Posted on 10/22/2019 10:26:35 AM PDT by rktman
Former President Barack Obama had dinner with actor Robert De Niro, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken Trump critics, in New York City on Monday evening, according to a report.
The Daily Mail says Obama, wearing a black suit with dark sunglasses, was seen entering the Greenwich hotel ahead of his dinner with De Niro. The pair is said to have dined at Yves Restaurant in Tribeca. Robert De Niro has longed supported Obama, having campaigned for him in 2008.
As the Daily Mail notes, the dinner comes after Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, signed a whopping $90 million deal to produce a Netflix series regarding calls to impeachment President Donald Trump. De Niro has long urged House Democrats to begin proceedings to remove the president, contending he “should not be president, period.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I heard that Barry enjoys the company of older, white men.
$90,000,000 propaganda effort to depose his successor. The little Commie bastard.
They both like the cocaine
After offing Belushi and Williams, old deNarco needs someone else to run coke lines with.
Can’t get good straws in california anymore; stay in nyc.
I once had a neighbor who was a Teamster. He was assigned as DeNiro’s driver on a film he once shot here. He described Bobby as a nasty character, one he likely would not have wanted to share dinner with.
Its funny that mr tough guy deniro is the ultimate pussy.
BOL.......$90M? To the Obamas? I dont believe this for a nanosecond.
Let's see how Netflix listed this "so-called deal" AND the original Obama $65M deal on its shareholder reports.
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Netflix Turning Too Blue? Republicans’ Perception of the Brand Has Dropped, Data Shows
Variety ^ | June 2, 2018 | Todd Spangler
FR Posted on 6/3/2018, 7:15:10 AM by C19fan
Hollywood’s left-leaning politics has made the industry a bête noire among conservatives for decades.
But Netflix has made some recent moves that have especially rankled Republicans.
In March, Susan Rice, once a former national security adviser to Obama-——and a conservative target in the Bengazi scandal — to its board of directors.
Last May, Netflix officially announced an exclusive multiyear deal with the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions for original programming.
And in June, it premiered “The Break with Michelle Wolf” — a late-night-style show from the comedian who delivered a blistering takedown of the Trump administration and other conservative politicos at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. (Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
In-Your-Face Wolf later did a Netflix show celebrating abortion. Then she was cancelled
Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers indicated that the PAC was not set up to support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), tweeting that the intent was to "engage on issues like net neutrality, bandwidth caps, UBB and VPPA."
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Community Organizer to Senator to President of the United States to Hollywood Producer. Quite a story.
Netflix Exec: Productions From the Obamas Will Not Have a ‘Political Slant’
Dumb*** did not “notice” impeachment” is political
Variety ^ | 5/29/18 | Todd Spangler
FR Posted on 5/30/2018, 2:06:00 PM by Huntress
Netflix has inked a multiyear deal with the Obamas for original programming — but the content from the former First Couple will not have any political bias, according to chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
“This is not The Obama Network,” said Sarandos, speaking Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York. “There’s no political slant to the programming.”
Sarandos was interviewed journalist Ken Auletta at the event. Noting that the Netflix exec is a Democrat, Auletta asked what he would say to Republicans about Netflix’s seeming push to the political left — including the appointment of former Obama adviser Susan Rice to its board.
“Um, wait for the programming,” Sarandos responded.
He said Netflix’s deal with Higher Ground Productions, the production shingle formed by Barack and Michelle Obama, is for entertainment programming, including scripted films and TV shows as well as unscripted lifestyle content and docu-series. Netflix officially announced the deal last week.
The Obamas were forming Higher Ground Productions as they were leaving the White House, according to Sarandos, who added, “I didn’t want to see them go anywhere else because I think they’ll be great at it.”
That said, Sarandos allowed that “it’s hard to argue that there’s not a left lean to the creative community.” But he insisted that the original content Netflix greenlights and distributes is “an aggregation of all those storytellers,” not reflecting “the politics of me” or Netflix chairman and CEO Reed Hastings.
Sarandos in particular has a close relationship with the Obamas. His wife, Nicole Avant, served as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas in President Obama’s first term in office.
The rest of Sarandos’ discussion with Auletta covered topics he’s addressed before. Netflix will spend up to $8 billion on content in 2018, and 85% of that is going toward originals, a figure Sarandos cited at an investment conference earlier this month. He noted that Netflix’s “originals” include TV shows that have aired in other countries which the company licenses for global distribution.
Sarandos also explained, once again, that Netflix does not release viewing metrics because it’s not an ad-supported network. Netflix doesn’t need to have an instant hit, he averred, arguing that the release of TV ratings puts pressure on a show’s creators early in its life cycle.
“We have many shows that don’t work the first weekend, or first week, or first month,” Sarandos said. But over time, “they grow and grow and grow.”
Netflix produces and acquires content for 2,000 different “taste clusters” of people who subscribe to the service, according to Sarandos. A successful content investment for Netflix prompts some portion of its subscriber base to sign up or keeping paying, but what resonates with one cluster “may not work for you,” he said.
Sarandos also reiterated Netflix’s position that collapsing movie-release windows is a more economically efficient model for the film business. “I put 33 movies in the theaters last year – more than any other studio,” he boasted, although of course most of those were smaller-budget.
NF customer for 7yrs.
Just called cust serv. and gave “Mitch” an earful. Of course he doesn’t know anything.
I told him how sick I am of everything on NF being anti-white or anti-Christian etc. and he was very polite and even said he understands my frustration and I was talking to a white Christian. Poor guy. He said he doesn’t have time to watch NF. I’m so PISSED.
Long-term debt? Haha, NF will just get Barry to bail them out. Debt, ah who cares about debt.
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