Brave New Films Updates/"Murdering 60 Minutes" Release
Brave New Films Updates/"Murdering 60 Minutes" Release
- Fri, Sep 4 2026 at 6:12 PM
Hi Brave New Films champions,
It’s been a minute since we last got in touch! We’re happy to say that our absence has been in preparation for some big developments.
As of Friday, September 11th, 2026, the Brave New Films newsletter is going to be reinvented as the Brave New Film Club!
Going forward, we’ll be sending a new email– or “dispatch”, as we’re going to be calling them– to you once a week on Fridays. These dispatches will feature first looks at our new videos and campaigns, special behind-the-scenes materials featuring key participants in our productions, breakdowns of steps you can take in the fight for social justice, etc. so you can stay in the loop about us and the issues that we represent. We’ll also be giving you all more opportunities to communicate with us, get involved, and share your stories so that we can all effectively support each other in making a difference. This won’t be just a newsletter anymore: it’ll be a community, where you can be a part of the Brave New Films team. If you’re receiving this email, you’re already one of our very first members– so, just stay tuned to receive your first official dispatch next Friday, September 11th.
We also recently released a film that you can watch right now. Our latest production, “Murdering 60 Minutes”, is what it would look like if “60 Minutes” covered what happened to itself after Bari Weiss took over. The film is available to watch for free on YouTube and at www.murdering60minutes.com.
Brave New Films’ founder Robert Greenwald wrote an open letter voicing his thoughts on the events surrounding the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger: that letter is included below, along with a review of the film by Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect. We’ve also been releasing special short clips from the film on social media, including an excerpt about Bari Weiss’ wife’s involvement in the Epstein files and one about CBS’ manipulation of stories: to watch these, follow us on Instagram/Facebook (@bravenewfilms), where the film and our posts about its subject matter are altogether approaching 1 million views.
In the interest of building this new community, we want to take your feedback into account and hear as many of your stories as possible. So, tell us: what would you like to see from the Brave New Film Club? We also want to know: what are you going to do to help stop the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger? To answer these questions, tag us @bravenewfilms on Instagram, Twitter, Threads, or Bluesky, and we’ll respond or share your post.
Thanks for your continued support and commitment to standing up for what’s right. We’re looking forward to this brave new chapter in Brave New Films history.
Sincerely,
Brave New Films
Read Robert Kuttner’s Review of “Murdering 60 Minutes” in The American Prospect Here
“I’m Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore:” An Open Letter from Robert Greenwald
The Ellisons and Bari Weiss are at it again.
When in doubt, attack your critics by claiming antisemitism.
They have done it before, and now they are doing it again.
Back in June, Paramount executives were already suggesting that antisemitism was behind opposition to their proposed Warner Bros. merger. Paramount chief legal officer Makan Delrahim told the Los Angeles Times: “Some of these people are trying to inflict harm on this transaction really because of their own antisemitic views.”
TheWrap separately reported Delrahim attacking merger critics for what he called “fear mongering” and “antisemitic views.”
And now, two months later, Paramount has used the same charge against one of the merger’s most prominent critics, Mark Ruffalo, accusing him of invoking “antisemitic tropes” and calling his criticism “a bridge too far.”
Ruffalo and Matt Stoller reported that artists they approached about opposing the merger were afraid to put their names on the record because they feared being blacklisted or retaliated against. Those fears were hardly theoretical: Paramount had already pulled advertising from The Ankler and reportedly told talent not to speak with its reporters after one of its journalists publicly supported #BlockTheMerger.
As Mark Ruffalo went on to say, criticizing an Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract or the executives supplying that technology is not the same thing as criticizing Jewish people.
These attacks are disgusting and dishonest. As a New York Jew, I feel particular pain watching antisemitism used as a propaganda tool by powerful people seeking to discredit their critics while they work to take control of more and more of our media. And they come in the context of a growing climate of fear among people in Hollywood who want to oppose this merger.
Then there is the merger itself and we have been here before. The history of media mergers could not be clearer: consolidation is followed again and again by layoffs.
When Disney acquired much of 21st Century Fox, layoffs began almost immediately and roughly 4,000 jobs were expected to disappear as the companies were combined.
After David Ellison's Skydance completed its merger with Paramount in 2025, Paramount announced approximately 2,000 layoffs, about 10% of its workforce.
And now they want to do it again except much, much bigger.
The proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. combination is a roughly $110 billion mega-merger that would concentrate extraordinary power over film, television, streaming and news in one corporate empire. A recent Los Angeles analysis found that the proposed Paramount-Warner merger could put 4,500 L.A. entertainment jobs at risk.
This is a billionaire using political access to buy up an ever-larger portion of the American media.
We should fight antisemitism wherever it exists. But we should fight just as hard against cynical attempts to use accusations of antisemitism to shut down legitimate debate. And we should fight a mega-merger that threatens jobs, competition and an independent press.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
Which is why Brave New Films is producing a new short documentary, MURDERING 60 MINUTES----what a segment of 60 minutes would look like if it investigated the efforts to murder 60 minutes, taking a hard look at the proposed merger, the transformation of CBS News, and what has happened to 60 Minutes since Bari Weiss and Ellisons took over.
Our response is to do what we have always done at Brave New Films: investigate, document, expose what is happening, and give people the information they need to fight back.
I ask you to join me in fully supporting #BlockTheMerger and fighting back against media consolidation and political corruption.
Sincerely,
Robert Greenwald
Brave New Film Club
https://www.bravenewfilms.org/Brave New Films · 13101 Washington Blvd, #446, Los Angeles , CA 90066, United States
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