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Why even Trump's generous bailout won't save Hollywood
It's a twist worthy of famed director M. Night Shyamalan — President Donald Trump saves Hollywood, the community that thinks he's Adolf Hitler (or worse). President Trump's national tax credit initiative has real teeth (a 25% federal…
Hollywood developer unveils ambitious $450M 'old school' plan to rescue the movie industry
A Hollywood developer has come up with an old-school way to try to save the movie industry — with a $450-million bet. Commercial real estate developer David Simon is building Echelon Studios Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard, on the site…
'Avengers: Endgame' is the biggest movie ever again, 7 years later-and it says a lot about the future of Hollywood's IP machine
Seven years after it first hit theaters, “Avengers: Endgame” is once again the highest-grossing movie of all time. Disney and Marvel Studios brought the 2019 blockbuster back to theaters on Sept. 25 as “Avengers: Endgame…
'It's OK to love somebody when they're not perfect': how John Cena conquered Hollywood - and why he refuses to abandon Vince McMahon
I must admit, I was apprehensive about meeting John Cena. The WWE wrestler turned actor has built an enviable Hollywood career playing idiots – capable idiots with real heart, but dimwits nevertheless. Still, Cena is obviously nobody's fool;…
Seedance 2.0: Hype, Hollywood Panic, and the Real Story
Someone generated a clip of Will Smith fighting a spaghetti monster. It looked like it came out of a $200 million production. It did not. It came out of Seedance 2.0, a video model from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. Within a week of launch…
Pete Davidson Has Been Crushing Black Market Peptides to Get Disgustingly Swole
There are few actors who would seem a more unlikely candidate to undergo a typical Hollywood style body transformation — complete with a press blitz with articles explaining their 4,000 calories per day diets and videos detailing their…
Hollywood legend lashes 'nepo baby' label slapped on his children
Michael Douglas was born into a Hollywood dynasty and his children have enjoyed the same privileged upbringing and all the career opportunities that come with it – but don't call them “nepo babies”. The Basic Instinct actor…
Engelbert Humperdinck says he 'went through hell' rejecting 'casting couch' advances early in career
Engelbert Humperdinck is reflecting on the dark side of trying to make it in the music industry, claiming he was repeatedly subjected to unwanted advances from talent agents early in his career. During a recent episode of ' The Engelbert…
I grew up next door to Ted Kaczynski
Netflix's film “Unabomber” arrived last Friday, and by the weekend it was the most-watched movie on the platform — despite reviews calling it “dangerously simplistic” (IndieWire) and “another box checked on…
John Oliver Dodges David Ellison-Skydance News on 'Last Week Tonight'
The big media news this week concerned Skydance Corp., David Ellison 's newly formed Hollywood mega-company comprising Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, which Ellison (and his father Larry) acquired in a $111 billion debt-addled merger…
HBO Harry Potter actor Lenny Rush says mates keep him grounded
Child actor Lenny Rush said his friends were 'not very impressed' by his TV success, which helped keep him 'grounded'. In September, HBO announced that he would be playing Dobby in season 2 of the upcoming Harry Potter series. It has been a busy…
I go to parts of LA that are 'not my scene' - here's why
On a Friday night in Los Angeles, I ask my friend who lives in Silver Lake to come to a bar in West Hollywood. Except I know what she is going to say. “That's not really my scene.” Los Angeles has a way of turning neighborhoods into…
Q3's Horror Box Office Shows the Trouble with Always Hunting Another 'Obsession'
Hollywood fell so hard for “Obsession” that now it wants every new horror movie to look and act like that one. There's a useful word for that kind of all-consuming romantic fixation: limerence. Coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in…
Digger may lose $150m after Tom Cruise film bombs at the box office
Digger has flopped in its opening weekend with a $20m global box office, handing Tom Cruise one of the worst debuts of his career and serving as a bitter final note for Warner Bros as a standalone studio. Alejandro G Iñárritu's…
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