Month: March 2021

On the heels of Dr. Seuss being muzzled for racist depictions in a few books, another beloved childhood memory is also being called problematic ... one Pepe Le Pew. The Looney Tunes character fell into the crosshairs of NYT columnist Charles M. Blow -- who wrote an op-ed titled "Six Seuss Books Bore a Bias" ... where he argued racism is deeply embedded into American culture (especially pop culture) and fed to kids at a young age. He brought up cartoons like Speedy Gonzales and Mammy Two Shoes -- the former being another LT character he says pushed racist stereotypes against Mexicans and the latter being a Tom & Jerry character portrayed as a heavyset Black maid who speaks with a caricaturized voi...

Nicolas Cage has found himself moonstruck again, revealing that he married his girlfriend, Riko Shibata, last month. “It’s true, and we are very happy,” the 57-year-old actor said in a statement to People magazine. The pair got hitched at a “small and intimate wedding” at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on Feb. 16, a day chosen to honor the birthday of Cage’s late father. The couple exchanged both Shinto and Catholic vows and the ceremony included haiku poems as well as the poetry of Walt Whitman. Cage and Shibata, 26, met in Shiga, Japan, more than a year ago, according to Vanity Fair. They were photographed in February 2020 ― with Shibata at the time identified only as a “mystery woman” ― paying a visit to the pyramid-shaped mausoleum Cage constructed in New Orleans to eventually en...

Saturday AM Update: Updated with NYC B.O. data Even with three new wide releases at this weekend’s box office and New York City finally reopening, numbers still aren’t at pre-pandemic levels. But there’s a lot of drama going on. Let’s start with Disney’s theatrical day and date Disney+ release of animated pic Raya and the Last Dragon which looks to be leading the weekend with a studio-reported $2.5M Friday and an industry weekend estimate of $8.3M at 2,045 theaters. These numbers are slightly less than the $3M Friday and $9M-$10M we were hearing about, and they’re definitely less than the $14.1M that Warner Bros’ same day HBO Max release of Tom & Jerry posted last weekend. Raya‘s opening weekend is also less than Croods: A New Age‘s 3-day opening over its Thanksgiving stret...

Saturday AM Update: Updated with NYC B.O. data Even with three new wide releases at this weekend’s box office and New York City finally reopening, numbers still aren’t at pre-pandemic levels. But there’s a lot of drama going on. Let’s start with Disney’s theatrical day and date Disney+ release of animated pic Raya and the Last Dragon which looks to be leading the weekend with a studio-reported $2.5M Friday and an industry weekend estimate of $8.3M at 2,045 theaters. These numbers are slightly less than the $3M Friday and $9M-$10M we were hearing about, and they’re definitely less than the $14.1M that Warner Bros’ same day HBO Max release of Tom & Jerry posted last weekend. Raya‘s opening weekend is also less than Croods: A New Age‘s 3-day opening over its Thanksgiving stret...

Saturday AM Update: Updated with NYC B.O. data Even with three new wide releases at this weekend’s box office and New York City finally reopening, numbers still aren’t at pre-pandemic levels. But there’s a lot of drama going on. Let’s start with Disney’s theatrical day and date Disney+ release of animated pic Raya and the Last Dragon which looks to be leading the weekend with a studio-reported $2.5M Friday and an industry weekend estimate of $8.3M at 2,045 theaters. These numbers are slightly less than the $3M Friday and $9M-$10M we were hearing about, and they’re definitely less than the $14.1M that Warner Bros’ same day HBO Max release of Tom & Jerry posted last weekend. Raya‘s opening weekend is also less than Croods: A New Age‘s 3-day opening over its Thanksgiving stret...

Saturday AM Update: Updated with NYC B.O. data Even with three new wide releases at this weekend’s box office and New York City finally reopening, numbers still aren’t at pre-pandemic levels. But there’s a lot of drama going on. Let’s start with Disney’s theatrical day and date Disney+ release of animated pic Raya and the Last Dragon which looks to be leading the weekend with a studio-reported $2.5M Friday and an industry weekend estimate of $8.3M at 2,045 theaters. These numbers are slightly less than the $3M Friday and $9M-$10M we were hearing about, and they’re definitely less than the $14.1M that Warner Bros’ same day HBO Max release of Tom & Jerry posted last weekend. Raya‘s opening weekend is also less than Croods: A New Age‘s 3-day opening over its Thanksgiving stret...

Beyoncé shared a moving tribute on her website to Lyric Chanel, a 13-year-old girl who died of brain cancer and anaplastic ependymoma on Friday after a two-year battle. Beyoncé, who sent Lyric flowers in September after she caught wind of a video of Lyric singing one of her hit songs, sang “Brown Skin Girl,” “Halo” and “Love on Top” in tribute to the young girl. In the chorus for “Love on Top,” Bey sings Lyric’s name instead of the “baby” heard in the original version of the song. The young girl gained a massive following on social media as her family documented her battle with cancer, attracting the attention of other music stars like Cardi B and Trae The Truth. Lyric, like Bey, was born in Houston and was a massive fan of the singer. An Instagram account called Go Gold For Ch...

Chrissy Teigen is defending Meghan Markle as she faces a storm of tabloid scrutiny ahead of a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. The "Cravings" cookbook author took to Twitter on Friday to defend the Duchess of Sussex in light of bullying allegations made against the former working royal on Tuesday. "This meghan markle s--t is hitting too close to home for me. these people won’t stop until she miscarries. f--king stop it," Teigen wrote. Markle is currently pregnant with her and Prince Harry's second child. The couple shared the news on Valentine’s Day, months after Markle revealed in an essay published in The New York Times that she had suffered a miscarriage in July. PRINCE WILLIAM ‘WAS VERY UNHAPPY’ MEGHAN MARKLE, PRINCE HARRY 'USED PRINCESS DIANA'S IMAGERY,' SOURCE ALLEGES ...