Posted on 02/26/2025 11:20:07 AM PST by DallasBiff
Eight years ago, Hollywood proudly donned the mantle of anti-Trump resistance.
This time around, the industry’s reaction can best be summed up by the tale of two Trump films.
Just two weeks before President Trump’s inauguration, Amazon Prime Video made an unexpected announcement — the company would release a documentary about Melania Trump, with the first lady serving as an executive producer.
Meanwhile, another Trump-related movie — “The Apprentice,” a biopic that chronicles the president’s rise to power decades ago — still has not secured a streaming deal, despite two Oscar nominations for lead actor (Sebastian Stan as Trump) and supporting actor (Jeremy Strong as New York legal pit bull Roy Cohn).
The contrasting fates show the more muted mood in liberal Hollywood. There is a general sense of unease among industry insiders about what’s to come, the speed with which Trump has enacted sweeping executive orders across the federal government — and the seeming buy-in from corporate leaders — and how that all could influence future creative content. ,p. “I don’t think that people have really figured out what to do yet, how to express themselves or what’s going to be the most effective,” said Tom Nunan, co-head of the graduate producers program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “It’s hard to be creative when you’re afraid.”
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Well gee Tom stop making woke crap, and focus on merit.
You notice how the “stunning and brave” people become “stunned and frightened” when they can not force their stuff on you?
Hollywood is finished, the Oscars are this weekend and nobody cares and nobody has seen the movies nominated. And when Ai reaches a certain level, it’s going to take it over movie making which means no more need for actors, directors, it will all be gone, no more celebretards.
Em…I think the crappiest quality of crap that has ever come out of any cultural center as in 2024 Hollywood has a chilling effect on Hollywood
With Melania pretty much staying away from the fray, it'd be obscene for Hollywood to do the opposite and make a movie that put her in a bad light. So their stoking fear by using that movie as an example of Hollywood kowtowing to Trump the Magnificent.
they’re not their LOL
The only way I’d watch the Oscars would be if they brought Ricky Gervais back to give those smug libtards another well-deserved rhetorical beat-down. And that would still be the only part of the show I would watch anyway.
We could send sweaters and coats.
Be afraid, be very afraid...
No one is buying the awful product you’re selling anymore.
Concentrate on making entertaining, compelling material that appeals to the widest possible audience rather than agenda-laden pieces for the coastal elites.
In the immortal words of Eric Cartman, nobody wants to watch “black and white hippie movies about gay cowboys eating pudding.”
Now for some good news.
There’s a muted mood in liberal Hollywood, a general sense of unease among insiders about what’s to come. “Hollywood has not really figured out what to do yet, how to express themselves, or what’s going to be the most effective,” said Tom Nunan at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
“It’s hard to be creative when you’re afraid,” he added.
<><>afraid by the speed with which Trump moves
<><>afraid of sweeping executive orders across the federal govt —
<><>afraid of the buy-in from corporate leaders —
<><>afraid of how it all could influence future creative content.
The only great Movie in the last 2 years was Top Gun Maverick.
Hey Hollywood here’s a clue. The days of “Put a chick in it and make it lame and gay” are over.
Heck, I might pay some money to watch THAT!
The only chilling effect on Hollywood is their own lack of originality, and when they just recycle an old idea, they do it badly, and ‘wokely’.
Wow talk about utter projection. The only chilling effect has been the woke crowd censoring speech and cancelling people for wrong think for the last 10 years.
Or not.
“The Apprentice” was garbage full of BS.
Totally foreign made and derogatory.
#WINNING
And that was basically a remake. The plot was thinner than a piece of paper.
Fun though.
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