Celebrity
Happy 95th Birthday to Mel Brooks, Purveyor of Joy and Jokes, Subversive Social Satirist Extraordinaire
I know Mel Brooks is lonely for his real friends, like Carl Reiner, and his wife, Anne Bancroft. But we will have to do...
Movies
#MeToo Musical Written by Harvey Weinstein Accuser, With Music from Diane Warren, Will Open Not Far from His Upstate NY Prison This Fall
"The Right Girl" is the name of the musical with songs by Diane Warren, directed by Tony winner Susan Stroman.
The musical is opening in...
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Box Office: “F9” Takes $70 Mil Weekend, “Hitman’s Wife,” “In the Heights” Fall Flat, So Does “Sparks”
The box office is back, for better or worse.
For better: "F9" took $70 million for the four days, Thursday through Sunday. Universal has $363...
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Fast and Furious Box Office: Universal’s “F9” Takes $30 Mil Opening Towards Biggest Post Pandemic Weekend
Give the people what they want, and they will come.
And so they did last night for "F9: The Fast Saga" which made $7.1 million...
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Box Office: “In the Heights” Took Another Pounding This Week, Making Just $569K Per Day
The week was hard on Jon M. Chu's musical, "In the Heights."
Numbers released for the week indicate the adapted Lin Manuel Miranda moviea averaged...
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Movie Moves as “Dune” Won’t Be So Soon, “Sopranos” Prequel Waits a Week, Clint Eastwood Speeds Up
Warner Bros has really moved around its fall schedule.
Originally, the remake of "Dune" was coming on October 1st. Now that's been changed to October...
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Here Comes a Movie Theater Hit: “F9: Fast and Furious” Collects $7.1 Mil in Previews
This morning, my friend Mark Simone asked me on WOR Radio if people would come back to the movie theaters.
The answer, last night, was...
Movies
Motion Picture Academy Lifetime Oscars to Danny Glover, Liv Ullmann, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May
Congrats to the 2021 Governors Awards winners from the Motion Picture Academy.
Honorary Oscars go to Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May and Liv Ullmann, and...