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UPDATE: Hollywood in Peril with Location Filming in Georgia as Film Commission Ignores Spike, Doesn’t Track COVID Cases
UPDATE Nancy Nydam writes: DPH does not have any outbreak reports from a film set, and specifically nothing from “The Staircase.”
EXCLUSIVE If you're in...
Movies
MGM’s Lion Sleeps Tonight as “Respect” Falters, “Flag Day” Scores Poor Reviews, But “Soggy Bottom” Story Mystery Solved (Exclusive)
MGM's fabled lion sleeps tonight.
In the Hollywood jungle, the mighty jungle, MGM is waiting to be purchased by Amazon. An announcement was made in...
Movies
Box Office UPDATE: “The Suicide Squad” Dead With $42 Mil Total, “Respect” Gets None on $8.8 Mil Opening
Two bombs, two different kinds of movies.
Box office experts will be Monday morning quarterbacking "The Suicide Squad" for a long time to come.
Well reviewed,...
Business
Friday Box Office: Ryan Reynolds’ “Free Guy” Opens Bigger than Expected, “Respect” Sings the Blues
The week's new movies came in Friday night with baggage good and bad from Thursday previews.
Ryan Reynolds' "Free Guy" whipped up $8.5 million on...
Celebrity
“Respect” Director on Cutting Aretha Franklin’s Famed Backup Singer Cissy Houston from Movie: “That is part of artistic license”
One of the biggest mistakes in the forthcoming Aretha Franklin biopic, "Respect," is the cutting of her most famous back up singer.
Cissy Houston, leader...
Movies
Broadway: Scott Rudin’s Miserable “West Side Story” Will NOT Re-open, As Predicted Here, To Make Way for Spielberg Movie
As I predicted, Scott Rudin's "West Side Story" revival will not reopen on Broadway.
I'm told this is because Disney does not want this reviled...
Movies
Review: Jennifer Hudson Gives an Oscar Worthy Performance as Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” But Movie is Full of “Alternative Facts”
I can't say whether or not Aretha Franklin really handpicked Jennifer Hudson to play her in her biopic, but she certainly was persuaded to...
Movies
Box Office: Critically Praised “Suicide Squad” Bombs with $26 Mil Opening, Over $100 Mil Less Than Original
Very, very disappointing.
There will be a lot of Monday morning quarterbacks discussing the fate of James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad."
The second SS movie, and...