Jimmy Kimmel is once again proving that no event is too harmless, too masculine, or too obviously designed for normal Americans to enjoy without being filtered through his endless obsession with President Trump. During Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night...
For years, the safest bet in Hollywood seemed to be simple: put Star Wars on the big screen and audiences would show up. That assumption is now being stress-tested in real time by The Mandalorian and Grogu, a theatrical return for Lucasfilm that arrived with enormous...
Disney and Lucasfilm have been telling boys that Star Wars isn't for them since the sequel trilogy kicked off in 2015. So why should any boy born in the Disney era care at all about The Mandalorian and Grogu? For years, Disney and Lucasfilm insisted that Star Wars...
The following is a spoiler-free review of The Mandalorian and Grogu. When The Mandalorian first aired, my husband and I sat down together in front of the television to watch it. That sounds far less dramatic than it actually was. It's rare for us to step away from our...
When Pedro Pascal appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, much of the online reaction framed the interaction as harmless comedy. The moment in question involved Pascal repeatedly escalating physical affection and ultimately pressuring host Stephen Colbert into...
The casting of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy has reignited one of the internet’s favorite modern hobbies: arguing about history with the confidence of a tenured professor and the sourcing habits of someone quoting a TikTok stitched over anime footage. With the...
One man, one mogul, just proved old Hollywood models are dead. Leaner production, time slot buys, and sheer size are the things that still print money. All of these combine at the end of May. From his family office, on May 11th, Byron Allen Family Digital announced a...
Walt Disney World is heading for a leadership change at one of the most consequential moments in Central Florida theme-park competition in decades. Jeff Vahle, President of Walt Disney World Resort, announced that he will retire this summer after 36 years with Disney,...
Per Reuters, Fox, CNN and any other media reporting from this weekend, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton was thrown into chaos. A man later identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance California breached a checkpoint and...
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion all-cash takeover, per Deadline and Variety reporting filed this morning. The special meeting delivered a near-unanimous "yes" despite the open letter signed by more...
In today's day and age, when a celebrity makes a big mistake, it can often lead to rapid cancellation. But give credit to Sabrina Carpenter and her team... in what could have turned into a parade of outrage aimed at the hotter-than-hot superstar, a quick pivot...
In a previous article I penned a worrying set of numbers. Los Angeles shoot days plunged to 19,694 in 2025. These are the lowest levels outside the pandemic year. That is down from over 36,000 in 2022. Soundstage occupancy is stuck in the low 60s after years of...
Now that Blake Lively has seen most of her claims tossed out by a judge, pieces are starting to come together that the wife of Ryan Reynolds could have concocted a devious legal strategy that simply failed to launch. Was Lively aiming to use her claims about Justin...