A cancellation wave is coming, but it is not a woke one.
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Ford is the latest company to axe its DEI efforts under pressure from Robby Starbuck
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-latest-company-axe-dei-120432614.h
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a 'Doll' by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel turned into a movie
‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood for Women. Why Didn’t It?
https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/card-story/barbie-movie-hollywood
Scandalous Jerry Lewis Film ‘The Day The Clown Cried’
https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/08/29/scandalous-jerry-lewis-film-
the-day-the-clown-cried-might-be-redeemed-in-a-new-adaptation/
The right-wing activist riding a wave of opposition to DEI in corporate America
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wing-activist-riding-wave-opposition-09
0020270.html
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a 'Doll' by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel turned into a movie
‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood for Women. Why Didn’t It?
https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/card-story/barbie-movie-hollywood
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The box office is down 17 percent from last year at this time, and studios spooked by a fickle audience (yes to “Twisters,” no to “Fall Guy”) are again questioning the reliability of the theatrical marketplace.
With reporting like this... With MATH like this, maybe you've just answered your own question, darling.
Audiences said no to Fall Guy and no to Twisters. Twisters has seen $348,552,210 worldwide on a budget of $155 Million (Which has been revised down considerably from the $200 Million budget initially stated). Even with that new production budget number it needs $387 Million to break even. That's a deficit of $39 Million it still needs to make before seeing a dime of profit, and it's already Day 40. We're not going to see another single day Monday-Thursday above half a Million again, and it's not going to gross much more than $3 Million this weekend.
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Nothing in Hollywood happens quickly, of course, and a movie can often take years to complete. Mattel now has 16 projects in development, including a reimagining of “Barney,” with Daniel Kaluuya, and “Polly Pocket,” which is set to star Lily Collins as the doll. Lena Dunham, who wrote the script for “Polly Pocket,” dropped out of the directing job, telling The New Yorker she didn’t think she could replicate Ms. Gerwig’s success. She described “Barbie” as “candy to so many different kinds of people and was perfectly and divinely Greta.”
Really?
Polly fuckin' Pocket?
I wish I could dig up the thread where I jokingly made the prediction that Hollywood was going to learn all the wrong lessons from that movie and they were going to get to work on a Polly Pocket movie. Jesus Christ.
But Lena Dunham? THAT is the woman you want writing your next Barbie for you?
Keep going broke. You haven't learned anything yet.
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Accounting scams exposed
the Successful Flop, Hollywood Accounting
"fake movie" aka imaginary
Making a fake movie
the scam is over?
In 1982, Buchwald wrote a screen treatment titled "It's a Crude, Crude World" later renamed "King for a Day" that was pitched to Jeffrey Katzenberg of Paramount,
important mainly for the court's determination in the damages phase of the trial that Paramount used "unconscionable" means of determining how much to pay authors, which is widely called "Hollywood accounting." Paramount claimed, and provided accounting evidence to support the claim, that despite the movie's $288 million in revenues, it had earned no net profit, according to the definition of "net profit" in Buchwald's contract, and hence Buchwald was owed nothing.
Landis also provided the following response as to why Buchwald's lawsuit received more attention in the press than other similar lawsuits:
Well, because it was Art Buchwald! He is an old East Coast media darling. The other lawsuits came from less famous people. I remember on Animal House, there were four or five lawsuits. And Universal just settled them, as that was cheaper than fighting and even prevailing! Art Buchwald is not only East Coast, he's also a newspaperman. The press is going to take his side. The irony of that case is that the only people that his lawsuit benefited were Eddie Murphy and me because it forced Paramount to open their books.
https://forward.com/culture/465247/art-buchwald-coming-2-america-eddie
-murphy-john-landis-lawsuit-king-for-a/
TSG Sues Disney, Claims $40 Million Missing from “Shape of Water”
https://nerdbot.com/2023/08/16/tsg-sues-disney-claims-40-million-missi
ng-from-shape-of-water/
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Hollywood star’s new movie set to be one of 2025’s biggest flops and it's not Snow White
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/2030068/Robert-De-Niro-A
lto-Knights-flop-Snow-White
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Robert De Niro stars in The Alto Knights in a duel performance as real-life rival New York mafia bosses. Despite teaming up with Goodfellas, Irishman and Sopranos alumni across cast and crew, this gangster entry is sadly disappointing. And according to Variety, the $45 million movie is set to take no more than $3 million in its US domestic debut.
10 Recent Box Office Bombs EVERYONE Saw Coming
https://whatculture.com/film/10-recent-box-office-bombs-everyone-saw-c
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Alarm bells ringing in Hollywood after recent parade of box office flops: These are the movies that can save the day
https://en.as.com/meristation/news/alarm-bells-ringing-in-hollywood-af
ter-recent-parade-of-box-office-flops-these-are-the-movies-that-can-save-the-day-n/
however Aussies blame 'woke'
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/woke-fatigue-why-audiences-reject
-hollywood/
10 Upcoming Big Budget Hollywood Movies We Fear Will Bomb at the Box Office
https://fandomwire.com/10-upcoming-big-budget-hollywood-movies-we-fear
-will-bomb-at-the-box-office/
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Alarm bells ringing in Hollywood after recent parade of box office flops: These are the movies that can save the day
https://en.as.com/meristation/news/alarm-bells-ringing-in-hollywood-af
ter-recent-parade-of-box-office-flops-these-are-the-movies-that-can-save-the-day-n/
however Aussies blame 'woke'
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/woke-fatigue-why-audiences-reject
-hollywood/
10 Upcoming Big Budget Hollywood Movies We Fear Will Bomb at the Box Office
https://fandomwire.com/10-upcoming-big-budget-hollywood-movies-we-fear
-will-bomb-at-the-box-office/
I'd say that those 10 predicted flops are all pretty good bets.
I think it's funny how many of them also show up on "Movies that could save the day" in the first article.
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