” After decades of having the most iconic studio gates in Tinsel Town, Paramount announced that it’s leaving California.
To quote Billy Joel, “Say Goodbye To Hollywood.” After decades of having the most iconic studio gates in Tinsel Town, Paramount announced that it’s leaving California. The new owners of the media conglomerate, Paramount Skydance, warned that they would exit the state if California and 11 other blue states didn’t stop trying to block their merger with an antitrust lawsuit that was costing them $7 million a day. California Attorney General Rob Bonta refused to back down, and now, ** the studio’s leaders are deciding whether to move to Texas, Georgia or Tennessee**.
Bonta’s bullying move will cost California, and specifically the Los Angeles entertainment industry, an estimated $21 billion a year and 58,000 jobs. With so many other producers fleeing Hollywood and California for places with lower costs and fewer regulations, plus AI replacing so many Hollywood jobs (even actors), the loss of Paramount could be the existential death blow/last straw that turns Hollywood from the entertainment capital of the world into another Detroit, the place that used to be the automotive capital of the world.
At least, the Golden Age of Movies and TV will always be with us on streaming and BluRay. And it’s not as if the Trump haters and DEI hires working there today are turning out much of anything worth watching. Maybe if Paramount gets out, they can start making something as good as Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman,” which is shot in Texas. At this week’s Emmy Awards, Sheridan’s very popular shows received only one minor nomination, while the Emmy for Best Variety Show went to Stephen Colbert, a Trump-bashing bore whose show has already been canceled for its lack of ratings and for losing $40 million a year for CBS -- which still kept it going for another year!
Maybe we shouldn’t say that Hollywood is dying. We should say it’s committing suicide.
RELATED: Watch what we consider to be the best scene we’ve seen on TV in ages, with the best performance by Billy Bob Thornton, all shunned by the Emmy Awards (which also left Chuck Norris out of its “In Memoriam” reel.) Try to guess why this didn’t get nominated (Warning: LOTS of oilfield-level bad language.)
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