Requiem for 4,000 Fox Jobs Lost -- Welcome to the New Hollywood

The Wrap ^ | March 24, 2019 | Sharon Waxman

[dp0622]

Feel good news right before I leave the house for the day.

Thanks!! :)

[Ouderkirk]

If they stop turning out America-hating, culture debasing crap they might actually have more jobs.

[vikingd00d]

Hey, “Learn to Code”, Hollywierdos.

[txrefugee]

Most young people with Follywood stars in their eyes didn’t listen to sage advice, believing that they could be anything they wanted to be (a popular lie), and wound up sleeping on the sofas of friends.
No one will ever outsource HVAC jobs. And you can make a fortune in Texas in that business.

[Jeff Chandler]

ping

[bigbob]

Yep. Jobs are created when there is more demand than the present workforce can produce. Disney already has much of what Fox brings, so they will stretch the existing workforce to handle both and use the savings to pay for the deal. They hope.

[gaijin]

Onto the garbage heap of history..!

HORRAY..!!!!

Looking forward to MUCH more.

[MrEdd]

HVAC is a tightly competitive business with lots of overhead in expensive equipment which wears out rapidly and is both expensive and highly theftible.

You can make a decent living if you work your ass off, but wealth is unlikely.

[upchuck]

They get no tears from me.

[Red Badger]

Aw c’mon! Pelosi says unemployment is good for people! Just think how much time that you now have that you didn’t have before!

You can take up art or now that you won’t be eating as much you can lose that extra weight!

Look on the bright side!.................

[gaijin]

[SanchoP]

No one will ever outsource HVAC jobs. And you can make a fortune in Texas in that business.

That's a BIG LIE. Don't believe a word of it.

[gaijin]

I feel sorry for the fraction of Hollywood who are real Americans.

Not the America-hating tribe that infests the place, doesn’t belong here and torments us all.

[Red Badger]

Me neither. It happened to me in 1980.......................

[Wizdum]

Netflix sounded the death toll for Hollywood, including Disney.
Disney bought FOX consolidating control over the mega blockbuster industry that makes tons of money but not much substance as far as movies go.
Yeah, they get MARVEL, and those are the bigger dollar incomes, Disney will enjoy, but the tear-jerkers, the films of substance that win critical acclaim will escape them, THOSE acting in the acclaimed movies will not venture near the cemetery of the dying studio mogul decision to make a film or not.
HULU, Amazon, Netflix, even YouTube are realizing in-house production makes oodles of money, worldwide, without the theater to play in.
Movies and series, direct to viewers around the world, via the internet, are THE wave of entertainment in the future and Disneywill wake up to that.
Unfortunately, the 'stars' will fester in Hollywood, waiting for the phone to ring, but no one will want them or their salaries.

[qaz123]

Disney...pretty liberal company isn’t it? Is the MSM going to start doing stories on all the 4000 people that are losing their jobs at the hands of greedy liberals, in the same way they did with the poor government workers? All of whom went back to work and got back pay. I mean, none of these 4000 are going back to work at their old job and getting back pay. I would think the media would be all over this story.

Am I missing something?

[irishjuggler]

a clunker that broke down on the 101.

Side note... something that i've wondered about or a while... In L.A., a freeway is typically referred to in the manner above, e.g., "There's a heavy traffic on THE 101," or "THE 5," "THE 10," etc.

In Northern California, someone would say, "There's a heavy traffic on 101," or "Highway 101," but not "the 101."

Is L.A.'s format ("the" + number) popular throughout the country? Do people on the east coast talk about "THE 95," or do they say, "95," "I 95," "Interstate 95" etc?

[Slyfox]

The big studios put out something like 5 movies per year where in the old days they used to do hundreds.

It's all kinda dicey to begin with.