Cinema Cats is a tribute to the many feline film stars and kitty cameos seen throughout the history of film.

I come from a family of movie lovers. My father and I try to watch one movie every night when possible. Five years or so before this blog began in January 2014, it became a common occurrence for me to yell out “Kitty!” any time a cat appeared on the screen. Many times I thought I should keep a list of all the movies that feature cats, even just briefly. This idea simply wouldn’t go away, and so I proudly present this blog where film lovers and cat lovers can indulge their two passions in one place.

Cinema Cats covers all genre of film from around the world, spanning silent “flickers” to current releases. I have also included notable cat appearances on television shows, both current and classic, as well as in animated movies, short films, music videos and even newsreels and documentaries.

This list of films and television shows featuring cats continues to expand with 3,000 + entries so far. I will continue to post at least one new entry a day, with several hundred more films and shows waiting to be watched and reviewed (and countless more yet to be discovered!) I hope I will include many of your favorites and perhaps you’ll discover some new favorite films (and felines) here as well!

what if we’re still doing this in 50 years?

Absolute peak kino moment. "I'm a human being goddammit and my life has value."

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Reeling from a roller coaster stock market and earnings misses, the Walt Disney Company is about to start cutting spending, costs, and staff, CEO Bob Chapek said today.

“I am fully aware this will be a difficult process for many of you and your teams,” Chapek wrote to Disney executives this Veterans’ Day as the House of Mouse heads into its 100th anniversary. “We are going to have to make tough and uncomfortable decisions,” he added in the memo of a process that has clearly been in the works for awhile. “But that is just what leadership requires, and I thank you in advance for stepping up during this important time.”

Bluntly predicting “some staff reductions as part of this review,” Chapek went on to tell top staffers: “While we will not sacrifice quality or the strength of our unrivaled synergy machine, we must ensure our investments are both efficient and come with tangible benefits to both audiences and the company.”

Like its media peers, the approximately 190,000-employee strong Disney has felt the pain in 2022, with its stock down more than 40% and inflation, foreign currency fluctuation and the bruising streaming competition applying pressure to its operations. Earlier this week, the company reported quarterly earnings below Wall Street earnings expectations and also issued strikingly soft guidance for fiscal 2023 revenue and profit, further unnerving investors. Its beleaguered shares recovered earlier today, rising 5% to finally bounce off a multi-year low established on Wednesday.

Pay-TV losses have hurt Disney, though the company has vowed to turn a profit in streaming by the end of fiscal 2024.

Its austerity move and hiring freeze follow a series of reorganizations after it acquired most of 21st Century Fox in an industry-changing, $71.3 billion deal in 2019. It has gone to a simplified corporate structure with just two divisions: Parks, Experiences and Products and Media and Entertainment Distribution.

While the largest workforce on the block, Disney is far from the only company reducing its ranks as some fundamentals of the overall economy look shaky.

Warner Bros Discovery, which is battling to reduce debt from the $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery that closed last April, has also initiated several rounds of cost cuts. NBCUniversal has also shed jobs over the past couple of years as it has reoriented its structure around streaming. Tech giants are also not immune to the downturn, with Meta Platforms announcing it was trimming 13% of its staff this week and Amazon signaling a major cost-cutting effort.

Read Bob Chapek’s memo here:

Disney Leaders-

As we begin fiscal 2023, I want to communicate with you directly about the cost management efforts Christine McCarthy and I referenced on this week’s earnings call. These efforts will help us to both achieve the important goal of reaching profitability for Disney+ in fiscal 2024 and make us a more efficient and nimble company overall. This work is occurring against a backdrop of economic uncertainty that all companies and our industry are contending with.

While certain macroeconomic factors are out of our control, meeting these goals requires all of us to continue doing our part to manage the things we can control—most notably, our costs. You all will have critical roles to play in this effort, and as senior leaders, I know you will get it done.

To be clear, I am confident in our ability to reach the targets we have set, and in this management team to get us there.

To help guide us on this journey, I have established a cost structure taskforce of executive officers: our CFO, Christine McCarthy and General Counsel, Horacio Gutierrez. Along with me, this team will make the critical big picture decisions necessary to achieve our objectives.

We are not starting this work from scratch and have already set several next steps—which I wanted you to hear about directly from me.

First, we have undertaken a rigorous review of the company’s content and marketing spending working with our content leaders and their teams. While we will not sacrifice quality or the strength of our unrivaled synergy machine, we must ensure our investments are both efficient and come with tangible benefits to both audiences and the company.

Second, we are limiting headcount additions through a targeted hiring freeze. Hiring for the small subset of the most critical, business-driving positions will continue, but all other roles are on hold. Your segment leaders and HR teams have more specific details on how this will apply to your teams.

Third, we are reviewing our SG&A costs and have determined that there is room for improved efficiency—as well as an opportunity to transform the organization to be more nimble. The taskforce will drive this work in partnership with segment teams to achieve both savings and organizational enhancements. As we work through this evaluation process, we will look at every avenue of operations and labor to find savings, and we do anticipate some staff reductions as part of this review. In the immediate term, business travel should now be limited to essential trips only. In-person work sessions or offsites requiring travel will need advance approval and review from a member of your executive team (i.e., direct report of the segment chairman or corporate executive officer). As much as possible, these meetings should be conducted virtually. Attendance at conferences and other external events will also be restricted and require approvals from a member of your executive team.

Our transformation is designed to ensure we thrive not just today, but well into the future—and you will hear more from our taskforce in the weeks and months ahead.

I am fully aware this will be a difficult process for many of you and your teams. We are going to have to make tough and uncomfortable decisions. But that is just what leadership requires, and I thank you in advance for stepping up during this important time. Our company has weathered many challenges during our 100-year history, and I have no doubt we will achieve our goals and create a more nimble company better suited to the environment of tomorrow.

Thank you again for your leadership.

-Bob

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There’s unrest at 30 Rock, Page Six hears, over the decision to sign up Dave Chappelle to host “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.

We’re told that some staff writers are so furious that the comedy superstar — who has made transphobic and homophobic jokes — has been chosen to helm the iconic show that they’re sitting out the episode.

“They’re not going to do the show,” an insider told Page Six. “But none of the actors are boycotting.”

But Chappelle’s rep told us that there was nothing to suggest that there was a boycott when they attended writers’ meetings this week.

“SNL” revealed last week the “Chappelle Show” star would host the show with musical guest Black Star on Nov. 12. It’ll be his third time as host.

He last hosted the sketch comedy show in 2020, well before Netflix released his 2021 special “The Closer.” It angered some viewers because many of Chappelle’s jokes were aimed at the trans community. For example, he intentionally misgendered a trans friend and fellow comedian for laughs.

Chappelle was at 30 Rock on Tuesday meeting with writers and producers and his rep told us “there was no evidence of a boycott.”

“The room was full of writers. They all pitched ideas and they seemed very excited about it…. Dave is looking to have some fun,” they told us.

After the announcement, “SNL” writer Celeste Yim reportedly wrote on Instagram Stories: “I’m trans and non-binary. I use they/them pronouns. Transphobia is murder and it should be condemned.”

It is unclear if they are one of the writers boycotting this week’s show or if they were actually referring to Chappelle. They did not get back to us when we reached out.

A rep for “SNL” also did not get back to us.

Meanwhile the show made history when it announced its first out non-binary cast member Molly Kearney back in September. Kearney has not publicly addressed Chappelle’s upcoming show.

Ex-Netflix exec Terra Field, who sued the streaming service claiming they retaliated against them for speaking out against Chappelle, tweeted about the announcement: “Wait I thought I canceled him. Is it possible cancel culture isn’t a real thing.”

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Director Steven Spielberg hates the way streaming services – and HBO Max in particular – are treating filmmakers.

Speaking to the New York Times, Spielberg said moving theatrical releases to streamers in the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 may have changed the film industry forever.

“The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” Spielberg said. “They were paid-off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I’m talking about. And then everything started to change.”

He took particular aim at Warner Bros. and its HBO Max streaming service, which released its entire 2021 slate in theaters and on the streamer at the same time. But he lamented the loss of a special experience if theaters are permanently shuttered.

“I think older audiences were relieved that they didn’t have to step on sticky popcorn,” Spielberg said. “But I really believe those same older audiences, once they got into the theater, the magic of being in a social situation with a bunch of strangers is a tonic…it’s up to the movies to be good enough to get all the audiences to say that to each other when the lights come back up.”

Spielberg did point to signs that going to a theater still has some legs.

“I found it encouraging that ‘Elvis’ broke $100 million at the domestic box office,” Spielberg said. “A lot of older people went to see that film, and that gave me hope that people were starting to come back to the movies as the pandemic becomes an endemic. I think movies are going to come back. I really do.”

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans will be in theaters for Thanksgiving.

Firstly, the numbers:

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The /r/boxoffice threads have links to the important data. Apparently, it has the second lowest Marvel opening in South Korea since the pandemic and has a mixed word of mouth. Most common complaints from what I've seen: too long, not enough action scenes, some scenes drag too much, and the shitty vfx. Pretty standard from the last few Marvel movies, and considering the quality of the last few Marvel movies it's not exactly a good sign.

Yep. The opening day attendance of Black Panthers is miserable in Hong Kong. Like 30% lower than Thor 4. (both are normal Wednesday). This market has historically been very supportive of Marvel, but clearly Disney is weakening its grip here. Honestly I haven't seen a Marvel movie starting so bad for a decade.

I checked the local figures and the last time figures went so bad was Ant man, but it was Antman and 2015 was a very crowded summer. Perhaps it's a good thing for local releases though haha.

If this is true, then we might get some more nerd cope in a few days

The movie might get boycotted by some black males for turning Black Panther into a woman and it apparently also falls in some other yass qween traps, with Namor only surviving because Shuri spares him, and other male characters like M'Baku used as comic relief. Also, Shuri and the other black chick who has a mecha suit might be lesbian lovers. So these might be another avenue for drama.

But more importantly, is the movie underperforming because Koreans are racist?

Knowing how racist south korea is, it did quite well.

Aren’t Koreans notoriously racist? Genuine question that I would love to know the answer to.

In the city where I grew up this was in fact the case. Korean grocery stores where a no-go for people of color, but this could be an “American Korean” thing and not a fact about Koreans from Korea.

Hopefully, the next week will start some more capeshit slapfight

shorturl.at/gjxB2 if you haven't seen it

Best martial arts film

Just watched this cyberpunk cinematic masterpiece starring Mick Jagger and the guy who played Mike from Breaking Bad, somehow Anthony Hopkins has some screen time too. Mike apparently exists in a parallel universe or something because even though it's from 1992 he's already old and grizzled. It's basically a Gibson fanfic, and somehow ends up more true to the source material than Johnny Mnemonic. Lots of references to the other two books in the sprawl trilogy, Hopkins does a phenomenal job playing the antagonist from Count Zero and it's neat to see some of Gibson's more hallucinatory computer scenes put to film. The pacing is not good neither is the plot and the writing is cringe, but it's still miles ahead of Johnny Mnemonic. Mick Jagger is an awful actor but seems to have a great time throughout.

out of but on a B movie scale where Troll 2 is the

Dillard's now-defunct Star Wars film is one of the many announced projects for the beloved franchise that haven't materialized. Several of them, including Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron, which was announced at Disney's Investor Day presentation in 2020, have been canceled quietly by Disney. Other announced projects, such as ones from Game of Thrones show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, as well as the long-gestating Taika Waititi project, have stalled in development. In October, the news emerged that Disney had reportedly told Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy to stop announcing Star Wars projects, for fear of enticing fans with ideas that would never come to fruition.

But that does leave the troubling fate of Star Wars as a cinema draw, illuminated by the scrapping of Dillard's project. There are currently no theatrical Star Wars projects slated for release in the next several years.

How could Disney fudge up Star Wars this badly? How hard could it be to at least print out a few Rogue One esque movies every other holiday season? The MCU is past its prime but it still does alright with random spinoffs.

The Star Wars franchise is alive and thriving; it just may be thriving in a way that many longtime supporters will have to come around to.

Star Wars was always a franchise of Dave Filoni OCs

Film synopsis: An obese and reclusive online moderator tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Relevant scene:

Ha! Tricked you! White supremacy is the real grooming chuds!

It didn't feel believable at times, and the dialogue in those scenes wasn't fantastic. Also they hinted at the ending over and over but it wasn't even satisfying imo

Don't see what's so great about S1.

So it starts out with James McAvoy (the last king of scotland) eating breakfast with Forrest Whitaker (his slave). They talk about life and stuff, like being the King of Scotland and emptying chamber pots.

Then like half way through the movie for no apparent reason, they just start killing all the slaves. This is like, really dumb, since slaves cost ad much as a car back then. Anyway, this makes the slaves angry so they start revolting and killing other people.

Anyway, it ends with a bunch of slaves hanging James by his nipples until he dies to the tune of Sad Song #8. That's why he was the last king of Scotland.

I rate it 9/10

The King has died and according to BIPOC customs his horseman (the protege of this movie) has to commit ritual suicide in 30 days after that. Everything seems to be going smoothly and everyone's happy and dancing and all that and celebrating his pending demise because it's a great honour for the horseman to serve the King in the afterlife or something.

However, the horseman's a moid so he can't help his degeneracy when he spots some young chick on his last day, and tells the village shaman (?) that he would like one last bang, of which the shaman accedes to and cucks her own son in the process because that chick was actually betrothed to her son lol

You'll see quite a fair bit of mayo nonsense because the movie's staged during colonial times when the bongs weren't so cucked. Here the police chief and his wife shock a native BIPOC cop by wearing what I assume is native burial clothes or something in preparation to perform at some fancy ball where the bong prince is supposed to show up at:

Also I found out that "massa" wasn't just some racist online trope that chuds were using to make fun of BIPOCs since "master" was really pronounced as "massa" in this next scene:

Then we have a scene where the mayo woman was calling the horseman's son (who was studying to become a surgeon in bongland and came back to bury his father) a savage because he seemed very nonchalant about the whole ritual sacrifice thing:

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Capeshit is dying. Drive them from the theaters. Watch them scatter to the streaming platforms. This is but a taste of what's to come

This show was great in S1, mid in S2, dogshit S3 and “huh, you’re still on?” In S4. It’s donezo now.

Howl a song.