Apple spent $700 million to produce and market three movies that grossed $466 million worldwide, and now claims those movies are profitable.
The three films, with their individual worldwide grosses, are Ridley Scott’s Napoleon ($221 million), Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ($157 million), and Argylle ($88 million).
The prosecution pointed to a photo of the film’s armorer, arguing she had brought the live rounds. Her lawyers tried to focus attention on the movie’s primary ammunition supplier.
Ever since a real, live bullet discharged from the gun that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021, killing the cinematographer and wounding the director, one question has vexed everyone involved: How did live ammunition end up on a film set, where — all agree — it absolutely should never have been?
The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was found guilty on Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and faces up to 18 months in prison. The jury found that Ms. Gutierrez-Reed, 26, had behaved negligently by failing to check that all of the rounds she loaded into Mr. Baldwin’s revolver were dummies, which are inert rounds that look real but cannot be fired.
“Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie in 2021.
The 26-year-old, who was in charge of weapons on the set, was also found not guilty of tampering with evidence.
In their closing arguments on Wednesday, prosecutors claimed Guiterrez-Reed was ultimately responsible for the weapons and ammo that killed Hutchins when actor Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger while filming a scene for the western.
What’s keeping Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in retirement is looking at 7,000 streaming choices and realizing not one of those choices is worth a damn.
In an interview with Screen Daily, Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan explained why Day-Lewis, who has starred in three of Sheridan’s films, has no intention of coming out of retirement.
Shock personal revelation: I was not bowled over by Oppenheimer, it came across as a daytime soap opera.
Alec Baldwin rushed crew members to reload his weapon while filming a scene in Rust which required him to fire blanks in the direction of the camera operator, a court in New Mexico was told.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed was in charge of weapons safety on the set of the western film and is accused of involuntary manslaughter over the death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
She was killed near Santa Fe in October 2021 when the revolver Baldwin was rehearsing with went off.
Blue-collar Hollywood crew members are reportedly struggling to find work as the end of “peak TV” plus deep budget cuts across major studios have brought about a marked slowdown in production.
The result has been economic devastation for the so-called “below the line” people who keep Hollywood sets up and running.
Hollywood will soon be pumping out their woke crap for a lot less thanks to AI.
Few would deny Disney is in serious trouble.
Stock woes. Box office flops (“Wish,” “Haunted Mansion,” “The Marvels“). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, “Star Wars,” the MCU).
There’s a cottage industry of alternative media outlets documenting Disney’s decline.
Once again, Hollywood’s woketardery flamed out at the weekend box office, which is down -32 percent over this same weekend last year.
All told, the box office grossed $64 million this weekend. That’s not what one movie earned this weekend. This is what ALL the movies earned.
Disney’s ABC is reportedly struggling to sell commercials for its upcoming broadcast of the Academy Awards, with ad space still available a mere two weeks from the March 10 show.
The lack of advertiser interest comes amid growing public disaffection for the Oscars and the woke celebrities who have turned the once must-see event into a platform for progressive grandstanding.
A movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer was “sloppy”, her trial has heard.
“Negligent acts” by armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, led to Halyna Hutchins’ death during the production of Rust, prosecutors told the court.
Ms Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers laid the blame at the feet of Mr Baldwin, who they argued violated basic safety.
Mr Baldwin, 65, is also charged over Hutchins’ death on 21 October 2021.
Like all Rob Reiner movies, Rob Reiner’s documentary, God & Country: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism, didn’t just tank at the box office, it was humiliated.
In 85 theaters, Reiner’s bigoted attack on Christians who dared to vote for Donald Trump earned just $38,415 over four days. As one website put it, that’s “averaging $451 [per] theater over four days, which is incredibly low.” If you assume it only had “one showing each day (and likely it had several), it brought in around 112 dollars a day, or ten people a day spread across however many showings.”
Typical Hollywood bigot.
Compared to this same date in 2020 (the last pre-pandemic January and February), the 2024 box office is down nearly 50 percent.
“Through the first three days of Presidents Day weekend, films that have been released widely in theaters have grossed $764.1 million, down 15% from the same period last year,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
“Acquiring kids” is Hollywood’s newest dystopian dream.
Kristen Stewart, of the Twilight movie franchise fame, was recently featured on the February cover of Rolling Stone for an “uncensored” exclusive punctuated by frequent vulgarities and accompanied by vaguely pornographic images, including one of Stewart wearing a jockstrap.
The actress, who came out as lesbian in 2017 on Saturday Night Live and accepted her now-fiancée’s marriage proposal in 2021, made her “gayness” a central part of interview with Rolling Stone.
Hollywood Biden cheerleader Rob Reiner is once again pushing the left’s “Christian nationalism” boogeyman, saying conservative Christians who are politically active are “antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”
Rob Reiner — who remains one of President Joe Biden’s biggest Hollywood fundraisers — spoke to Newsweek to promote the upcoming documentary God & Country, which Reiner produced.
Tone deaf bigot who lives in a bubble.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood is experiencing a disastrous winter. People aren’t going to the movies, opting instead to stay home. Obviously, part of the issue is streaming, which has upended the old business model. However, one cannot ignore the fact that today’s movies are awful, whether because they’re mechanical, recycled garbage, or because they’re preachy, painfully woke garbage. Watching a couple of movies from 51 and 50 years ago, respectively, will help you appreciate just how bad most modern movies really are.
