2024 box office: Strike delays lower expectations by $1 billion
Bad news first: Thanks to the wreckage inflicted on Hollywood’s production apparatus during the six months of combined actors’ and writers’ strikes, the film industry…
Five big themes for Hollywood in 2024
The new year in Hollywood always brings certain traditions: resolutions, predictions, last-minute deals squeezed in before quarter-end. Naturally, media reporters reflect on everything that went…
China tries to ‘bury the memory’ and trauma of zero-COVID era | Coronavirus pandemic News
When Evelyn Ma’s two-year-old daughter had a persistently high fever and a bad cough earlier this month, she and her husband began to worry. The…
2023 has been one hell of a year, from biggest celeb A-hole to most shameless hypocrites…here’s my Xmas cracker awards
IT’S been one hell of a year . . . From the first, glorious Coronation of a new British monarch in my lifetime, and Taylor Swift’s equally stunning…
How the streaming business learned to love licensing again
When Disney+, HBO Max (now just Max) and other streaming services were launched, the idea behind their strategies was simple enough. The entertainment companies took…
Alex Batty’s mum ‘is Covid-19 conspiracy theorist & therapeutic massage therapist’ who we knew as Rose, pals say
ALEX Batty's mum has been labelled a Covid-19 conspiracy theorist by pals. Pals knew Melanie as Rose, a therapeutic massage therapist. 6Alex Batty's mum Melanie…
EU countries bin €4B worth of COVID vaccines – POLITICO
At least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have since been thrown away at an…
Amazing video shows the fastest car in the world as Bloodhound SCC screams across desert
ASTONISHING video shows what is considered to be the world’s fastest car hurtling through the desert in a test run. Fitted out with jet and…
Efforts to kill off smoking stall as pandemic drove young people to cigarettes
EFFORTS to kill off smoking have ground to a halt — because the pandemic drove young people to cigarettes. The proportion of tobacco users stalled…