NOT WOKE NEWS

With the year nearly a third over, the domestic box office is down 21 percent from last year, and last year’s box office stunk. Box Office Mojo shows the 2024 domestic box office at $1.935 billion as of today, April 23. This same time last year, the domestic box office had grossed $2.449 billion.

today, square shut down our credit card processing and ~~didn't~~ wouldn't give a reason why. I've since escalated the issue with square's technical support however the support representative confirms that the shutdown is final... and it will probably stay that way.

It looks like Google finally got around to googling Winston Churchill’s famous quote: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” When radical leftist employees occupied Google’s New York and Sunnyvale offices in an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist sit-in, the tech giant felt the hot crocodile breath, called the police and had them arrested. Good for Google. But that’s still not far enough.

Netflix’s decision to end its quarterly reporting of subscriber numbers tells me Netflix knows it has peaked. On Thursday, Netflix released a glowing report that showed the streaming service attracted 9.3 million new subscribers during the first quarter of 2024, which brings its total number of worldwide subscribers to 269.6 million.

Uri Berliner, the longtime senior business editor and reporter for National Public Radio (NPR) who wrote an illuminating piece a week ago confirming the network's Trump-era transition from liberally biased to full-on woke, has resigned.

Following a disappointing 2023 slate of film and television releases, the studio is expected to cut back on its generally rapid pace of releases, which was initiated to support the Disney+ streaming service. Layoffs were also expected as Disney formalizes its decision to absorb the Marvel Entertainment banner, which had long operated independently, into the other divisions within the company.

Left-wing billionaire Jeff Skoll’s woke film studio Participant is reportedly shutting down operations and eliminating most of its staff — the latest victim of Hollywood’s sharp downturn that has seen a bloodbath of layoffs and budget cuts.

Back in 2012, Disney purchased everything attached to Lucasfilm — Star Wars, Willow, Indiana Jones — for $4.05 billion. Twelve years later… Well, let’s take a look at the lay of the land… After three abysmal sequels, as a film franchise, Star Wars is doornail dead.