Hollywood

Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad. This latest Disney adaptation was yanked from prerelease marketing duties — the London premiere was axed — for good reason. It represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust.

When the Snow White star Rachel Zegler, during a now notorious Vanity Fair interview, dismissed the Disney original as a politically retrograde “85-year-old cartoon”, she was merely echoing the same clueless company vandals who had, in previous reboots, made Cruella soppy, Mulan sexless and Maleficent misunderstood.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has pleaded not guilty to an amended indictment that includes new allegations of forced labour.

The superseding indictment alleges the rap mogul forced employees to work long hours under threat of physical and reputational harm and forced at least one worker to engage in sex acts with him.

Mr Combs’s lawyers have denied that the rap mogul has ever forced anyone into sex acts and that the case revolves around consensual relationships with his girlfriends, the New York Times reports.

The failure of Marvel’s Disney+ streaming series Daredevil: Born Again should have the Disney Grooming Syndicate quaking in whatever shoes it wears while circling elementary schools in a van with “free candy” spray-painted on its side.

“According to the Mouse House, the Marvel Television series drew 7.5 million views in its first five days of availability on Disney+,” gushed the far-left Variety, but not before opening the article with this bald-faced lie: “Daredevil: Born Again enjoyed a strong launch on Disney+.”

The horrid rollout for Disney’s Snow White continues to bomb as the $250 million-plus film’s latest trailer is bombarded with negative reviews, promises to boycott, and rebukes for its much-maligned star, Rachel Zegler.

Rude and stupid is no way to go through life Rachel.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most contentious blockbuster of them all? On any list of the most trouble-plagued releases in recent Hollywood history, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would surely rank heigh-ho, heigh-ho highly. The $270 million-budget spectacle, starring Rachel Zegler as the storybook princess, finally hits cinemas this month after four years of seemingly never-ending online fury and negative news stories.

From calls to boycott the film and attacks over its alleged “f______ backward” depiction of little people, all the way to the sight this weekend of the movie’s two biggest stars onstage at the Oscars, supposedly refusing to make eye contact with each other over disagreements about Gaza, this is a film beset by controversies. Controversies that, even with a magical, fortune-telling looking-glass like the one hung in the Evil Queen’s castle, Disney could hardly have seen coming.

I’m on Team Evil Queen.

Sunday night’s Oscar telecast was another Hollywood humiliation. Only 18.1 million viewers tuned in, which is the third-worst rating in Academy history.

Only 2021, with 10.4 million viewers, and 2022, with 16.6 million, fared worse. Sunday’s pathetic 18.1 million is the third lowest since 1974, when these numbers were first recorded.

We’re being told Kathleen Kennedy, the identity politics-obsessive who single-handedly destroyed two of the most popular film franchises in movie history, will retire at age … 71?

Come on.

For a time it seemed that Justin Bieber had managed to put his demons behind him and was enjoying a more stable phase of his life. The former teen idol, now 30, became a father for the first time in August and has been married to Hailey Bieber for seven years. There was even talk of him releasing new music in 2025.

But with the shocking pictures of him looking gaunt and haggard this week, along with cryptic Instagram messages and a recent altercation with a paparazzi, it feels as if someone has turned the clock back to a decade ago. Back to a time when the then 20-year-old pop star was acting increasingly erratically, was arrested for driving under the influence and spent a night in jail.

Diddy? Or Diddy not?

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing a fresh crisis after his lawyer Anthony Ricco stepped down from his legal team with a very cryptic statement.

In a motion for withdraw of counsel filed in New York on Thursday, Ricco said ‘under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs’.

The notice added that discussions had been had with lead counsel Marc Agnifilo and Ricco before the motion was filed.

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“Malcolm in the Middle” fans were probably cautiously optimistic about chillaxing with the planned four-episode reboot of the show before rumors of a “nonbinary” character surfaced. Now there is trepidation at the prospect of an unwelcome woke theme ruining their Malcolm memories.

The latest sneak peek for the Walt Disney Company’s live-action remake of Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler, is getting hammered online, with the video receiving 84,000 “dislikes” on YouTube in just two days.

Disney’s latest Marvel super hero movie, Captain America: Brave New World, has entered a new world, indeed, by suffering one of the worst critics scores of any Marvel debut ever.

As of the publishing of this report, the Rotten Tomatoes critic score, the Tomatometer, is at a disastrous 52 percent.