Hollywood

All this month, for very good reason, Turner Classic Movies has been celebrating the great movies Warner Bros. gave us these last 100 years.

If you want to see the former glory of a once great nation and its culture in decline, go to a museum. That is, of course, unless the art on display has been tainted or altered by the very forces causing the decay. Because a major ritual for the current Visigoths in power is to erase the accomplishments of the past, as they present both a truth that threatens their control and a quality they cannot hope to match. Hence, they can only deny their existence. Nonetheless, museums still survive and, for the art of motion pictures, one of the best is Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

The family of Halyna Hutchins, the Rust cinematographer who died on set, say they will sue Alec Baldwin despite his criminal charges being dropped.

Manslaughter charges against Mr Baldwin, who was holding the prop gun that fired the fatal bullet, were withdrawn in New Mexico on Thursday.

A lawyer for Ms Hutchins’ parents and sister said that the actor “cannot escape responsibility” for her death.

Mr Baldwin had already reached a deal with her widower and 10-year-old son.

The ad revenue for America’s far-left late-night TV shows has collapsed 41 percent in just five years.

Gee, I wonder what changed.

Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” have been dropped, sources told The Post.

Baldwin, 65, was charged with involuntary manslaughter over the Oct. 21, 2021 shooting of 45-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western movie, after a prop pistol he was using for a scene fired a real bullet.

He had always maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to the charges, brought by the Santa Fe district attorney.

Alec Baldwin has asked a judge to dismiss a case brought by Halyna Hutchins’s parents and sister, calling it “especially misguided”, while supporting a separate settlement to benefit the cinematographer’s ten-year-old-son.

Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot by Baldwin, 65, in an accident on a film set near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October 2021.

District court judge Mary Marlowe Sommer sentenced Halls to a six-month suspended sentence with unsupervised probation, a $500 fine, 24 hours of community service and a firearms safety class.

Now you see it, now you don’t. Disney is eliminating its entire metaverse division as part of the impending mass layoffs destined to impact as many as 7,000 employees, a report Monday claims.

The Wall Street Journal set out the nature of the sackings that will see just division head Mike White remain in what was once hailed as its “next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences unit.”

After 15 years of non-stop big-screen spandex, superhero films are finally losing their powers.

Have we passed the peak of superhero movies’ dominance of the big screen? I certainly hope so – and the signs are promising.

For more than 15 years, the film industry has been colonised by daftly named characters in spandex, playing out inane plotlines against a brain-bleeding cacophony of cartoonish CGI.

Hollywood, specifically the film industry, is going through a legitimate, serious, and potentially fatal phase.

No one likes the movies anymore.

The key to a healthy industry—audience goodwill—is evaporating quickly.

Entertainment giant Disney is set to eliminate up to 4,000 jobs as part of CEO Bob Iger’s $5.5 billion budget cut plan as the company faces repeated box office bombs, billions in losses over its streaming service, and political setbacks due to its radical left-wing policies in Florida.

Too tarnished to ever resurrect.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods opened to a pathetic $3.4 million on Thursday night.

The sequel to 2019’s modest hit is already predicted to bomb with a $35 million opening weekend. The news of this awful Thursday night take is making those predictions look wise and accurate

With a pathetic 18.7 million viewers, it’s official: the Academy Awards are doornail dead.

It’s over.

There’s no coming back from this.

Two of the biggest movies in history were in this year’s Oscar hunt — Avatar: Way of the Water and Top Gun: Maverick. Still, fewer than 20 million tuned in.

There used to a buffer between “The Stars” and their public, access was controlled.

Social media has made it much easier to be disgusted with Hollywood and Celebrities. That’s a good thing.

The Oscars are once again nigh, and this year’s awards attendees are getting a swag bag worth $126,000, nearly two times the yearly income of the average American — but drastically reduced in value compared to just a few years ago.