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Hollywood Grapples With Mass Layoffs as the Biz Redefines Itself for Streaming Future
Variety ^ | November 25, 2020 | Cynthia Littleton

Posted on 11/25/2020 9:05:03 AM PST by EdnaMode

Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/SIPA USA/AP Images This is the winter of discontent for Hollywood workers, as no level of seniority has been spared from the wave of mass layoffs.

Warner Bros. has been shaken by two rounds of layoffs and a wholesale restructuring that have ushered out veterans with decades of service to the Hollywood studio.

NBCUniversal has rewired the structure of its TV content production and distribution operations, leading to hundreds of job cuts. ViacomCBS has periodically shed bodies by the dozens in the year since its two halves formally tied the knot again in December 2019. AMC Networks last week disclosed it will let go of 10% of its U.S. workforce, or about 100 staffers.

(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amazon; apple; boxoffice; film; hbomax; hollywood; hulu; movies; netflix; streaming
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To: EdnaMode

Conservatives need to boycott leftist stars. Whether it’s in theaters or home streaming - we are still feeding the evil beast by being “entertained” by wicked people who hate our guts and want us dead. They need to learn they work and serve at our pleasure and not the other way around.

There are plenty of other productive things to do with our time than watch movies and tv series that make them rich and continue their anti God anti American platform.


21 posted on 11/25/2020 10:00:59 AM PST by boxlunch (MSM, Twitter, FB = American Pravda, Propaganda Arm of the Communist Democrat Party, Demcheviks)
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To: webheart

>> There are some people who are genuinely afraid of Covid but most of everyone else wants to go back to normal

Those in charge are not afraid of COVID and have always lived through this NORMALLY. They never once shut down their own traveling or social gatherings let alone do they wear masks anytime there isn’t a camera around.


22 posted on 11/25/2020 10:01:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: EdnaMode

bookmark


23 posted on 11/25/2020 10:10:32 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: a fool in paradise

I don’t know how the porn industry does so well in the era massive piracy, free stuff, and the DIY crowd.


24 posted on 11/25/2020 10:14:39 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Drew68

And NO twenty minute commercial interruptions every 8.5 minutes. And I don’t want to pay $10 for a movie that is worth maybe five bucks.


25 posted on 11/25/2020 10:18:51 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: EdnaMode

Oh, gee. Sad, sad. All those freakin’ Commie bastids out of work...so sad.

Oh, well, life goes on. Tiny little Happy Dance so no one can see. Till they turn their backs...


26 posted on 11/25/2020 10:27:54 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: EdnaMode

Not shedding any tears, although the Wuhan lockdowns certainly didn’t help. I’m looking forward to seeing Hollyweird commies standing in bread lines alongside us Trump supporters.


27 posted on 11/25/2020 10:30:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Eddie01
step 9: reverse mortgage commercials

I don't think Selleck had to worry about the old, fat guys.

28 posted on 11/25/2020 10:31:41 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: cgbg

They can learn to code.


29 posted on 11/25/2020 10:37:47 AM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ha! I through the reverse mortgage thing in for fun.

Tom’s all good.


30 posted on 11/25/2020 10:40:00 AM PST by Eddie01 (too exhausted to apply the sarc tag)
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To: Drew68
HOLLYWIERD
31 posted on 11/25/2020 10:49:59 AM PST by timestax
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To: EdnaMode

With few exceptions, I don’t care if the whole lot of them is sitting at intersections with tin cups.


32 posted on 11/25/2020 11:24:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much more than a virus from china.)
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To: EdnaMode

I won’t be streaming either.


33 posted on 11/25/2020 12:48:31 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: EdnaMode

Speaking of layoffs, have any New York City government “workers” been laid off yet? Have any government “workers” anywhere in this country been laid off yet?

ML/NJ


34 posted on 11/25/2020 1:23:30 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: EdnaMode

Director Tristram Shapeero Apologizes for Comments About ‘Poor’ Actors Living in ‘Tiny Apartments’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/11/24/tristram-shapeero-apologizes-for-comments-about-poor-actors-living-in-tiny-apartments/


35 posted on 11/25/2020 1:42:09 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party )
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To: eyeamok

I wouldn’t be surprised if Hollywood follows Netflix’s lead and moves the whole shebang to New Mexico. Ocean views are appealing but not if you can’t enjoy the beach because of homeless and vagrants.


36 posted on 11/25/2020 1:52:13 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

They move up the coast to Santa Barbara and move again when the homeless move up there.


37 posted on 11/25/2020 3:25:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party )
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To: EdnaMode
Hollywood Grapples With Mass Layoffs as the Biz Redefines Itself for Streaming Future being so immoral they can't create.
38 posted on 11/25/2020 3:26:56 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: EdnaMode

Good.


39 posted on 11/25/2020 3:27:44 PM PST by Fledermaus (FIRE BILL BARR AND RECESS APPOINT RIC GRENELL!)
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To: Eddie01

“step 9: reverse mortgage commercials”

I hope you’re not suggesting Tom Selleck is a Hollywood weirdo.


40 posted on 11/25/2020 4:41:34 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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