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By now, it’s common knowledge that Hollywood is rotten to its core with all forms of debauchery and degeneracy.
However, it’s likely even worse than you realize.
“If you're not familiar with ‘Quiet On Set,’ it's a docu-series that a lot of people are talking about right now,” says Lauren Chen.
The series covers the toxicity of popular children’s shows from the late '90s and early 2000s — specifically, those headed by Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider, who launched the careers of stars such as Drake Bell, Jamie Lynn Spears, Miranda Cosgrove, and Ariana Grande, among others.
The show covers “the unfair harassment and treatment of adult staffers” and the “sexual dog whistles sprinkled into these shows that ... were intended for children and were also acted out by child actors,” says Lauren.
However, she said, “The most egregious allegations that the documentary presents surround the idea that at least some of the child stars that Nickelodeon was promoting and featuring on their shows were actually abused and groomed by the producers and the writers, who were supposed to be helping them and guiding them through their career.”
One of those unfortunate actors was Amanda Bynes, “who has gone on to lead a very troubled and very turbulent adult life.”
While Bynes is not featured in the docu-series, there are nonetheless several disturbing incidents brought up, including “a newly resurfaced clip of Dan Schneider in a hot tub with a young tween Amanda.”
“But if the coverage of Amanda Bynes’ career is sad, what happened to Drake Bell is absolutely heartbreaking,” says Lauren.
Bell played a lead role on one of the network’s most popular shows, “Drake and Josh.”
The actor, who is interviewed in the series, reveals that he was “sexually assaulted and groomed by one of the people working at Nickelodeon” when he was 15 years old.
“Brian Peck, who Drake Bell talks about assaulting him, was actually convicted, so these aren't just allegations,” says Lauren. “This is a sentence that was handed to someone.”
However, Peck was only sentenced to “16 months in prison,” and what’s worse is that several Hollywood actors came out in support of him during the trial period.
Making matters worse, several of Peck’s supporters continued to work on the set of “Drake and Josh” even after Peck was sent to jail.
“I thought I got rid of the cancer,” said Bell. “I had no idea that for four years I was working alongside people who had supported him.”
“Just heinous stuff,” sighs Lauren, adding that Bell, like Amanda Bynes, has “gone on to do some terrible things himself,” including “continuing the cycle of abuse” that eventually led to “two years probation on child endangerment charges.”
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Warner Bros. may reboot 'Harry Potter' with HBO Max series — and that has trans activists melting down online
Warner Bros. is reportedly in talks with J.K. Rowling to reboot her seven "Harry Potter" books, this time as an online TV series.
The prospect that the author — valued at nearly $1 billion — will make even more money and reach new fans has enraged transsexual activists already upset over the author's past feminist defense of biological women, womanhood, and women's-only spaces.
Making a deal
Warner Bros. Discover Inc. is close to a new deal for a streaming series on HBO Max based on Rowling's books, reported Bloomberg.
While they have yet to seal the deal, the company's CEO, David Zaslav, and HBO chief Casey Bloys have reportedly worked ardently to get Rowling onboard.
Insiders told Bloomberg that each season would be based on a single "Harry Potter" book, meaning the series would run eight seasons long, lest Warner Bros. also re-adapt some or all of Rowling's "Hogwarts library" and "Pottermore Presents" texts.
Unlike the "Harry Potter" reunion, during which Rowling did not make an appearance alongside former child actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, the author will reportedly be involved in the series "to ensure it remains loyal to her original material."
This reboot would be in keeping with Zaslav's desire to invest in fewer movies and TV shows and instead produce a handful of filmic heavyweights.
Extra to "Harry Potter," Warner Bros. announced in February that it is developing "multiple" new movies set in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastical "Lord of the Rings" universe, "expanding upon the much-loved world and characters of Middle-earth."
Granted Rowling sold over 600 million copies of her "Harry Potter" books and saw the filmic adaptations rake in over $7.7 billion, Warner Bros. likely figures it has a money-maker in its hands.
Making a big deal about the deal
TheBlaze has previously documented Rowling's friction with the LGBT community and how she:
- blasted a kid-focused transsexual "charity" for mutilating children and having a pedophile apologist on its board;
- intimated a male transsexual's claim of being "more of a woman than JK Rowling" was dubious;
- castigated a British politician for refusing to define what a woman is; and
- exposed trans activists who threatened her with rape, death and bomb attacks.
In these and various other instances, Rowling has roused the ire of activists, particularly those who had grown up fans, and stood her ground.
While those upset over the potential reboot may not have threatened to slit the British author's throat as had transsexual horror author Micah Felker-Martin in February, they have nevertheless expressed their outrage online.
YouTube and film critic Zoë Rose Bryant, a male transsexual, tweeted, "Setting aside how absurdly unnecessary a HARRY POTTER reboot is in the first place, I’d just rather we not continue to give billions to a woman who has made it her life mission to invalidate the existence of trans women & endanger our lives with her unrelentingly hateful rhetoric."
Bryant added, "I liked HARRY POTTER when I was a kid too and then I grew up and now its creator is actively contributing to a culture that wants me dead so."
\u201cI liked HARRY POTTER when I was a kid too and then I grew up and now its creator is actively contributing to a culture that wants me dead so\u201d— Zo\u00eb Rose Bryant (@Zo\u00eb Rose Bryant) 1680567818
Twitter user Haus of Decline, associated with the scatological webcomic and podcast of the same name, tweeted that in the lead-up to the show's release, Rowling will gradually put "on a full Waffen uniform as WB execs play chicken with the optics."
Echoing similar comments, one pronoun-providing Twitter user wrote, "Quick reminder that even if this series is a part of your childhood (as it was for me) please remember your trans friends and family. You might think that one stream doesn’t matter, but it adds up. Please do not give J*K* your money to harm a minority."
RedState highlighted one particularly extreme reaction, in which a user tweeted, "Harry potter was the 9/11 of literature and we need to put a stop to jk rowling and her devious activities that caused this."
The YouTuber known as Master of the Total Defense Shogun curated a collection of Twitter users melting down over the announcement, including one Twitter user, Sara, who wrote, "Can we please stop giving JK rowling more attention and give this idea to a book series/author that ISN’T openly transphobic."
\u201cHBO has announced a reboot of Harry Potter with J.K. Rowling's involvement & that is enough to make the internet lose their minds.\n\nAt least they are expanding their rage from just being toward Hogwarts Legacy. Next up they all need to never go to Universal Studios #HarryPotter\u201d— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) 1680569012
Collider published a polemic, stressing that "companies should not be working with J.K. Rowling."
"Her transphobic rhetoric is harmful and is being used to justify intolerant legislation against trans folks. The bare minimum companies should be doing is not working with people who spread hate. But even if you wanted to block off Rowling’s transphobic rhetoric, the idea of doing a remake of the original Harry Potter novels as a lengthy TV show is downright bizarre and baffling for countless reasons," said the article.
The LGBT activist publication Them similarly denounced Warner Bros. for considering rebooting "Harry Potter" with Rowling on board, claiming, "It’s virtually impossible to separate supporting Potter projects from supporting Rowling and her well-documented transphobia."
Magically undeterred
Dani Di Placido, a film-watcher at Forbes, wrote, "Harry Potter occupies an unusual cultural space, where many of the most dedicated, knowledgeable fans are socially progressive, outspoken about LGBTQ rights, and have largely turned their back on the Wizarding World ever since Rowling scorched her reputation, but still maintain an interest in the franchise."
Louis Chilton, the Independent's culture critic, noted that it doesn't really matter that a fringe group of progressive activists have turned their backs on the children's books.
According to Chilton, the commercial success of the recently released "Hogwarts Legacy" video game revealed that Rowling's reputation amongst LGBT activists as a "transphobe" has not proven a "meaningful financial deterrent."
Den of Geek reported that the game sold over 12 million units in its first two weeks and generated over $850 million in sales during the same period, making it WB Game's biggest video game launch on record.
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