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BAFTA UPDATES: Surprise Win for Sean Penn Supporting Actor, “Sinners” Actress, Screenplays for “One Battle” “Sinners”

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The Brits are weighing with surprise BAFTA winners.

So far, Sean Penn has come out of nowhere to win Best Supporting Actor for “One Battle After Another.” Penn has won nothing so far in various other awards shows. He was not favored to win here.

Wunmi Mosaku has won Best Supporting Actress for “Sinners.” Ryan Coogler, who directed that movie, just won Best Screenplay.

Editing and cinematography to “One Battle After Another.”

“Sinners” wins Best Original Screenplay, “One Battle” takes adapted.

Score to “Sinners.”

We have to rely on Tweets from the show in London because BAFTA won’t livestream show. It’s 1923 in London.

keep refreshing…

Exclusive: “Melania” Pulled from Most Theaters, Studio Stops Reporting Box Office, As Empty Venues Give it the Boot

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“Melania” is gone.

Initially there was a report that MGM/Amazon was dropping 600 theaters on top of the 700 that lost the film the week before.

But the studio stopped reporting box office on Saturday. And now, a check for theaters shows “Melania” is out of all the major cities and just playing in a few suburban locations. It’s not playing in New York or Los Angeles.

Maybe just to fool the real Melania and save face, the movie is still playing in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. There are also a couple of once a day showings left in Miami.

In other words, the party is over for Brett Ratner’s infomercial. Whatever numbers were faked, even that’s done.

On Thursday, the last day of general release, “Melania” made $70,000 or $59 per theater. That brought the grand total to $15.9 million. Amazon spent $75 million on the boondoggle, and it’s all evaporated. But Jeff Bezos doesn’t care. He paid the Trumps $40 million, and got what he wanted for future business deals.

Next, “Melania” goes to Amazon Prime, where you can pay 20 bucks to see it starting soon. But wouldn’t you like eggs or milk or meat instead?

No “Wicked” Tonight or Any Other Broadway Shows as Blizzard Approaches, Shows Tomorrow Are Iffy at Best

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There will be no “Wicked” tonight on Broadway.

The coming blizzard has knocked out the 8 show that play on Sunday night including “Wicked,” “Book of Mormon,” “And Juliet,” “Chicago,” “Oh Mary!” and “Stranger Things.”

If the blizzard is as bad as predicted, check for Monday show cancellations.

As for “Wicked,” if only there was a movie — or two — you could watch at home instead of braving the weather. Maybe someone will make them one day!

Wild! Trump (Or an Imitator) Called C-SPAN This Morning Using His Fake Name “John Barron” to Complain About SCOTUS

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Did Donald Trump really call C-SPAN this morning using his old fake name, John Barron?

We have to hope it was a Trump imitator but it sounded like him!

Brian Allen, intrepid gadfly, caught the exchange and posted it.

C-SPAN cut him off, but LOL if this an imitator, he should get a lot of gigs!

Barry Manilow Has a Hit Record But His Health is Still Precarious, Says Doctor Won’t Let Him Do Arena Shows Until Lungs Are Healed

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Barry Manilow is taking the bitter with the sweet.

He has an unexpected hit with the remixed version of an old song. At 74, that’s pretty swell.

But Barry’s health remains an issue. He’s posted a message to fans on Instagram that his doctor will not let him do his big arena shows — yet. Barry is recuperating from lung cancer surgery and wants to get back in front of his fans.

Listen, he needs to heal! He says when he comes back he will COME BACK!

As for that single, “Once Before I Go,” Clive Davis got Babyface to remix it, and now Barry has a hit on what we used to call Easy Listening Radio. It’s a little schmaltzy, but you’ll see why people are singing along to it.

Speedy recovery, Barry!

Report: Police Barricade Nancy Guthrie’s Road, Place Barriers, One Way, No Parking Signs — After Three Weeks Since Kidnapping!

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Nancy Guthrie was discovered kidnapped from her Tucson home on February 1st.

So today, three weeks later, the Pima County Police have finally blocked off her road, put up barriers, barricades, one way signs, and no parking signs.

You never want to be the victim of crime in this neighborhood!

Intrepid self described “gonzo” reporter Jonathan Lee Riches has been on the scene for all three weeks. His Twitter X account and website are full of updates that come constantly whether they pan out or not.

Sometimes JRL, as he likes to be called, gets ginned up because it looks the police are onto something. But as we all know, nothing of usefulness has materialized thus far.

Will tonight be any different?

Bring Nancy home! This is like a horror movie.

Rare Zero (0) Rating for Disney/20th’s “Psycho Killer” Horror Film from Director, Producer Gavin Polone Looking at $1.5 Mil Weekend

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It’s hard to an actual ZERO rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

But “Psycho Killer,” a horror movie, has achieved that status.

“Psycho Killer” is directed by Gavin Polone, whose credits in film are producing movies like “Zombieland” and movies with “dog” in the title. He also has TV production credits. If his name seems familiar it’s because you might have seen it on the credits for “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

“Psycho Killer” is released by Disney’s 20th Century Studios. It’s made $760,000 over Thursday and Friday. They’ll be lucky to have a weekend take of $1.5 million.

Here’s the description from Rotten Tomatoes, whose Audience Meter has given the movie a robust 33%.

Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer (Georgina Campbell) sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible (James Preston Rogers) is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.

Congrats to all!

Vanity Fair Made a Bet on “How to Make a Killing” And Lost: Cover Star Margaret Qualley, Glen Powell Movie Bombs at Box Office

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When you book a magazine cover, you’re making a bet on their new project being a hit.

Vanity Fair rolled the dice on Margaret Qualley in a movie called “How to Make a Killing.”

And now the movie is dead.

“Killing” had no Thursday previews. It was rated 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. So we knew what was coming.

Last night, Friday, the A24 flick took in just $1.67 million. With a massive snowstorm looming, the weekend take will be lucky to hit $5 million.

Even if the budget was $40 million — largely because of Powell’s salary — there’s no way “Killing” won’t be a write off. Straight to VOD and airplanes. It actually looks like a plane movie.

None of this is Qualley’s fault. Her cover should have been in conjunction with a hit. But now Vanity Fair is stuck with a cover story attached to a dud movie. Ouch!

They know it, too. The story itself doesn’t appear on landing pages of their website. It’s been buried somewhere in the search engine.

Should be a good topic of conversation at their Oscar party on March 15th.

PS! I missed a good joke. Now A24 is betting on a movie called “Pillion.” So I could have said, “How to Make a Pillion”! Thanks, I’ll be here all weekend!

Bad Bunny Scores Number 1 Album, Sells 220,000 Albums This Week All from Super Bowl, No Kid Rock Albums on the Chart

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Bad Bunny vs Kid Rock has been declared.

This past week, from his Super Bowl appearance, Bad Bunny sold at least 220,00 albums.

Most of that was from his now number 1 album, “DEBÍ TIRAR MÁS FOTOS,” which sold 138,793 copies according to hitsdailydouble.com. Most of those sales were from streaming, as “Debi” took over the Spotify chart.

Donald Trump and the Republicans called Bad Bunny a “loser” and claimed no one understood what he was singing about, and so on. Well, you can see the result.

Meantime, there are no Kid Rock albums in the top 50. Kid Rock, who this week posed a sort of homoerotic work out video with RFK Jr, had a fleeting hit right after the Super Bowl which has dropped to number 19.

U2 and Mumford & Sons have the top 2 albums on iTunes, by the way. Number 3 at the moment is Hillary Duff’s sort of weak tea 80s sounding pop comeback album.

Rupert Murdoch’s 2nd Wife, Anna, Dies at 81 — She Got Billion Dollar Settlement — But Fox News Mogul’s Bio Is a Sales Stiff

There’s a lot and a little going on with octogenarian publisher Rupert Murdoch.

Nis second wife, Anna, has died at 81. She was the mother of his “Succession” children Lachlan, James, and Elisabeth.

In the 1980s, Anna Murdoch was a “name” we knew mostly from Liz Smith’s column in the New York Post. Liz was constantly throwing in plugs for her boss’s wife and the “novels” she published.

Rupert, now 94, was thirteen years older than Anna. But that didn’t stop him from taking a lover and new wife in Wendi Deng, who was even younger after. Anna divorced him in 1999. (They’d been married 23 years.) The settlement was said to be 1.7 billion pounds sterling. (Some say it was only $100 mil, which ain’t bad either!) It was reported to be the largest divorce settlement ever at that time. Anna must have signed quite the NDA because no one heard about her again.

I guess we would know more if we’d read Gabriel Sherman’s book about Murdoch called “Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family –– and the World.” Alas, no one read it. Published February 3rd, “Bonfire” is now at number 7,921 on amazon. Sherman’s book had almost no publicity. It feels like maybe Simon and Schuster killed it. Who knows?

Anyway, rest in peace Anna Murdoch (who married a couple more times after the divorce). You had your moment in the sun, that’s for sure.