Posted on 11/14/2025 7:03:25 PM PST by DoodleBob
…The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral that began when the dual strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023. Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and the heart of L.A.’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.
“This is the first year since 1989 that I haven’t had a show to work on,” said Pixie Wespiser, a 62-year-old production manager and producer who has worked on 36 TV series, including the original “Night Court” and its recent revival. “I look around and I see so many people who are seriously suffering.”
At the end of 2024, some 100,000 people were employed in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles County, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Two years earlier, there were 142,000.
The primary reason is that Hollywood is making less stuff. The film business has yet to rebound from the shutdown of theaters during the pandemic. TV production was booming in the 2010s and early 2020s as companies tried to jump-start streaming services , but in 2022, investors saw streaming growth was slowing and decided what actually matters is profitability. Entertainment companies, which plan productions many months in advance, cut spending dramatically when the strikes ended the following year.
Nearly 30% fewer movies and TV shows with budgets of at least $40 million began shooting in the U.S. in 2024 than in 2022, according to data firm ProdPro. The first three-quarters of this year were down another 13%… As a result, some entertainment workers are leaving Los Angeles. The county’s population has dropped by nearly a quarter million since 2020.
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Maybe they should start voting republican and drop all of the woke shit.
If movies were’t huge piles of doo doo, people might go see them.
But Doo-doowood is too stupid to know this.
There is content on YouTube made by ordinary people — just fans — for franchises like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings and the content is miles better than the actual stuff churned out by Disney or other major corporations. The Big Boys don’t know how to make what the public wants. But now the public knows how to make what the public wants.
Canaduh gives tax breaks.
“The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral…”
Perhaps perverts and trannys isn’t “entertainment”.
There's so many other things we can check out on YouTube instead.
Such as Mr. Beast.
I can’t believe it’s doing as well as it is. I suspect much of the revenue somehow comes from your taxes.
You don’t have to go to LA anymore to make movies. There are studios in Texas, Orlando Fl, and Atlanta Ga. The old school distribution and marketing methods that Hollywood used to control are no longer needed by independent movie makers. Green screen production has put a lot of art professionals, and prop specialist out of business.
Kamala’s campaign?
My granddaughter is currently grooving to Danny Go on YouTube.
Haven’t been to the movies in years. The cost of a movie plus if you want popcorn, soda, candy, etc. You end up spending $30-$40 when you can stay home and either purchase a movie for $3-$5 and pop your own popcorn or microwave the popcorn with soda & candy for a whale of lot less. Plus, they movie house turns the sound down so you don’t enjoy the same excitement. Besides, I refuse to give my money to the H’weird demoncRATS so they can look good on Academy Award night or Emmy night.
Revival.
In other words, no new ideas, no unique takes on old ideas. Recycle, rinse, and repeat, repeat, repeat.
When there is an obvious DEI quota system in place: gay, trans, black, native American, anything but straight white males.
Check my thread from yesterday regarding Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Or just go online and watch the teaser trailer, which dropped yesterday morning. It’s a comic sci-fi action/drama/horror mashup, so it will attract a lot of viewers who would never look at anything suspected of being a “conservative” movie. But I have the strong impression that there are some strong conservative messages buried in the subtext.
This is Gore Verbinski’s first film in nine years, and his first independent film. He had some stupendous successes with the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, of which the first was a work of genius (stunningly creative, original, and a fast, funny children’s movie that adults could enjoy), the second was a worthy sequel, and the third lost me but was commercially successful.
Several freepers chimed in yesterday with praise for A Cure for Wellness, which I’ve also watched. Imho, it had a lot of good elements and was interesting but a bit long. In the end, I personally would rate it a B, not an A, with a nod for acting, cinematography and atmosphere, but a little soggy in places. But since it has a cheering section here, I may rethink and maybe rewatch it. I do pay attention to what freepers say.
Other than that, he’s had some hits, some duds, and several films that were critically very well received but underperformed at the box office.
The one certainty about GV is that he will always strive to be original. He is not a play-it-safe, cash grab guy; he is willing to take chances and he takes big swings. He’s one of the people still striving to do good original work.
The teaser trailer has sparked a lot of interest. All the big studios passed, possibly/probably because it is a wildly satirical/parody film that swings away at some targets that are very touchy for risk averse Woke Hollywood. Freepmail me if you want spoilers; I’ll just say that the early responses from a couple of festivals were very strong, with most of the audience laughing throughout — but the parts that drew the most laughter were during the darkest subplots, and some of them are pretty dark. It’s the kind of thing that could scare the willies out of the big Hollywood players, which are terrified that some activist group will put them on a blacklist. But Verbinski doesn’t care about that, although he and the producers had to scramble to piece together financing.
It’s a scrappy, lower budget indie film that has had to scratch and claw for everything. It was shot in Cape Town, South Africa, presumably to slash costs, get out of the high cost California hellhole, and chase tax credits. When the big studios and streamers passed, a German company stepped in. This is a great example of the industry’s continuing flight from California, which is now a stampede.
Check the trailer. Read a couple of reviews. If it looks good, buy a ticket and see it in a theater the old fashioned way. Do not wait for a streamer to eventually buy the rights so that you can watch it at home; remember that the streamers all passed on it. Don’t let the Borg have the last laugh. Buy a ticket and be an active customer again. It might make you feel young ....
Normal Americans don’t care to watch hot woke garbage. Imagine that.
“Hollywood is woke but it’s not just that. It’s mostly crap.”
95% of what the so-called “entertainment” industry produces is unwatchable, unentertaining woke crap ... period ...
hollywood needs to quit filming original scripts and go back to filming entertaining novels ... for example, a TALENTED film company could produce nearly an unlimited number of brilliant mini-series by simply translating Larry McMurty novels to film ... “Texasville” alone, IF DONE CORRECTLY, could be made into a hit mini-series ... and “The Last Pictue Show” needs to be redone as a mini-series as well ...
these kinds of novels need to produced just as they are, without the BS hollywood treatment ...
at this point in my life, i far prefer to rewatch old Perry Masons, old Riflemans and the like than even consider wasting my time PAYING to watch the woke crap from hollywood ...
Star Trek Continues is a YouTube series that is almost on par with the original series. The production quality is outstanding and the actors do a more than passable job as Kirk, Spock, etc. James Doohan’s son even plays Scotty.
Hollyweird priced itself out of the human driven business, now AI will drive the final nails into its coffin. What a shame (snort).
That doesn't bother Hollywood. Movie theaters have been a niche income source for many decades now, dwarfed by broadcast TV, cable TV, and home video (VHS then DVD).
But these days, Hollywood's biggest single income source is online streaming.
Hollywood doesn't care how you watch their product, so long as you watch it.
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