LOL: Netflix Fires Its Head of Film Development, Apparently Due to Its Looming "Narnia" Disaster
Wokeslop Video Game Company Bioware Transitions to "Out of Business" (Pronouns Was/Were)

I mentioned on Friday that Netflix had slashed 1,000 jobs, which is a 6% reduction in its total workforce.

It wasn't just the drones who got the sack.

"Everyone is collateral damage."

That's how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lin ousted as the company's head of film.

Following last week's 6% workforce reduction at Netflix -- which claimed victims including chief content officer Bela Bajaria and Lin's right-hand Doug Belgrad -- consensus said it was a matter of time before co-CEO Ted Sarandos would show Lin the door.

It took a day. On the heels of the Bajaria news on Thursday, Sarandos rang Lin on Friday to tell him he'd been dismissed, three sources told Variety. The exec kept his head up and pressed on through the weekend, appearing at Saturday's Academy Gala (in the same room as Sarandos) and at a Sunday tastemaker screening to support the filmmakers of "La Bola Negra." As has been summarized in many articles about the Netflix purge, creative leadership at the company is being overhauled amid poor stock performance and declining user engagement on the platform.

I wonder why. Clay Travis has a Conspiracy Theory:

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis

Netflix is firing all of its top creative leadership after their strategy of make every character gay and trans and every white person black failed to produce strong subscriber growth.

Competing narratives are flying about why Lin was let go, but they arrive at the same conclusion: In the end, it wasn't working....

There are also some interesting leaks around tension he's said to have with A-list filmmakers like Greta Gerwig and Ben Affleck, which we'll get to.

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Four sources with knowledge of the matter said that, indeed, Lin and Gerwig had a falling out during a Zoom call about the project earlier this year. On a virtual meeting populated by numerous Netflix executives, Lin is said to have been "dismissive" to the director in conversation about the progress of the film. Lin is known in town to be incredibly fair, but at times obtuse in his frankness. Word travelled fast around Netflix that the meeting had gone south, at which point sources said Bajaria called Gerwig's producer Amy Pascal to smooth things over. Two sources also said that Gerwig's new, all-powerful CAA agent Bryan Lourd went to Sarandos directly over the faux pas. Lin was subsequently disappeared from the film, all sources concurred, and Belgrad stepped in as the primary Netflix exec overseeing the project (until, of course, he was laid off last week).

None of the sources suggested the incident led to Lin's firing. One Lin defender said he's never "afraid to talk about how to make a movie better." Another person familiar with the company said there are any number of filmmakers who could say the same about Lin's delivery. While it may be juicy to speculate that Gerwig's follow-up to the game changer "Barbie" could be troubled, don't forget that the industry doubted that Margot Robbie film right up to opening weekend. "Barbie" grossed $1.44 billion at the worldwide box office and became the highest-earning release in the history of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Yes but that was an ideologically-driven feminist making a movie for her fellow feminists out of a toy property designed for girls. It was a natural fit. She didn't gender-bend Barbie, as she did with Aslan.

Actually I believe there was a "Trans Barbie" in the movie, but not the Barbie, and anyway, leftwing feminists are all about being Queer Allies. I don't think the Christian families who are the target audience for a Narnia reboot are going to enjoy the Everything for the Gays and the Girlies tone Gerwig will bring.

CosmicBookNews's Matt McGloin says he hears the Narnia film -- actually The Magician's Nephew -- is "woke slop."

"Narnia is a mega woke slop insanity," says the source. "Think Amazon Rings of Power but worse."

The $280 million movie is already in serious trouble inside Netflix, where insiders have called it "awful" and "a genuine problem."

That report also described friction between Gerwig and Lin over the film, with reshoots ordered after a summer test screening.

Now Lin is gone with the movie four months out.

The first trailer was hit with 62,000 dislikes and a wave of Marvel comparisons.

Narnia hits theaters and IMAX on February 12, 2027, with the Netflix streaming release following on April 2.

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CBN's source says there is a reason it is all happening now.

He claims that competition from the merged Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. corporation is the reason Netflix is making big moves.

"Now you know why Netflix was doing everything to stop the merger," says the source. "ParaBros is an existential threat."

"ParaBros" is the source's name for Skydance, the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. company that officially closed its deal on October 6.

"Did you see they fired Bela and Lin? Heads of series and movies in one week," the source continued, floored that both jobs turned over within days.

Our WB insiders add that Lin never got his faith-based projects off the ground at Netflix, which is another reason.

The warnings have been on the record for weeks.

On October 2, the Paramount source said flat out that "Netflix is in big trouble" and to expect major restructuring and firings.

Back on September 2, the source said Disney and Netflix "know what's coming and they're doing EVERYTHING to stop it."

And CBN's Narnia report, which flagged Lin and Bajaria as rumored to be on thin ice, ran October 14. Bajaria was out that same evening. Lin followed within days.

The firing landed alongside a TheWrap piece Monday arguing Netflix has a quality problem that may be impossible for any film chief to solve.

A top talent agent told the outlet that Lin faced the same challenge as his predecessor, Scott Stuber: the Netflix model demands too much volume to consistently put out high-quality movies.

CBN's source says that is not just a Netflix problem.

"DC Studios, Hulu, Starz, Marvel, and many others face the same problem," says the source. "Glut = Slop."

"Will ParaBros stop the madness? We shall see," the source continued. "Ellison wants to invest $$$ in quality but Kreiz is a penny pincher. The honeymoon won't last very long."

In woke video game news: One of the biggest games studios, which used to pump out hit after hit, went full woke and is now closing its doors forever.

LOL, GFYS.

Video game studio BioWare announced it would close on Wednesday, marking an end to the organization that released some of the most popular video games in history.

Among the top titles from BioWare were Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Baldur's Gate series, and Mass Effect.

"For more than 30 years, BioWare has been more than a studio. It has been a home for storytellers, developers, and players who brought our worlds to life," the statement read. "Now, after more than three decades of shared adventures, BioWare is closing and early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending."

Comments on the studio's X post were generally negative, with many users blaming the company's recent release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a fantasy RPG that attracted negative publicity for its inclusion of transgender and left-wing political themes. The release received mixed reviews on Steam. The prior installment of the series, Dragon Age Inquisition, received mostly positive reviews.

I never played Inquisition but Larry O'Connor was obsessed with it.

Arthur Kimes @ComradeArthur

For context, Dragon Age: Veilguard was the one where a character started doing pushups to punish themselves for using the wrong pronouns.
Yes, this was a turn-based fantasy RPG.

Yup:

🏳️‍🌈 Gavin @jammach

Go woke?
Go broke.

BioWare has finally ended its slow, torturous suicide, started by the absolute mess of Mass Effect: Andromeda which shoehorned a ridiculous two dimensional girl boss as the lead. It should have been a well rounded, capable, believable female character but it was an insult.

They then followed this up with Dragon Age: Veilguard which introduced trans characters complete with customisable mastectomy scars and pronouns. Oh and one of the NPC characters is non binary and you get lectured about it in a 10min cut scene.

Veilguard flopped. Rightly so.

People want fantasy and escapism. They don't want lectures about how boring, bigoted and heterosexual they are.

So, good riddance BioWare.

People are still citing this woke abortion as the moment they realized that "creators" have absolutely no interest in pleasing the actual audience and just want to appeal to woke warrior "critics" at IGN and Screen Junkies.

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