Hollywood

When Disney goes woke, it goes broke. When it remembers its audience, however, it succeeds.

It has been a good few weeks for the Walt Disney Company. Its two most recent films are history-setting box office successes, and the company that has spent years hemorrhaging money may be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel if it takes the right lessons away from its success.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was one of the best films of 2023, if not the best.

The film had none of the elements that usually make audiences cheer. It had no superheroes, special effects, stunts, or any spectacle. Instead, it was bleak, was partly in black and white, and mostly had people talking in closed rooms.

Yet the film earned $975 million at the global box office and universal acclaim from critics. It won most of the awards, including top prizes at the Oscars for direction, writing, and acting.

This month’s hit movie “Twisters” is full of wonders: pickup trucks take flight, an entire town gets put through nature’s blender. Perhaps most astonishing, however, is what isn’t in it: any mention of climate change.

That wasn’t happenstance. The film’s director, Lee Isaac Chung, said the omission was deliberate. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented,” he told CNN.

Almost three years after the fatal shooting on the movie set of Rust, prosecutors began to lay out their case against Alec Baldwin in a packed Santa Fe courtroom, painting a picture of an unsafe workplace on a tight budget with a lead actor who violated the “cardinal rules of firearm safety”.

Proceedings in the actor’s involuntary manslaughter trial kicked off on Wednesday with the prosecution and defense offering their opening statements. The courtroom was filled to capacity with dozens of media as well as Baldwin’s wife and brother, who sat just behind the actor.

A tense Hollywood drama will begin to unfold this week in a New Mexico courtroom when Alec Baldwin stands trial over the death of a cinematographer on a film set.

The 66-year-old actor denies a charge of involuntary manslaughter after the gun he was rehearsing with in October 2021 went off, fatally wounded Halyna Hutchins.

This Independence Day weekend most Americans will be celebrating the freedoms and values that made this country so great. However, there are some in the Hollywood Left who would probably prefer to be partying, anywhere other than the USA.

For a class of people who owe their wealth and fame to the American way of life, it’s sad to see so many celebrities turning their back on their own country.

In the nine months since the end of the writers’ strike, the late night comedy shows have remained remarkably consistent, as a NewsBusters study determined 94 percent of their political guests have been liberal.

The end of the strike coincided with the start of the 2024 presidential election campaign and MRC analysts found that in the nine months from October 2, 2023, to June 27, 2024, liberal guests outnumbered conservative guests by a count of 137 to 8.

A judge has denied a last-ditch effort by Alec Baldwin to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge against him over the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins, 42, on the set of his film Rust.

The move comes two weeks before the actor is set to stand trial in New Mexico for the 2021 shooting that left the cinematographer dead.

New Mexico District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer denied 66-year-old Mr Baldwin’s bid to have the charge dismissed, saying it must be resolved at trial.

Hollywood stars raged at CNN during Thursday’s presidential debate as a hoarse and wheezing President Joe Biden struggled to remain coherent and even froze up on live TV.

The movie industry that loved Americans and gave them stories they wanted has degenerated into a hateful identity cult.

Once upon a time in Hollywood, the entertainment industry was a magic kingdom. Its wizards gave the people what they wanted — tough, funny, or sensitive heroes, beautiful damsels or dames, and normal, intelligent folk attracted to one another for who they were, not what race, gender, or sexuality they brandished. Whether they dwelt in the savage past, the complex present, or the fantastic future, the characters always behaved believably enough to follow.

Treasure is a tragicomedy starring Lena Dunham, the 38-year-old behind the HBO phenom, Girls (2012 – 2017). Her co-star is Stephen Fry, a 66-year-old English comedian. Treasure opened in the U.S. on June 14, 2024.

Treasure takes place in February, 1991. Ruth Rothwax travels with her father, Edek, to Auschwitz, where he and his wife had been prisoners. Their chauffeur is Stefan (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a cabbie. The film ends with Ruth and Edek hugging, crying, and apologizing for past failures to express love. Finally, Ruth and Edek unearth actual, buried treasure.