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Reel to Real: CinemaCon Offers Hope, AI Movie Rankles
Howdy, folks! Every studio head and exhibitor across the country gathered in Las Vegas last weekend for CinemaCon, the annual gathering of theater owners, and there was… what’s this? Optimism? While our CinemaCon crew of Sharon Waxman, Jeremy Fuster and Casey Loving reported that the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger loomed large — including the prospect that
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Zoë Kravitz’s invite status for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding revealed after feud rumors
What bad blood? Despite rampant rumors Taylor Swift and Zoë Kravitz are feuding, a source tells Page Six the actress is invited to her pal’s upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce. The “Big Little Lies” star, 37, is expected to watch the couple tie the knot in New York City in July. Zoë Kravitz (pictured above
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Community colleges racing to train L.A. construction workers
Hudson Idov’s personal tragedy drove his decision about where to attend college after his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled in the carpentry program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College with the goal of
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Kash Patel has destroyed himself with this stupid stunt
There is an image burned into the minds of anyone paying attention to the machinations of Donald Trump, his Cabinet and advisors, aka his minions and sycophants. It is not the picture I bet you’re thinking of — the one of Donald Trump, bloodied ear and fist clenched toward the sky, wrapped in an American
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How Jack Black Became Hollywood’s Unconventional $11 Billion Man
Jack Black drew big applause at the first night of CinemaCon last week, bursting onto the stage in Las Vegas to promote his third installment in the “Jumanji” franchise at the annual gathering of theater owners. While he busted chops with co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, nobody in the audience knew that Black would
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‘Monster’ school counselor sobs as learns fate for sex with female student she groomed at 14 —and told she’d leave her family for
A “monster” high school counselor has been sentenced to up to 40 years behind bars for having sex with an underage girl — at times in her school office — while promising to leave her husband and kids for her. Jessica Finley, who was also the volleyball coach at McDowell High School in North Carolina,
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Enough With the Vibesy Literary Remakes
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the lovelorn Ophelia famously drowns. The prince of Denmark has cruelly spurned her, her father has died, and she’s stricken with grief. If only she had realized Taylor Swift’s vision for her: In the song “The Fate of Ophelia,” the pop star imagines that she has instead been saved by a new
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We need to stop confusing diplomacy with making ‘deals’
Something strange has happened to the language of politics. Everything is now a “deal.” Not a framework, not an accord, not a negotiated architecture — just a deal. The word appears everywhere, from headlines to cable news chyrons, as if it were the most natural way to describe diplomacy. But it isn’t natural. It is
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Trump makes admission on threat to target civilian sites: ‘It’s not my choice’
President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make. “I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don’t
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‘Half Man’ Review: Richard Gadd Returns With Viscerally Brilliant HBO Drama
“We’re family now,” a character remarks early in the premiere of “Half Man,” Richard Gadd’s newest series. “That’s all that matters.” Turns out the impact and weight of that statement will define and shape the relationship between two brothers for decades to come. Gadd’s follow-up after the smash success — both critically and in the