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1 posted on 05/03/2025 6:11:30 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Let Newsom deal with it


2 posted on 05/03/2025 6:14:39 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hollywood is like Universities ... why should tax payers be on the hook to support them?


3 posted on 05/03/2025 6:16:18 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: sphinx

Your thoughts?


7 posted on 05/03/2025 6:20:20 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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8 posted on 05/03/2025 6:20:49 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/

Hollyweird’s high water mark was 2018, with $11,892,160,011 in domestic box office.

After the pandemic drop, it hasn’t fully recovered. Domestic box office last year was $8,570,012,657.

Maybe calling your customers racists, Nazis, misogynists, and every other name in the book was a Bad Idea.


9 posted on 05/03/2025 6:23:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What a stupid headline.

But you can have my answer now. I couldn’t care less about Hollywood, and President Trump has more important things to worry about.


11 posted on 05/03/2025 6:41:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Attempting to give a hairless rat’s patoot ... attempting ...

Unable to give a patoot


13 posted on 05/03/2025 6:48:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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14 posted on 05/03/2025 6:49:59 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Nope.

It can crash and burn.

Hollywood has had its heyday and outlived its usefulness.


16 posted on 05/03/2025 7:09:37 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I certainly don’t care


18 posted on 05/03/2025 7:14:49 PM PDT by albie (U)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Wanna save Hollywood?

Spring Harvey Weinstein out of prison and put him back at the helm of Miramax.

He might've been a lecherous skeevy Jew but when he was running things, we had hot actresses and great films!

Now we've got a bunch of Longhouse Karens running the studios. All of the actresses are fugly gendergoblins and all of the movies are unwatchable woke struggle sessions.

20 posted on 05/03/2025 8:00:02 PM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Movie production is a capitalist business.
The Democrats running the State of California hate capitalism.
Unions have a lock in California.
Make your movies in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, or Tennessee.
All states that support business and have right to work laws.
All states who associate Unions with Sherman and Grant.
The sad part is that production companies for series like Reacher would rather shoot their first season, set in a small Georgia town, in Canada, instead or rural Georgia.
F them all.

24 posted on 05/03/2025 8:42:50 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Jon, I don’t care about Hollywood.


25 posted on 05/03/2025 9:00:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Thanks for posting this highly important issue at Hollywood.


28 posted on 05/03/2025 9:48:25 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Maybe Hollywood should produce new movies instead of remakes.


29 posted on 05/03/2025 10:44:31 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

So we’re going to be paying for more Trump and MAGA bashing democrat made movies?

Count me out.


31 posted on 05/03/2025 10:54:48 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Release the Epstein list, purge and arrest the pervs and pedos. Only then can anyone start talking about any tax breaks.


37 posted on 05/04/2025 4:54:52 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Tax incentives? No. I cannot see the average tax payer footing the bill for woke, homosexual and communist plagued movies. Or those with nothing but wall to wall violence and use of the F word.

Bring back movies characteristic of the 30’s to mid 60’s, then maybe it will be worth it. But those running Hollywood would never tolerate it.


40 posted on 05/04/2025 5:25:11 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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I know Jon. Had a great dinner with him a few years ago where, yes, he asked for script ideas about a screenplay about colleges.

Hollywood has several problems, many of them resistant to being fixed by just one or two well-meaning people.
*The woke is still strong there, despite a few studios acknowledging that it is killing their box office. Rather than remove woke, I’ve noticed this pattern: in streamers for the first 2-3 episodes-—or even the first season-—they will be plain old entertainment-driven with no woke. (Think “Mandalorean” season 1-2). Then, confident they have an audience no matter what, they begin to homo/transoid it up. (Season 3 was horrible). Other series still ignore the massive backlash and Lesbo up a series in the first 30 minutes (”Tracker”).
*A recent study found that nearly 80% (!!!) of all “new” movies are either spinoffs, remakes, or “universe” expansions. There is NOTHING original, even if you can get past the woke.
(Look at the success of “Minecraft,” based on a popular game, that has already grossed $850 million vs “Captain African American: Brave New World” which, last I looked, was around $415 million (or a $200-300 million LOSS).
*Length: every single movie now is over 2hrs, many close to 3. That’s not an afternoon or evening, that’s a near day long commitment if you have to drive.
*Villains: right now, there are only a couple of acceptable villains: Russkies or white American anti-climate men. This makes it really, really hard to tell a truly diverse story, let alone one that identifies the world’s worst satanic forces of China, Islam, and African chowdermissiles.
*Cost: making a first rate drama is pretty much going to cost at leat $30 million; an action flick with even moderat SF, at least $50 m. That means that to recoup investors’ money, a film needs to pull in at least $75m (more like $80) for the former and $160-170m for the latter. With movies like “Captain African American,” you’re looking at nearly $900 m to break even.
*Marketing is diffuse and watered down. There have been movies I would go to that I didn’t even know were out yet. In fact, I may go see “The Amateur” today. Breaking through the noise is extremely difficult.


45 posted on 05/04/2025 12:14:48 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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