Новости за 01.01.2024

A day after revealing on New Year’s Eve on Fox that the newly formed United Football League will kick off in June, co-owners Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia took to ESPN to unveil the cities and coaches for the inaugural season. The UFL, the pro spring league created via the merger of the USFL and […]

Les McCann, acclaimed jazz pianist and vocalist whose greatest commercial success came with the 1969 song “Compared to What”, from his album Swiss Movement, criticizing the Vietnam War, has died. His longtime manager Alan Abrahams confirmed to multiple media outlets that McCann died Friday at a hospital in Los Angeles where he had been admitted […]

As of today, the traditionally protective Walt Disney Co will have to deal with an onslaught of Mickey Mouse parodies, mockeries and likely rather explicit variations as the iconic character slips into the public domain. Sorta. In the sober light of 2024, Steamboat Willie, the 1928 short that effectively launched the empire that Walt built, […]

The Dallas Cowboys’ escape with a 20-19 victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday on a special weekend edition of ESPN’s Monday Night Football drew 25.7 million viewers, the network said Monday citing Nielsen fast nationals. The Cowboys’ home victory in a battle of two postseason-bound NFL teams joined previous 2023 MNF games Eagles-Chiefs on […]

Former Beverly Hills 90210 star Ian Ziering had some frightening moments in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve when he was attacked by a group of people riding motorized mini-bikes on Hollywood Blvd. In a video obtained by TMZ, Ziering was surrounded by the bikers who reportedly had been weaving in and out of traffic […]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending Sunday. It was one of several high marks achieved for Main Stem shows in 2023’s final box office frame. The Harry Potter gross passed the high mark originally […]

Green Day reworked the lyrics to its hit song “American Idiot” during a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest Sunday night to take a swing at Donald Trump and MAGA. “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang during “American Idiot” on the ABC […]

Jeremy Renner is days away from returning to production on Season 3 of Mayor Of Kingstown, one year after a snowplow accident that nearly claimed his life. In an interview with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN’s New Year’s Eve special Sunday night, Renner told the co-hosts, “I think I’m ready, I think I’m […]

MONDAY AM writethru: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he’s delivering the motion picture industry a $9 billion-plus year at the domestic box office, a feat many thought was unimaginable with the lack of a mega-tentpole over the holiday, coupled by a Q4 impacted by the double strikes. The numbers were compiled from […]

This year is shaping up to be yet another frenetic one in the international media landscape, with change incoming on numerous fronts. Here, our overseas team breaks down some of the issues we think will define the entertainment and news terrain in 2024. How Low Can The Market Go? After a year of industrial strife, […]

Ryan Seacrest got President Biden to talk about all the chicken parmesan he ate over the holidays while Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper revealed whether they ever need to pee during the show, as both ABC and CNN rang in the new year with their annual specials. President Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, […]

Hulu has dropped a teaser from Vanderpump Villa, a new unscripted confection that takes place at Lisa Vanderpump’s luxury French villa. The show, which is coming in the spring of 2024, follows Vanderpump’s hand-picked staff as they live and work together to navigate every extravagant desire of their well-to-do guests. The villa staff consists of Stephen […]

Gypsy Rose Blanchard celebrated her Dec. 28 release from prison by posting a “I’m finally free” message on social media. Blanchard, who became the subject of Hulu’s 2019 limited series The Act, served seven years of a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to second degree murder for helping to kill her mother. For years, Clauddine “Dee […]

What a dynamite idea! While Paramount, Netflix and others consider buying Coyote Vs. Acme from Warner Bros., Wile E. Coyote himself (voice actor Eric Bauza) has shared the first image from the much-discussed film on social media with the caption, “See ya in 2024!!” Whether that’s a promise or a prediction is unclear, but Bauza […]

By one measure, 2023 was a very tough year in documentary. The first indications of what lay ahead came in January at Sundance, where the usual panoply of films entered the arena in hopes of earning awards and the ultimate prize – distribution. But streamers and other major distributors showed no inclination to loosen their […]

The indie box office busted out this year, hitting is stride post-Covid with an eclectic string of releases that made a splash artistically and financially. Independents and mini-majors saw $1.47 billion in box office receipts as of Dec. 27, up from $811.7 million in 2022, according to Comscore. Focus Features had the biggest limited opening […]

In a recent New Yorker profile, Craig Mazin, who wrote The Last of Us and Chernobyl, calls Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank “one of the best screenwriters of all time.”  Long a known quantity for Get Shorty, Out of Sight, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Marley and Me, The Wolverine and Logan, Frank opens up […]

On the final day of the year, Taylor Swift added one more accolade to her long list of accomplishments n 2023: She now holds the record for most weeks for a solo artist at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) topped the ranking this week, giving Swift 68 weeks atop the […]