This weekend’s box-office mega-bomb, Digger, could not have come out at a clearer moment. To understand why, you must accept that much of the history and news people consumed for a hundred years has been anti-Western spin by the leftist mainstream media. During all that time, voices and writings challenging the mass deception were quashed or marginalized, including this very magazine.
Warner Bros. went all in on star Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu by pouring about $250 million down the shitter into Digger, which is now not only a confirmed flop, but a historical flop.
With a production budget rumored to be around $180 million and a promotion budget that must have grazed at least $70 million, Digger opened to a dreadful $8 million despite a massive release into over 3,300 theaters.
Actress Camryn Manheim took to the stage Saturday to brag about how she tried (and failed) to turn her son into a homosexual.
Former Hollywood giant Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting his former assistant, Miriam Haley, more than six years after the disgraced producer was first convicted.
Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday in New York for forcibly performing oral sex on Haley at his apartment in 2006. A jury convicted Weinstein of the charge during a retrial last year after the state’s highest court overturned his original conviction.
It’s astonishing how California’s leftists delude themselves about the sheet awfulness of their one-party rule of the state.
For weeks, they and their allies been claiming that mighty 100-year-old Paramount Studios, one of the historic big five of Hollywood, and which along with Warner Brothers, still makes more than a quarter of the movies released in the U.S. every year, is just bluffing about whether it will pull up stakes and move to Tennessee.
From Aslan to Translan… Meryl Streep will voice the male lion and Christ figure in the upcoming Narnia movie.
If you want to know just how much Hollywood hates us and just how much this hate overrides any desire to realize a profit, I give you Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Christian story, Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.
Hollywood and Los Angeles were once so inextricably intertwined that you could hardly mention one without picturing the other. So much more than just a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, Hollywood simply was the entertainment industry — a name that conjured all the glamour, glitz, beauty, wealth, thrills, and tabloid debauchery of a magical place that could only exist in America.
Viewership for the 78th Emmy Awards cratered by 9 percent from last year with just 6.7 million viewers tuning in, with analysts already speculating the Monday night airtime may have been a factor.
Your eyes are rolling so hard at the moment at the headline that I can practically hear the friction all the way to central Texas. Come on, man, you must be thinking. There is no chance at all that Tinseltown will go full MAGA!
A Pompeii resident looking out his window at Mount Vesuvius on August 24, A.D. 79 would have noticed something was amiss from the black smoke emanating out the top. He might have fled the city before it got destroyed, salvaging what he could. Movie mogul David Ellison has been observing the virtual darkness menacing Hollywood, and is taking steps to rebuild elsewhere.
Entertainment industry luminaries are going berserk over the looming Ellison merger of Paramount and Warner Bros studios. As usual with them, for all the wrong reasons. They warn about the resultant reduced production, fewer jobs, less competition (four major studios instead of five), and that Ellison may move the entire conglomerate out of Los Angeles. Which some astute insiders see as a good thing, given what the recent studio regimes and political leaders have done to the physical location and its workers.
It wasn’t that long ago when Hollywood’s decline would have been considered a national tragedy.
Big names from many different walks of life — from musicians to late-night show hosts and from actors to podcasters — have fired back at Donald Trump over the tariffs he’s levied on Canadian goods and his move to rename Lake Ontario.
Most recently, the U.S. president signed an executive order renaming the lake “Lake America” in the U.S., following a bitter public spat with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the collapse of trade talks between Canada and the United States.
Joe Rogan and George Clooney! Oh No! Time to pack it in President Trump.
To see how paranoid, how unhinged, how downright scary the left’s loathing for Israel has become, look no further than the green-ink missive signed by 180 showbiz folk this week.
It is ostensibly a defence of Mark Ruffalo, Hollywood’s shrillest hater of Israel, who’s been facing accusations of anti-Semitism. But it reads more like the ravings of a mental patient. It’s like something vomited up by the murkiest Subreddit. With its demented, infantile blather about the hidden links between Gaza, oligarchic power and our ‘Orwellian’ overlords who are watching our every move, it is the clearest proof yet that the anti-Israel crusade has curdled into a vicious bigotry with eerie echoes of ancient hatreds.
Former comedian Jimmy Kimmel is currently on a summer hiatus. This comes not long after ABC/Disney announced his contract would be renewed for only a single year. That year is up in May of 2027, Kimmel is closing in on age 60, and now he’s talking about retirement.
When a movie gets bad reviews and appears to be bombing at the box office, I will frequently rush out to see it while it is still in theaters. After all, I may never get another chance to see it on a big screen and I’m intrigued to see if it is truly as bad as its detractors claim.
Being the ruling class means a complete lack of self-awareness. That’s about the only way to explain this Deadline article.
While Hollywood and states gave a pass to Amazon swallowing up MGM, there have been howls of outrage over David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount, along with CBS, followed by more howls over a deal with WB. Why was the Amazon + MGM deal fine? Back then at least, Jeff Bezos was still being a good liberal, and even afterwards, he’s had limited involvement with Amazon and the behemoth destroying the American retail sector is safely pushing woke garbage with its Amazon Prime video content.
