THB Headlines, July 3

July 3, 2017

Happy 4th of July Weekend.

When Movie City News launched 20 years ago, one of its most popular features was daily headlines. I wrote them for years and then handed the task over to the super-able Ray Pride for more than a decade. (David Hudson did his own unique headline take before we existed and still does them today… huzzah, brother!)

I am pleased with writing the newsletter 4 -6 times a week. Love it, really.

But after posting Dawn Hudson’s exit letter in whole without comment, and a chat with a friend, it struck me that I am doing the work of canning all of the content out there every day… maybe giving the crowd something they have always like would be a good balance for my columnist verbosity.

Simple, clean, opinionated headlines that simply link to the source instead of repurposing it (aka stealing) for more clicks. My goal, as it has been for the last 2 decades, is to offer the best writing and the original reporting as often as possible. Those are the pieces that deserve the clicks.

So I am giving it a chance… kicking the rust off… rebuilding the habit. I’m launching on a quiet weekend for a reason. If you like it or don’t like it or just want to push me in a general directions, please let me know.

HEADLINES BY DAVID

Box Office For Days
Sunday - ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Boogies To $202M WW As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Flies By $1.1B & ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Rumbles Past $800M – International Box Office

‘Minions: Rise Of Gru’ Record $128M Independence Day Opening Fueled By $285M+ Promo Campaign, Biggest Ever For Franchise – Sunday AM Box Office

Saturday - ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Suited Up For $200M+ WW Through Sunday; Overseas To Hit $93M – International Box Office

‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Raising Roof With Record $129M+ 4-Day For Independence Day & Illumination-Universal Pic – Saturday AM Box Office

Friday - ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Looks To Lift $150M WW As Summer Box Office Rally Continues

Amber Still Punching
Amber Heard Toss This Verdict, Judge ... BS Evidence & Fake Juror!!!
Earlier - Amber Heard says she doesn't blame the jury that awarded Johnny Depp more than $10M

Ever faced with a possible future event where you really don’t know anything, but you feel obliged to write something? Here’s one example from the weekend…
A Reopened Arclight Hollywood Would Face Multiple Challenges in Changed World

RIP…
Peter Brook: A Life In Pictures
Peter Brook, Legendary Stage Director, 97
Tommy Morgan, One Of The Great Harmonicists, 89
Arnold Skolnick Dies: Designer For The Iconic ‘Woodstock’ Poster, 85

Also Dead…
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Why Women Kill
Thom Swift
Duncanville
Field of Dreams: The Series

Transitioning…
Universal’s Magnum P.I. got cancelled by CBS after 78 episodes, but Universal wants to hit 100, so they are putting it on NBC to hit that mark.

The Guardian On MM Losing His TM
(Mickey Mouse/Trademark… but really, it’s copyright)

Not News, Opinion…
Controversial Miles Morales Story Shows Limits of Marvel Comics

The One Where The $500 Million+Aire Donates $4 Million Because She Can’t Go Back 25 Years And Do What She Would Do Now And Is Sick Of Being Roasted For Being A Racist, Which She Never Was

Is It Time To Start Obsessing On Next Season’s Oscar Candidate’s? Not Here! No Links For You!

Endless Ezra Drama

Shocker!!!
Chelsea Handler Still Wants The Job She Didn’t Get From CBS The Last Time After Exiting Her E! Show & Bombing On Netflix

Things You Really Don’t Need To Know
Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride At Disneyland Reopens With Captain Jack Intact
‘The Muppets Mayhem’ Crew Involved In Accident During Filming Of Disney+ Series
Busty Below Deck Sailing Yacht's star Makes More $ on OnlyFans Than on Bravo

Not worthy of a news outlet
The Wrap Click Baits '“How to Watch 'Minions: The Rise of Gru': Is the Prequel Streaming?”

Double take: the weird and wonderful world of celebrity lookalikes

LA Times’ Deeply Reported Look At The Latest Hollywood Huckster Which Must Be Respect, But Also Makes One Wonder, “Was He Worth This Much Effort?”
The man who played Hollywood: Inside Randall Emmett’s crumbling empire

NYT Review Brevity Realness from Glenn Kenny
The cartoon characters called Minions, sufficiently popular to anchor two ostensibly discrete animated film franchises, are diminutive capsule-shaped yellow yammerers outfitted in goggles and overalls, whose bearing for the most part is simultaneously hyper and insouciant.

Yet another pro-Globes story from a Penske Media outlet, without clarification of Penske’s partial ownership of Dick Clark Productions in which the organization is partners with the current billionaire CEO of HFPA who is seeking to take the organization private so no one can know how it distributes its money.
Will the Golden Globes Survive? Here’s What We Know