Movies
#MeToo Sweeps Through Movies, Plays: Famed Playwright Severed from Off Broadway Theater, Universal Fires Marketing Exec, Puts Another on Leave
The #MeToo movement continues to sweep through show biz. I'm hearing that at one record company a serious investigation is ongoing. If it pans...
Movies
Oscars: No Gold Statues on the Red Carpet This Year, as Selfie Magnets Get the Boot in #Metoo Era
No one is accusing the huge gold Oscar statues that dot the Academy Awards red carpet of anything. I want to make it clear.
There...
Movies
Best Oscar Gambit Yet: Best Picture Nominee “Get Out” Will Be Free to the Public in Theaters on Presidents Day
On Monday, February 19th-- Presidents Day-- Oscar nominee "Get Out" will be free in theatres to everyone. That is, FREE. You can just walk...
Business
Sale of Weinstein Company Now Impeded by AG’s Lawsuit, Proposed $500 Mil Deal Up in Smoke
The proposed $500 million sale of the Weinstein Company looks like it's gone up in smoke. NY Attorney General Schneiderman filed suit against TWC...
awards
Writers Guild Awards: “Get Out” Wins Best Original Screenplay, “Veep,” “Call Me By Your Name,” John Oliver, Kennedy Center Honors
TV Awards: "Veep" is best comedy series, "Handmaid's Tale" is Best Drama. "Big Little Lies" is Best Long Form Adapted-- next time they'll have...
Law
NY Attorney General: “To work for Weinstein was to work under a persistent barrage of genderbased obscenities, vulgar name-calling, sexualized interactions, threats of...
NY State Attorney General has sued the Weinstein Company, Harvey and Bob Weinstein individually in a a large scale civil rights action that could...
Movies
Soft Box Office, Oscar Doldrums as Hollywood Fights Bad Publicity and No Campaigning
It wasn't a great weekend at the box office.
The third "Fifty Shades" installment made just $38 million as audiences and the couple on the...
Movies
Fifty Shades of Profit: “Freed” Ending to Trilogy Handcuffs $5.6 Mil in Thursday Night Previews
We all like to snicker at the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series. It gets terrible reviews. Right now it's at 10 on Rotten Tomatoes.
But...