The Hollywood Cinerama Dome is being renovated, and apparently Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is trying to take credit. The iconic movie theater is scheduled to reopen in early 2028. But filmmaker Justine Bateman says Bass won’t be the reason. Bateman says the Democrat mayor doesn’t have the slightest clue about how the film industry works.
She lays it all out here. (READ)
I’ll tell you something about Karen Bass. Three months after she was elected, she spoke at one of the guilds. She clearly knew nothing about the film industry, I mean nothing. It was shocking.
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 9, 2026
At one point she asked that film productions give jobs to homeless people—that this… https://t.co/XuxCgA0CRD
(post continues) ...“would really help her out.”
What kind of idiot walks into a room of mostly out-of-work people, in an industry that is collapsing upon itself, that does productions with limited time and money where a mistake from an inexperienced worker can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and suggests that unskilled, perhaps drug-addled, clueless homeless people should be employed instead of qualified guild members?
This was just one of the many aspects of the film business of which she was utterly ignorant. It’s a complete fabrication that she “has been fighting for the film industry for most of her career.”
Complete fabrication.
Bass not knowing how something in the real world works is the least surprising thing ever. She’s utterly incompetent.
Posters say, despite this and her lack of knowledge about the film industry, she was put in office with the votes of most of the workers in Hollywood.
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Yeah, most of those people in the guild probably voted for her
— Yankees Girl 1776 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸 (@LizLemon5759) August 9, 2026
Yet the white liberals in the film industry hate themselves so much they continue voting for their own demise. Many years from now, classes will be taught about this particular pathological phenomenon.
— Snakebite (@Snakebite1228) August 9, 2026
And yet the guild will still donate to her and most members will vote for her.
— 180Auto (@180Auto_15B) August 9, 2026
I'd be curious to know the percentage of guild members who voted against their own self interest and voted for Dingbat Bass?
— BufordP ✝ 🇺🇸 (@BufordP1) August 9, 2026
We’d guess that number is in the upper 90 percent based on reporting for the movie industry as a whole.
Commenters say Bass probably bases hiring the homeless to work for studios on an urban legend involving the late comedian/actor Robin Williams.
Didn't Robin Williams make this a requirement of his contracts? pic.twitter.com/Bi0QAmlwtX
— HoiAnHODL (@HoiAnHODL) August 9, 2026
I guarantee you she got the idea from this meme. pic.twitter.com/kFTG3Kyzy2
— AJ (@aj_chan16) August 9, 2026
It was either her or one of her gullible aides.
Posters say Bass suggesting hiring the homeless proves she knows nothing about the training and skills needed for film production.
That also screams she doesn't respect the production workers and assumes anyone, including the drug-addled, mentally ill and homeless are equal to the hard-working crew. Utterly useless and insulting.
— M. Harley J. Roth Bulldogge (@HarleyBulldogge) August 9, 2026
Expecting equality of outcome for wildly disparate qualities of input is sheer insanity. #GIGO
— Melanie C (@mcnorman57) August 10, 2026
I don’t think you need to know anything about the film industry to know this was a colossally bad idea. To be fair, Bass is very good at producing bad ideas.
— Tdizzle (@Tdizzle1528795) August 9, 2026
Well, her time in office has certainly been a disaster movie. So there’s that.
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