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Boffo! Disney’s “Inside Out 2” Scores $100 Mil 2nd Weekend, Biggest Movie of 2024!

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“Inside Out 2” has turned the box office inside out.

Disney’s Pixar sequel made $100 million this weekend. It’s now the highest grossing film of 2024, beating “Dune Two.”

Total US box office is now around $355 million. At this rate, $500 million is around the corner.

Audiences are going back and back to see the sequel to “Inside Out.” Everyone loves it, and there’s no sign of it slowing down.

“Inside Out 2” is good for movie theater business. Snacks are being sold, there’s foot traffic.

Meanwhile, “The Bikeriders” made $10 million in its debut. But the wheels may come off these bikes. Each day — Friday, Saturday, Sunday — showed a diminishing return. Beautifully made, but plot deprived, “Bikeriders” is perplexing to audiences. Who do you root for, and why? I didn’t get it. But I did love Tom Hardy’s performance.

“Thelma” opened nicely with $2.2 million for Magnolia. There are Best Actress and Screenplay noms lurking. June Squibb, age 93, is just lovely. Go see it, it’s a crowd pleaser.

Bob Dylan Driving Festival Crowds Crazy with Obscure Setlists, No Hits

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Imagine that you weer at the Outlaw Music Festival tonight. Bob Dylan comes out and plays “Highway 61 Revisited.”

You say to yourself, Okay, last night was an aberration. We’re going to hear his best songs tonight.

Well, you would have been wrong.

After “Highway 61,” Dylan tortured the crowd with 13 obscure songs including covers of Chuck Berry, the Fleetwoods, the Grateful Dead, and Paul Davis (the singer of “I Go Crazy,” not my cousin, the radiologist).

Dylan has hundreds of well known songs in his catalog. But he also has a perverse sense of humor. He doesn’t care why you came to see him. Forget about early stuff like “Blowin in the Wind” or “Mr. Tambourine Man.” You’re not going to get anything from “Blood on the Tracks” or “Desire.” You might get “Things Have Changed,” which an Oscar.

Ypu’ll be so exasperated that by time he gets to the last two B level songs — “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”

Maybe Bob is upset Willie Nelson took a few days off. In April, at least he threw in four to six better known tunes plus a cover of “Jambalaya.”

But mostly all Dylan sets these days are rebukes of the audience. Bob doesn’t care that he Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, or that damn Oscar. Sometimes he sings, “You gotta serve somebody,” but that may be advice to a waiter. Dylan serves no one.

If you have a sense of humor, too, then okay. The band is always spot on. But if you were hoping for “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” play the records instead.

Or pick up “Shadow Kingdom,” Bob’s sop to fans during the pandemic. (It’s excellent.)

Donald Trump Says You Can Drive With No Stopping from New York to Los Angeles in a Regular Gas Powered-Truck

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Donald Trump claims below that you can drive a truck with gas across the country from New York to Los Angeles without making a stop.

No refilling. All on one tank. (In reality, a semi would require three to four stops coast to coast.)

An electric truck, he says, would require several stops. In other words, maybe two or three more times than a petrol-fueled tank.

Trump hates electric vehicles because he can’t figure out how to charge them. I would say this is typical of Republicans and conservatives, but Elon Musk — the best known proponent of electric vehicles — is both of those things.

And yet, hearing this, Trump supporters — even truck drivers themselves — want him in office.

Truck drivers speak up!

I hope the Biden campaign will use clips from this speech in their commercials.

Donald Trump Attacks Bill Maher Audience Laughter as “Fake, Loud, Obnoxious”– Sound Familiar? (Plus, Watch Jiminy Glick!)

Trump Cognition Alert: Refuttal or Refutal? (Neither is a Word) Couldn’t Remember: “Rebuttal” (Watch)

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This is a man who does not know what he’s saying. He couldn’t remember the word ‘rebuttal’ at today’s Freedom & Faith Rally in Washington DC.

He gets it confused for “reffuttal” or “refutal.”

“What the hell word would that be?”

Maybe it was covfefe.

Trump also calls his staff “stupid people.”

Donald Trump Attacks Bill Maher Audience Laughter as “Fake, Loud, Obnoxious”– Sound Familiar? (Plus, Watch Jiminy Glick!)

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I guess Donald Trump watched Bill Maher’s show last night.

On his stock price collapsed Truth Social, the portly, convicted felon found Maher’s audience’s laughter “Fake, Loud and Obnoxious.” Trump must have seen his reflection in the TV and got confused.

But he also kinda liked the show, too. Even though he says “the show is dead!” Trump found it funny at times. So he is confused!

Is this what you do when you’re running for president and preparing for a sentencing in less than a month?

Also, Martin Short was on the show as Jiminy Glick and was hysterical. Trump didn’t mention that. See below.

Trump wrote:
“Bill Maher, the highly overrated “Star” of the ratings challenged show with the Fake, Loud and Obnoxious laughter pouring out of your set every few seconds, even when nothing was said that was funny (which is most of the time!), suffers from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. Republicans should stop using him as a reference point, his show is dead!”

Box Office: “Inside Out 2” Hits $300 Mil Today, “Bikeriders” Revs Up $4 Mil Opening

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“Inside Out 2” is a phenom!

Total through last night is $285 mil after a $30 mil Friday. Wow. Today they way over $300 million.

Everyone loves this movie. Theaters are buzzing. Popcorn is popping. Oscar for Best Animated Feature is a certainty– maybe a Best Picture nomination because it’s a soft Oscar year.

“Bikeriders” came up with $4 million from Thursday and Friday. But the Cinemascore is a B, which means people leaving those theaters were not ecstatic. I don’t blame them. Word of mouth will not be so great. The movie is a let down. But it’s hot outside, it’s cold in the theater, and “Bikeriders” looks good on paper.

Disney had another release besides “Inside Out 2.” The nearly three hour “Kinds of Kindness” opened in five theaters and made $179,000 on Friday, An earlier release in Italy has already brought in $975,000. It’s in limited release here, so we won’t see it for some time. Watch “Poor Things” at home while you’re waiting.

Willie Nelson, 91, “Not Feeling Well,” Taking a Few Days Off from Outlaw Music Festival Tour

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Willie Nelson is some slacker!

At 91, he’s taking a few days off the Outlaw Music Festival tour because he’s not “feeling well.” His son, Lukas, will take his place with his band, Promise of the Real. (Brother Micah is included unless he’s with Neil Young.)

Willie! Take all the time you need!

This man is relentless. He just released his 700th album. He works constantly. And yes, he’s 91!

Feel better, Willie! Speedy recovery! Hydrate!

PS Willie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November. The Rock Hall started inducting members in 1988. It’s good thing he lived this long!

Donald Trump Attacks Bill Maher Audience Laughter as “Fake, Loud, Obnoxious”– Sound Familiar? (Plus, Watch Jiminy Glick!)

Box Office: “Inside Out 2” Hits $300 Mil Today, “Bikeriders” Revs Up $4 Mil Opening

HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Looks for Big 2nd Week After Ratings Drop in Debut

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Sunday will be a pivotal night for “House of the Dragon,” season 2.

The first week saw a big ratings drop from the first season. Total viewers on HBO were 1.32 million.

Total viewers were down by 39%. The key age demo was down 20%.

HBO says a total of 7.9 million people watched over all their platforms including Max, and with multiple screenings.

Some say that the show didn’t have enough of a splashy launch before it returned. One problem is that these actors, as opposed to the ones from “Game of Thrones,” remain mostly unknown. With “GoT,” Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, and many of the others already had some recognition.

We come into the second episode with a cliffhanger from Episode 1. Did they really kill a baby? (Probably.) Also, we’re one dragon down. Maybe there’s a funeral!

Jane Fonda on Donald Sutherland: “A brilliant actor and a complex man…I am heartbroken”

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Jane Fonda has posted a remembrance for Donald Sutherland on Instagram.

Sutherland and Fonda starred together in Alan Pakula’s classic film, “Klute,” in 1971. (Fonda won an Oscar.) They had a personal and political relationship. Of the latter, they were each anti Vietnam War activists. When Fonda says she’s “heartbroken,” she means it.

A big loss.


Trump Social Media Stock Price Falls off Another Cliff as Bottom Approaches

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Trump Media is heading for an all time low this afternoon.

The stock price for Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform fell off a cliff this morning. It’s heading quickly to a new low.

Monday to Friday this week has been a disaster. The price started at around $40 on Monday and is now hovering around $25. When it gets to $22, that will be the all time low. Right now, the stock is less than the number of convictions Trump got from a jury this month1