The days when the Walt Disney Company churned out instant classics beloved by successive generations appear to be squarely behind it, with only 16 percent of Americans saying Disney content is better today than it was in the past and nearly half saying it is worse.
In the Year of Our Lord 2024, only 817.9 million domestic movie tickets were sold. Back in 2019, 1.225 billion — with a “B” — tickets were sold. That’s a 34 percent collapse in just five years.
If you go back 20 years to 2004, ticket sales have dropped from 1.495 billion to 817.9 million, or an astonishing 46 percent.
I wonder at the long term impact of the LA fires on Hollywood. There has been an ongoing California population and business exodus, will the movie business’s exit gain momentum?
Don’t buy the fake headlines. The Golden Globes might have climbed out of its dismal 2021 and 2023 ratings, but the award show is still down 45 percent in the ratings compared to just five years ago.
The long-time husband of The View co-host Sunny Hostin is starting the New Year under a cloud after being accused of federal insurance fraud.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin is among nearly 200 defendants named in one of the largest RICO cases ever filed in New York.
He and many of the others are accused or getting kickbacks by performing surgery and fraudulently billing a company that insures taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers.
Ricky Gervais roasted disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, pop star Justin Timberlake, and the Hollywood “pedo ring” in jokes he says he would’ve made had he been hosting this year’s Golden Globes.
Megyn Kelly has exploded over acclaimed 2024 movie Conclave, blasting it as ‘disgusting’ and ‘anti-Catholic’ in a furious online rant.
The mystery thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini follows powerful religious leaders in the halls of the Vatican as a Cardinal uncovers scandalous secrets while selecting the next pope.
Kelly, 54, took to X to blast the movie, which is nominated across six Golden Globe Award categories – and her post included a major spoiler about the plot.
We don’t hate Hollywood enough.
I found myself watching Walt Disney’s Fantasia last night. As always, I was struck by the dazzlingly beautiful hand-drawn cartoons and by the Art Deco charm and kitsch, both of which I love. But what struck me this time was how the movie perfectly encapsulates an extremely normal time in America, one friendly to science and faith. It is the antithesis of what the modern Disney company has become.
A new Peacock documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs released its trailer on Thursday. Called “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,” the 90-minute documentary will tell the story of the disgraced and currently incarcerated rapper and music mogul’s early years.
Per Peacock, it will feature exclusive interviews with Combs’ childhood friends, former bodyguards, former interns, and singer Al B. Sure! (who was also romantically linked with Combs’ late ex, Kim Porter).
In the trailer for “The Making of a Bad Boy,” a man with a distorted voice to disguise his identity claims, “Any time a studio or any room is red, he’s making love and sex. Some of the girls who were in the room, for sure, they were underage.”
The domestic box office for 2024 was three percent lower than last year’s already terrible total, $8.7 billion compared to $9.04 billion, respectively.
Compared to five years ago, the domestic box office is down an incredible 23.5 percent, or this year’s $8.7 billion compared to 2019’s $11.3 billion.
This is also the first year since the pandemic where the box office went backward.
I never think of seeing a movie in a theatre any more. It just doesn’t enter the picture.
Accused rapist rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs hired men to patrol his parties and recruit young women for “intimate” time with him — claiming it was “an honor” to be asked, a targeted woman told The Post.
On the surface, Diddy’s 2004 White Party in the Hamptons was for a good cause: The mogul teamed up with Sony for a “Vote or Die” theme on the Fourth of July, focusing on mobilizing minority voters for the election.
Diddy made a grand entrance by helicopter. Aretha Franklin was there, along with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Mary J. Blige, Lennox Lewis, LL Cool J and Paris Hilton.
So farewell then, Brangelina. After eight years, or 3,025 days – four times as long as they were legally married – the most drawn-out, confusing and tumultuous A-list divorce of the 21st century has, according to reports, finally staggered to a settlement.
“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” Jolie’s lawyer James Simon, told People. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”
Late-night comedy hosts including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel spent 2024 repeatedly bashing now President-elect Donald Trump — and experienced another bad year as their cultural relevance and viewership continue to crash.
The network comedians told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris during the recent fall election period, with a whopping 98 percent of them aimed at Trump, according to a recent study by the Media Research Center. The study covered the period from September 3 through October 25.
Sean “Diddy” Combs reportedly had an emotional meltdown during the holiday season while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in New York. After months of failed bail attempts, the rapper’s frustration boiled over as he faced the harsh reality of spending the holidays behind bars.
An attempt by the rapper Jay-Z to dismiss a federal lawsuit in which he was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs at a party in 2000 has been dismissed.
The lawsuit was filed in October by an anonymous woman accusing Combs of rape at a party after the MTV Video Music awards. It was then refiled this month with Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, accused of taking part.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday.
