(Zero Hedge)—In November, the entertainment media was energized by the news of potential studio mergers and a potential jump in content spending by Disney and Paramount. The possibility of more cash flowing into productions was seen as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel for a film industry crushed by endless box office and TV streaming failures. Maybe this new funding would revitalize a Hollywood gasping for oxygen?
However, as The Hollywood Reporter noted, the surge in funding was not necessarily going into the pockets of the current crop of filmmakers and TV series showrunners. Instead, Disney, Paramount and other entertainment conglomerates are shifting cash into sports and foreign content.
The reasons why media giants are quietly abandoning Hollywood should be obvious. In early 2025, these same companies took one last gamble on DEI and stood in solidarity with activist producers, directors and writers. And, the result this year was the same as the last several years: They lost billions in revenues.
The raw box office numbers are ugly, but they don’t tell the whole story. Overall productions costs have skyrocketed by 25% since early 2020 and inflation in ticket prices has hidden the crippling plunge in total ticket sales compared to the same time period. In other words, Hollywood’s profit margins are shrinking while their audience is dwindling.
Their strategy in early 2025 revolved around the idea of attacking the audience (their customer base) as a “toxic fandom” that needs to be shamed and marginalized. The problem is, in most cases when companies go to war with their customers they inevitably lose.
More recent examples include Superman director James Gunn’s social media rants attacking fans for criticizing the pro-illegal immigration propaganda planted in the comic book film which was intended to relaunch the Warner Bros. DC universe. The media applauded Gunn’s handling of the fandom and claimed that he set a precedent for future films that draw audience backlash. In reality, Gunn’s movie was a box office flop, falling $100 million short of the $700 million in global ticket sales needed for the film to break even.
Gunn’s big mouth and far-left propaganda sunk the movie’s chances. Keep in mind, the Superman franchise is about as all-American as you can get; to not draw in a massive US audience requires stunning incompetence.
Then there was the epic failure of Disney’s Star Wars series, “The Acolyte”. The streaming series sought to deconstruct the Star Wars mythos by making the Jedi the villains and portrayed the Sith as misunderstood good guys. The show was saturated with LGBT casting and gay propaganda including the infamous lesbian space witches. The Acolyte was created by Leslye Headland, former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, and was essentially the last attempt by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to force fans to embrace a woke version of the franchise.
To this day, Headland has been raging against “toxic” audiences for rejecting the series and making it one of the most embarrassing projects ever to be released by Disney’s streaming service (and there’s a long list of disastrous releases from Disney+). She asserts that her show’s dismal reception had nothing to do with bad writing and woke storytelling; rather, it was the fault of “racist and fascist” fans.
Disney immediately cancelled the show due to rock bottom viewership and it’s unlikely Headland will ever touch another Star Wars project again.
Even “Stranger Things”, a Netflix mainstay considered a sure winner, faced audience decline during its final season after planting abrupt and unnecessary LGBT messaging in the series. The establishment media came to the show’s defense, arguing that audiences have become “entitled” and that studios need to stop trying to give customers what they want.
The truth is, Hollywood has been ignoring audience feedback for years and their concerns have focused more on force-feeding fans a steady diet of woke indoctrination. This might have been possible for them a few years ago when cash reserves were still strong, but the studios are finally realizing that they can’t propagandize the public if no one pays to watch their garbage.
In other words, the leftists in entertainment didn’t take into account the possibility that audiences would simply walk away. They can control every facet of media from TV to advertising to film, but they can’t force people to consume their content (at least not in the US).
And this seems to be the new business model for Hollywood going into next year. 2025 was the last hurrah for woke programming in America. Now, studios are scrambling to cancel a number of politically charged shows and movies in the hopes of finally bringing profits back to their pre-pandemic glory. Their pending 2026 release lineup, though, is anorexic.
In the meantime, companies like Netflix are adapting with targeted woke messaging in countries where people can actually be forced to watch. In Britain, for example, the government is excitedly promoting the Netflix series “Adolescence”. The show is set to be featured in UK classrooms as part of an anti-masculinity program to brainwash young men into avoiding conservative content and fearing their own biology.
It is likely that the industry will try to adapt their productions to markets where audiences have less freedom of choice in the hopes of offsetting their losses in the US, but the fact remains that unless they abandon woke politics completely there is little chance that they will be able to weather another year of failure similar to the ugliness of 2025.
I tire of the perverts and the pedophiles of society telling us what to think and do and what is acceptable. Send them to the poor farm for all I carte.
Exactly, they sell their soul, who would want to hear anything that comes out of their foul mouth.
Revelation Chapter 18
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Advancing the homo agenda, neutering white males, laughing about drugs, uncontrolled sex, condemning religion, unlimited crime and violence, anti-American themes, and filthy mouths turned us against Hollywood a long time ago. Left wing politics sped up the process. Our TV is only on a few hours per year now. The biased MSM isn’t helping.
Let’s not forget what so many of them have done to children and their push of cannibalism. These are sick. wicked people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exposingcabalrituals/comments/16of25g/marina_abramovics_mock_cannibalism_dinner_was/?rdt=39519
Stop messing with the audience. A small minority is just trying to cram their mixed up ideology down peoples throats. They are the racists and tyrants and people are just plain sick of watching the unwatchable. Ya’ll have over played your hand and lost.
There is less than .01% of them that stand for righteous American values. They fleece us of our intellectual wealth just like Somali pirate’s fleece us of our financial wealth. Wake up and stop supporting their endeavors, many great books have already been written by inspired human beings. Let your imagination provide the visual. And remember, Operation Mockingbird is still in effect. An effective and dangerous tool of social manipulation used worldwide for decades. As for the 99.98% of Hollywood, wish they’d self deport to the UK and France like Clooney, DeGeneres, and ODonnel. We don’t need or want you here.
Whoops…. 99.99% of them.
Let’s not forget all the rainbow symbolism and other subliminal visuals in everything!!!!! Hollywood is dead! Hi-ho the witch is dead. I didn’t think it would ever happen but it is happening before our very eyes. I’ve always said, “Maybe not today or tomorrow but karma always comes back to get people. And if we’re lucky God let’s us watch”. This is a good example. However, I wonder if this is all a part of the destruction of American culture?! The fall of America. But Hollywood has always been a tool to condition and brainwash Americans to facilitate our demise. Look at the production of the moon landing for example. How many people still believe that hoax?
Nothing is more comedic than witnessing the collapse of HollyFagDykeWood. They can shove their woke projects up their collective behinds. Hopefully God will conflagrate them soon with another big, hot fire. They deserve it.
The plain fact of the matter is that the entire LGBTQ cohort is anti-species. They don’t reproduce, so use finite resources to slowly destroy the species. Any mature world would keep them in their closet – at best.
Dates back even farther to the awards show speeches in 2017, with everyone trying to outdo each other’s Trump attacks and alienating half their audience in the process.
They lost others and myself decades ago, starting with a lousy theater experience because they would not control the barbarians they let in ( should not have). Then, DVD’s and large screen TV’s reduced the need and/or desire to go to the trouble and expense of a theater visit. Especially in bad weather. Lastly, they went ‘woke’ and drove us away with their lousy propaganda movies, and endless remakes (that they ruined with ‘woke’). Good movies became the exception, not the rule.
Their idea of a good script was needless sex, vulgarity, violence, and product placement being injected as filler by weak writers with limited real world experience to temper them. Then, there was their elitist arrogance toward us. If you want to know what 16th Century French royalty was like just observe a celebrity; too many of both were/are sorry excuses for human beings. I hope CGI and “AI” puts all these actors out of business so we do not have to see or hear from them again; am so tired of their B.S. . I bet the studio executives and many others in the business will be happy not having to put up with them too; these actors, especially the females have messed in their own bed once too often.
I quit going to the movie theaters somewhere around the peak in 2001, when budget $1 theaters existed. Since then, the quality of movies has gotten very bad.
Seems to me, political capture of the movie business appears to be something the politicians wanted, and people like Harvey Weinstein were all too happy to send Democrats money and insert political messaging into films that people don’t want. Perhaps they’re just playing the political/social status game of getting invited to the “left” parties.