A movie called “Bezos: From Zero to Hero,” is playing right now on Amazon’s free channel, Freevee.

Also called “Bezos: The Beginning,” the movie is based on a non-existent 33 page children’s book called “From Zero to Hero” self published by a woman named Tanesha Ebanks. No information can be found out about the book — which is not available on Amazon — or its author.

The movie. which I watched in horror. is one of the worst ever made. It features acting so wooden you could frame a house with it, stilted dialogue, and a cockeyed revision of history that makes Bezos look like a saint. You probably won’t see it. But you’ve never seen anything like it.

Involved in this enterprise is Emilio Estefan, husband of singer Gloria. who plays Bezos’s Cuban father. Estefan is a talented drummer but he is not an actor. Neither is anyone else involved in this film.

“From Zero to Hero” actually seems like a movie for adults transferred from children’s source material. It’s almost recited more than acted, and the notion is that Bezos is a genius, everyone around him is an idiot who doesn’t understand him. At the end of the movie, when Amazon is taking off, one of his original partners is told that if he had known his original worth, he’d have gotten it. The implication is that Bezos has been right to defraud and ignore the people who supported him.

There is no mention of Bezo’s subsequent bad marriage, affair with a cheesy married woman, divorce, scandal in the National Enquirer, transition from shlub into gym rat, or purchase of the Washington Post or MGM.

This may be why “From Zero to Hero” is now available on FreeVee. It was earlier part of Amazon Prime and was on Apple TV. But Bezos clearly wants everyone to see it easily. IIt’s a press release for two year olds.

Only four people have reviewed “From Zero to Hero” on Rotten Tomatoes. It has a 50. I’m not sure anyone else has ever seen it.

We all know Kevin Costner is gone from “Yellowstone.” He’s been in a civil war with creator Taylor Sheridan for a year. When “Yellowstone” returns, John Dutton will do some brave thing and gox six feet under.

Now comes word that Costner and Warner Bros. will gamble on the “Yellowstone” fame next summer. They’re releasing two chapters of Costner’s Civil War saga, “Horizon,” on June 28th and August 14th. The movie are rated R and they are long. They’re cast with good, strong actors but no STARS who would draw audiences to theaters. If the first one isn’t a hit, what will happen to the second one?

Originally “Horizon” was set for TV, and really, it’s better suited to HBO Max or HBO than theaters.

The whole thing is a big bet because Costner hasn’t had a movie theater hit in decades. His heyday was in the 90s, Back then his big gamble paid off with “Dances with Wolves.” But he’s since then made some of the worst movies in history including “Waterworld” and “The Postman.”

The two-part cinematic event, Horizon: An American Saga, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, is coming to theaters June 2024 and August 2024. pic.twitter.com/GkjjG62UVh

— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) October 5, 2023

Julia Ormond has sued Harvey Weinstein, CAA, and Disney claiming the disgraced movie mogul sexually attacked her. She says her agents ignored her complaints and covered them up. She claims Disney, which then owned Miramax. also ignored her.

The alleged attack took place in 1995, when Ormond was being promoted as the next big thing. She starred in a remake of “Sabrina” and was on the cover of the then powerful Vanity Fair.” But her career mysteriously collapsed, all the heat dissipated, she’s blaming Weinstein and the others.

True? I don’t know, although it sounds like it. It certainly follows a pattern we’ve heard in testimony from other actresses like Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino. Ormond has always seemed like a reasonable person to me, smart, and not one to rush for publicity.

But one part of this is puzzling. If she hated Weinstein, why did she appear in his 2011 movie, “My Week with Marilyn”? Ormond played famed actress Vivien Leigh. It wasn’t a big role and couldn’t have paid that much. Yet she did it, and promoted it. You can see her interviews below.

Weinstein is in prison for the rest of his life after convictions in New York and Los Angeles. There’s no doubt he committed heinous crimes. But some of Ormond’s argument doesn’t make sense. Why would Ormond take a job from him sixteen years after the alleged attack? It wasn’t like Weinstein was hands-off on “Marilyn.” He was extremely involved with the production and the promotion.

CAA, by the way, responded that they’d heard from Ormond’s lawyers last March and that he wanted $15 million not to bring the lawsuit.

This one’s going to be messy.