Posted on 04/08/2026 5:26:00 PM PDT by dynachrome
Hollywood Decline: Sony Pictures Set to Lay Off Hundreds Signage for Sony Group Corp. displayed at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in YokohamKiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Warner Todd Huston8 Apr 2026140 3:25 Sony Pictures Entertainment is reportedly set to lay off hundreds of employees across its TV, film, and corporate offices as Hollywood continues to contract.
According to Variety, one of the top layoffs will be that of Colin Davis, EVP of Comedy Development.
Sources tell the paper that the layoffs are not “cost driven” but are “targeted and strategic” and are an effort to reorganize for the future. The company is looking to maximize growth all across the company, including anime, YouTube, brand extension, game shows, video gaming, and many other areas.
The campaign was announced in a memo to employees by Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Ravi Ahuja.
“Over the past year, we have sharpened our strategy and clarified where we believe the greatest opportunities exist,” Ahuja said in the memo. “As we lean into those priorities, we need to operate with greater focus, speed, and alignment to strengthen our differentiated capabilities. To support our growth, we are aligning our organization with where the business is going — not where it has been. That requires changes to how we are structured and where we invest.”
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Why are so many movies so long? I wanted to see “Oppenheimer,” but it’s three hours long, and there’s no intermission.
Corporate doublespeak. Of course it’s a cost-cutting measure.
https://youtu.be/UZ6JxAgmxXg?si=qRFdUqoO4n5XWxaM
Yep. I am looking forward to AI putting Leftist high school dropout actors out of their ridiculously well paid jobs.
“Crime 101” ... a very good movie
Good news story , right there.
Hollywood decline = today’s good news story.
The answer is simple, their leftist ideology is entrenched in their minds like a cultist religion. They will most likely double down on profanity, sexual perversion, full blown sex scenes, comments degrading America and senseless violence.
One thing I’ve noticed about foreign films is that they have much less sexual perversions and very little damning of the USA.
I can remember when Sony used two really bad actors to make a movie about North Korea. North Korea didn’t like it and hacked into Sony’s main computer system. They corrupted/destroyed everything on the system. Sony hasn’t made a movie about North Korea since.
Why would ANY company pick LA /Cali to do work that can be done anywhere on the planet far cheaper?
I would expect that moving a worker to AZ/ NV would be paid half of LA, and then out of the US 1/3 of what that same La worker costs.
Agree. Why not do the work in a less expensive, more regulatory-friendly location?
With an Indian CEO, I could see a shift in that company’s work toward India, particularly if more content is CGI and/or AI.
Most TV’s of the cathode tube era never performed their best due to lack of a pure clean signal source. Plugging them in directly from a high quality s-vhs deck or a super betamax with good new tapes(circa 1988 to 1998) or using pioneer laser discs were the best one could do for home set ups. Broadcast signals and cable were too often noisy, messed up, and compressed. Ironically the sound got much better, especially when the sound could be fed into a stereo amp or if the TV had good stereo speakers when stereo TV sound became availble in 1984(Miami Vice was a leader in that regard). I still remember the gag David letterman pulled when they first switched over to stereo broadcast in 1985, the stereo came in but the broadcast picture was turned to black and white suddenly. Pretty funny. Many TV’s couldn’t do stereo but new HI FI video tape decks could pass the signal thru their own in built tuners(even if you didn’t record) and you could by a TV stereo decoder.
DVD systems became available with dolby digital 5.1 surround in 1999 and if you had a good cathode ray set or even a 1080i and p 16:9 cathode ray system, that was the best picture you could get until LCD screens and plasma sets became generally availble 5 years later. I remember how shocked i was at the picture on the regular tv sets of the era watching dvd’s even at 480 interlaced.The old TV’s looked sharp and crisp with a digital source. It was mostly always the signal source that was the problem.
Too bad about your trinitron, it never had a chance to really show its shine. A TV can only be as good as its signal source.
That comment had me chuckling a bit.
Well said!
I have become a customer for streaming video movies.
When I begin to hunt a movie I have at my disposal at least ten or twelve different streams with movies. When summed, the number of available movies seems to be infinite. I may go through a hundred or so before saving the link.
Leaving my taste for movise aside, the fact remains that there are a nearly infinite number of piss poor Hollywood movies out there. There is no demand for a second Infinity of such meritless video trash.
No demand, no market, no money.
Those trapped within the confines of the movie producing machine are just doomed to find real jobs
Where are all those thousands of actors who played bit parts in a movie or two? Are they the California population?
That was the comedy with Seth Rogen, right?
The average movie runs 100-120 minutes long. When shown on TV you get one minute of commercial for each two minutes of movie.
So a two hour movie will run on commercial TV for three hours. I don’t have the patience to sit for three hours.
Last time at the theater was in 2010 to see the remake of True Grit. Our six plex theater built 25 years ago has permanently closed.
On DirecTV, so many of the movies are so bad I dropped most of them. Only kept TCM since they still often show great old movies between the more modern trash.
Right!
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