Month: November 2021

By now the contours of the story are familiar: Smollett claimed he was walking home from a Subway restaurant one night in January 2019 when two men wearing ski masks attacked him, yelling racial and homophobic slurs and hanging a noose around his neck. One of his attackers appeared to be white, Smollett said. And in the midst of the assault, one assailant yelled “This is MAGA country,” a reference to then-President Donald Trump’s slogan.

By Wonderwall.com Editors 1:30pm PST, Nov 29, 2021 Bradley Cooper details terrifying subway holdup In a new interview with his pal, Dax Shepard, and Dax's "Armchair Expert" co-host, Monica Padman, Bradley Cooper revealed he was "held up at knifepoint" on the New York City subway before the pandemic. The "Nightmare Alley" star, 46, said he was heading to pick up Lea, the 4-year-old daughter he shares with his (rumored on-again) ex, Irina Shayk, while wearing headphones when he found himself face-to-face with a man whose three-inch long knife was pointed right at him. "I was on the subway … to pick [up] Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint," ...

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The former "Empire" actor, who is Black and gay, has repeatedly denied staging an attack on himself, insisting two men struck him, yelled anti-gay and racist remarks, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him on a cold January 2019 night in the Windy City. A disorderly conduct charge for a false crime report is a Class 4 felony in Illinois, punishable by up to three years in prison and a $25,000 fine. A judge would determine whether convictions on multiple counts would yield sentences that run concurrently or consecutively. It once looked like this case wasn't going to trial. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office unexpectedly dropped Smollett's first set of charges -- also disorderly conduct -- in March 2019 after he performed community service and agreed to forfeit $10...

This year’s Thanksgiving box office feast was devoid of blockbuster dishes in a sobering reminder that moviegoing has yet to return to normal levels. And that was before the new COVID-19 variant omicron sparked new concerns across the globe. Excluding 2020, combined domestic ticket sales for the holiday hit their lowest level in a quarter of a century. According to Comscore, revenue for the five-day, Wednesday-Sunday corridor came in at $142 million, compared to $263 million in 2019. “The box office recovery is very much a work in progress even if it’s headed in the right direction,” says Comscore analyst Paul Dergerabedian. Analysts and studio insiders attribute the subdued Thanksgiving parade to the lack of an all-audience Hollywood tentpole, as well as ongoing...

This year’s Thanksgiving box office feast was devoid of blockbuster dishes in a sobering reminder that moviegoing has yet to return to normal levels. And that was before the new COVID-19 variant omicron sparked new concerns across the globe. Excluding 2020, combined domestic ticket sales for the holiday hit their lowest level in a quarter of a century. According to Comscore, revenue for the five-day, Wednesday-Sunday corridor came in at $142 million, compared to $263 million in 2019. “The box office recovery is very much a work in progress even if it’s headed in the right direction,” says Comscore analyst Paul Dergerabedian. Analysts and studio insiders attribute the subdued Thanksgiving parade to the lack of an all-audience Hollywood tentpole, as well as ongoing...