You might have expected loud and sustained cheering from Beverly Hills to Calabasas to Malibu. But social media was oddly calm among bold-faced names, and the responses in the power suites of the entertainment industry were not what you might expect.
It’s not an isolated account. ...
Now, the one movie engineered to take out Trump may not even grace a U.S. theater before Election Day.
Christian links a piece at The Wrap explaining that Hollywood is "too tired and scared" to get out in front of public opinion on the trial. That seems to be an unexpected outbreak of wisdom, with a few exceptions among the usual suspects. Hollywood just suffered through its worst non-pandemic Memorial Day weekend in nearly 30 years, and that's in nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted dollars. It may finally be sinking into executive brains in Tinseltown that their politics is poisoning their return on investment.
If so, that's a promising development.
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