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Nolte: In Two Years, Movie Jobs Collapsed by 30% in Democrat-run Los Angeles
Breitbart ^ | October 03, 2025 | John Nolte

Posted on 10/03/2025 12:09:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

The far-left Wall Street Journal reports that at the end of 2024, there were only 100,000 motion picture jobs in Los Angeles County, compared to 142,000 two years earlier.

That’s a 30 percent collapse.

The Journal spends a thousand or so words laying out the symptoms without diagnosing the disease causing it. Here are some of the report’s bullet points:

* After the boom that saw the studios spending billions to bulk up their streaming services with lousy TV shows and movies, that screeched to a halt a few years ago. Compared to 2022, 30 percent “fewer movies and TV shows with budgets of at least $40 million began shooting in the U.S.” So far, during this year alone, that number dropped by another 13 percent.

* If you don’t count the pandemic, Los Angeles is suffering its worst production activity drought in 30 years.

* There’s a fear that people are “pivoting permanently from professionally made content to the endless buffet of YouTube and social media.”

* Due to the recent wildfires in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades, places where many production people live, the Los Angeles housing crisis has only gotten worse.

* The high costs of Los Angeles cannot compete with states like Georgia or overseas. A recent tax credit (Hollywood loves Reaganomics when Hollywood benefits, but not when everyone else does), might make the area more competitive.

So, according to the WSJ, those are symptoms. Let’s go through, one by one, and talk about the disease, which comes down to decades of unfettered political leftism.

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


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1partyrule; california; democratcorruption; democratcrime; gavinnewsom; karenbass; losangeles; onepartyrule

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1 posted on 10/03/2025 12:09:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Would it help if they remade Snow White and put her in a wheelchair?


2 posted on 10/03/2025 12:13:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: Red Badger

The obvious solution is to raise taxes some more.


3 posted on 10/03/2025 12:17:27 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: ClearCase_guy

They can bitch and whine all they want, but AI and CGI will dominate the entertainment industry withing a couple of years.

Stars will no longer be employed, and neither will extras, and support personnel, gaffers, electricians, carpenters, Foley artists etc.

Plus, Computer movies can be made anywhere not just Hollywood.......


4 posted on 10/03/2025 12:17:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

5 posted on 10/03/2025 12:19:27 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Red Badger

Just look at the success of K-Pop Demon Hunters.


6 posted on 10/03/2025 12:22:22 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Red Badger

The real business people who own streaming services are now calling the shot in Hollywood! In fact they are also buying studios which means the old guard is out.


7 posted on 10/03/2025 12:22:29 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Would it help if they remade Snow White and put her in a wheelchair?

***********************

They’d make Snow White a black lesbian in a wheelchair and then they’d be perplexed when the movie bombed.

You can’t fix ideological stupidity. It’s too ingrained.


8 posted on 10/03/2025 12:27:37 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: dfwgator

That’s a cartoon, but real life-like animations are now possible and will become the norm.

People want fantasy and the old time movie moguls understood that. The new ones will too...........


9 posted on 10/03/2025 12:44:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

THE WRITERS STRIKE CAUSED A LOT OF CHANGES.

LOTS LESS EXPENSIVE TO PUT ON VARIOUS GAME SHOWS INSTEAD OF ANYTHING ELSE.

A COUPLE ARE PRETTY INTERESTING: THE 1% CLUB & THE FLOOR


10 posted on 10/03/2025 12:45:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Red Badger

That’s because all they put out is crap and nobody wants to watch it.


11 posted on 10/03/2025 12:46:52 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Red Badger

We can watch Mr. Beast on YouTube.

So why would we want to watch woke movies made by Hollywood nowadays?

12 posted on 10/03/2025 12:47:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Red Badger

Get rid of multi-cultural, woke girl boos crap and make good movies with believe casts and watch the money roll in.

I am tired of seeing blacks and other minorities inserted in shows to make a quota. Also the same for women and gays.

Also every couple is mixed now. Just stop it. Its not reality, and we are tired of it.


13 posted on 10/03/2025 12:49:02 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Red Badger

Very few care about these imbeciles any longer. It’s a brave new world and they are a part of it, too.


14 posted on 10/03/2025 2:10:20 PM PDT by beaversmom (And )
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To: packrat35

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMQVqLIxGiO/?igsh=MThzampqcjlhYjM3cA==


15 posted on 10/03/2025 2:12:08 PM PDT by beaversmom (And )
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To: Red Badger

Another thing not mentioned is that high-quality older programming doesn’t go away, and some people choose to spend their time and money (if necessary) on existing material. The things I like to watch span decades, from Three Stooges Shorts and Marx Brothers (1930s-40s), to Burns & Allen (50s), Perry Mason (1950s-60s), The Fugitive, Secret Agent/Danger Man/The Prisoner (1960s), Rockford Files (1970s), BBC Dickens’ adaptations (1980s), Jeeves and Wooster, Nero Wolfe (2000s). That’s hundreds of hours of material that Hollywood does not have to provide for me.

When I do try new stuff (”Man In the High Castle”) eventually the pervert stuff gets snuck in, and I turn it off. One exception is Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. While the language is needlessly vulgar, the one clearly pervert main character (Gustavo Fring) was certainly not portrayed as a saint, and he doesn’t scare the horses with his on-screen activity. I must admit that the directing, writing and acting in those series is top grade, even though I only watch clips from YouTube (which is surprisingly good for getting the gist of the story. The BCS’ “Squat Cobbler” is right up there with “Can it core a apple?” [Honeymooners]) and Vitavetavegamins [”I Love Lucy”]


16 posted on 10/03/2025 2:38:32 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Would it help if they remade Snow White and put her in a wheelchair?”

only if Prince Charming is a really fat black homo transgender and the evil witch is a Republican ...


17 posted on 10/03/2025 3:03:41 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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