Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery at $30 a share in cash just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/09/companies/paramount-warner-hostile-bid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #acquisitions #paramountskydance #warnerbrosdiscovery #netflix #television #hollywood #donaldtrump
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in a historic deal, joining the world’s dominant paid streaming service with one of Hollywood’s oldest and most revered studios. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/05/companies/netflix-purchase-warner-bros/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #netflix #warnerbrosdiscovery #hbo #television #us #hollywood #acquisitions
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Dane 🇮🇪 ☮️🕉️⚛️☸️
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45 years ago
Exciting and outstanding weeks of concerts in November and December 1980 at the Starwood, Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hollywood #starwood #history #punkrockhistory
David B. Himself
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Back from the framers. A rare, original cinema window card from Hollywood's #GoldenAge, for the 1930 film Shadow of the Law.
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
45 years ago
Exciting and outstanding weeks of concerts in November and December 1980 at the Starwood, Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hollywood #starwood #history #punkrockhistory
Back from the framers. A rare, original cinema window card from Hollywood's #GoldenAge, for the 1930 film Shadow of the Law.
Yet another unexpected/bonkers vintage movie find in a Swiss charity shop. Previously, I also found 3 half-sheet posters from the 1940s/50s.
#Cinema #design #Hollywood
Hollywood’s got it all wrong when it comes to remakes. The problem is they keep redoing the classics. Big mistake. They ought to go after the bad ones and make them better. Good remakes of bad movies are “Hollywood’s greatest fount of untapped potential this side of video game adaptations and seeing what might happen if you gave Ridley Scott a kilo of cocaine,” film critic David Ehrlich writes. Read more from @IndieWire:
Avis is a senior bun that still needs his forever home or a dedicated foster - please help boost & like this post to help him find it.
We are trying to get him secured with a long term foster, lifetime foster, or foster to adopter ASAP.
#foster #adoptdontshop #pasadena #hollywoodhills #beverlyhills #hollywood #losangeles #temecula #murrieta
hypebot
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An abandoned power plant in Hungary. Featured in the movie Blade runner 2049 🦄📃
#Movies #Bladerunner #Hollywood #Industry #Industrial #Photography #Hungary #LostPlace #UrbanExploration
An abandoned power plant in Hungary. Featured in the movie Blade runner 2049 🦄📃
#Movies #Bladerunner #Hollywood #Industry #Industrial #Photography #Hungary #LostPlace #UrbanExploration
Boško Ivanišević
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It sure looks like Paramount's movies won't be in my watchlist in the foresable future.
Paramount Has Blocklist for Stars Deemed Pro-Palestinians
#gaza #Palestine #stopGenocide #uspol #uspolitics #hollywood #trump #fuckTrump #movie
It sure looks like Paramount's movies won't be in my watchlist in the foresable future.
Paramount Has Blocklist for Stars Deemed Pro-Palestinians
#gaza #Palestine #stopGenocide #uspol #uspolitics #hollywood #trump #fuckTrump #movie
der.hans
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Endlich gibt es mehr Stimmen aus #Hollywood gegen #Trump
John #Cusack bei #NoKings in #Chicago
Freut mich als Fan von „High Fidelity“ besonders.
Endlich gibt es mehr Stimmen aus #Hollywood gegen #Trump
John #Cusack bei #NoKings in #Chicago
Freut mich als Fan von „High Fidelity“ besonders.
Greg Lloyd
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"In celebration of what would have been his hundredth birthday, the Criterion Channel is currently featuring an extensive series of films by maverick auteur Robert Altman, who became so renowned in the 1970s that the term “Altmanesque” got bandied about regularly among critics and cinephiles. According to The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey, whose video essay on Altman accompanies the Criterion series, “Altmanesque” refers to “the subversion of all expected modes in narrative storytelling — in genre, in filmmaking style, in performance.”
And for a director with a tendency toward “the undoing of everything we expect from a Hollywood movie,” Altman had an incredibly robust Hollywood career. His idiosyncratic approach to filmmaking treated the script as a “diagram” that provided loose guidelines but need not be adhered to while going through the process of “actors finding character and story finding itself.” In keeping with an approach that was virtually designed to oppose classical Hollywood production practices and drive producers and studio executives crazy, he favored intensive collaboration with actors.
Altman loved actors, and they almost uniformly adored him. He not only recruited great talent for film, such as Shelley Duvall, Lily Tomlin, and almost the entire supporting cast of M*A*S*H, whom he drafted from the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, but also guided such favorites as Duvall and Elliott Gould to repeated flights of idiosyncratic brilliance."
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/robert-altman-criterion-film-hollywood
"In celebration of what would have been his hundredth birthday, the Criterion Channel is currently featuring an extensive series of films by maverick auteur Robert Altman, who became so renowned in the 1970s that the term “Altmanesque” got bandied about regularly among critics and cinephiles. According to The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey, whose video essay on Altman accompanies the Criterion series, “Altmanesque” refers to “the subversion of all expected modes in narrative storytelling — in genre, in filmmaking style, in performance.”
And for a director with a tendency toward “the undoing of everything we expect from a Hollywood movie,” Altman had an incredibly robust Hollywood career. His idiosyncratic approach to filmmaking treated the script as a “diagram” that provided loose guidelines but need not be adhered to while going through the process of “actors finding character and story finding itself.” In keeping with an approach that was virtually designed to oppose classical Hollywood production practices and drive producers and studio executives crazy, he favored intensive collaboration with actors.
Altman loved actors, and they almost uniformly adored him. He not only recruited great talent for film, such as Shelley Duvall, Lily Tomlin, and almost the entire supporting cast of M*A*S*H, whom he drafted from the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, but also guided such favorites as Duvall and Elliott Gould to repeated flights of idiosyncratic brilliance."
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/robert-altman-criterion-film-hollywood