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☆ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ Religious Dramas and Opera Singers Are Saving the Movies
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Company That Defined Dieting Is Sorry It Told Us to Have More Willpower
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WeightWatchers Chief Executive Sima Sistani hears from them all of the time, those customers she thinks her company has failed. They fill her Instagram inbox with messages detailing their years on the WeightWatchers count-your-points program, a frustrating pattern of fluctuating weight that only made them feel like they weren’t trying hard enough.

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☆ How a Squiggly Line on a Map Got ‘Barbie’ Banned in Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bob Barker, Longtime ‘Price Is Right’ Host, Dies at 99
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Not Even Tom Cruise Can Charm China’s Moviegoers Into Seeing Hollywood Films
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Rachel Liang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Harry and Meghan Produce a Hollywood Flop: Themselves
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Sarah Krouse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Princess Leia’s Dress Could Be Yours, if You Have $1 Million Lying Around
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Photographs Alisha Jucevic For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Paramount Can’t Say No to the Man Behind ‘Yellowstone’: $50,000 a Week for His Ranch, $25 Per Cow
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Joe Flint | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

No one on the set of “Yellowstone” could figure out why the show was paying a horse wrangler who was more than 1,600 miles away. It was May 2022, and the Paramount Network blockbuster western was gearing up for a fifth season that was, by all accounts, expected to be another hit—both for its all-powerful creator, Taylor Sheridan, and Paramount Global , the media conglomerate bankrolling his operation.

☆ TikTok’s Behind-the-Scenes Help in Washington: Former Obama, Disney Advisers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Kirsten Grind | Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TikTok has enlisted three heavyweights from American politics and business to advise it behind the scenes as the social-media app tries to convince U.S. authorities that it isn’t beholden to the Chinese government. David Plouffe and Jim Messina , veterans of Barack Obama ’s presidential campaigns, and Zenia Mucha , the former longtime communications chief of Walt Disney Co., are advising TikTok in its fight against efforts to ban it in the U.S, according to people familiar with their roles.

☆ The Disney Executive Who Made $119,505 a Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Geoff Morrell, Disney’s former chief corporate-affairs officer, was an outsider, having worked for years in the Pentagon and at BP PLC. Even by show-business standards, former Walt Disney Co. executive Geoff Morrell netted a massive payday from his brief time in Hollywood. Mr. Morrell started working at Disney on Jan. 24, 2022, as the company’s chief corporate-affairs officer. He left less than four months later following a public-relations implosion that led to employee protests and pitted the company and then-CEO Bob Chapek against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .

☆ Disney Defends Board, CEO Robert Iger Against Nelson Peltz’s Criticisms
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Dean Seal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Harvey Weinstein Sentencing Hearing Postponed Due to His Lawyers’ Retrial Request
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most powerful film producers in Hollywood. LOS ANGELES—Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein will wait several more weeks to hear of his sentencing in a case that found him guilty of three counts of sexual assault and related crimes. Mr. Weinstein appeared in court for about five minutes on Monday morning and waived his right to have his sentencing sooner while his attorneys pursue a retrial.

☆ Harvey Weinstein Convicted of Three Sex Crimes in California
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Christine Mai-Duc | Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Harvey Weinstein saw his Hollywood empire collapse after allegations of sexual harassment were publicized. LOS ANGELES—Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of three counts of sexual assault and related crimes in Los Angeles and acquitted of another. The jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts.

Bob Iger had been out of Walt Disney Co. for nearly a year, but as most people around him knew, he had never really let go. Acting almost as a shadow CEO, he had undermined his successor and provided an ear for unhappy Disney executives, some of whom he had mentored. When the call to return as chief executive came, it was from someone on his old team. Mr. Iger later told people he had an inkling of how the script would go.

☆ ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Delivers in Theaters for Streaming Giant Netflix
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | Sarah Krouse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

From left: Edward Norton, Madelyn Cline and Daniel Craig in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,’ now in theaters. Streaming pioneer Netflix Inc. gave movie theaters something to be thankful for this year. The streaming platform’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” made $9.2 million between Friday and Sunday, or an average of $13,200 per screen, a higher per-screen performance than any other movie in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter.

☆ Disney’s Robert Iger Faces Troubled Animation Market as ‘Strange World’ Bombs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Disney’s Robert Iger Loomed Over Bob Chapek After Ceding CEO Role, Creating Tensions Soon after he took the top job in 2020, Chapek was at odds with Iger and complained to deputies he had been undermined from the startLast year, Disney’s then-CEO Bob Chapek, in blue shirt, and then-Executive Chairman Robert Iger appeared at a Walt Disney World Resort event Florida. The two men had clashed over layoffs at the theme parks early in the pandemic. Gerardo Mora/Getty Images

☆ How an Amateur Documentary Got Onto Amazon Prime and Led to Kyrie Irving’s Suspension
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Four years ago, an amateur filmmaker named Ronald Dalton uploaded a 208-minute documentary that includes false conspiracies about Jews to Amazon Prime Video, one of thousands of titles self-uploaded to a service hungry for growth and a library of shows and movies. “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” existed in the kind of relative obscurity expected for an $8,000 production made in Mr. Dalton’s home. That was the case until last week, when Brooklyn Nets basketball star Kyrie Irving said he searched one evening for the Hebrew word “Yahweh” on Amazon, the service’s algorithm offered up the theories of “Hebrews to Negroes,” and Mr. Irving promoted it to his 4.6 million Twitter followers.

☆ Harvey Weinstein Trial Set to Begin as Disgraced Producer Returns to Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LOS ANGELES— Harvey Weinstein once presided over red carpets and award ceremonies in this city. His most recent appearances have been through a courthouse back door, where he is escorted by police officers and kept away from photographers. Five years after allegations of sexual assault derailed his career and more than two years after being convicted of sex crimes in New York, Mr. Weinstein is facing a new set of accusations in a Los Angeles criminal court. Beginning next week, jurors—nine men, three women—will hear the case against Mr. Weinstein that includes 11 counts of sexual assault. Five women are accusing the disgraced producer of assaults they say occurred between 2004 and 2013.

☆ Angela Lansbury, Acclaimed Actress of TV, Film and Broadway, Has Died at 96
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LOS ANGELES— Angela Lansbury , an actress whose career spanned more than 60 years and included legendary performances as diverse as Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd” and Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote,” has died in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her family. She was 96 years old. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep,” the statement said. A cause of death was not given.

☆ How the Minions Became Hollywood’s Mightiest Franchise
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Erich Schwartzel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How the Minions Became Hollywood’s Mightiest Franchise Animation studio Illumination decided to allow fans to become informal advocates for the thumb-shaped, gibberish-speaking klutzes‘If we create stuff and it’s lame, it will be held against us,’ says Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, the man behind the Minions. ‘But when it’s just DIY, there’s great freedom to it.’Photo Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for The Wall Street Journal

FashionMany men—including Jim Carrey—grew wild whiskers during lockdown. While some want to hang onto them, others argue the look is too unkempt for the office. Here, some guidelines.

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