There is no schadenfreude quite like box office schadenfreude. A studio spends the GDP of a small island nation on a movie, executives high-five over tracking numbers, and then opening weekend arrives and the phrase "soft debut" starts doing a lot of heavy lifting in the trades.
Bruno Mars just set the worst debut of his career: his duet with Karol G opened second-to-last on the chart
Bruno Mars does not do flops. The man has ten Hot 100 No. 1s, a duet with Lady Gaga that ruled for five weeks, and a general aura of being chart-proof.
She gave the same advice to everyone who asked, for 50 years: the line Dolly Parton lived by
Ask Dolly Parton for life advice — and everyone does, constantly, for decades — and you will get the same answer she's been handing out since the wigs were smaller.
Ridley Scott's new movie opens this Friday — critics just handed it a score from the bottom 10 of his entire career
Ridley Scott is 88 years old, releases movies at a pace that should be studied by cardiologists, and remains constitutionally incapable of taking a year off.
Japan is buying Demon Slayer movie in record numbers — the rest of the world still can't get a copy
It's 2026, streaming owns everything, physical media is supposedly a corpse — and Japan just looked at all of that and said: actually, we would like to buy the disc. Loudly. In numbers.
