Isn't this Mr. "I'm leaving New York if Mamdani wins"?
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Voting Record — 551
Yes76%
No24%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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I would like to make the point you were making, but louder and in the form of yelling it at you.
Fascinated by the Golden Globe nomination for "Cinematic and Box Office Achievement" for Avatar: Fire and Ash, a movie that has made zero dollars at the box office, and was not considered a strong enough cinematic achievement to get a best picture nomination. Globes gonna Globe, but come on.
Also important to understand that Trump, in full senile-emperor mode, will spend the next 12-18 months treating this as the idiot-showbiz version of Russia/Ukraine, playing both sides and twirling in the spotlight. Today he's semi-OK with Netflix and newly-repissed at Paramount. Tomorrow he'll flip.
I hope that @warren.senate.gov, the @wgawest.bsky.social, the @wgaeast.bsky.social, and others who have rung alarm bells at the proposed Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. will treat this hostile takeover bid from Paramount as at least as much of a threat.
30+ movies a year. Wow. That's very impressive. This year Paramount released a grand total of 7, exactly one of which made the year's top 25 (while losing $), so there is zero reason to believe that the company has the means to more than quadruple its output. deadline.com/2025/12/para...
Yeah, I agree with this. Writers need to get paid; people subscribing to publications and websites is how that happens. And writers need to get work, so we share what we do in an attempt to try interest people. No apologies for that.
To sum up:
1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity.
2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire.
3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
I love both One Battle After Another and Sinners, but if you don't think they're doing at least as much to work you over and get you to a certain emotional place as Hamnet is, I don't know what to tell you. There's no rule that it's okay to go for your adrenaline but cheating to go for your tears.
Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
Yes, it's not Pacino/Scent of a Woman, which was "It's time, but jfc, for THIS?"
I wrote this for NY Mag back in 2009, but there is no Oscar narrative more powerful than "It's his/her time" when it strikes voters as true. When it works, a campaign doesn't need to say it out loud (and, in fact, shouldn't).
It does feel like if there are interesting showdowns/dark horse faves/late bloomers, they'll prob. be in the acting categories, not picture/director.
Sometimes when a sense of inevitability sets in during this early phase of awards season, Oscar voters get bored/irritated and go their own way. And sometimes, when a sense of inevitability sets in, it's exactly what it looks like. For me, a little too soon to tell which this is.
I can't believe Kiss and Stallone showed up for their Kennedy Center honors wearing rubber masks. Welcome to the resistance!
"He complained of having persistent earwax. Three days later, he lay in a hospital bed near death. Doctors couldn't figure out why until one of them noticed the small cut on his thumb."
--the thing I will always read and always hate myself for reading
I'm just sending this wish up into the universe:
Chotiner and Sarandos.
One complicated thing about Netflix/WB is that Ted Sarandos, although he is the public face of antipathy to the theatrical experience, is not especially high on the list of those who've undermined and damaged it. I'd rank him 4th, after studios, theater owners, and people who quit going to movies.
Someone please find and interview his son about that experience.
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Voting History551 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
551 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-09 | H. Res. 682 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-09 | H. Res. 682 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3425 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3424 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | YES | ✕↔ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 105 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 106 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 104 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 539 (119th) | Kill the motion | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 747 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 4216 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-23 | H.R. 4275 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-23 | H.R. 3357 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-07-22 | H.R. 1917 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2025-07-22 | H.R. 3937 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-21 | H.R. 3351 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-21 | H.R. 3095 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H.R. 4016 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-07-18 | H. Res. 590 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-07-18 | H. Res. 590 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.