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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.

Trump Media Stock Plummets to Low While He Uses Truth Social to Attack His Own Supreme Court Justices Over Tariffs

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Trump is using his social media platform, Truth Social, as a megaphone to attack the Supreme Court over tariffs.

Meantime, Truth Social is funded by Trump Media, which has dropped 63% over the least year.

The price right now has plummeted to its lowest price, at $10.11.

The record low price and the severe drop is definitely tied to Trump railing against the Supreme Court ruling that his tariffs are illegal.

Trump is sinking, and his investors smell it. The question is, are they willing to lose their entire investment to save face for MAGA?

Here are his posts today, raging against SCOTUS. Forget Paul McCartney. Donald Trump is a man on the run.

Trump Defeated by Supreme Court, Tariffs are Illegal, $175 Billion Must be Paid Back to Countries He Shook Down

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Trump’s Supreme Court has knocked him to the ground.

They say tariffs are illegal, and the US must pay back $175 billion to the countries he extorted.

Do you hear that, Trump voters? It’s Trump’s SCOTUS, not Biden’s. And they say what he’s doing is ILLEGAL.

Read it here.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

Review: New Billy Preston Doc — Story of “Fifth Beatle” — Invades Star’s Personal Life Instead of Sticking to Music

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I knew Billy Preston pretty well over the years. He never discussed his personal life, whether he was straight or gay or anything else. He was extremely private and everyone who knew him understood that.

So why for some reason would a filmmaker make an intrusive film about the “Fifth Beatle” call it a tribute? I don’t get. But that’s what Paris Barclay has done with “That’s the Way God Planned It,” opening in very limited locations today.

Billy was a rock star, yes. He was the first musical guest on “SNL” in 1975 after having massive hits like “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “Nothing from Nothing.” He played on Beatles sessions for “Let it Be” and “Abbey Road,” all of which you can see in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary. He’s the only artist credited with the Beatles, on “Get Back.”

There’s lots more music in Billy’s life. He gave Stephen Stills the title “Love the One You’re With.” Keith Richards credits him for the riff in the Stones’ “Miss You.”

You feel in the documentary that Barclay is less interested in all than whether Billy might have been molested as a child musician, or whether or not being secretly gay turned him into a drug addict. Billy would be mortified to see this movie, and to see people he thought were friends making wild guesses just to satisfy the director. That’s not a way to show respect to a great musician.

It’s not just that Barclay makes these points once, but he keeps circling back to them. I’d have rather seen more clips of Billy singing, and playing the organ, and dancing. His contribution to the Beatles’ stunning last albums was even more than just music. As they say, his presence in the studio made them straighten up and get work done, and not bicker or get sidetracked.

So take “That’s The Way God Planned It” with a container of salt. Don’t forget, Billy co-wrote “You Are So Beautiful” and “With You I’m Born Again,” two incredibly romantic, hopeful songs that represented him the way he wanted, not someone else’s concept of him.

Mel Gibson Consulting with Antisemitic Pope Denier for his “Passion of the Christ” Sequel — Excommunicated Just Last Year

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For decades I’ve written about Mel Gibson’s take on Catholicism.

Both he and his late, crazy father did not — and does not — acknowledge the Pope as the leader of the Catholic church.

They disavow the Second Vatican Council that modernized the Church and removed blame for Jesus’s death on the Jews. The Gibsons are highly antisemitic. Mel created a special church in Agoura Hills, California called Holy Family devoted to these principles. He’s spent about $70 million on it.

So it should come as no surprise that Mel is consulting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò — who has called the late Pope Francis “a servant of Satan” — for the “The Resurrection of the Christ.”

Variety reports that Vigano was excommunicated by Pope Francis in 2024 for refusing to acknowledge his authority. Vigano is also a Trumper, anti-vaxxer, and notable homophobe.

Ironically, Lionsgate is still listed as distributor of this film. The studio is owned and run by Jewish people who should be smarter about Gibson this time around.

In 2006, Gibson was revealed as an antisemitic when he was arrested for a DUI. He made anti-Jewish comments to the arresting officer that became viral. He told the cop, “The Jews are the cause of all the wars.” An article in the NY Times Magazine by Christopher Noxon prompted me to look into this even more in depth. Gibson’s father, a fervent proponent of the anti Second Vatican Council, wrote for neo Nazi publications.

Vigano posted pictures of himself with Gibson on the “Resurrection” set. So it’s clear what the movie is going to be, and more divisive even than “Passion of the Christ.”

Mel Gibson Far From Broke: Private Church Fund Now Worth $60 Mil

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Actor Rob Lowe Makes Hilarious Plea to New Owner of Paramount Pictures Over Restoring His Credit to 30 Year Old Comedy

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Rob Lowe has always had a sly sense of humor.

Now he’s weighing on the controversy surrounding Paramount Pictures trying to buy Warner Bros.

Rob has posted a very funny Tweet to Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison. He’d like Ellison to add his credit to the 90s comedy, “Tommy Boy.” Lowe’s name was not included but he’d be like it to be now. Read the mock Trump ending, nicely done!

He writes:

“An Open Letter to David Ellison-
Re: industry challenges

David,
Among the long-standing, important and unresolved issues, I urge you to consider my lack of a credit in Tommy Boy. This atrocity was perpetrated by a previous regime, and is a known stain on the Paramount legacy. I, and others, urge you to be on the right side of history and rectify this heinous act, with the addition of: “and Rob Lowe as Paul” above title.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
RL”

“Tommy Boy” was the 1995 comedy starring Chris Farley and David Spade. It was released the same year as “Pulp Fiction” and “Forrest Gump.” It’s not one for the ages, which is Rob’s whole point.

Will Ellison — who’s busy trampling the media world — respond?


Steve Perry Says He Will Not Be Joining Journey for Their Final Tour Despite Gossip: Do Stop Believin’

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All day long I kept hearing on TV that Steve Perry might be joining Journey for their final tour.

Alas, he is not. Do stop believing.

Steve left the group decades ago after their run of hits like “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Open Arms.” He went on to have a big solo career with songs like “Oh Sherrie.”

In the end, though, Perry marched to his own drumbeat, and went off to do his own thing. Journey fans loved him. But that party ended a long time ago. He is not coming back for a big finale.