Month: September 2020

It’s a curious thing that in the movie culture of the last 50 years, you can count on one hand (or maybe one middle finger) the good dramas that have been made about the political counterculture of the 1960s. The turbulence of that era has never stopped casting a shadow over our own. Yet there’s something about it that resists being captured with any real onscreen authenticity. When you gather up a bunch of actors and dress them like hippies and have them carry protest signs, it tends to look like what it is: a staged insurrection. And the ’60s were such an amped orgy of media signifiers — the flower-power fashion, the groovys and hey, mans, the rock psychedelia, the jabbering on about revolution — that the era, viewed in hindsight, has a way of devolving into a compost heap of cl...

Country music group Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. FOX Business' Cheryl Casone with more. Bill Murray is taking some heat from the Doobie Brothers. The 70-year-old actor's golf apparel company William Murray Golf has allegedly been using the rock group's song "Listen to the Music" to advertise shirts without paying proper licensing fees, the Doobie Brothers' attorney claims. The Hollywood Reporter obtained an email from the band's attorney Peter Paterno sent to the "Ghostbusters" star on Wednesday in which he addresses the use of the music. BILL MURRAY SAYS JOHN PRINE'S MUSIC ONCE PULLED HIM FROM A DEEP DEPRESSION The attorney greeted the star and said he was writing in regard to the Tom Johnston-penned "Listen to t...

One of the wisest financial decisions Disney ever made was to purchase Pixar outright in 2006. From 1995 until its acquisition by Disney, Pixar Animation Studios consistently released critically acclaimed box office hits. Now one of the studio’s Pixar-produced movies, 2019’s Toy Story 4, could be about to cost Disney a ton of cash. Woody and Buzz Lightyear at Hong Kong Harbour City | Daniel Fung/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images‘Toy Story 4’ was one of 2019’s biggest hits Following the 2010 release of Toy Story 3, few fans of Pixar’s signature franchise saw much need for another sequel. After all, the story of Woody and Buzz Lightyear — voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, respectively — had come to a close, right? As it turns out, Pixar found just the right ang...

Exclusive Details Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper are feeling the love for their new collab ... so they're paying it back in the form of cold hard cash. The Biebs and the Rapper just announced they're giving away a total of $250,000 Thursday on Cash App ... to people who've been affected by these hard times. That's the only stipulation required to apply for their money, but they are encouraging folks to share their stories if they feel comfortable and drop their $cashtag and the hashtag #JBChanceHoly. We know of at least one winner so far who received $500 ... she says her family home suffered damage during Hurricane Laura last ...

Harry and Meghan's last official tour as members of the Royal Family cost British taxpayers almost a quarter of a million pounds, official accounts reveal today. The high-profile trip to South Africa, Botswana, Angola and Malawi last autumn had been billed as one of the showpiece events of the royal year. But the couple left months of work by staff and diplomats in tatters after they launched a stinging rebuke against the media during the publicly funded trip, as well as secretly recording an explosive TV documentary in which Meghan painted Harry's family as uncaring by accusing them of failing to ever ask if she 'was OK'. The Sussexes, who also took baby son Archie on the trip, stepped down as senior working royals months later, and now live in the US, where they are financially independ...