WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.839 Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. 2 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.199 We are two hours of the business end of show business. 3 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.120 You know that we're a podcast episode this week because 4 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.640 we've been preempted by the NFL, hopefully for the last time. 5 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:26.800 The NFL season winding down, and we're gonna talk about 6 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:30.719 the awards, the Golden Globes coming up, the BAFTAs, and 7 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:37.799 you know, some movie stuff and some TikTok and I 8 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:39.880 think last week I said I was going to talk 9 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:46.200 about the Blake Lively Baldini lawsuit that is just consuming 10 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.920 Hollywood right now, and I didn't. But it doesn't matter 11 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.000 because there's new stuff this week and we will get 12 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:59.280 to that. But first, let's talk about some uncomfortable truths. 13 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.200 Not that uncomfortable, but if it involves Donald Trump, people 14 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:13.439 get weird, all right. In recent years. This is according 15 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:19.840 to a story in The Hollywood Reporter by what was 16 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:31.400 this guy's name, Stephen Zeitchick. It's an unfortunate name. It's 17 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:32.719 one of those names that you'd have to change if 18 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.560 you're running for office. Steve Zeitchik, this is what he 19 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:42.120 says at the Hollywood Reporter. He says that in I mean, 20 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:46.760 he thinks that in recent years, the vocal criticism by 21 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:51.359 Hollywood of Donald Trump has been notably diminished. Now, I 22 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.359 don't know if that's true or if it's just sour 23 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.840 grapes on the election and they thought that Hollywood could 24 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.959 do more. But he says that during his presidency, knew 25 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.200 sumerous celebrities openly opposed his you know, policies and his rhetoric. However, 26 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:10.039 as the twenty twenty four election started to approach, this 27 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:18.400 once fervent opposition largely quieted. He contributes several factors to 28 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:23.120 this shift. Firstly, he says, the entertainment industry is, you know, 29 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.280 has these internal challenges. The writer strikes and you know, 30 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.319 they have to focus inward to get the me too 31 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.120 movement and all that stuff. So they didn't have time 32 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:36.439 to make fun of Donald Trump or oppose Donald Trump. 33 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:43.479 And some industry insiders also suggest that the initial surge 34 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.159 of the anti Trump sentiment may it led to some 35 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:53.120 fatigue among celebrities and audiences, resulting in a strategic retreat 36 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.919 from overt political commentary. People are just tired of it. 37 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:02.199 This change affects a broader trend and Hollywood reassessing its 38 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:06.599 role in the political discourse. This guy says, aiming to 39 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:13.759 balance activism with audience engagement. Now's the political landscape and evolves. 40 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.879 He says it remains to be seen whether Hollywood will 41 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:22.439 re engage with more assertively in the future elections or 42 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:26.000 continue to adopt a more subdued stance. And we've talked, 43 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.400 we've been talking about this a little bit, how Hollywood 44 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.919 is just kind of well, they're over the woke. So 45 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.520 the woke. He didn't mention any of that stuff, like 46 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.199 woke is dead stuff, But he does mention the movie 47 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.800 The Apprentice, and he says, something's been happening to The Apprentice. 48 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:45.159 That's a movie about Donald Trump in his earlier years. 49 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.800 And he says that despite the acute timeliness and eighty 50 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.599 three percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it's been willed 51 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.159 away by the industry. Most distribution execs wouldn't touch it, 52 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.960 and actors won't talk about it. And whether entertainer's fear 53 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:05.479 of validating Trump's relevance or worry about repercussions for a 54 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:10.800 seeming critical of his power, they've sidestepped the subject. So 55 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.120 there's been a lot of griping about this movie. Trump 56 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.800 called The Apprentice, and that it got no awards, got 57 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.000 no distribution. Actually did get awards, Golden Globes nominated some 58 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:29.160 people in it, but it was a fail, and you know, 59 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:33.240 they're just they're just like, how could we We had 60 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.959 this movie come out at just the right time and 61 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:42.439 it failed. And I think the answer to that is 62 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.120 most people where you like Trump or hate Trump, By 63 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.959 the time it came out, it kind of it looked 64 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.240 to a lot of people like Trump was gonna win, 65 00:04:54.279 --> 00:05:01.800 you know, and I don't think they wanted to talk 66 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:06.920 about it. And to me, it's like, this is low 67 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.519 hanging fruit. Someone says, let's make a movie about Donald 68 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.319 Trump and how much we hate him. That's like writing 69 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:19.600 a punk song telling your audience that you don't like 70 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:25.639 Ronald Reagan, you know in the nineteen eighties, just like yawn. 71 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.399 So they spend all their money another time making this 72 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.000 movie about how much they hate Donald Trump, make them 73 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:37.240 look bad, and then release it right before the election hopefully. 74 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.399 I mean, is that an election interference? Yeah, you know, 75 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.120 it's just people expressing their rights of free speech. But 76 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.439 and then they were mad that it didn't do anything. 77 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.959 I think it didn't do anything because people are I 78 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:59.160 mean right now, they're tired of it. And they're also 79 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:00.839 living in a world. By the time this movie came out, 80 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.519 I mean, you're living in a world, in a world 81 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:08.279 with wars everywhere, at rampant crime and the immigration, you know, problems, 82 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.399 and people were just starting to go it's all bad now, 83 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:18.199 So why don't we fix it instead of making movies 84 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.199 and watching movies about this guy that used to be president. So, 85 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.519 you know, Hollywood's basically just grappling with the election of 86 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.759 Donald Trump because they most of them didn't like him, 87 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:35.879 and now he's going to be president, and so what 88 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:41.639 do they do? And this guy's just saying, well, first 89 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.800 everybody should have embraced this movie, and then you should 90 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:47.759 just get off your asses and hate Donald Trump. But 91 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:54.800 I think most actors and he cites, like you know, 92 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:00.519 Joe Rogan and certain people that are you know, they 93 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:08.319 just said, I think it's okay too not hate this guy. 94 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.079 I don't know, Okay, I'm done talking about this. Tired 95 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.920 of it. I'm tired of it. I tell you, Let's 96 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.360 get to something more fun. How about the Golden Globes. 97 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.639 I think the Golden Globes are fun because it's a 98 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.639 train wreck, a poop show, whatever you want to call it. 99 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.439 Celebrities getting drunk. They don't really care it's corrupt. You 100 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:33.439 can buy an award the I mean that's my perception 101 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.040 of it. I don't know if any of that's true. 102 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.680 If they're drunk, I don't know. Can you buy any work? 103 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.920 I don't know. Pia Zadora got one. Look google her, 104 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:46.399 Pia Zadora and the Golden Globes. So I just think 105 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:48.399 it's funny. It's a funny award show because it just 106 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:54.560 seems so it seems corrupt. This year they got a 107 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.519 Nikki Glazer. This is the Awards where Ricky Gervais went 108 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.600 off on all the executives. Now Nicki Glazer, who went 109 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:04.600 off on the roast of Tom Brady, and I think 110 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.480 that's why they hired her for this. She's going to 111 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.319 host It's the eighty second glo Global War that started 112 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.800 like the nineteen forties. It's going to be on Tonight 113 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.040 and Sunday, January fifth. But she's indicated her performance will 114 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.439 steer clear of controversial politics. She did an interview with 115 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:27.639 Yahoo Entertainment, and she said she intends to avoid jokes 116 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:31.160 about figures like Donald Trump and sensitive issues like the 117 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.720 Blake Lively Justin Baldini scandal and aiming not to offend 118 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:41.639 the Attendees's interesting approach contrasts with the previous you know, 119 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.960 Ricky Gervay's thing and other people who are known for 120 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.799 as sharp critics of political figures and their biting humor. 121 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.080 And it's not just politics. They were like Ricky Gervais 122 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.159 was making fun of the Hollywood executives or were in 123 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.200 the room in Gnarley. And there's another So there's not 124 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.000 going to be that to watch, according to Nicki Glay, 125 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.840 And there's some tension at the Golden Globe because now 126 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.120 this is complicated, so bear with me on this one. 127 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.960 There are new owners of the ceremony that's called Eldridge 128 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.799 Industries and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is the 129 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:24.000 organization that's established it over eighty years ago. Now there's 130 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.360 now a new method of ownership of this thing. And 131 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.080 reports indicate that the majority of the Hollywood Foreign Press 132 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.600 Associate members have not been invited to Sunday's event at 133 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:40.240 the Beverly Hilton. That's where most of the celebrities like 134 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:47.399 Angelina Jolie, Timothy chalameat Demi Moore and Zendaiah in Obe partying. Instead, 135 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.919 approximately fifty members received last minute invitations to a separate 136 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.720 viewing party within the hotel, where they will watch the 137 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.559 ceremony remotely. That's not bad. That Beverly Hilton is kind 138 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:01.960 of fun. You're going to be in a in one 139 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.440 ballroom instead of the one where all the stars are in. 140 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:07.879 But after things over, they're all going to be mingling around. 141 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:12.039 I don't think that's that bad. But this development follows 142 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:16.080 the Eldridge Industry's acquisition of the Golden Globes two years ago, 143 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.159 during which the company divided the operation into a for 144 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:23.679 profit awards ceremony and the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 145 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.399 As part of the agreement, sixty six legacy members of 146 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:32.720 the Association were promised annual salaries, health insurance, lifetime voting rights, 147 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:37.240 and other benefits. However, the recent exclusion from the main 148 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.159 event has led to feelings of estrangement among the association members, 149 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:46.000 and some expressing frustration over their perceived sidelining from the 150 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.399 ceremony that they helped establish and their being pushed out. 151 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.240 So these are the legacy guys, but I think they 152 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.039 have like new people and new voters. And they got 153 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.080 in trouble a while ago because's no black members. I 154 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:00.840 don't know if you remember that. Then they lost their 155 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:07.039 TV deal. They got it back. Is it relevant the 156 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.840 our Awards shows relevant? That's like the question. But I 157 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:13.639 believe they are because everyone will watch the Golden Globes. 158 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:16.279 They'll think of they'll see a bunch of movies nominated 159 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.639 and talked about, and then that will influence the Oscars, 160 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.200 which have not been There's no nominations there yet. You know, 161 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.159 we keep talking about these Golden Globes and we haven't 162 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.919 even talked about who's been nominated. Let me give you 163 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:30.399 a quick list of things nominated so you know what 164 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.120 to go see and what could be a precursor to 165 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.399 the Oscars, etc. Best Most Picture The Brutalist from A 166 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:42.399 twenty four, A Complete Unknown from Searchlight Pictures, Conclave from 167 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:49.200 Focused Pictures, Dune Part two from Warner Brothers, Nickel Boys 168 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:55.879 from Amazon, and a movie called September five Paramount Pictures. 169 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.360 Now they have the Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, 170 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.720 and this is weird. They put Anora in that as 171 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.600 not a musical or a comedy, but whatever, it's Going 172 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:12.639 Globes is Kinky Challengers Amelia Perez a Real Pain from 173 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:16.720 Searchlight Pictures. I've never heard of that. The substance I 174 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.240 saw that. It's gross. It's interesting though Wicked saw it. 175 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.200 I was at a table out to dinner last night 176 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:30.679 with six people, two three couples. It was the only 177 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.840 one at the table, actually my wife and all the 178 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:38.639 waiters too. The only guy in the room that saw Wicked, 179 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:44.080 the only gay in the village. A lot of people 180 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.080 are resist in that movie. I saw that. Three people 181 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.000 walked out. I told you that, but you know I'm 182 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.720 the only one. Okay, Animated pictures, what do you got 183 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.159 in there? Anything worth looking at? Moana two, Memoir of 184 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.840 a snail wild Robot. That's gonna win. If it doesn't win, 185 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.519 it's an outrage. Oh. By the way, you know that 186 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:10.320 movie Kneecap where we have the guys on this show 187 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.480 from Kneecap, the two stars and the director. They are 188 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:19.559 nominated for Best Picture for a bathtom So who So 189 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:27.919 animated Wallace and Grommett. Next Non English speaking movies, Who Cares? 190 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.000 Actresses Pam Anderson for The Last Show Girl, Angelina, Joe Lee, 191 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.519 Nicole Kidman, for Baby Girl, Tilda Swinton for the Room 192 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:41.480 next Door, and Kate Winslet for Lee. I'm skipping some 193 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.039 things that we've not talked about at all. Adrian Brody 194 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:49.159 Best Actor for The Brutalist, Timothy Shallamay Complete Unknown, he 195 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:54.360 should win, Daniel Craig for a movie called Queer, Coleman 196 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:59.000 Domingo for a movie called Sing Sing, Ralph Fines Fines 197 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:04.320 for Conclave, and Sebastian Stand for the Apprentice. See that. Yeah, 198 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:09.480 they didn't ignore the Apprentice. Everybody else did. Female actor 199 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.960 in a music coal ort comedy. Eighty Adams for Night Bitch, 200 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:20.120 Ammy Adams, Cynthia Arrivo for Wicked, Carlo Sophia gascon a 201 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:25.559 transgender for Amelia Perez, and Mikey Madison for a Nora. 202 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.080 That's great. She did a great job. I hope she 203 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.000 does well. I'd like to see her win it. Demi 204 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:37.200 Moore in the Substance will probably win this. Probably, I'm 205 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:38.799 gonna I'm gonna call it out right now, Demi Moore, 206 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:47.440 Male and the music. Anything interesting in here, No, nothing's 207 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:53.120 interesting in this category. But the BAFT is the British 208 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.759 Academy of Film and Television Arts. They're rolling out their nominations, 209 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.960 and they have an initial long list highlighting several standout 210 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.799 films like Amelia Perez, a Spanish language musical that's got 211 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:16.000 fifteen nominations, and then a historic nod for Carla Sophia Gascon, 212 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.679 who could become the first transgender actress shortlisted for a 213 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:26.039 baft To Film Award. Conclave featuring a Raife fines Is 214 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:33.000 as a cardinal. I don't know, it's probably heretical. Got 215 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:36.159 fourteen nominations, that means it's anti Catholic. I would say 216 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:41.840 Angelina Jolie's portrayal of the opera singer Maria Collins, she 217 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.320 got snubbed. So these are the stuff who got snubbed. 218 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:49.279 Who's getting nominated. Ridley Scott's Gladiator two, which we talked 219 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:53.440 about on the show, received limited recognition, securing only a 220 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:58.080 supporting actor for Denzel Washington. That's weird because I thought 221 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:04.000 he was the most unconvincing character in the whole thing, 222 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.840 just falls in and out of his accents, just like 223 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:08.679 but he's like, you know, an awesome icon, So I 224 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.000 guess he's like there, and the movie is like spectacularly 225 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.320 shot and stuff, so I guess he's I don't know, 226 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:20.799 uh the ceremony. That ceremony will be in February, February sixteenth, 227 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.600 and I think the Oscars go to March, so we'll 228 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.639 see what happens. Speaking of movies, let's go to the 229 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.799 box office. The box office number one is Mufasa the 230 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:37.320 Lion King derivative with you know, digital animals that look real. 231 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.200 These movies are like if it's anything like mo Wana two, 232 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.559 it's like, which is number four this week? By the way, 233 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:49.480 it's like, this is spectacular, this is amazing, This animation 234 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:54.120 is overwhelming. It's so good. But who cares because the 235 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:59.519 story is kind of just you know, man, And that's 236 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.879 the same way I felt about Gladiator. Too spectacular. But 237 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.440 then the story in the writing was like Sonic the 238 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.680 Hedgehog is number two, Nosferatu is number three, oh, number four, 239 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:20.920 so it's Mufasa, Sonic, nos Feratu, Moana, then Wicked hanging 240 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.880 in there and a complete unknown I saw that. Did 241 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:25.559 we talk about that? We talked about it last week. 242 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:30.680 It's it's it's you see it just for Timothy Challoman, 243 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.400 He's tremendous. Number seven, baby girl, I haven't seen it, 244 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.200 so I think Nicole kidman having an affair with a 245 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:44.240 young office boy or something like that. Ooh, number eight, Gladiator, 246 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:49.680 number nine, Homestead. That's bout enough of that. What isn't 247 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.839 in the top ten is a Nora. A Nora is 248 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.880 going to be nominated for I think Best Picture, and 249 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:04.480 I think the Baftis were all over it already now, 250 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.480 So enra I saw it. It's from Sean Baker. Sean 251 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:14.079 Baker is one of the greatest American movie makers that 252 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.759 is alive today. He made the film Florida Project. If 253 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.319 you haven't seen Florida Project, you need to see it. 254 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.359 Florida Project is the name of disney World when it 255 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.720 was a secret, that was the code name for Disney World. 256 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:34.039 And this is a story about Florida Project is a 257 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:40.160 story about a just a dilapidated motel where people live, 258 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.200 you know, hotel people that live in hotels because they 259 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:48.240 have nowhere to go. And William Dafoe is the hotel manager. 260 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.200 And there's a girl, she's kind of a hooker and 261 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:54.240 she lives with her daughter in one of the rooms 262 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:58.559 and just shows her struggles. Pretty amazing, amazing characters, amazing actors. 263 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:05.680 So Shaan Baker's new film Nora is about another interesting concept, 264 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:13.519 interesting subject for a movie. Russian strippers slash prostitutes in 265 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:18.400 New York and this one of them named and Nora 266 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:26.000 or Annie. She gets a really good customer who is 267 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.759 the son of a Russian oligarch, and he, you know, 268 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:30.839 starts paying her to be like a permanent girlfriend. And 269 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.400 then pretty soon he says he wants to marry her, 270 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.039 and she doesn't believe it, but she ends up saying, 271 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.799 all right, if you're serious, you know, don't screw with me. 272 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.359 And he says, no, I love you. We're getting married, 273 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:44.480 and they get married, but he's a son of a 274 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:50.039 Russian oligarch, so the marriage cannot be. That's I don't 275 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.359 think that's giving away too much. I won't tell you 276 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.279 everything that happens, but I would. It's very it's morally offensive. 277 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:05.279 There's many strippers scenes sex, and a lot of really 278 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.559 nasty songs. I didn't know that strippers. I didn't know 279 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.039 there were so many nasty, like rap songs that there's like, 280 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:13.920 you know a lot of rap songs that are sung 281 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:18.160 by girls and they're nasty and they strippers stripped to them, 282 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:23.799 and yeah, it's pretty bad, you know, can't bring kids 283 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.559 to this thing. But if you're looking to see what 284 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:28.119 is going to be one of the big movies of 285 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.839 the year, go see Anora. It's not really in very 286 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.359 many cities right now. You can only see it in 287 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.960 like Rolling Hills, I think, down in the South Bay 288 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.200 near Palace Verdes. But you can buy it for twenty 289 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:44.440 dollars on Amazon and YouTube, and two people are going 290 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:50.960 to the movies. That would be a savings. So I 291 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:54.039 think that's that's what I did. I didn't want to 292 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:57.480 go to Rolling Hills. It wasn't playing in the theater 293 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:02.000 by me, so I just I bespotted. I usually go 294 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:03.680 into the theaters, but this time, I does, you know, 295 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.640 I'm gonna buy this thing. And she and my wife 296 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.279 and I sat down and you know, the popcorn and 297 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.480 the Samsung frame and just just had a great time. 298 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.279 But it was quite offensive. I try to separate myself 299 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:23.640 from the offensive nature and the craft of filmmaking. And 300 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:25.759 then I go to confession. I just tell the priest, look, 301 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:29.319 I watched a terrible movie. There's no redeeming value, and 302 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.880 I'm really sorry, but that's the way it is. That's 303 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:41.680 the world of Jewish Glante, all right. Let's move on. No, 304 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:47.359 Justin Baldeen Baldoni. Okay, here's the state of Justin Baldoni. 305 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.599 He fouled. Justin Baldoni is an actor and director of 306 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:56.160 the movie It Ends with Us, and it's about domestic violence. 307 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.119 I think, and I'm not seeing it. I saw the 308 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.799 trailer and I go, no, I'm not going to do it. 309 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.400 And Blake Lively is the star. And they've been suing 310 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.720 each other. The publicists are suing each other. Everybody's suing everybody. 311 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.680 Here's the latest. Actor director Justin Baldini filed a two 312 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.720 hundred and fifty million dollar lawsuit against The New York 313 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:23.000 Times a legend that the newspaper published a defamatory article 314 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:28.079 accusing him of orchestrating a smear campaign against actress Blake Lively. 315 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:32.480 The suit was filed in La Superior Court and claims 316 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:39.240 that The Times relied on Lively's unverified narrative using selectively 317 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:47.640 edited communications that misrepresent the situation. Basically, that means that 318 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:50.839 The New York Times read the complaint and then just 319 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.359 made a big story instead, as if this is the story, 320 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.039 and a complaint is filled with a lot of stuff 321 00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:59.960 that is you know, they're going to try to prove 322 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:04.440 in court, and you're trying to say, you know, pretend 323 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.160 that the other people harmed you. You know, you're exaggerating 324 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:10.799 everything because you're hoping you'll get some of it. So 325 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:15.799 the New York Times, Baldini is saying, Baldoni is saying, 326 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:18.440 you took that thing, that fantasy that we are going 327 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:21.759 to that we haven't had a chance to rebut and 328 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:23.640 you made a New York Times article about now everyone 329 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.160 thinks I'm a loser. So he just filed a two 330 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:28.640 hundred and fifty million dollars lawsuit. So you can't do that. 331 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:32.160 The New York Times says they stand by the reporting, 332 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:38.440 saying that the article was meticulously and responsibly reported based 333 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.160 on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, 334 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.920 including text, messages and emails, quoted accurately and at length. 335 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:51.880 That's what they say now. This follows the recent lawsuit 336 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:58.000 where Lively sued Baldoni, in which she alleges sexual harassment 337 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:03.039 and a retaliatory campaigned to damage her reputation after she 338 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:05.960 reported misconduct on the set of their film. It ends 339 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:10.839 with us. Baldoni's lawsuit contends that Lively's allegations are a 340 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:15.200 strategic attempt to assert control over the production and deflect 341 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.440 from her own public image issues, which evidently she has. 342 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:23.480 Both parties are preparing to address their disputes in court, 343 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:26.240 and the New York Times just says, we're going to 344 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:38.960 vigorously defend our statements about the lawsuit. Now, it kind 345 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:42.839 of all started with a like publicists, like one publicist, 346 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:47.960 Baldoni having you had publicists, and then then the person left, 347 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.599 and or lively, someone had a public One of the 348 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.079 sides had a publicist, and then one of the publicists 349 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:58.240 at the publicity company left, and then one of the 350 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.079 sides hired that one, and and then they started like 351 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:08.839 writing like smears against the actress, and then the actresses 352 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.039 publicists were, you know, doing the same back and forth. 353 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:16.960 And there's and one of the the original publicists she 354 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.960 sued her ex employee in all this, So that girl's 355 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.279 in a lot of trouble. But after looking at it, 356 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.960 what is what do you what is it? What do 357 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:31.240 you think? Joe? I guess too early to tell this 358 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.359 guy could be a total jerk and a womanizer and 359 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:37.720 creating a hostile environment. You know, she was saying, like 360 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:42.119 excessive sex scenes that were gratuitous, but no one's saying he, 361 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.720 you know, you know, just kind of a jerk at work, 362 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:48.400 you know, a male jerk at work basically what he's 363 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.920 being accused of. And he's saying, look, this lady's nuts, 364 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:54.359 and she's trying to take control of the whole movie, 365 00:25:55.400 --> 00:25:57.400 and she wants it to be her way of the highway. 366 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.519 So she's like trying to, uh, this is the way 367 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:06.279 she's doing it. Let's tell everybody that I'm a jerk 368 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:10.400 at work, and then she will get all these concessions 369 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.720 and then everything will go her way. Her husband is 370 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:24.960 Ryan Reynolds, the famous actor, and he's involved in it 371 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:28.559 a little bit because he yelled it the director and 372 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:30.599 it's just a mess, but the movie's over. He got that. 373 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:32.079 I mean, that made the thing, and I think this 374 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:35.960 would have faded away. But then she filed like a 375 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.599 civil rights thing, saying that this guy was awful to her, 376 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:43.119 and then it got leaked. It was supposed to be 377 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:50.759 a non legal, like a administrative complaint, and then it 378 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.160 got leaked, and then the publicist got involved, and then 379 00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.799 they started suing each other, and it is making them 380 00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:58.440 ten times more famous than this movie was ever going 381 00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:00.720 to be. So in a way, it's almost like if 382 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.160 you're a conspiracy theorist, they just they're all in on it. 383 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:06.160 They made it up and now they're I'll bet their 384 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.960 Internet movie database ratings are like, you know, number one 385 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.400 and number two. Like everybody's got a rank in Hollywood. 386 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.160 I have a rank. Mine hovers between eighty thousand and 387 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.640 two hundred and ten thousand or whatever of the most 388 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.319 important people in Hollywood or whatever. If you go look 389 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.160 at my IMDb, Like if everybody listens to this show 390 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.680 goes and looks at my IMDb page every day for 391 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:38.599 you know, the next couple of years, it'll move up drastically. 392 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.400 So make sure you do that. Okay, here we have it. 393 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:48.279 Blake Lively. Blake Lively is the number thirteen person in Hollywood. Okay, 394 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:55.839 she's been in Gossip Girl. I've never seen it and 395 00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:02.200 I know it exists. She plays Serena Vanderwoodson, so she 396 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.359 was in there for five years. A movie called The 397 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.640 Age of Adeline. Never heard of it. Movie called The 398 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.920 Town twenty ten, never heard of it. Movie called The 399 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.279 Shallows twenty sixteen, never heard of it. She's the number 400 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:20.799 thirteen person in Hollywood. So the number thirteen hottest star, 401 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.839