‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Accumulates Wealth Over Labor Day Weekend With $30M Four-Day, $118M+ Total – Friday PM Update

4th Update, Friday 11:42PM after midday writethru: To no surprise, Warner Bros. Crazy Rich Asians is overperforming again with a revised third weekend projection of $23.2M over 3-days, -6%, and $30M over four, sending its running total to $118.7M by Monday. Through the pic’s first 20 days, it will be pacing 20% ahead of August 2011’s The Help by Monday, another feature adaptation of a bestselling femme novel which ended its domestic run at $169.7M. We hear that…

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Venice Day Four Mood: Festival & Netflix Riding High

Venice is killing it. It's extremely rare to have such positive critical consensus about so many big movies in the first few days of a festival. First Man, Roma, The Favourite and A Star Is Born have all gone gangbusters while the Coen’s Buster Scruggs has been widely praised. The festival is pretty much five from five on its biggest movies so far and the buzz has been palpable with so many stars in attendance. Spirits haven’t been dampened by a tremendous downpour last…

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Twitter Slow To React To Crass Altered Photo Of Meghan McCain, Draws Ire

An altered photo showing Meghan McCain with a gun pointed at her while she grieved at the casket of her father, Senator John McCain, stayed online for hours, despite a wave of online protests. Meghan McCain's husband, CBS News contributor and The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech, lashed out Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for the slow response. The offending photo was captioned, “America this one’s for you” by the tweeter, who used the handle @austindelafrog.  The original photo…

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Louis Farrakhan Presence At Aretha Franklin Funeral Draws Strong Online Reactions

Controversial Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan’s presence at Aretha Franklin’s funeral today drew strong reactions from the online community. Farrakhan was given a seat of honor on the pulpit at the funeral, flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, former President Bill Clinton, and MSNBC commentator and activist Al Sharpton.  Farrakhan did not speak at the event. The Franklin/Farrakhan relationship dates back several decades, according to a statement Farrakhan made…

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‘Walking Dead’ Suit Sees Frank Darabont Back Off From Robert Kirkman, For Now

Heading towards its fifth year, the often legally bloody battle between Frank Darabont and CAA and AMC over profits from the very successful The Walking Dead has hit a rare moment of détente this long weekend. As both sides await a long-delayed summary judgment ruling and subsequent blast radius from New York Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten on one suit, one of The Shawshank Redemption director's lawyers says they are stepping back at bit on another lawsuit, for…

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Stevie Wonder Closes Aretha Funeral With Moving Performance

Stevie Wonder, who grew up with Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin and her pastor father in the days when he was known as Little Stevie, closed out her lavish funeral today with moving versions of The Lord's Prayer and As at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. Wonder’s performance was one of the highlights of a long schedule that also featured performances by Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson and Chaka Khan, among other artists. Detroit native Wonder closed the long program by…

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Broadway’s ‘Gettin’ The Band Back Together’ To Close Next Month

Gettin' The Band Back Together, the rock musical that just opened August 13 at the Belasco Theatre, has set its last performance for Sunday, September 30. It will have played 30 previews and 40 performances. The producers announced the decision Friday. “It's not just the money (although that's a major part of it, for sure), but when a team of the most creative people you know spends years of their lives working toward a common goal, and it doesn't turn out the way you all…

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NFL National Anthem Protests: Compromise Unlikely Before Start Of Season

The National Football League regular season will apparently start without a resolution to the ongoing dispute between the league and players over proper behavior during the national anthem.The Washington Post is reporting that, barring what was termed a “dramatic last-minute breakthrough,” the NFL and NFL Players Association will not reach a compromise on rules governing player behavior during the song. The NFL ruled in May that players could either stand respectfully…

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‘Big Brother’ Producers On JC Mounduix Behavior: No Harm, No Foul

In response to online uproar caused by the perceived misbehavior of Big Brother contestant JC Mounduix, the show’s executive producers have issued a statement denying any problem. The CBS reality staple’s current contestants include Mounduix, who has been involved in some incidents before. This time, he was viewed sharing a bed with and kissing Tyler Crispen on the show’s 24/7 online feed. The footage shows him rubbing Crispen’s face and arm, then kissing his armpits. The…

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California Legislature Passes Net Neutrality Law, The Nation’s Toughest

California’s legislators passed the nation’s strongest net neutrality law today, restoring Obama-era open Internet protections and setting the state on a potential collision course with federal regulators. If Gov. Jerry Brown signs the bill into law in the coming weeks, California will join a growing number of states that have adopted net neutrality rules that conflict with the actions of the FCC. That could result in clash that rises all the way to U.S. Supreme…

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Best Of Summer TV 2018: ‘Random Acts Of Flyness’ & Other Top New Shows To Watch This Holiday Weekend

From the sundry skills of Random Acts of Flyness' creator Terence Nance to the latest move in the resurgence of Hugh Grant to the 1980s dancehall visions of Ryan Murphy with Pose and more, this summer has been almost as hot on the small screen as it has been scorching the real world. Now, summer doesn't officially end until September 22 but for most of us the Labor Day weekend is when the season practically winds down All of which means, this holiday weekend presents a…

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Robert Redford’s ‘The Old Man And The Gun’ Premiere: Star Says Of Pending Acting Retirement, “That’s Enough” – Telluride

The movie portion of the 45th Telluride Film Festival got underway in style with this afternoon’s Patrons screening (a “sneak preview” for those who paid $4,900 for a pass) of Fox Searchlight’s The Old Man and the Gun. Star Robert Redford says it will be his last as an actor — but not as a director, which seems to be lost in media reports. The film, which has its world premiere here in the Colorado Rockies, is a true story about Forrest Tucker who robbed 90-plus banks…

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“Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory

Richard Brody on Victor Levin’s “Destination Wedding,” starring Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, who suffer through one of the worst sex scenes in recent memory.

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The Challengers: Fierce Partisanship in the Land of John McCain

Jonathan Blitzer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how partisan rivalries are playing in the run-up to the midterm elections in Arizona.

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Things to Do in New York City This Weekend, August 31-September 3, 2018: Fall Culture Previews and More

Hear Lizzo and Yaeji at MOMA PS1’s Warm Up, watch the sci-fi high-school-nerd musical “Be More Chill,” taste Malaysian breakfast food at Kopitiam, and more.

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The U.S. Open, Played on New York City Public Courts

Jay Ruttenberg and Mike Reddy write and illustrate a humorous comic about what would happen if the U.S. Open were played on the public courts of New York City.

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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 30th

Lila Ash’s Daily Cartoon waits it out in the pillow fort.

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Thousands of John McCain’s Constituents Pay Their Respects in Arizona

Jonathan Blitzer reports from the capitol building in Phoenix, Arizona, where constituents paid their respects to Senator John McCain, who died last week.

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The Anxious, Hopeful Faces of Young People in Shenzhen, China

Jiayang Fan writes about the photographer Christopher Anderson and his work on commission from Shenzhen’s Daken Art Organization to document life in the coastal megatropolis through unnervingly intimate portraits.

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The Absurd Biden-and-Obama Crime-Fighting Novel That Can’t Escape the Present

Ian Crouch reviews “Hope Never Dies,” by Andrew Shaffer, the fan-fiction-thriller mash-up that imagines Barack Obama and Joe Biden fighting crime.

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