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Jun 12, 2024 · Beyond the financial blows inflicted by the pandemic and the actors’ and writers’ strikes, the vast Los Angeles-based entertainment industry known as Hollywood is facing the far greater forces of...
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- Rotten Tomatoes Is Broken As A Way Of Measuring Movie Opinion. Critic and audience reviews have been key to gauging a movie's success for decades. Countless movies have bombed at the box office but have pulled off spectacular reviews, and vice versa.
- Major Hollywood Award Shows Are Becoming Less Relevant. It's common to hear the phrase "Oscar buzz" when a film performs well on its opening weekend, and once upon a time, this really meant something.
- Massive Filming Budgets Set The Bar Too High. It's amazing what Hollywood can pull off compared to the past. Movies like Avatar: The Way of Water demonstrated what expensive technology can do, and several other high-budget films have had similar success.
- Movie & TV Shows Getting Canceled Has Become A Bigger Issue. From beginning to end, films and TV shows cost a lot of money to make. Unfortunately, there is not much guarantee that this money will ever be made back.
- 10 Paparazzi-For-Hire
- 9 Illegal Substances Are Allowed on Set
- 8 Publicity Stunts
- 7 Eating Disorders
- 6 The Casting Couch Is Nothing New
- 5 The Mafia
- 4 Fixers Can Fix Anything
- 3 Ageism
- 2 Cheating
- 1 Love Child
If you look at a picture in a tabloid or on a gossip website, and it looks like the celebrity is posing in a staged photo, they probably are. In 2016, a photographer revealed that many celebs stage their pictures to have better control over their image. Kim Kardashian is one star who keeps her personal paparazzo on speed dial.She texts the photogra...
Sometimes, all it takes is an illicit drug for an actor or actress to put on their best performance. Tinseltown has been known to allegedly supply many A-list stars with a never-ending flow of their favorite vice. Legendary actor Dennis Quaid revealed he had a “casual” addiction to cocaine before becoming a huge star. When he first moved to Los Ang...
Hollywood is no stranger to publicity stunts, and there’s no limit to how far the industry will go to get the public’s attention. Back in 2014, there was a lot of talk about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian fighting for a spot on the cover of Vogue. When the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, finally decided to place them on the front page of t...
The pressure to look beautiful and thin has caused some stars to suffer from eating disorders. Being in front of the spotlight means they’re put underneath a microscope 24/7. Not only are they judged by their fans and the public, but sometimes their agents and managers can pressure them to drop pounds in unhealthy ways, too. Demi Lovato remembered ...
Long before the Harvey Weinstein scandal emerged, there were rumors about the casting couch—a term used to describe stars who are given roles in exchange for sexual favors. Megan Fox gave an interview to GQand put the rumors to rest by laying out the cold, hard facts. The actress said “Hollywood legends” would invite her to meet, and she would be s...
Hollywoodmay be seen as a town full of glitz and lavish lifestyles, but it has a past history that’s anything but glamorous. In fact, there’s a much shadier side that many people are unaware of. It has been rumored that a mobster named Mickey Cohen ran the Hollywood underworld. In 1950, Life magazine published an expose, entitled “Trouble in Los An...
In a perfect world, a celebritywould stay out of trouble and have a successful career without any hiccups. But the truth is that accidents and sticky situations are a part of life. When things get too much for a celeb to handle, they call a fixer like Michael Sitrick to come to their rescue. Sitrick has been a “spinmeister” in the industry for year...
Ageism is alive and well in Hollywood, and some actresses feel the need to shave a few years off their date of birth. Margot Robbie received a ton of backlash when rumors about her true age began to pop up online. But did she have a good reason to lie? Perhaps. An actress named Junie Hoang sued the website Internet Movie Database for revealing her ...
Some actors spend the majority of their time filmingon set. This means they’re away from their partners for long periods of time, and they’re spending even more time with their costars and the crew. It’s no surprise that some stars have a moment of weakness and end up cheating on their significant others. Some of the flings end as soon as the movie...
Everyone was shocked when Eva Mendes managed to hide her growing baby bump from the public, but she has nothing on the celebs who have kept their secret love children away from the media. And sometimes, the kids are just as baffled as the rest of us! It wasn’t until she was eight years old that Liv Tyler found out she was the biological daughter of...
May 23, 2024 · The film industry is shrinking—by revenue, volume, value and old fashioned chutzpah. Fewer major players are releasing a smaller number of titles for a shrinking revenue pie.
Mar 1, 2024 · Hollywood may not yet know what’s going to replace superhero films as the next reliable blockbuster category, but this current crisis at least provides an incentive to start chasing a reset.
Apr 25, 2024 · Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the...
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Dec 23, 2023 · From a lack of blockbuster movies to a fresh wave of media mergers, here are the major issues facing Hollywood in 2024.
