Business
“Babylon” With Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie Isn’t the First Huge Box Office Disaster, and It Won’t Be the Last
Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" is a huge disaster at the box office. We knew this was coming some time ago.
The three hour catastrophe starring Brad...
Business
Will Smith’s Non-Apology Tour Didn’t Work: Reviewers Didn’t Like Emancipation and Neither Did Viewers
Will Smith went on quite a bender of media last month and early this one. He went around not apologizing for anything and trying...
Business
Weather or Not: “Avatar 2” Box Office Numbers Updated Overnight, Sunday Surge of $8 Mil, “Babylon” Was Ambitious Bomb
MONDAY MORNING: Disney now says the weekend came to $64 mil after a late Sunday surge.
SUNDAY NIGHT: I know $56 million sounds like a...
Movies
Box Office Blues: “Avatar 2” and “Black Panther Wakanda Forever” Suck Up All the Air, Whitney Houston Beats Brad Pitt
It was two nights before Christmas and not many people went to the movies.
Of course, really, the weather is terrible. A lot of people...
Movies
Barack Obama Picks Best Movies, Music of 2023, Skips “Nope,” “Emancipation,” “Wakanda,” Drake, Lizzo, Cardi B
Barack Obama's favorite movie of the year was Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans." On his annual list of films, Obama did not include "Nope," or...
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“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” Scores a 95% With Audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Hollywood “Trades” Give Thumbs Up
When I saw the Whitney Houston biopic last week, I really liked it and said so.
Since then, both of the Hollywood trades -- Variety...
Movies
Bill Nighy Actually: The British Star of “Living,” On His Way to An Oscar, Has Seen All of Adam Sandler’s Films
“It’s kind of my area. Repressed men, or at least suppression. Useless with women. All of that. That’s what they call me for,” said...
Movies
Oscars Telecast Could Include Performances from Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, But Nothing from “Matilda” the Musical
The Best Song short list came out yesterday from the Motion Picture Academy.
The artists who made the list could turn the Oscars into the...