The Walt Disney Co. looks like it has another woke box office bomb on its hands.
Strange World, the environmentally themed animated adventure featuring the studio’s first openly gay teen character in a cartoon feature, grossed a mere $800,000 in previews on Tuesday, signaling weak moviegoer interest headed into the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein has responded to “She Said” bombing at the box office during its opening weekend.
The film, which hit theaters on Friday, follows the two New York Times reporters brought to light sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein in 2017.
The $30 million production only grossed $2.2 million in its opening weekend — one of the biggest letdowns for a major studio film release this year.
Alec Baldwin sent a series of text messages in the days and weeks following the fatal Rust shooting to the widow of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was killed, suggesting an act of sabotage might have been the cause.
The details are contained in 551 pages of documents released by a New Mexico sheriff’s office on Friday as part of his investigation into the fatal shooting on the set of Western movie Rust.
A state prosecutor is still deciding whether to press criminal charges.
Why American films ignore life under Communism.
Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony’s rules. Consider this year’s “Total Eclipse.” Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe’s two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the Eastern Front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded Finland. A film like this could have been as big a didactic dud as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s 1982 bomb, “Inchon,” with Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur. But this time the verisimilitude of the script, carried by some outstanding performances, is the source of the film’s dramatic power.
The defense attorney in the rape trial of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein asked California First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom to fake an orgasm in court during her testimony Monday for the prosecution.
Sarah Silverman said she lost a plum movie gig for a single blackface moment completed a decade ago.
Jimmy Fallon performed a “Struggle Session”-style apology for a single blackface sketch from two decades ago.
Jimmy Kimmel, who repeatedly blackened his face on The Man Show during its 1999-2002 run, will host the 2023 Academy Awards telecast.
It’s been a bad week for the Walt Disney Co.
First, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election in a landslide victory on Tuesday. Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows. Now the entertainment giant is reportedly planning layoffs, a targeted hiring freeze, and travel limitation on its employee.
It takes a lot of effort to screw up an institution like Disney.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico.
Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court in Los Angeles alleging negligence against some of the people sued by a script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell. Among other things, it seeks a share of any damages that Mitchell may win from the people Baldwin names and asks that they pay for any damages assessed against him.
The Santa Fe prosecutor tasked with bringing charges in the fatal on-set shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has received the sheriff’s report and is now preparing to make a decision on who should face prosecution.
Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun when it fired towards Hutchins last October 21. He insists he did not pull the trigger.
For a year, police have been investigating the incident at painstaking pace. Now, they have handed over their final report to DA Mary Carmack-Altwies.
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked Republicans on Tuesday for a conspiracy “theory” about fentanyl being smuggled in children’s Halloween candy — several days after officials at LAX seized 12,000 fentanyl pills that were disguised as popular candy.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prosecutor at Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial told jurors Tuesday that the accusers who will testify will tell uncannily similar stories of themselves as young aspiring women who were cornered in hotel rooms by a man who at the time was the definition of Hollywood power.
“Each of these women came forward independent of each other, and none of them knew one another,” Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson said during his opening statement at Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial.
The 70-year-old former movie mogul, already serving a 23-year sentence in New York, is charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault in California.
Tim Burton is not interested in working with Disney again because of a bad experience making “Dumbo,” plus some issues with the Marvel multiverse.
The veteran Hollywood director made the statements this weekend at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France, per Deadline.
Burton discussed the company’s current focus on the Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar franchises which he doesn’t care to work on.
Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who died earlier this month at the age of 75, has been exposed as an ethnic fraud by her two Hispanic sisters.
The model-turned-activist gained instant notoriety in 1973, when she took the stage at the Academy Awards in place of Marlon Brando. The actor, who had won the best actor statue for his role in ‘The Godfather,’ allowed Littlefeather to speak in his stead about the way Native Americans were treated in Hollywood.
Hollywood celebrity Sarah Silverman has attacked Herschel Walker in a profane tweet over comments Georgia’s Republican senatorial candidate made earlier this year in which he repudiated radical gender ideology.
Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer wrote to Harvey Weinstein asking for his help in dealing with a sex scandal involving her husband, two years after she says the movie mogul raped her.
The email will be presented to the jury at Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial as apparent proof that their encounter was consensual. It was first raised last night in a filing from Weinstein’s legal team.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom says Weinstein raped her in 2005 after ‘luring’ her to a hotel room. At the time, she was an actress and had not yet started dating Newsom. In 2007, a year after she met Newsom and started dating him, he became embroiled in an embarrassing sex scandal.
Why can’t we just Nuke California?
