HBO’s is the latest in a cascade of movies in the works on the notorious short squeeze, set to tap Blumhouse’s Jason Blum – typically known for low-budget horror offerings like ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘Sinister’ – for executive producer, Variety reported on Friday. Andrew Ross Sorkin is also executive producing. …
Read More »‘F**k every single Trump voter’: Biden may be in, but Hollywood’s & media’s crusade to destroy conservatives is just beginning
Trump Derangement Syndrome is going nowhere. If you find yourself hoping Joe Biden’s presidency means we can, for better or worse, turn the page on the four years Trump occupied the White House, then you are an optimist whose blinkers are screwed on so tight that oxygen is being cut …
Read More »Hollywood could teach Joseph Stalin some new tricks about erasing history amid calls to remove Trump’s ‘Home Alone’ cameo
If you blinked, you’d have missed it – a brief cameo appearance by Donald Trump speaking to child actor Macaulay Culkin in the 1992 film ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’. The now notorious scene takes place inside the iconic Plaza Hotel where Trump tells Culkin, playing the role of …
Read More »Was that 1992 or ‘1984’? Trump haters call on Hollywood to DIGITALLY REMOVE president’s cameo appearance from Home Alone 2
“Breaking news: Donald Trump to be digitally replaced in ‘Home Alone 2’ with actor Christopher Plummer,” producer and writer Dan Slott quipped Friday night on Twitter. Podcast host and author John Rain said Disney Plus had announced the Plummer-for-Trump swap. Of course no such announcement was made, and Plummer, by …
Read More »Move over, Hollywood! China overtook US as world’s biggest movie box office in 2020, set to keep title PERMANENTLY
Box office revenues in China were not spared from the Covid-19 crisis, as the country was the first to impose lockdowns to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The usually busy weekend before Christmas saw ticket sales falling by 30 percent from a year ago, to around $71.5 million. …
Read More »Health officials ask Hollywood to halt ‘essential’ productions amid spike in Covid-19 cases
FilmLA, the official film office for Los Angeles, has heard from public health officials asking them for productions to voluntarily shut down and no more filming permits to be issued. Despite the regional stay-at-home order, film and television productions have been deemed essential businesses and, thus, exempt from citywide restrictions. …
Read More »The Pentagon spends millions helping Hollywood movies that portray the US military favorably. But now it’s into Xmas ROM-COMS?
You know how it goes, you spend half your life waiting for the US military to help make a sentimental, Christmas-themed romantic comedy and then two come along at once: Hallmark’s ‘USS Christmas’ and Netflix’s ‘Operation Christmas Drop’. Neither film could have been made without military support – nearly half …
Read More »Essential entertainment? California Governor excludes Hollywood from having to follow his strict Covid-19 curfew order – report
The month-long curfew requirement, which was announced on Thursday and runs from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day, excludes television and movie crews, as well as other entertainment industry workers, a representative of Newsom’s office told media outlet Deadline. Unlike when the governor imposed a statewide lockdown in March, …
Read More »Obama producing anti-Trump Netflix ‘comedy’ series: Hollywood refuses to give up on cash cow obsession, even with Biden in office
With President Donald Trump’s path to reelection looking more and more like a fantasy, even those not in support of Joe Biden had to have at least one moment of wishful thinking: maybe with Trump out of office, the entertainment industry will move on and let their annoying obsession with …
Read More »‘Hollywood scenarios’: Tehran denies Israeli operatives killed Al-Qaeda second-in-command in Iran
The New York Times claimed that Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command was killed in Iran in August by Israeli assassins. The operation was kept from the public until this week. The paper said the operation had been carried out at the request of the United States. On Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry described the …
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