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Jim Fisher
July 17, 2023 at 3:15 pm
Nobody cares… Hollywood is just predators and pedophiles… It’s one of those jobs that AREN’T needed. It’s a useless to humanity profession.
Hedgehobbit
July 17, 2023 at 3:33 pm
A month before the WGA went on strike, Netflix announced that they were spending $2.5 billion on new shows from Korea and India. This strike isn’t ending any time soon.
rideon
July 17, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Theres no money because about ten actors and actresses get 95 % of it. Its America, winner take all – the rest get a few drops of trickle down. Its what Americans wanted because they though they were going to be winners too – wrong.
silly stuff
July 17, 2023 at 6:16 pm
AI can already write better fiction than 90% of woke Hollywood writers.
The strike gives movie studios time to evaluate AI writer software from Silicon Valley startups.
After a year of preachy, woke movies (that flopped), studios and audiences are desperate to watch actually entertaining movies and shows.
don mezzanatto
July 17, 2023 at 7:47 pm
I hope the Hollywoke AI Robots malfunction and take over the industry forever.
Ryan McCleary
July 17, 2023 at 9:18 pm
The double strike will end after early September.