterprise at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (XVMoQ)

84 75 62 Oh celebrity voice actors (and the controversy of hiring them instead of pros) goes further back. Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells, The Hobbit had Richard Boone. Disney's Miyazaki dubs mostly had 'name' actors with....uneven results.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:40 PM (s1VwS)

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It's not that Shrek was the first to do stunt voice casting with a big name, just that it started the trend where every animated film needed a recognizable name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (38W+X)

I think the Mouse was courting controversy with that back in the 90's. I know Tim Curry got some pushback on his early voice work until he established that he could actually ACT with his voice alone.

I'll buy that Shrek kicked the trend into high gear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (s1VwS)

85 Please no CNN and bloodbath jokes. We are better than that.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:43 PM (/9X1x)

Yeah... we're not...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (gLYp7)

86 CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch,"

Wimps.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

87 Every time anyone mentions CNN's whining and larping as real news, they should also remind everyone of how Eason Jordan fessed up after the 2003 invasion that they'd covered up the kidnap and torture of their stringers and local crew in Iraq to retain access.

Fuck CNN.

Posted by: heya at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (M476G)

88 Maybe.... Soon Anderson Cooper have to blow other men for money, not just for fun?

Posted by: Long Duc Dong at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (gZceY)

89 So a "news organization" puts out hard left wing drek for 30 years, loses 70% of its peak audience, and whose on air "talent" generally pisses off 60% of the population that is forced to watch (airports, Dr. Offices, etc.) is going through a restructuring?!? Why that absolutely flabbers my gaster. No wonder the CNN types hate Capitalism so much - they can't make it. They can't make it because they suck dog ass as a news network and as a propaganda network they suck because they aren't convincing, just irritating. I think it would be great to see CNN spun off and be forced to live on its own.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (JNTt1)

90 74 Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells

To be fair, if that's the voice you want for your character, you're not getting from anyone else.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (vTZFs)

Yeah, him and Boone had great voices, for sure.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (s1VwS)

91 74 Transformers The Movie had Orson Wells

To be fair, if that's the voice you want for your character, you're not getting from anyone else.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (vTZFs)

I saw that, in the theater when it came out. Maybe 11 or 12. Unicron's voice shook the room.

Damn, that film was memorable- and not because of the voice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (Y/06r)

92 CNN has had its strong anti trump position taken by Fox news

Posted by: Paul at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (g1Etd)

93
Newly released law enforcement bodycam footage obtained by the California Post reveals a chaotic 4:20 a.m. confrontation outside Miami’s notorious 24-hour strip club and nightclub E11EVEN, where officers were forced to draw a taser directly at WNBA player Paige Bueckers.

The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:35 PM (Sco7b)

Scissor me timbers!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 23, 2026 12:45 PM (K3AJS)

94 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 23, 2026 12:41 PM (4x8xD)
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Done and a prayer for Anja daughter of Anne

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (RIvkX)

95 CNN employees were so worried over the evolving merger they turned their boss's office into a makeshift "psychiatrist's couch,"

Wimps.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

It's BYOBB

Bring your own blankie and binkie

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (guGkK)

96 "muddied the newsgathering at the network"

newsgathering? more like newsfabricating...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (euLGA)

97 Rule #1: Don't insert yourself into the story.
Rulle #2: Bon't become the story.

Fools.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)

98 76 I thought it started earlier than that, when Disney used Robin William's name to promote Aladdin despite his specific request that they not do that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (vJrRc)

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Robin Williams' casting and unauthorized promotion of that by Disney didn't start the trend. There was another decade of Disney films after that where no names were voicing Belle (Paige O'Hara) or Quasimodo (Tom Hulce).

Matthew Broderick's name wasn't used on the poster of The Lion King.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (38W+X)

99 11 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:25 PM (38W+X)

That's great news.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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It appears, since it is difficult for Hollywood to produce a palatable non-DEI motion picture, that a move to animation would be a viable alternative.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (iLKq8)

100 Hey Paul, "strong" and "CNN" shouldn't be used in the same sentence.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (guGkK)

101 Kara Swisher? Is that the one that looks like Buddy Holly? Or how Buddy Holly used to look?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (r7+Q7)

102 Hump DAAAAAAAAY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (W2Pud)

103 Afternoon Ace.
Abby Phillip is gaining traction? Kind of like sand in your swim trunks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (I6R/i)

104 84 I'll buy that Shrek kicked the trend into high gear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (s1VwS)

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Just look at the cast for Over the Hedge.

Bruce Willis, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (38W+X)

105 1986. So I would have been 11.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)

106 70 IMPORTANT: I know I'm not everyone's cup of my tea here

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

The horde ain't tea drinkers and you are universally beloved.

Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

107 79 I'm not a poet...

Winter sadness strikes
CNN going to hell
Casting couches weep.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:43 PM (Sco7b)
_______________________________
Neither am I:

Winter sadness strikes
CNN going to hell
Casting couches weep.
What's that awful smell?

Autumn's in the nose
CNN going to hell
Anxiety on the steep
The masses say, "Oh well."

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (dIske)

108 98 76 I thought it started earlier than that, when Disney used Robin William's name to promote Aladdin despite his specific request that they not do that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 23, 2026 12:42 PM (vJrRc)

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Robin Williams' casting and unauthorized promotion of that by Disney didn't start the trend. There was another decade of Disney films after that where no names were voicing Belle (Paige O'Hara) or Quasimodo (Tom Hulce).

Matthew Broderick's name wasn't used on the poster of The Lion King.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (38W+X)

*Tom Hulce has entered the chat. Dressed as Mozart. Holding a hatchet.*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (s1VwS)

109 100 Hey Paul, "strong" and "CNN" shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (guGkK)

Unless it's in reference to odor....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (+gK6I)

110 99
It appears, since it is difficult for Hollywood to produce a palatable non-DEI motion picture, that a move to animation would be a viable alternative.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (iLKq

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Still stupid expensive, though. CG ain't cheap. It's reportedly over $150 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (38W+X)

111 Hello! Happy Midweek!

It's my Friday. Looking forward to a 4-day weekend and the demise of CNN.

Posted by: Bosk at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (VMFAF)

112 Heh, Paulie. You won't be seein' him no more.

Posted by: Clemenza at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (guGkK)

113
The employees at CNN are worried sick that their left wing political activities will be interfered with.

I recall during Trump's first term I was in an airport and CNN was on the TV. (That arrangement CNN had with airports was still in effect then, I gather.) I hadn't watched CNN in years, and I was quite surprised to see that it was now the Anti-Trump Propaganda channel. Every single thing I saw was groups of talking heads agreeing with each other about how bad Trump was. There was no other content, it was all Anti-Trump, all the time. What a bunch of contemptible rats.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (VWtfl)

114 104 84 I'll buy that Shrek kicked the trend into high gear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:44 PM (s1VwS)

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Just look at the cast for Over the Hedge.

Bruce Willis, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (38W+X)

I love Bruce but that movie was ass.
I'm also tired of Steve Carell's voice acting gigs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (s1VwS)

115 This is capitalist America.
Mergers happen.
Redundant employees get laid off.
Get over it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (2WIwB)

116
The horde ain't tea drinkers and you are universally beloved.
Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

Well, I wouldn't go that far....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (+gK6I)

117 Might I recommend exercise bands in the break room?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 12:50 PM (O9tIH)

118 71 Have you ever seen Kara Swisher? Yikes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well...basically no one has, if she's on CNN. I've never even heard of her, but figured one of you Morons must have, and can enjoy her "principled" flouncing.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 23, 2026 12:50 PM (t19vo)

119 Hasan Piker, last night:

“I will throw you in prison.”
“I want to put you physically behind a prison.”
“I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now.”
“I want to do cultural revolution sh*t.”
“We’re doing a struggle session, Chuck Schumer… people can now throw their old tomatoes at Cuck Schumer.”
“Explain to us your counter revolutionary behavior right now, Cuck Schumer.”

Glad to see they're moderating as the election gets closer.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:50 PM (gLYp7)

120 CNN falters
Twenty dollars as in town
Anderson Cooper

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 12:51 PM (TN0g+)

121 LOL, get fucked CNN.

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 12:51 PM (SwyyQ)

122 102 Hump DAAAAAAAAY!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 23, 2026 12:47 PM (W2Pud)

MIKE
MIKE
MIKE
MIKE!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

123 119 Hasan Piker, last night:

“I will throw you in prison.”
“I want to put you physically behind a prison.”
“I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now.”
“I want to do cultural revolution sh*t.”
“We’re doing a struggle session, Chuck Schumer… people can now throw their old tomatoes at Cuck Schumer.”
“Explain to us your counter revolutionary behavior right now, Cuck Schumer.”

Glad to see they're moderating as the election gets closer.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:50 PM (gLYp7)

Alex Jones got cancelled and persecuted. This fuckwit nepot bulletcatcher gets money and amplification.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:51 PM (s1VwS)

124 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:52 PM (ccf/V)

125 CNN now - US required to protect Iran's president while at UN.

Trump jr wedding next. Endless hand wringing. Men's panties in a bunch.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 12:52 PM (Sco7b)

126 124 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:52 PM (ccf/V)

nailed it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:52 PM (s1VwS)

127 The horde ain't tea drinkers and you are universally beloved.
Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

Well, I wouldn't go that far....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (+gK6I)

Perhaps generally appreciated...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)

128 Reap it, CNN.

You are a shit network with shit people doing shit reporting.

I will pull up a chair, pop some popcorn and sit back to watch you fall in the sinkhole.

FOAD, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)

129 Apologies.

Hasan Piker THIS MORNING, not last night.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 12:53 PM (gLYp7)

130 I know I sound like a broken record, but this same group of people - 'journalists' - gushed on and on about the 'peace dividend' we'd get from dismantling the military after the fall of the Soviet Union and not one of them gave a 'F' about the tens of thousands of aerospace workers who would be displaced. Turns out we engineers made out ok -I never missed a paycheck - but the unionized hourly workers in California were well and truly screwed as their unions sat by and watched all their jobs go to non-union locales like Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 23, 2026 12:53 PM (QGaXH)

131 >>>Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks fun. I'm looking forward to it.

__

I'm on it!

Posted by: Guy who is always on things at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (SwyyQ)

132 CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral'
There was booze and finger food?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty

Somebody say finger food?

Posted by: Don Lemon at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (euLGA)

133 Why all the worry? CNN Hack doesn't look good on the resume?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (bX16E)

134 nobody will ever see what i write

because sid's ass is too good

Posted by: Paul at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (g1Etd)

135 If Kara Swisher leaves CNN she can always hang out at that lesbian bar in Greenfield Massachusetts.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (I6R/i)

136 106 70 IMPORTANT: I know I'm not everyone's cup of my tea here

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Your friend has a good friend indeed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 23, 2026 12:55 PM (iLKq8)

137 Unnecessary scrutiny to not necessarily the news!

Posted by: dananjcon at September 23, 2026 12:55 PM (8C1eU)

138 CNN should be happy, they'll be able to cater to a more discerning audience - all the bathhouses.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 12:55 PM (2vHPe)

139
nailed it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 12:52 PM (s1VwS)

The worst shot is the one you don't take.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:55 PM (ccf/V)

140 135 If Kara Swisher leaves CNN she can always hang out at that lesbian bar in Greenfield Massachusetts.

Posted by: Smell the Glove
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How much money do lesbian 'escorts' make?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (iLKq8)

141 Paul is upset because his favorite bar in Mass stopped requiring masks.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (/9X1x)

142 Scissor me timbers!
LOL

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (WADqa)

143 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

Ray Gunn....wasn't that the horrible break dancer from Australia that was the first contestant ever to not score a point?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (ccf/V)

144 Paul is not the brightest bulb in the building.

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (Oy/m2)

145 Get a job!

Posted by: sHA nA nA at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (nvKZ7)

146 Posted by: Paul at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (g1Etd)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 23, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

147 [Sitting in pew, leans to lady to his left] Jeez! This funeral is worse than watching CNN on election results week!

Posted by: Thornton Melon at Hayden Panettiere's Funeral at September 23, 2026 12:57 PM (7Q0e+)

148 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2026 12:57 PM (2UnvF)

149 144 Paul is not the brightest bulb in the building.

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (Oy/m2)

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"Gavin Newsom should be president because he shut down refineries in California, and it's Trump's fault that there isn't enough competition in the refinery game in America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:57 PM (38W+X)

150 128 true poetry. You.sound like my old boss.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (bX16E)

151 Please try not to laugh in front of the casket.

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (qwype)

152 I went to see Coyote vs Acme over the weekend and almost all of the trailers were for animated flicks and with one exception they all looked exactly the same. Bright colors, fast cuts, nonstop gags, lots of shouting. I think they were almost all sequels. The exception was something called Wildwood that looked like a Ghibli thing.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (lAQ+I)

153 Paul is upset because his favorite bar in Mass stopped requiring masks.
Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 12:56 PM (/9X1x)

That story is peak retard.

You must wear KN-95 masks....but if you don't, those that ARE wearing the masks MIGHT DIE!!!!!!!

"So, you're telling me the masks are useless, then?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (ccf/V)

154 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Great. I can hear Razorfist's autistic screeching from here.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (HeG1i)

155 Counter argument: Brad Bird will have to emphasize the Stronk Woman Power to make up for past misdeeds.

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (SwyyQ)

156 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (2Ez/1)

157 @140 20 bucks same as in town

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (I6R/i)

158 >>> >Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

======

I love the first comment:

"I came here to see Australian break dancing!"

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (QFchU)

159 152 The exception was something called Wildwood that looked like a Ghibli thing.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (lAQ+I)

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Wildwood is the latest film from LAIKA studios who previously made Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.

It's reportedly one of the longest wide-release animated movies ever at about 2 hours and fifteen minutes.

Looks gorgeous, and the studio has a good track record. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (38W+X)

160 132 CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral'
There was booze and finger food?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty

Somebody say finger food?
Posted by: Don Lemon at September 23, 2026 12:54 PM (euLGA)

-------------------------------

Finger food, indeed!

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (OGOaV)

161 LOL, GF

Posted by: ballistic at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (oqH4h)

162 128 true poetry. You.sound like my old boss.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (bX16E)

While I've not been anybody's boss in a LONG time, I will take the compliment, regardless.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (ccf/V)

163 The exception was something called Wildwood that looked like a Ghibli thing.

it's stop action by Laika Studios, who did Coraline

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (j+aD2)

164 119 Hasan Piker, last night:

“I will throw you in prison.”
...
“I want to put you physically behind a prison.”

Glad to see they're moderating as the election gets closer.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider:

Ixnay on the ommunismcay until after election ayday!!!

Posted by: "Moderate" Democrats at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (UirZC)

165 47 It's the fault of Shrek. Before that, voice actors were their own thing...

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Gotta disagree with that. Aladdin, Toy Story, Lion King... All before Shrek and all with major stars in voice roles where the stars were much of the attaction (inarguably for Aladdin, but Toy Story too). Angela Lansbury in Beauty & the Beast, Dom Delouise as the crow in Secret of Nimh, Buddy Hackett in Little Mermaid, Bob Newhart in The Rescuers. Smaller but still other examples that I think of...

And Sam Rockwell may not be a 'movie star', but that doesn't mean he's incapable of being one. Not like he was the star of a big budget thing that flopped. Possible he's not interested or nobody wants him for 'star' stuff. But he was great in Moon and The Way Way Back as the star. Just smaller market flicks... I can't think of anything he wasn't great in. Feels like my favorite actor, of his generation at least...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (Bhsk7)

166 ah TJM was quicker than I

very much looking forward to Wildwood

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (j+aD2)

167 I saw the trailer for Wildwood and Labyrinth popped to mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (2vHPe)

168 Marco Rubio is slated to become the Liquidation Manager for the CNN closure.

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (qwype)

169 165 Gotta disagree with that. Aladdin, Toy Story, Lion King... All before Shrek and all with major stars in voice roles where the stars were much of the attaction (inarguably for Aladdin, but Toy Story too). Angela Lansbury in Beauty & the Beast, Dom Delouise as the crow in Secret of Nimh, Buddy Hackett in Little Mermaid, Bob Newhart in The Rescuers. Smaller but still other examples that I think of...

And Sam Rockwell may not be a 'movie star', but that doesn't mean he's incapable of being one. Not like he was the star of a big budget thing that flopped. Possible he's not interested or nobody wants him for 'star' stuff. But he was great in Moon and The Way Way Back as the star. Just smaller market flicks... I can't think of anything he wasn't great in. Feels like my favorite actor, of his generation at least...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (Bhsk7)

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Having recognizable actors in the voice cast and making them central to the marketing is the contrast I'm making. Shrek started the latter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (38W+X)

170 >>I recall during Trump's first term I was in an airport and CNN was on the TV.

Ah, yes, back when I didn't look like roadkill.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin's blown out bajingo at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (J4Dwc)

171 Marco Rubio is slated to become the Liquidation Manager for the CNN closure.

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (qwype)

Great. Another job to do.
- Marco, on the couch, despondent

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (gLYp7)

172 167 I saw the trailer for Wildwood and Labyrinth popped to mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (2vHPe)

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Heavy Labyrinth vibes, for sure.

But, no Terry Jones or Franz Oz or Jim Henson to be found anywhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:02 PM (38W+X)

173 Please try not to laugh in front of the casket.

Posted by: Roy at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (qwype)

Nude selfies are still OK, right? Asking for me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:02 PM (O9tIH)

174 If you or your partner are plagued by harry enten, see your health professional. Treatment is available.

Posted by: Big Fat Pharma at September 23, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)

175 Turd-nozzle on aisle #134

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 23, 2026 01:02 PM (JNTt1)

176 Posted by: Brooke Baldwin's blown out bajingo at September 23, 2026 01:01 PM (J4Dwc)

'Bajingo' makes me laugh so hard and I have no idea why.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 01:02 PM (gLYp7)

177 I axed Grok who the hell Jeff Spicoli was.
Took it nearly 1 1/2 minutes.
But OK

Posted by: MkY at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (q6tQZ)

178 The horde ain't tea drinkers and you are universally beloved.
Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

Well, I wouldn't go that far....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (+gK6I)

Perhaps generally appreciated...
Posted by: Diogenes

I think she meant about the tae-drinking...

*Sips Tetley's British blend*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (vJrRc)

179
it's stop action by Laika Studios, who did Coraline
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (j+aD2)

I like Coraline... They also did Kubo didn't they ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (+gK6I)

180 177 I axed Grok who the hell Jeff Spicoli was.
Took it nearly 1 1/2 minutes.
But OK

Posted by: MkY at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (q6tQZ)

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If your life isn't defined by Fast Times at Ridgemont High, can you say that your life is even worth living?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (38W+X)

181 Speaking of CNN, Fake Jake, the most tone deaf clown in the media.

>>@jaketapper

>>Not going to dignify the president’s juvenile social media post about our brilliant
@kaitlancollins except to say she and we are going to keep doing our jobs, which is to ask and cover the questions voters care about — like those about the war in Iran and the economy. 🇺🇸 💪

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (viF8m)

182 179
it's stop action by Laika Studios, who did Coraline
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 23, 2026 01:00 PM (j+aD2)

I like Coraline... They also did Kubo didn't they ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (+gK6I)

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Yes. And Kubo is fantastic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (38W+X)

183 Marco Rubio is slated to become the Liquidation Manager for the CNN closure.
Posted by: Roy

heh, that just brought to mind the chainsaw scene in Scarface...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 23, 2026 01:04 PM (euLGA)

184
Yes. And Kubo is fantastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (38W+X)

Absolutely

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:04 PM (+gK6I)

185 Hasan Piker, last night:

“I will throw you in prison.”

***

I'm right here asshole.
Come get me.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 23, 2026 01:04 PM (2WIwB)

186 1pm

CNN - Iran at UN, midterm Republican terror - Trump sucks
MSNow - US china meeting. Interviews on the street. Trump sucks.

FoxNews - fairness for women's sports. By the way, college female volleyball players keep showing up on my Instagram feed. Damn thighs that could crush watermelons.

CBC - UN Iran. Trump also apparently sucks.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 01:04 PM (Sco7b)

187 If your life isn't defined by Fast Times at Ridgemont High, can you say that your life is even worth living?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I stand humbled by my ignorance.

Posted by: MkY at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (q6tQZ)

188 > CNN now - US required to protect Iran's president while at UN.
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A blind dude with a walkie talkie and no batteries.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (2Cry5)

189 I axed Grok who the hell Jeff Spicoli was.
Took it nearly 1 1/2 minutes.
But OK

Posted by: MkY at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (q6tQZ)

https://youtu.be/n7zfnbdyAW8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (ccf/V)

190 Tom Cruise's new movie is going to crash and burn.

Digger is now tracking for a $10 million opening.

The movie cost at least $130 million to make.

I had a feeling early that it was a massive misapplication of Tom Cruise's star power, which has been fading in the last few years (diminishing returns on the MI franchise being the key evidence). Looks like I was right.

I should really be a studio executive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (38W+X)

191 On replay at CNN:

In the Air Tonight
Phil Collins

https://tinyurl.com/3p8hcvtz

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (hzuYO)

192 Just ran across this stat...

More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

193 Fast Times at Ridgemont High? What is it?

A movie. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Victor Vector at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (2Ez/1)

194 Well, I wouldn't go that far....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 12:49 PM (+gK6I)

Perhaps generally appreciated...
Posted by: Diogenes

More an arms-length tolerance.

Posted by: Avoids Controversy at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (Fn+3X)

195 My guess is that nothing really changes at CNN because they are propped up by many different powerful forces. Even if you can resist that kind of pressure, if they pull their money and ads, CNN just dies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (KyEAU)

196 @jaketapper

>>Not going to dignify the president’s juvenile social media post about our brilliant
@kaitlancollins except to say she and we are going to keep doing our jobs, which is to ask and cover the questions voters care about — like those about the war in Iran and the economy. 🇺🇸 💪
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 01:03 PM (viF8m)

Speaking of dicks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

197 192 Just ran across this stat...

More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

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Yeah, but Canada has forms that say that all the MAID recipients volunteered, so it's 100% better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (38W+X)

198 You were watching Fast Times, I was watching Nausicaa.

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (2vHPe)

199 More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population
Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

I read it was the 4th cause of death in Canada...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (+gK6I)

200 ....which is to ask and cover the questions voters care about — like those about the war in Iran and the economy.
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Yet these very same hacks never asked a single question about the economy when President Weekend-at-Bernies team was wreaking total havoc upon the nation and its economy.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (TN0g+)

201 Gee, I can only imagine why.

@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee just blocked a Republican effort to offer immunity to a former Dr. Fauci assistant in exchange for her testimony. She has been accused of destroying government documents on Fauci's behalf. Only one Democrat showed up to the meeting (Sen. Hassan D-NH), the other six voted no by proxy. All eight Republicans showed up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:07 PM (HeG1i)

202 200 ....which is to ask and cover the questions voters care about — like those about the war in Iran and the economy.
-----

Yet these very same hacks never asked a single question about the economy when President Weekend-at-Bernies team was wreaking total havoc upon the nation and its economy.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (TN0g+)

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No one actually cares about the war.

Economic questions are all filtered through political lenses for partisans who are looking for reasons to justify the votes they are going to make anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:07 PM (38W+X)

203 Yet these very same hacks never asked a single question about the economy when President Weekend-at-Bernies team was wreaking total havoc upon the nation and its economy.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (TN0g+)

Or his health. Or the border. Or anything else important.

"What enchants you about Not Having Dementia?"

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:07 PM (/9X1x)

204 Digger is now tracking for a $10 million opening.

The movie cost at least $130 million to make.

I had a feeling early that it was a massive misapplication of Tom Cruise's star power, which has been fading in the last few years (diminishing returns on the MI franchise being the key evidence). Looks like I was right.

I should really be a studio executive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (38W+X)

So, you're saying casting Tom Cruise, action hero, in a movie where he's a fat old man with enough makeup and masking of his face where you can't tell it's Tom Cruise wasn't the big draw they thought it was?

No way..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:08 PM (ccf/V)

205 Has anyone asked Hasan if he's stopped shocking Kaya yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:08 PM (2vHPe)

206
FoxNews - fairness for women's sports. By the way, college female volleyball players keep showing up on my Instagram feed. Damn thighs that could crush watermelons.

One thing I would be amused by is to go back 100 years and get together a meeting with the leading suffragettes and tell them in the future that not only do women have the vote the participate in sports just like men!

/Applause, applause, happy suffragettes

Then show them what the women in sports wear.

/Fainting, much fainting

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

207 More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population

The Canadian response? Nobody forced them to, you have to request it, its all consensual!

Putting aside from how there are several high profile cases of them killing people against their will, the "request" is after being told about it and explained how its better etc.

They are literally doing the death panels thing WSarah Palin warned about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (KyEAU)

208 204 So, you're saying casting Tom Cruise, action hero, in a movie where he's a fat old man with enough makeup and masking of his face where you can't tell it's Tom Cruise wasn't the big draw they thought it was?

No way..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:08 PM (ccf/V)

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Yeah, shock.

Tom Cruise wants to be seen as an actor again, and a studio threw a fortune at him to placate him because star power, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (38W+X)

209 169 Having recognizable actors in the voice cast and making them central to the marketing is the contrast I'm making. Shrek started the latter. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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Yeah but I don't see these later 'big name actors' being positioned as the draw to the movie like Meyers & Murphy were for Shrek, at least no more than Hanks + Allen for Toy Story, etc... And I don't think the draw to Shrek was Meyers + Murphy. It was that it looked (and was) real funny and happened to be perfectly voiced by those guys (and the characters were really made after them, as opposed to the voices tailoring to the animated role)...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (Bhsk7)

210 I forgot all about CNN+. In fact, I'm not sure Ace is messing with us by making CNN+ up, like it's some version of CNBC or the USA network.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (47/pr)

211 How does the price at the pump impact lesbian bars in Massachusetts?

Posted by: This is CNN at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (2Ez/1)

212 “I will throw you in prison.”
-------

Ok pussyfag. We won't bother with prison.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (/9X1x)

213
If they can sell a noir cartoon why not do the news that way?

A tired, brylcreamed 50ish white guy chainsmoking on camera while giving you the depressed leftist low-down on what happened today would be must-see T.V.

George Clooney would jump at the role.

Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (Y8DZL)

214 Korea: Is this war worth 50K American deaths?

The WoT: Is this war worth 5K American deaths?

Iran War: Is this war worth paying $4.19 for gas?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

215 WTF???

Caught: Woke Activist Teacher Faked Being Black Palestinian — She’s a Privileged White Jewish Woman

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 23, 2026 01:10 PM (gLYp7)

216 Whatever happened to Shrek 5 with Zendaya?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:10 PM (2vHPe)

217 201 Gee, I can only imagine why.

@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee just blocked a Republican effort to offer immunity to a former Dr. Fauci assistant in exchange for her testimony. She has been accused of destroying government documents on Fauci's behalf. Only one Democrat showed up to the meeting (Sen. Hassan D-NH), the other six voted no by proxy. All eight Republicans showed up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:07 PM (HeG1i)

Okay. I know there's no math on the blog. But ...

8 > 7 still, right?

So is more than a majority required?

Or did one or more GOP vote no?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (sAnBa)

218 Just finished watching the second episode of this season's "Slow Horses". That show has to be one of, if not the best, productions this year. Superbly cast, written and directed. Now I have to wait a week for the next episode.

Posted by: Tuna at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (lJ0H4)

219
They are literally doing the death panels thing WSarah Palin warned about.

I saw a Canuck woman mentioning she was diagnosed with a cancer and had a 6 month wait to see an oncologist. But her MAID pamphlet arrived in a couple of days.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

220 >>>So, you're saying casting Tom Cruise, action hero, in a movie where he's a fat old man with enough makeup and masking of his face where you can't tell it's Tom Cruise wasn't the big draw they thought it was?

We're not talking about Tropic Thunder, are we?

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (SwyyQ)

221 Piker better start taking workout tips from Al-Qaida or whatever his name is because he will be lone in an ally at some point......

He's currently a scrawny bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

222 209 Yeah but I don't see these later 'big name actors' being positioned as the draw to the movie like Meyers & Murphy were for Shrek, at least no more than Hanks + Allen for Toy Story, etc... And I don't think the draw to Shrek was Meyers + Murphy. It was that it looked (and was) real funny and happened to be perfectly voiced by those guys (and the characters were really made after them, as opposed to the voices tailoring to the animated role)...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (Bhsk7)

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Well, the assertion was in response to "Why does every animated movie have big names?"

And whatever the real reason for Shrek's financial success, you can bet on Hollywood learning the wrong lesson because their thinking is broken and their ability to actually analyze situations is dictated by accident rather than intelligence.

I think Louis B. Mayer understood how to consistently make popular film (not so much run a studio, but that's another thing), and I think precious few in Hollywood have anything like his implicit insight.

William Goldman's assertion that "nobody knows anything" makes sense in an industry town run by idiots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (38W+X)

223 Yeah, but Canada has forms that say that all the MAID recipients volunteered, so it's 100% better

I am reminded of a scene in Hornblower and the Atropos in which his frigate is very low on men. Hornblower stops a merchant ship and grabs a bunch off men off it, then tells the merchant ship that all of them volunteered, and sails off with his newly pressed sailors.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (KyEAU)

224 214 Korea: Is this war worth 50K American deaths?

The WoT: Is this war worth 5K American deaths?

Iran War: Is this war worth paying $4.19 for gas?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

Canadian Takeover - "Dude, it's right there!"

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (Sco7b)

225 220 We're not talking about Tropic Thunder, are we?

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (SwyyQ)

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Surprise cameo in a film that might have made a small profit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (38W+X)

226 Gulf War I: Is this war worth my career?

Posted by: Dan Rather at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (2Ez/1)

227 My guess is that nothing really changes at CNN because they are propped up by many different powerful forces.
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I've theorized that CNN and other such entities are merely the "marketing division" of the left. Nobody expects the marketing department to make money--they're treated as an "expense" and a cost of doing business.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (TN0g+)

228 Am I the only one who has never seen Shrek?

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 01:13 PM (Oy/m2)

229 You must wear KN-95 masks....but if you don't, those that ARE wearing the masks MIGHT DIE!!!!!!!

"So, you're telling me the masks are useless, then?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 12:58 PM (ccf/V)

Masked and Ten Times Vaxxed and Boosted and yet in mortal danger from anyone without a mask. Okay hoss.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:13 PM (/9X1x)

230 So is more than a majority required?

Or did one or more GOP vote no?
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket

The resolution required a two-thirds vote to pass and it failed 8-7 along party lines.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:13 PM (HeG1i)

231 Tom Cruise wants to be seen as an actor again, and a studio threw a fortune at him to placate him because star power, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (38W+X)

He should've thought about that before making 18 movies in a row where he's a f*cking ACTION HERO.

Leonard Nemoy wanted to be a serious actor and director too, but soon learned, once you found your niche, you should roll with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (ccf/V)

232 I saw a Canuck woman mentioning she was diagnosed with a cancer and had a 6 month wait to see an oncologist. But her MAID pamphlet arrived in a couple of days.

Don't be such a big baby. Just get on the cart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (guGkK)

233 Done and a prayer for Anja daughter of Anne
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2026 12:46 PM (RIvkX

Thank you, and anyone else who chose to help.

Gotta get back to the salt mine. Have a great day, horde.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (4x8xD)

234 Just finished watching the second episode of this season's "Slow Horses". That show has to be one of, if not the best, productions this year. Superbly cast, written and directed. Now I have to wait a week for the next episode.
Posted by: Tuna

Lemme guess, the white Brit did it. Wha'd I win?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (HeG1i)

235 Am I the only one who has never seen Shrek?
Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 01:13 PM (Oy/m2)

*checks clipboard*

Yes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (guGkK)

236 >>>Surprise cameo in a film that might have made a small profit?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (38W+X)

My pet theory is that the casting director is a secret Tropic Thunder fan. He's playing a similar role here.

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (SwyyQ)

237 I am convinced that Hollywood is using Shrek as an excuse to hire buddies and give them super easy one-day jobs as voice actors for big pay.

Almost nobody has a voice and acting distinctive enough to recognize in animation to begin with. Its just an added expense. How many people go watch an animated movie because Liam Neeson and Barbara Streisand did voices?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (KyEAU)

238 Leonard Nemoy wanted to be a serious actor and director too, but soon learned, once you found your niche, you should roll with it.

He did find his true calling though, taking erotic pictures of large women.

/Not kidding
//Who am I to judge?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

239 “I will throw you in prison.”
-------

Ok pussyfag. We won't bother with prison.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:09 PM (/9X1x)

Dude has no power, just a big mouth. Thanks for self-identifying, retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (O9tIH)

240 216 Whatever happened to Shrek 5 with Zendaya?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2026 01:10 PM (2vHPe)

Zendaya happened to it. That chick could ruin a wet dream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 01:16 PM (s1VwS)

241 Lemme guess, the white Brit did it. Wha'd I win?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

You lose.

Posted by: Tuna at September 23, 2026 01:16 PM (lJ0H4)

242 Proxy voting.

No. Show your ass up voting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 01:16 PM (iulL+)

243 More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population
Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

It is a net benefit to the Exchequer. They sell the organs

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

244 "Easily Replaceable People With High Salaries in Struggling Business Worried After Takeover"

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (3/XaG)

245 So, you're saying casting Tom Cruise, action hero, in a movie where he's a fat old man with enough makeup and masking of his face where you can't tell it's Tom Cruise wasn't the big draw they thought it was?
------

The scientology thing with Cruise makes it hard for me to root for him and yet his career has been fascinating. From the moment I saw this latest flick's trailer, my mind was screaming "Mistake! Mistake!"

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

246 222 And whatever the real reason for Shrek's financial success, you can bet on Hollywood learning the wrong lesson because their thinking is broken and their ability to actually analyze situations is dictated by accident rather than intelligence.

---------------

The movie execs may be wrong-headed, but I had just been assuming that, lately, actors are up for pay check. But prior to 'Woke 1' (COVID, strikes, industry tanking because public hated all the Woke 1 movies, etc.), there did seem to be a time (wake of Toy Story + Shrek...?) when it was 'cool' to do some voice acting, and actors would brag about it. Maybe they were just more available to the execs in that sense... I always figured that was why there were more of them in recent decades: better supply available...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (Bhsk7)

247 He did find his true calling though, taking erotic pictures of large women.

And singing songs about Bilbo Baggins

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (KyEAU)

248 231
Leonard Nemoy wanted to be a serious actor and director too, but soon learned, once you found your niche, you should roll with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (ccf/V)

=======

The star system only really works when it's an actual, controlled system.

Actors on contracts who have to do as the studio wishes, not pursue their acting dreams.

I've always felt that movie stars, the few that exist, should get their "acting" done in theater and leave their movies to typecasting.

"See Will Smith play Othello...on Broadway."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (38W+X)

249 >>Dude has no power, just a big mouth. Thanks for self-identifying, retard.

He has the power to damage DSA candidates and he's doing a fine job. It's funny as hell Democrats have been fawning over him for years and now all they want him to do is shut up and disappear and he won't do either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (viF8m)

250 "Easily Replaceable People With High Salaries in Struggling Business Worried After Takeover"/i]

Take Anderson Cooper.

Yes he has the anchor look and voice. But his job is reading a teleprompter.

What percent of 40-60yo men could do that job just as well? 20% I'd guess...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

251 Zendaya happened to it. That chick could ruin a wet dream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 01:16 PM (s1VwS)

Damn!

*checks google*

Fair.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (O9tIH)

252 244 "Easily Replaceable People With High Salaries in Struggling Business Worried After Takeover"
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM

So, what is it you'd say you DO here?

Posted by: The two Bobs at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (2Ez/1)

253 He did find his true calling though, taking erotic pictures of large women.

And singing songs about Bilbo Baggins
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (KyEAU)

To his credit, he did have the good taste to stay away from "Tambourine Man."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (guGkK)

254 It is a net benefit to the Exchequer. They sell the organs

Saves money on the "free" health care system too. Oh you're sick or old? That's going to be expensive, how about this suicide thing instead?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (KyEAU)

255 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (KyEAU)

Well, they might not go see"The Magician' s Nephew" because Meryl Streep is doing the voice of Aslan, which is lunacy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (JrHfD)

256 Just ran across this stat...

More Canadians have been killed via MAID then Americans have died from "gun violence". And remember they have about 1/8th our population
Posted by: 18-1

16,499 Canadian MAID
15,364 US Firearm Homicide

Posted by: rickb223 at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (oRRIp)

257 The resolution required a two-thirds vote to pass and it failed 8-7 along party lines.
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It passed 8-1. The RINOs simply didn't enforce the rules because they're pussies with no desire or will to *win*.

Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (TN0g+)

258 236 >>>Surprise cameo in a film that might have made a small profit?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:12 PM (38W+X)

My pet theory is that the casting director is a secret Tropic Thunder fan. He's playing a similar role here.

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 01:15 PM (SwyyQ)

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Cruise has loved working with interesting directors since he first got prominent. It's why Brian de Palma got hired for the first Mission Impossible movie. It's why Martin Scorsese got hired to make Color of Money.

This is really just a continuation of that with Inaritu who made Birdman, Revenant, and a few other things. He wanted to work with the guy, so Cruise used his connections to get the budget.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (38W+X)

259 *laughs at cnn*

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (EGSGm)

260 Cruz has done about as well as a man could in acting with his actual acting range.

He's going to make some stinkers in the mix of films he's been good in.

And because again, limited range, he's going to keep trying to make a role worker that just won't for him (see also Valkyrie)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

261 225 220 We're not talking about Tropic Thunder, are we?

Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (SwyyQ)

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Surprise cameo in a film that might have made a small profit?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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He was AWESOME in Tropic Thunder...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (Bhsk7)

262 Zendaya happened to it. That chick could ruin a wet dream.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Director: Ok, show me 'blank expression.'

Zendaya: ...

Director: No, more blank~!!!!

Zendaya: ...

Director: Perfection.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (HeG1i)

263 Their audience is literally dying by the thousands per day. Average age of their viewers is around 70.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (0U5gm)

264 I think Louis B. Mayer understood how to consistently make popular film (not so much run a studio, but that's another thing), and I think precious few in Hollywood have anything like his implicit insight.

William Goldman's assertion that "nobody knows anything" makes sense in an industry town run by idiots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:11 PM (38W+X)

He had enough theaters in enough markets to make anything profitable, and the wit to sprinkle good movies among the rest to make any showing worth the risk of admission.

Seriously, that is how you define success.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

265 16,499 Canadian MAID
15,364 US Firearm Homicide
Posted by: rickb223 at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (oRRIp)

To be fair, the 16,499 people who offed themselves did live in Canada.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (guGkK)

266 Well, they might not go see"The Magician' s Nephew" because Meryl Streep is doing the voice of Aslan, which is lunacy.

They had Liam Neeson before right?

Talk about a downgrade

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm)

267 He has the power to damage DSA candidates and he's doing a fine job. It's funny as hell Democrats have been fawning over him for years and now all they want him to do is shut up and disappear and he won't do either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (viF8m)

That's his big mouth. I can't find fault in him saying the quiet parts out loud.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (O9tIH)

268 Zendaya happened to it. That chick could ruin a wet dream.

Unfortunately she's been in a bunch of ENORMOUSLY lucrative movies and while she was irrelevant to their success, that's not how Hollywood sees things. Zoe Saldana is in the same boat: irrelevant t the movies, but extremely successful films.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (KyEAU)

269 260 Cruz has done about as well as a man could in acting with his actual acting range.

He's going to make some stinkers in the mix of films he's been good in.

And because again, limited range, he's going to keep trying to make a role worker that just won't for him (see also Valkyrie)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

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His performance in Magnolia is something real, but it's also kind of a play on his innate psychopathy. It might be his most real, unaffected performance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (38W+X)

270 You'd think Canada could think of a better name for the suicide pod vs MAID.

DAID

This seems retarded.

I am having a metric ton of stress this week and not sure what the acronym should be for this freak out.

Balancing happy stress (dinners, son/DIL visiting, baby girlie saying my name at one family dinner out of the blue, etc). Then there are health issues with my husband and elderly mother in the same week.

Still not ready for MAID.

I pray a lot instead and will clean out a closet while son/DIL are out having mountain fun today.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (hzuYO)

271 245 So, you're saying casting Tom Cruise, action hero, in a movie where he's a fat old man with enough makeup and masking of his face where you can't tell it's Tom Cruise wasn't the big draw they thought it was?
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The scientology thing with Cruise makes it hard for me to root for him and yet his career has been fascinating. From the moment I saw this latest flick's trailer, my mind was screaming "Mistake! Mistake!"
Posted by: Crusader at September 23, 2026 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

He wants an Oscar...Hollywood only gives hot people Oscars when they go ugly and non-action...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (tOcjL)

272 XBox is currently laying off a bunch of woke activist r*tard developers who've been cruising along making garbage games and telling gamers to eat sh*t for the last decade or so. The gloating almost needs a cigarette afterward. I would love to see CNN get this treatment.

Posted by: Nelly at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (6+ehB)

273 158 >>> >Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

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I love the first comment:

"I came here to see Australian break dancing!"
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 23, 2026 12:59 PM (QFchU)

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My first thought was something along those lines, knowing that Netflix does have a documentary about the Aussie "breakdancer".

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 23, 2026 01:22 PM (OGOaV)

274 From the moment I saw this latest flick's trailer, my mind was screaming "Mistake! Mistake!"
Posted by: Crusader

Yup. Saw the trailer and thought there was no way this film will be successful. It just looked stupid.

Posted by: Tuna at September 23, 2026 01:22 PM (lJ0H4)

275
I pray a lot instead and will clean out a closet while son/DIL are out having mountain fun today.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (hzuYO)

Prayer can't hurt... I'll say one for you

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:22 PM (+gK6I)

276 I pray a lot instead and will clean out a closet while son/DIL are out having mountain fun today.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (hzuYO)

I am off to cut firewood today. Come, we can have a blast. I will let you run the saw!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

277 264 He had enough theaters in enough markets to make anything profitable, and the wit to sprinkle good movies among the rest to make any showing worth the risk of admission.

Seriously, that is how you define success.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

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He and Thalberg built the machine. When Thalberg died, Mayer proceeded to run the machine into the ground, but what kept it going was the fact that the big movies, mostly musicals like The Spirit of St. Louis, were actually popular with the masses. That gave a long runway for the studio to collapse slower than the rest of the industry as the studio era ended through the 50s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (38W+X)

278 235 Am I the only one who has never seen Shrek?
Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 01:13 PM (Oy/m2)

*checks clipboard*

Yes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 23, 2026 01:14 PM (guGkK)

It's going in your permanent record.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (sAnBa)

279 Cruise went against type in Collateral.

Posted by: davidt at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (Q+gd/)

280 His performance in Magnolia is something real, but it's also kind of a play on his innate psychopathy. It might be his most real, unaffected performance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (38W+X)

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In "Digger" Cruise is not going to make an impression unless he has massively big hands....That was a big mistake keeping them normal sized. (See: Tropic Thunder).

Short version: Tom Cruise is a lunatic.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (dIske)

281 I read it was the 4th cause of death in Canada...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:06 PM (+gK6I)

4th to embarrassment, envy, and routine.

I read somewhere that 100% of people who've eaten poutine have died or soon will.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (O9tIH)

282 XBox is currently laying off a bunch of woke activist r*tard developers who've been cruising along making garbage games and telling gamers to eat sh*t for the last decade or so. The gloating almost needs a cigarette afterward. I would love to see CNN get this treatment.
Posted by: Nelly

And hiring whom exactly? who are they hiring now? Say it!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (HeG1i)

283 CNN now - US required to protect Iran's president while at UN.
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Give him the crack SS crew from Butler, PA.

Posted by: Does that cloud look like horse? Oh no, it's a shooter on the roof! at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (XVMoQ)

284 >>That's his big mouth. I can't find fault in him saying the quiet parts out loud.

Pretty sure the people he wants to put in prison with a Chinese style revolution are Democrat Party members.

Please, continue spewing your mind farts Hasan.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (viF8m)

285 Zoe Saldana is in the same boat: irrelevant t the movies, but extremely successful films.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I get Zoe Saldana and Zendaya mixed up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (iulL+)

286 CNN would have a much bigger audience if they put on reruns of Romper Room, The Three Stooges, Mr. Ed, and maybe some true crime from the 90s.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (9X60i)

287 272 XBox is currently laying off a bunch of woke activist r*tard developers who've been cruising along making garbage games and telling gamers to eat sh*t for the last decade or so. The gloating almost needs a cigarette afterward. I would love to see CNN get this treatment.

Posted by: Nelly at September 23, 2026 01:21 PM (6+ehB)

Learn to mine coal.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (Sco7b)

288 The horde ain't tea drinkers and you are universally beloved.
Posted by: Auspex at September 23, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

Well, I wouldn't go that far....
Posted by: It's me donna

"I despise each and every one of you"

Posted by: Koichi Toyama, it never gets old! at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (w9Wax)

289 Skydance Animation and Netflix released a trailer for Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) long-gestating sci-fi noir animated epic, Ray Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

Looks like animated The Fifth Element

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (sKqQm)

290 280 In "Digger" Cruise is not going to make an impression unless he has massively big hands....That was a big mistake keeping them normal sized. (See: Tropic Thunder).

Short version: Tom Cruise is a lunatic.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (dIske)

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There's apparently a long scene where Cruise faces off against a crowd in a white amphitheater that's a real showcase for him. You can see bits of it in the trailers.

Reactions are really divided from early screenings, but most seem to say that scene in particular is the highlight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (38W+X)

291 Their audience is literally dying by the thousands per day. Average age of their viewers is around 70.

CNN averages 400,000 viewers a day. That kind of ratings would have been a laughing stock in 1990. There are many podcasters and youtube types who get many times that every time they do a show for a few hours.

The only reason they get such big name advertisers is that its virtue signalling, its propping up an old buddy far past their prime. Coca Cola and Ford aren't selling remotely enough product to justify their massive ad buys on CNN.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (KyEAU)

292 I get Zoe Saldana and Zendaya mixed up.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Zoe is green a lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (oRRIp)

293 Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:20 PM

Yes, it's a downgrade and not in keeping with the storyline of the book either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (JrHfD)

294 Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson? I like the former and the latter is another actress that can act but usually doesn't bother

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

295 By the way, college female volleyball players keep showing up on my Instagram feed. Damn thighs that could crush watermelons.

They say "thick thighs save lives" for a reason.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (UirZC)

296 Well, ok, I guess

@Breaking911 1m
BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in New York sex crime conviction -FOX

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (HeG1i)

297 269 His performance in Magnolia is something real, but it's also kind of a play on his innate psychopathy. It might be his most real, unaffected performance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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I always thought he was robbed of the Oscar for that one...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (Bhsk7)

298 I give Tom Cruise credit for not being a preachy dickbag to his audience. You want an action movie? Fine. We'll fly cool airplanes and blow shit up, and we won't mention climate change or trans kids even once.

Posted by: PabloD at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (CykQQ)

299 290 280 In "Digger" Cruise is not going to make an impression unless he has massively big hands....That was a big mistake keeping them normal sized. (See: Tropic Thunder).

Short version: Tom Cruise is a lunatic.

Posted by: Orson at September 23, 2026 01:23 PM (dIske)

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There's apparently a long scene where Cruise faces off against a crowd in a white amphitheater that's a real showcase for him. You can see bits of it in the trailers.

Reactions are really divided from early screenings, but most seem to say that scene in particular is the highlight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (38W+X)

Is the ending the decisive part? Or did they nix effectively their version of JR in the shower (without going too spoilery)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 23, 2026 01:26 PM (tOcjL)

300 decisive = divisive (damn typing error)

Posted by: Nova Local at September 23, 2026 01:26 PM (tOcjL)

301 Iran is "run" by the same mosaic philosophy that the IRGC is "run"
It is like a warlord system. It is like negotiating with a trading pit full of bond traders on Meth.

The Iranian President is part of the faction that wants to negotiate. Kill him and there is no entry to resolution at all.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

302 297 269 His performance in Magnolia is something real, but it's also kind of a play on his innate psychopathy. It might be his most real, unaffected performance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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I always thought he was robbed of the Oscar for that one...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM (Bhsk7)

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Michael Caine REALLY wanted that Oscar for The Cider House Rules...an outright evil film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:26 PM (38W+X)

303 Zendaya happened to it. That chick could ruin a wet dream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 23, 2026 01:16 PM (s1VwS)

Damn!

*checks google*

Fair.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 23, 2026 01:18 PM (O9tIH)

She's yet another Nickelodeon 'star' likely molested as a yute then shoved down our throats as a one name phenom everyone needs to see to get her enough money to make her forget she was molested as a child by hollywood.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:27 PM (ccf/V)

304 Or was she Disney......I don't care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:27 PM (ccf/V)

305 Michael Caine REALLY wanted that Oscar for The Cider House Rules...an outright evil film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:26 PM (38W+X)

I hate that movie

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2026 01:27 PM (+gK6I)

306 >Coca Cola and Ford aren't selling remotely enough product to justify their massive ad buys on CNN.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at September 23, 2026 01:27 PM (2Ez/1)

307 There's probably a niche somewhere for Zendaya's limited abilities. In Euphoria, she'd give this low-key befuddled/bemused expression that made her look like a living Peanuts character. I'll bet she can do that Peanuts dance too. Do the gender switcheroo and cast her as Franklin. Audiences will love it.

Where is my $100 budget?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 23, 2026 01:28 PM (sAnBa)

308 Piker is serving someone's agenda. There are no "independent voices" on the Left. Just people allowed or required to do their thing.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:28 PM (/9X1x)

309 Looks like animated The Fifth Element
Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2026 01:24 PM (sKqQm)

That was my thought too, but I do wish Fifth Element had been a trilogy like it was originally pitched.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:28 PM (rbvCR)

310 Tom Cruise is capable of good performances, just most of his stuff doesn't require it. I don't care, if he makes a fun movie, I like it even if he's not the most skilled actor in the world. John Wayne, Groucho Marx, tons of actors who had limited range stuck to what they were good at and were very entertaining. Its a job, stop trying to be the hostess when you're the dishwasher. Do your job well.

XBox is currently laying off a bunch of woke activist r*tard developers who've been cruising along making garbage games and telling gamers to eat sh*t for the last decade or so. The gloating almost needs a cigarette afterward. I would love to see CNN get this treatment.

That new lady they hired for CEO is knocking it out of the park. I don't think she can save XBox but if it an be done she'ls doing the right stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:28 PM (KyEAU)

311 CNN now - US required to protect Iran's president while at UN.
Who is the president of Iran?

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (P4Pk9)

312
I am off to cut firewood today. Come, we can have a blast. I will let you run the saw!
Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

Ha! That would help as I become a woodchipper. I don't "worry" except before bed and when I wake up. Quietly. No tears or drama.

Sometimes I wish for drama/hysterics/primal screams. I'm almost there but don't want to alarm anyone or check myself into one of those rehabs like that Gerber kid for anxiety. [I think Clooney did it somehow]

All will be well is my mental tattoo. Repeat with, "You have dealt with worse, buck up and stop it. God's got this and you have no control!" Or, "Many people are going through worse, shut up!" "Shut up and sing!"

Thanks for the prayer, Donna. xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (hzuYO)

313 They really were willing to blow up the entire CA economy to forbid a (non-liberal) owner of CNN.

I'll say this about liberals, they fight for keeps and they never say "this isn't a hill worth dying on".

They'll fight to keep a pedo murderer illegal alien from being deported.

Posted by: Leupold at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (FAUyE)

314 Piker is serving someone's agenda. There are no "independent voices" on the Left. Just people allowed or required to do their thing.
Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:28 PM (/9X1x)

He's just a mouthy islhamic asshole here to bring the caliphate upon America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (ccf/V)

315 Apparently, Cruise is now besties with Taylor Swift -- another reason to hate him.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 23, 2026 01:30 PM (J4Dwc)

316 Michael Caine REALLY wanted that Oscar for The Cider House Rules...an outright evil film. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

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Never watched it nor was interested. Literally just read that it was about abortion. These days they'd have a dead fetus on the poster and it'd get 95% on Rotten Tomatoes but back then it had to be buried under an innocuous title with no marketing on the subject... Ugh...

Posted by: bearski at September 23, 2026 01:30 PM (Bhsk7)

317 313 They really were willing to blow up the entire CA economy to forbid a (non-liberal) owner of CNN.

I'll say this about liberals, they fight for keeps and they never say "this isn't a hill worth dying on".

They'll fight to keep a pedo murderer illegal alien from being deported.

Posted by: Leupold at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (FAUyE)

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It is the same state government that blew up their state economy to shut down key oil refineries.

Also the same one that blew up their state economy by allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in CalAid.

Blowing up the state economy is just about the only thing the CA state government is good at.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 23, 2026 01:30 PM (38W+X)

318 All will be well is my mental tattoo. Repeat with, "You have dealt with worse, buck up and stop it. God's got this and you have no control!" Or, "Many people are going through worse, shut up!" "Shut up and sing!"

[ . . . ]
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (hzuYO)

The price of giving up nightmares is giving up the dreams.
You have this.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

319 They say "thick thighs save lives" for a reason.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 23, 2026 01:25 PM

Hey big boy!

Posted by: Suzanne Somers at September 23, 2026 01:31 PM (2Ez/1)

320 NOooooDD

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2026 01:31 PM (HeG1i)

321 She's yet another Nickelodeon 'star' likely molested as a yute then shoved down our throats as a one name phenom

She seems to lean into it rather than be horrified by it though. I think that explains her casting. Like that chick who was cast as Valkyrie in Marvel? Lots of shots of her literally snuggling up to the director Taika Waititi before the first film of her as Valkyrie was made.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2026 01:32 PM (KyEAU)

322 He's just a mouthy islhamic asshole here to bring the caliphate upon America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 23, 2026 01:29 PM (ccf/V)

You're gonna have to narrow that one down considerably.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2026 01:33 PM (/9X1x)

323 Michael Caine REALLY wanted that Oscar for The Cider House Rules...an outright evil film. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Just saw him in something where he goes to a D-Day reunion by himself and meets other veterans.

He must be 95 years old now.

Posted by: dantesed at September 23, 2026 01:34 PM (Oy/m2)

324 I just watched The Legend Of Van Dorn. Fairly close to actual history

Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2026 01:38 PM (LHPAg)

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