Movies
Box Office: “Aladdin” Magic Carpet to $105 Mil, “Booksmart” Goes Unread with $6.5 Mil Weekend, Frank Sinatra-Ava Gardner Movie Makes $17K Since December
"Aladdin" was number 1 at the box office this weekend with over $105 million. It was the default movie on a slow weekend. The...
Movies
Cannes: Quentin Tarantino Loses Competition, Makes Classy Show at Awards; Antonio Banderas Best Actor, “Parasite” Gets Palme d’Or
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival is over, and no Americans won anything. But Quentin Tarantino did us proud. Knowing he was not winning anything...
Movies
Box Office: “Aladdin” Scores $31 Mil Friday, Heads to Possible $80 Mil Weekend, Well Reviewed “Booksmart” Crashes with Just $6.5 Mil Weekend
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Will Smith turned blue for "Aladdin," a movie few like with just a 58 on Rotten Tomatoes. What I heard was...
Music
Tyler the Creator, Dominic Fike Hits Signal A Sony-Columbia Records Resurgence: Prez Ron Perry Launches at Last
For a long, long time, Sony's Columbia Records was hit free. It was a very itchy, scratchy time. I wrote about new label prez...
Movies
Review: Jakob Dylan’s Passion Project Film About the LA Music Scene wtih Mamas & Papas, The Byrds, and Later, Tom Petty
“Echo in the Canyon,” about the music that came out of 60’s music mecca Laurel Canyon, reverberated through Hollywood last night at the film’s...
Theater
Theater: LA Gets a Blast of New York from Broadway’s Stephen Schwartz with Perfomances by Megan Hilty, Idina Menzel, Others
Stephen Schwartz, composer of “” Wicked,” Godspell,” “Pippin,” “Enchanted,” “The Prince of Egypt,” “Pocohantas,” “and so much more well deserves all the accolades he...
Television
Adam Levine Leaving “The Voice” After 8 Years: “For me, it was time to move on…a life shaping experience that will be close to...
Maroon 5's Adam Levine is leaving "The Voice" after 8 years and 2000 seasons. (Seasons used to be one per year, but now who...
Movies
Tarantino Film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Not Screening in Traditional Saturday Finale with Competition Films
On the last day of the Cannes Film Festival-- tomorrow-- traditionally all the competition films are re-screened so everyone so see them again before...