These types of relationships in Hollywood is well documented in the recursive movie Argo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprTo...
The essence of this article might not be hugely surprising to anyone, but it's still good that they did all the FoI requests and everything.
That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?
Probably, because the US wars on behalf of Israel.
Is this news to anyone at this point? I'm sure we all know it's not Koreans or Eskimos running Hollywood.
Is this a surprise to Americans (genuine question)?
It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american.
That's before we even get into the "flag tax".
The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.