Hollywood

New Mexico prosecutors have indicated they may charge Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie Rust last year, after the actor handed over his cellphone to be considered as evidence.

In a letter to the state’s financial board, asking for funding to prosecute the high profile case, Santa Fe District Attorney District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said she was ‘ready’ to file charges against four people.

She stopped short of confirming the charges she planned to bring, but said was ‘certainly looking all the homicide statutes and any gun statutes under New Mexico criminal code’.

Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France over his alleged defamation of a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

The Paris court order did not specify a trial date for Polanski, 89, who was charged in October last year. He has faced a series of sex assault claims during his career, though never previously has he stood trial in France over them.

Monday night’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards dived 19 percent to an all-time low of only 5.9 million viewers.

That’s even lower than the previous 6.4 million all-time low in 2020.

Hey, remember when the sycophants in the entertainment media blamed that all-time low on the China Flu?

In the late night ratings wars, Disney’s left-wing Jimmy Kimmel is now losing to TWO Fox News programs.

Informed people know that Fox News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld is stomping all over Late Night. This is especially extraordinary when you consider the following: Fox News is available in only about 87 million homes. Meanwhile, ABC, NBC, and CBS are broadcast channels available for free in a great majority of the more than 120 million homes with televisions.

Disney just released the trailer for its newest live-action remake, “The Little Mermaid,” and reactions have been strong from the get-go. Like with other projects, detractors are being told it’s racist to dislike this new version.

The studio chose Halle Bailey to portray the finned princess. Because the actress is black, many are already saying any criticism must be racially motivated. However, early critics have plenty of complaints about the movie that have nothing to do with Ariel’s skin color.

My recent visit to La La Land was surprisingly un-woke. Has LA discovered that virtue-signaling doesn’t sell?

Hollywood, the city that launched the golden age of the motion picture industry, has long epitomized both the realization and the death of dreams. Literature and popular culture have reflected Tinseltown’s cruel paradox that every success story is matched by a thousand stories of disappointment and dissipation, collectively contributing to the broader decline of civilization. In his 1939 novel The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West tells the story of a Yale-educated artist who was commissioned to create a painting of Los Angeles on fire: “He wanted the city to have a gala air as it burned…. The Angelenos would be first, but their comrades all over the country would follow. There would be civil war.” West’s depiction of the elites’ inciting a violent uprising seems eerily relevant to today’s culture wars. More recently, even La La Land, the 2016 film that played homage to Hollywood’s classic musicals, echoed this dark perspective with Sebastian, the character played by Ryan Gosling, commenting, “That’s LA. They just worship everything and value nothing.” 

The new Amazon Prime series is an exercise in artistic necrophilia

By now, you’ve probably heard about Amazon’s new mega-series, aka “Jeff Bezos’s answer to Game of Thrones.” There is probably no property more beloved in fantasy circles than JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, superbly filmed by Peter Jackson at the beginning of the millennium. But Hollywood — and its latest cousin, streaming television — finds itself unable to let go where there is the prospect of a hit. So first we had the endlessly protracted and deeply boring Hobbit series, and now we have Amazon’s new venture into Tolkien’s universe, the grandiosely titled Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The widow and sisters of a US marine killed in Afghanistan during the military’s chaotic departure from the country in 2021 are again suing actor Alec Baldwin for at least $25 million, claiming he exposed them to online vitriol after the actor accused one of the women of being a Jan. 6 insurrectionist.