this regurgitated response to ppl questioning Zendaya’s choices in roles is disingenuous bc y’all act like 1) she’s the 1st biracial actress to ever navigate a Hollywood career and 2) she’s some altruistic ally making sure not to “take roles from Black women”..
not sure why people are upset, she’s right. it’s a safety and liability issue, period.
Jessica Lange says FX was "too f*cking cheap" to pay for cars home from the "American Horror Story" set, so the cast had to drive themselves and it's “still a bone of contention."
“We had to drive ourselves. We would drive ourselves home at like 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, park on some street in the French Quarter, and find our way home," Lange said at PaleyFest alongside Sarah Paulson, who laughed in approval.
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Even the screenings of films that flop at the box office look like this in NYC, in case anyone is wondering why some films are released earlier here. These are just two of the dozens of screens that show them.
'The Social Reckoning' Flops With $5.5 Million Debut, 'Other Mommy' Tops Box Office With $27.5 Million variety.com/2026/film/box-of…
and it’s well documented that he heavily abused all three of his Black wives. a lot of y’all have an unhealthy preoccupation with representation, but at what cost..
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste DESERVED a Best Actress nomination for this and I will never forgive anyone who didn't vote for her that year
used generative AI to animate archival footage….
Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary '14th:' "People should see this" trib.al/1ybSWqF
he spent his 4-year tenure as CEO single handedly ruining a century old movie studio and the network that originated the prestige television model, and has been rewarded nearly a billion in total comp as a result.
David Zaslav will receive a $606 million payout as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery amid its merger with Paramount.
imagine finding out you lost your job in a press release..
Warner Bros. chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy learned their jobs were ending from an online report before Skydance CEO David Ellison called to confirm it in what is described as a "tense" exchange.
They will leave when the merger closes Tuesday, with Abdy telling Ellison, “Good luck to you. I left you 39 movies.”
Read more in @sharonwaxman's exclusive on TheWrap: mrf.lu/2rZ7F
in a movie landscape full of reboots and big budget IP, these were two of the few studio heads still taking a chance on original screenplays like Sinners, OBAA, Weapons etc…
Warner Bros. studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are reportedly out ahead of the studio’s merger with Paramount.
Paramount co-chair Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg are expected to oversee both studios after the deal closes.
(thewrap.com/industry-news/bu…)
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It's abundantly clear many of you are more conservative and traditional than you realize. And I'm speaking primarily to millennials. Lots of you are repeating the same rhetoric you complained about from your oppressive parents, aunties, uncles, church leaders, elders, etc.
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This is the first debt-market development I’d call genuinely alarming rather than merely expensive.
Until now, the story was essentially: Paramount is borrowing an enormous amount, at ugly yields, but investors are willing to fund it.
This Bloomberg article says something more
Paramount’s $41 billion of dollar bonds to finance its takeover of Warner Bros. sold off to start their first full day of trading. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I’ve seen 3 separate clips from this podcast episode, and I really want the “Lanterns” writers’ room to stop talking..
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MISTY GREEN is proof that no matter how harsh the Hollywood system can be towards Black women, Chris Rock will always find a way to be harsher. Putrid, hateful film.
More in my review:
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Newsom used his political muscle to:
-Allow Trump’s ally, the billionaire Ellison family, to own CBS, CNN & TikTok along with Saudi Arabia, UAE & Qatar
-Oppose a 5% billionaire wealth tax
-Kill Medicare for All in CA
-Veto an AI kill switch
A bed made by the Oligarchs.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us all in the back
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Gavin Newsom coming in at the 11th hour to help clear the way for the Ellisons’ conquest of American media. they will now have ownership of CNN, CBS, TikTok’s US operations.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us all in the back
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