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Texas Film Incentive Bill Moves Forward with $1.5 Billion Investment, Positions State as Conservative Hollywood Alternative

Texas Film Incentive Bill Moves Forward with $1.5 Billion Investment, Positions State as Conservative Hollywood Alternative

The Texas House of Representatives voted 114–26 on Monday to approve Senate Bill 22 (SB 22), a sweeping measure that allocates $300 million in film and television production incentives every other year for the next decade. If fully funded, the program would represent a $1.5 billion investment aimed at attracting film, television, and multimedia projects to shoot and produce in Texas, with the goal of creating local jobs, expanding economic activity, and positioning the state as a competitive alternative to other major production hubs like Georgia and California.

Lilo & Stitch Dominates Record Breaking Memorial Day Box Office, Outgrosses Snow White’s Entire Run in Four Days

Lilo & Stitch Dominates Record Breaking Memorial Day Box Office, Outgrosses Snow White’s Entire Run in Four Days

Both Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning contributed to the biggest Memorial Day weekend in box office history.

Movie theaters across the country surged with foot traffic as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning powered an explosive $322 million box office total across all titles—a new high for the holiday frame.

Hollywood Undergoing Conservative Reboot — ‘Cultural Recalibration’ Leaves DEI Behind as Traditional Values Take the Spotlight

Hollywood Undergoing Conservative Reboot — ‘Cultural Recalibration’ Leaves DEI Behind as Traditional Values Take the Spotlight

Hollywood isn’t just changing—it’s culturally recalibrating. Behind the glitz and glamor of red carpets and studio premieres, a new wave is sweeping through the entertainment industry. It’s not driven by flashy CGI or prestige Oscar bait, but by something far simpler: traditional values. Welcome to the rise of Conservative Hollywood—an evolving entertainment landscape where stay-at-home moms, cowboy hats, and Bible-quoting reality shows are no longer punchlines but primetime.

Unions, Guilds, Contracts, AI,  And Things That Go SAG/AFTRA In The Night, By LW Ghost

Unions, Guilds, Contracts, AI, And Things That Go SAG/AFTRA In The Night, By LW Ghost

We’ve seen a lot of talk about AI and the effect it will have on entertainment in general and actors in particular. We hear about, for just one of many examples, James Earl Jones and his family making the deal to AI his voice resulting in some more-than-interesting stuff going on in Fortnite if you ask the right (or is it wrong?) questions. And we’ve seen the SAG/AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors as they once were and merged) efforts to enforce their contracts get represented as affecting those bigshot players and their deals.

Avengers Doomsday Delay Could Cost Marvel Tens of Millions According to Former X-Men Creative Insiders

Security Breach on Avengers: Doomsday Set, Fan Posts Viral TikTok Video Footage

Video footage from the Avengers Doomsday set made the rounds online this week after a fan snuck into the supposedly secure filming location.

Earlier this month, the Marvel Universe suffered its worst security breach in recent memory.  A man under the TikTok handle @TheyNeverSawItComing pulled his very own “Mission Impossible” and was able to breach the mighty Marvel machine by sneaking onto the set of Avengers: Doomsday at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.

He then uploaded all of the unauthorized Avengers: Doomdday set video footage on TikTok, as one does.

Paul Mescal Brags That Hollywood is Moving Away From the Traditional Alpha Male Characters That Once Defined it

Paul Mescal Brags That Hollywood is Moving Away From the Traditional Alpha Male Characters That Once Defined it

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Gladiator 2 actor Paul Mescal might have given the most unintentionally revealing quote of the week when commenting on Hollywood and the “alpha male” characters that once defined it. While promoting The History of Sound, a period romance between two men in which Mescal stars alongside Josh O’Connor, the Irish actor confidently proclaimed that cinema is “moving away from the traditional, alpha, leading male characters.”