Thursday, March 28, 2024

Business

“Barbie” Fever Cools Down as Feminist Fantasy Film Drops 40% on Monday, Only 2nd Best Selling Doll on Amazon

The "Barbie" movie is a phenom, no doubt. The droll doll film with feminist overtones is already in the pink after a $162 million weekend....

Elon Musk Changes Twitter Name to X, But Microsoft Owns An X Trademark for All Computer Related Items That Could Be a Problem

This should be interesting. Turns out Microsoft owns the trademark for "X" for everything related to computers, etc. including all the items stated below. X is...

“X” Marks the Spot: Elon Musk Chucking 18 Years of Twitter Branding to Rename Platform with New Logo, Website

Very shortly, maybe tomorrow, the blue and white bird logo for Twitter will fade into history. Owner Elon Musk says he's changing the name of...

Boffo Barbenheimer: $230 Mil Haul for Barbie, Oppenheimer Combo, Not Sequels, No Streaming Hollywood Weekend!

It's a Barbenheimer world this morning! Hollywood is celebrating as the double release of two blockbusters on the same weekend paid off handsomely. "Oppenheimer," an Oscar...

Barbie Box Office Boffo: $70.5 Mil Opening for a Record Shattering Weekend, Marketing Triumph

"Barbie" is a marketing colossus. Last night, the Greta Gerwig directed comedy made $48 million on top of $22 mil in Thursday previews ...

Box Office: Hello, Doll! as “Barbie” Breaks Records with $22.3 Million Preview Night, More than “Avengers,” “The Batman,” “Hunger Games”

"Barbie" is not toying with us. The Greta Gerwig directed, Margot Robbie directed feminist comedy made a stunning $22.3 million last night in previews. That places...

Random House Loses Dozens of Legacy Editors, Execs in a Corporate Buy Out/Lay Off Scheme that Guts the Company’s History

A culture Atomic bomb has gone off at Random House. You could call it Penguin Random House. But the venerable publishing's power is held in...

UPDATED” Crowdfunded Christian Movie “Sound of Freedom” Hits $100 Mil*, Tops “Mission Impossible” Wednesday, Star Calls Trump “A New Moses” on Fox

THURS MORNING UPDATE: "Sound of Freedom" narrowly beat "Mission Impossible" last night and took the top position at this morning's box office. Technically. It's...