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2023-05-27 -Great Cultural Revolution
BLM leader Patrisse Cullors secretly dumped from Warner Bros TV deal
[NY Post] Warner Bros Television Group secretly ended a multi-platform deal with Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of Black Lives Matter, The Post has learned.

The Post can reveal no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.

"The studio signed an overall deal with BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors at some point in 2020," said a source familiar with the studio’s contract negotiations Friday.

"Deal expired at end of October 2022.

"The deal unfortunately did not result in any produced shows."

The multi-year agreement was to develop and produce original programming to include black stories across streaming, cable and broadcast platforms.

It encompassed animated and children’s content as well as scripted and unscripted series, according to Variety, which reported on the deal in October 2020.

The agreement was meant to draw on Cullors’ experience as a leader of the movement which started in the courtyard of her Los Angeles home in 2013, according to a statement from the studio at the time.

The value of the deal was not disclosed at the time, Variety reported.

A spokeswoman for Warner Bros, now part of Warner Bros. Discovery, declined comment Friday.

Cullors did not respond to requests for comment.

The end of her contract in October 2022 was in stark contrast to an interview she gave to The Hollywood Reporter in January of that year.
Posted by Frank G 2023-05-27 07:31|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
 File under: Mob Rule 

#1 "....Sorry, Sugarplum, but yer kinda toxic now, and God knows with the DCU we don't need any more problems. Buh-bye."

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-05-27 10:05||   2023-05-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#2 She'll do OK. She has $90 million from the BLM charity to milk, plus the mansions.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-27 10:09||   2023-05-27 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The deal expired...

Proof that a "sunset everything" policy is wise.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-27 10:30||   2023-05-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.

Wow, quite the talent! Obama's Netflix will snatch her right up.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-27 10:38||   2023-05-27 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.

Gosh. Are you surprised, because I'm totally surprised. Just, shocked.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-27 10:38||   2023-05-27 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I am suspicious that you never see Patrice Cullors and Magic Johnson in the same picture.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-27 10:48||   2023-05-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Patrice Lumumba called, and he wants his first name back...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-27 10:56||   2023-05-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 But shame on Warner Bros. for hiring this slob in the first place.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-27 11:10||   2023-05-27 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 "The deal unfortunately did not result in any produced shows."

Which was never the purpose to begin with. This was protection money, pure and simple. BLM learned well from the Mafia.
Posted by Tom 2023-05-27 11:29||   2023-05-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 And the shakedown king, "Reverend" Jesse Jackson.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-27 11:31||   2023-05-27 11:31|| Front Page Top

#11  Follow the money Only 33% of BLM’s $90M in donations helped charitable foundations while supporters, friends were enriched
Posted by Frank G 2023-05-27 12:41||   2023-05-27 12:41|| Front Page Top

#12 33% sounds bad, but there are big mainline charities out there that have been caught out doing worse in the past.

Doesn't change the fact that BLM is a straight-up grift.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-27 12:45||   2023-05-27 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 And when the CFC campaign rolled around, I used to laugh at Ducks Unlimited.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-27 13:17||   2023-05-27 13:17|| Front Page Top

#14 100% participation was important to our command so my chief coined the fundraising slogan, “Give a buck; don’t give an F…” For our division. He would then donate a tenner to cover all the dissenters and we won’t have to discuss the intimidating shakedown at morning quarters again for a year.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-27 13:29||   2023-05-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, I worked at a place where it was "suggested" everyone support the United Way campaign. I was long gone by the time the Aramony scandal hit, but I smirked all the same wondering how management at my former employer was handling that, given it was a "news organization."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-27 13:51||   2023-05-27 13:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, I worked at a place where it was "suggested" everyone support the aerospace lobbyist PAC.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-27 23:58||   2023-05-27 23:58|| Front Page Top

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