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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has returned to the top of Amazon’s bestsellers charts, less than 24 hours following the reelection of Donald Trump, a convicted felon and twice impeached former president, to a second term.

The day after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 general election, Atwood’s dystopian bestselling book saw a staggering 1,826% increase in sales on Amazon’s Movers & Shakers chart. The...

Are “Anora” and “The Brutalist” being underestimated for an ensemble nomination at the Screen Actors Guild Awards? Who will be the surprise SAG nominee of the year? Gold Derby editors and experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here with their first SAG Awards film predictions.

While “Anora” is perched atop the Best Picture odds at the Oscars, it’s not even in the top five in the SAG ensemble odds, sitting in sixth place. That might be because the Palme d’Or champ is perceived as a Mikey Madison vehicle, but it’s also a sneaky ensemble piece with great performances by Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan. Similarly, “The Brutalist” — third in the Best Picture odds but seventh in ensemble — could easily be another film that gets multiple individual nominations, for Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, but get snubbed in ensemble like “The Power of the Dog,...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first running mate John Nance Garner once famously declared that the vice president’s office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” In the first and only VP debate of the 2024 presidential election, Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance on Tuesday went out of their way to prove the ornery Texan pretty much right.

As different as two American politicians can be today except for both being white guys who are aiming for the ultimate benchwarmer gig, Walz and Vance know their brief was to do no evil for 90 minutes on Tuesday.

Despite some sparring over who won the 2020 election, the January 6 Maga assault on the Capitol near the end and Walz condemning Vance for “a damning non-answer” on the matter, the two candidates sealed the fairly dull deal.

Often proving not ready for primetime since his July selection by Donald Trump, Vance raised...

After having his racist claims about Haitian immigrants challenged as lies, J.D. Vance made a shocking admission on live TV to CNN’s Dana Bash: He was happy “to create stories,” he said, in order to drive media attention to what he described as “the suffering of the American people.”

It was a remarkable confession of dishonesty from a politician. But it was even more shocking coming from Vance — a man who was catapulted into national prominence on the strength, and supposed credibility, of his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which...

A24, the company behind films like Room, Moonlight, Lady Bird, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Past Lives, is as bold and daring a distributor as any in the movie business today. Rarely has that been more evident than it is in a pair of films that they brought to the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (to say nothing of the film that they acquired during the fest, a nearly four-hour VistaVision epic intended for projection in 70mm).

Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn’s Babygirl both came to Toronto after having their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival. Both films star bona fide Hollywood A-listers — Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman, respectively — in highly risqué roles that explore sexual inhibitions, or lack thereof, and power dynamics. (The Venice jury awarded Kidman the fest’s best actress prize, and Craig was rumored to be in serious...

On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life individuals in the late 1920s who were so troubled by the state of humankind that an escape to the Galápagos Islands seemed like the only sensible way out. This is a tale replete with deception, murder, tooth-extraction, one of the more ridiculous childbirth scenes in cinema, and, in what may be a first for Howard, male frontal nudity. (Though my memory of Cocoon is fuzzy.)

Still, Howard deserves credit for taking on a variety of complex projects along with his more audience-friendly efforts. For every The Da Vinci Code or Solo: A Star Wars Story, there is a Frost/Nixon or Rush. (Let’s leave Hillbilly Elegy out of this.) Eden attempts to combine both styles––grit with triumph of the human spirit.

Toronto film festival: Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas fight for supremacy on a remote island in this 1930s-set true story that descends into tiresomely silly reversals

The films of Ron Howard – usually polite, Oscar-aiming true stories such as A Beautiful Mind or Apollo 13 or solidly made, anonymous IP blockbusters such as The Grinch or The Da Vinci Code – have not shown the director to be someone greatly interested in exploring or even showing much awareness of real, down-to-the-core darkness. His All-American persona, as a well-meaning aw shucks nice guy (who now claims shock upon hearing the subject of his 2020 film Hillbilly Elegy might actually not be such an inspiring figure after all) would not make him seem like the perfect match for a nasty and violent tale of the horrors we’re willing to inflict upon each other to get what we want.

For a while,...

Director Ron Howard has always been a fascinating filmmaker. He’s delivered some of the most entertaining American films ever made, like “Apollo 13,” as well as complete and total disasters, like “Hillbilly Elegy.” That makes “Eden,” a solid yet darkly silly historical thriller set on a remote uninhabited island in the Galápagos, such a breath of fresh air. It’s not his greatest work, but it’s still the type of film that you exhale upon seeing as you realize he’s still got some heaters.

Though built around an excellent ensemble cast of Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby and Ana de Armas, it’s Sydney Sweeney who runs away with the whole thing. She doesn’t always give the loudest performance of the bunch, though it’s her subtle looks and a growing agency that turns “Eden” into something more. Also, if you thought you would never again see...

Ron Howard, the director behind “Hillbilly Elegy” and “A Beautiful Mind,” stressed to Variety the importance of exercising one’s right to vote in this upcoming presidential election in November.

The director stopped by Variety’s Toronto Film Festival Studio to promote his upcoming movie “Eden,” along with the cast, including Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law, Ana de Armas, and Daniel Brühl. There, the director was asked about his previous work adapting current Vice Presidental Candidate Jd Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” into the 2020 film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close. What did Howard think of Vance’s political ascent since adapting his story years ago?

“I have been surprised and concerned by a lot of the rhetoric coming out of that campaign,” Howard said. “There’s no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be President again, whoever the Vice President was. But given the experience that I had then 5, 6 years ago.

Amy Adams is ready to make noise with the comedy feature Lazy Susans.

The actress has signed a deal to produce and star in the film that is in development at 20th Century Studios, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Annie Mumolo and Stan Chervin are penning the script for the project that does not yet have a director attached.

Lazy Susans centers on a rock band comprised of a group of musical moms. Adams and Stacy O’Neil will produce through their banner Bond Group Entertainment, alongside Vivek Tiwary and Jack Leslie.

Adams can soon be seen in Nightbitch, with the horror-comedy movie set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. Adams and O’Neil also produced that film for Bond Group Entertainment. Based on the novel by author Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch follows Adams’ character, who put her career as an artist on hold to become a mother...

Amy Adams finds herself in a hairy situation in the first trailer for Nightbitch.

Searchlight Pictures released the promo on Tuesday for writer-director Marielle Heller’s horror-comedy feature that hits theaters Dec. 6. Also starring Scoot McNairy, Zoë Chao and Mary Holland, the film centers on an artist (Adams) who put her career on hold to become a mother and suddenly realizes that she might be transforming into a canine.

“I’m never going to be smart, happy or thin ever again,” Adams says in the trailer. “Oh, and I’m pretty sure I’m turning into a dog.”

She goes on to grapple with the power of being a woman and says, “Do you ever feel like the big secret is that we are gods? We fucking create life. We are so powerful.” Later, Adams informs someone, “I could crush a walnut with my vagina.”

Heller wrote and directed the...

Glenn Close has fond memories of J.D. Vance visiting the set of Ron Howard’s film adaptation of his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” She earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Mamaw, Vance’s grandmother, opposite Amy Adams as the vice-presidential candidate’s mother, in the 2020 Netflix drama.

“He brought his wife and his kid. He helped [Gabriel Basso], the actor who was playing him,” Close told me Wednesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of her new Netflix horror movie, Lee Daniels’ “The Deliverance.” “Other members of the family came. At one point I think one Mamaw’s grandsons came and when he saw me, he burst into tears because they said, ‘There’s Mamaw.’”

But now, Close isn’t feeling so nostalgic about Vance. “You only hope that people in our government have a moral backbone and that they don’t say one thing and then say something that’s 150 degrees different,...

There is a warped logic to Lee Daniels, filmmaker of nose-boppingly obvious melodramas and sordid stupidity, moving into horror. In an exorcism film, reason is often the only thing standing in the way of the haunted family getting some relief. But Daniels’ big, broad tone doesn’t lend itself to his ultra-serious tale of addiction,...

When "Borderlands" opened in theaters on August 9, 2024, it brought in just $8.6 million — an astonishingly low figure for a film that cost more than $100 million to make. Then, things just went from bad to worse for "Borderlands" at the box office, with the movie seeing an almost unprecedented 73% drop in its second weekend. Thus far, the video game adaptation has made just $21 million on a reported $115 million budget — and that's before the marketing cost is accounted for. A very rough estimate typically puts marketing at around half a film's production budget, so we're looking at a movie that likely cost in the region of $170 million, making less than a quarter of that at the box office ahead of its fast-approaching streaming debut.

With this in mind, you might be starting to see how much of a historic blunder we're witnessing with "Borderlands." But that's just the box office. Plenty of movies...

Most people who watched Peacock in the week of July 22-28 were watching the Olympics — but two other shows on the NBCUniversal streamer also had a pretty good week.

The swords-and-sandals drama Those About to Die moved into the top 10 original series for the week (it premiered on July 18), likely with an assist from heavy promotion during NBCUniversal’s Olympics telecasts. The series recorded 399 million minutes of viewing time for the week.

Love Island also stayed strong in the week after its July 21 season finale. Though it came down from two straight weeks above a billion minutes, the show’s 724 million minutes of viewing (including earlier seasons on Hulu and Netflix) is very strong for an unscripted series not showing any new episodes during the measured week.

The Olympics were, without question, the biggest streaming event of the week, with 4.5 billion minutes of viewing on Peacock and NBCU’s other...

Shortly after Donald Trump took office in 2016, budding conservative darling Jd Vance published "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis." A look at Vance's youth in Middletown, Ohio, the story was just the right kind of white poverty porn that Hollywood loves to scoop up and romanticize into Oscar bait — complete with a no-nonsense "Mamaw" who delivers hard truths as one-liners, a matriarch struggling with opioid addiction without access to a rehabilitation facility that resembles a resort spa, and an "inspiring" ending where someone from this family miraculously gets out and attends an Ivy League school. It also came at a time when the U.S., still shell-shocked from what was predicted to be a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton, finally realized that the needs of rural, white, poor communities had been neglected.

Four years later, Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard adapted the book into the Netflix film "Hillbilly Elegy,...

Jd Vance has another book in the works!

The 40-year-old Republican Vice Presidential candidate, who is of course Donald Trump‘s running mate, released the book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” back in 2016 and he reportedly quietly signed a multi-million deal years ago for a follow up, according to Variety.

Keep reading to find out more…

His first book is about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic issues of his home town in Middletown, Ohio.

The year after it was released, his agent at the time reportedly negotiated an $8 million deal for him to pen a follow up book.

Just last year, Jd Vance made less than $50,000 in royalties from the book, but with his rise in status as the VP candidate on the Republican ticket, that number is sure to go way up this year.

The publisher, HarperCollins,...

As a filmmaker, Lee Daniels tends to get slagged off on for being flamboyantly garish and over-the-top. Some of that is deserved, but the truth is that when he’s cooking on all cylinders Daniels is a gifted filmmaker. “The Deliverance” is the sixth feature he has directed, and I’ve been a fan of three of them: “Precious” (2009), his extraordinary tale of a stunted inner-city teenager’s escape from her domestic hell; “The Paperboy” (2012), a bold and unnerving Southern gothic noir; and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” (2021), a musical-political biopic that, while flawed, did a superb job of channeling its subject’s complicated ferocity.

So when I say that “The Deliverance,” a demonic-possession movie that Daniels made for Netflix, is one of his kitschy-extreme schlock extravaganzas, I’m not saying that he’s always like that. But sometimes he is. And “The Deliverance” is not without its socially provocative Daniels undercurrents.

Daniels’s film starts well as it points up the social pressures that informed the Latoya Ammons case, but succumbs to tired horror tropes

Ten years ago, Lee Daniels announced he was taking on a movie project based on the real-life case of Latoya Ammons, a single mother who claimed that her house was haunted, that her children were being possessed by evil spirits and that she needed a “deliverance” – in other words, an exorcism. Well, the resulting very silly and mediocre movie has now finally arrived, with Ammons in real life having long since moved out of the house in question; it has itself been bulldozed, and some of the more excitable and credulous media coverage which helped clinch the film deal has cooled in retrospect, leaving behind, perhaps, a greater emphasis on those heartless observers who were callous enough to wonder if Ammons’ paranormal claims were a drama-queen...

Lee Daniels’ first-ever horror effort, “The Deliverance,” is not to be confused with 1972’s “Deliverance.” Although, much like John Boorman’s three-time Oscar nominee about idiot canoers going through hell in rural Georgia, it does make movie-watching pretty painful.

Not since “Hillbilly Elegy” has Netflix done Glenn Close so dirty. That’s true even taking into account her small part in the hugely horrible “Heart of Stone” for the streamer last year. “The Deliverance” director Daniels, an ambitious storyteller with an admirably spotty track record, is best known for creating the TV show “Empire” with Danny Strong and, before that, helming the Sundance darling “Precious,”.

Back in 2009, Daniels’ talents as a producer on 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” preceded the success of his eventual Best Picture contender, “Precious,” but the bleak family drama about a Black family living in Harlem is what turned him into a celebrated director. His gritty portrait of...

The Boys ascended to its highest mark ever in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of its fourth season finale, and Netflix’s movie Hillbilly Elegy had a resurgence after Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance — whose memoir is the source material for the film — became the Republican nominee for vice president.

The Boys recorded 1.33 billion minutes of viewing time on Prime Video for the week of July 15-21, finishing first among all titles in Nielsen’s rankings for the first time (the season four finale debuted July 18). That’s the biggest viewing total for the series that Nielsen has ever recorded — slightly ahead of the 1.29 billion minutes it had the week of June 17-23.

Two other original series crossed the billion-minute mark for the week: Cobra Kai hit 1.09 billion minutes for the week of its final season premiere (the first of three parts) on Netflix, and Love Island had 1.05 billion across Hulu,...

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“The Boys” Season 4 finale boosted the Prime Video series to lead Nielsen’s streaming viewing charts for the first time ever.

During the week of July 15-July 21 — which included the July 18 debut of the Season 4 finale — “The Boys” tallied up 1.33 billion viewing minutes on Prime Video, marking the show’s highest weekly total ever across its existing four seasons. “The Boys” ranked in the No. 1 most-watched streaming program for the first time to date, outpacing viewership for “House of the Dragon,” “Cobra Kai” and “Love Island.”

After “House of the Dragon” stood as the most-streamed program during the previous week with 1.27 billion viewing minutes, the “Game of Thrones” spin-off series slid down to No. 2 on the list with 1.11 billion viewing minutes on Max. “Cobra Kai,” which debuted the first...

Glenn Close, who played Jd Vance’s grandmother in the film version of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, has a comment about the Republican presidential nominee’s attack on “childless cat ladies.”

Close posted a photo on Instagram with her cat and the message, “Eve would have left a bleeding mouse head in the bed of anyone who criticized any kind of lady with a Cat! #abyssiniancats.”

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Vance’s 2016 memoir was a best seller, as it shed light on the despair of the working class on Ohio and Kentucky. The book was turned into a Netflix movie in 2020, directed by Ron Howard, as Vance launched a political career. He won a U.S. Senate seat in 2022, before Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate last month.

But since then, a clip has surfaced of a 2021 interview...

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” debuted on Luminate’s weekly viewership rankings with 699.1 million minutes watched in its first full week of availability on Netflix, making it the most-watched streaming original across both the film and TV charts for Aug. 2-8 by far.

This comes after a particularly slow week of streaming; between July 26 and Aug. 1 was Season 6 of “Love Island USA” with just 386.5 million minutes watched. And beyond a solid debut for “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” the summer slowdown continued this week, as “Love Island USA” stayed near the top of the chart, clinching the No. 2 position with 365.9 million minutes watched in the second full week of availability of the season finale.

"Unsolved Mysteries" Season 4 was the No. 3 TV series with a debut of 318.2 million minutes in its first full week of availability, followed by "Mayor of Kingstown" Season 3, which saw a bump to 284.2 million viewers during this window,...

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy was posited as an important, even essential book that liberals...

Paramount is the big winner in home viewing at the moment on VOD platforms and at Netflix. The just-released “A Quiet Place: Day One” is #1 at both iTunes (ranking by transactions) and Fandango (by revenue), adding to its success after grossing $137 million in domestic box office so far.

Meantime, Paramount-produced films currently take three of the top five spots on Netflix’s movie top 10, led by Tom Cruise in two “Jack Reacher” movies, “Never Go Back” at #1 and the original at #5. #2 right now is “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie,” an offshoot of Paramount-owned Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” empire, which earlier led the list.

Like Sony, Paramount is happy to take Netflix’s money even if it means removing content from their in-house streamer, Paramount+. The “Jack Reacher” movies are not abnormal — all studios other than Disney have some licensing output deal with the streaming leader. But taking homegrown originals — “Saving Bikini Bottom,...

Summer slumber set for streaming viewership in the July 16-Aug. 1 frame as total minutes watched for top original streaming series and movies took a dip from recent weeks.

Netflix’s “Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam” and “The Decameron” showed some spunk by making it into Luminate’s top 10 for original streaming series. Paramount+’s “The Mayor of Kingstown” also saw a boost during the week for its penultimate episode of Season 3. On the film side, Netflix’s rom com “Find Me Falling” topped the chart for a second straight week. Spanish-language entry “Non Negotiable” was a sleeper success in its first week on Netflix.

Peacock’s “Love Island USA” elbowed Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” out of the No. 1 spot among original streaming series with 386.5 million minutes watched — a big drop from the previous week when the finale episode drove the show to 1.1 billion minutes watched. “Dirty Pop,” a docu...

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Bill Cipher is back, foolish mortals, and things about to get even weirder around here. Set on telling the villain’s “real” side of the story that happened in Disney’s classic animated series Gravity Falls, this lore-packed book written by creator Alex Hirsch dropped into our dimension on July 23 — and it’s already dominating the charts.

The Book of Bill is now No. 2 on the Amazon best-sellers list as well as No.

Maybe you aren’t financially stable, maybe getting financially stable is the priority, maybe the cost of living is already too high. Perhaps you just don’t want kids? Well, then you should strap on your helmet: J.D. Vance wants to go war with you.

In a 2021 Interview with The Federalist’s radio show, Vance declared unequivocally that it’s time for the right to “go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country.”

“There was this ridiculous effort by millennial feminist writers to talk about why...

Republicans are furious that the attacks describing them as fascist little weirdos are making an impression on the American public, and their response has been to get even weirder.

On Monday night, Fox News host Jesse Watters complained at length about the accusation from Democrats that GOP politicians — and Trump’s vice presidential pick Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) in particular — are “weird.”

Watters played a compilation of prominent Democratic lawmakers, politicians, and commentators discussing the attack line. “The agenda, the way they talk to people, the way they address people,...

Sony is already ahead of the game without having invested hundreds of millions of dollars into its own streaming platform. This week, once again, results show this is no barrier to Sony’s success in reaching home viewers while generating strong revenues.

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” premiered on VOD for a $19.99 rental last Tuesday, 47 days after its theatrical release. It remains in the box office top 10 at #7, with a $192 million domestic gross so far. Both iTunes (ranking by transaction) and Fandango (which calculates by revenue) rank it #1.

Meantime, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” is the latest of Sony’s films to transition to initial streaming on Netflix about four months after release (and a strong VOD run). It took first place there immediately when it debuted last Tuesday, staying atop all week.

Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (Warner Bros.) was displaced from the top spot on both charts.

Other late night hosts have had their fun with the J.D. Vance couch-sex rumors, but let’s be honest with ourselves: This bizarre, internet-fueled story always belonged to John Oliver. And in the latest episode of “Last Week Tonight,” the HBO host delivered.

In a now-deleted post that first appeared on July 15, a X user wrote that Vance will be “the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f–king an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions [sic].” Though the post was a joke and Vance never wrote about having sex with any sort of furniture in “Hillbilly Elegy,” the rumor quickly took on a life of its own.

“I think the reason it spread so fast is that A) nobody read that f–king book and B) it was incredibly easy to believe because if you asked me to draw a man who f–ks his couch,...

Kesha strongly condemned Republican vice presidential candidate Jd Vance for his remarks about “childless cat ladies” running the country, joining a growing number of celebrities speaking out against the politician’s controversial statements.

The “Tik Tok” singer, approached by paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport, expressed her displeasure with Vance’s comments. “Boo! F–- that man! That’s all I have to say. F–- them all. That’s absolutely sexist,” Kesha said, adding that she plans to support Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the upcoming election.

Vance, 39, faced renewed criticism this week after a 2021 Fox News interview resurfaced online. In the clip, the Hillbilly Elegy author questioned how politicians like Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could shape the Democratic Party’s future without having children of their own.

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Chelsea Handler responded Sunday to resurfaced comments from J.D. Vance regarding women without children.

“To put it in women-hating terms you understand, you’re being hysterical,” Handler said in a video posted to Instagram.

Last week, comments that Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate made in 2021 resurfaced online, including a clip in which Vance told Tucker Carlson that the United States was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

“Listen up you wingnut elegy, this country is still controlled by men and systems that were set up by men that are carefully crafted to continue to benefit men,” Handler said in a fast-speaking response. “Let’s be clear, there is no correlation between childless people and the presidency. For example,...

Strike first and strike hard, indeed. Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” and Peacock’s “Love Island USA” topped the Luminate streaming originals TV series charts for the July 19-25 period. On the film side, Netflix’s new rom-com “Find Me Falling” and a resurgent “Hillbilly Elegy” led the field.

The Season 6 debut of “Cobra Kai” delivered 716 million minutes watched in the show’s first full week of availability, following the July 18 premiere of the first half of its final season. The July 21 season finale of relationship reality show “Love Island USA” drove that show to rack up 631 million minutes watched.

Amazon Prime Video's "The Boys" also had a strong frame thanks to its Season 4 finale bowing July 18. The superhero sendup finished out with 431.6 million minutes viewed. The conclusion of Season 1 of Apple TV+'s David E. Kelley drama "Presumed Innocent" took that show up the charts in a big way to 424.1 million minutes watched.

A presumably false story that went viral this week, with memes and jokes spreading rapidly across social media, about Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance writing in his memoir about using a couch and latex glove during a solo sex act has found its way into the late-night monologues, with Steven Colbert riffing on the fake news on Thursday night.

The rumor about Vance made the rounds on X in recent days, including in this tweet by user @wunderbra666 on July 17, two days after Trump announced he’d picked Vance as his running mate: “On pages 179-81 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance talks about fucking an inside out latex glove between two couch cushions. I’m so glad that this is coming from the guy who claims he’s all about family values.”

Hillbilly Elegy is Vance’s 2016 best-selling memoir about growing up in poverty and a broken home in rural Ohio and Kentucky.

J.D. Vance’s vice presidential campaign isn’t going so well. It hasn’t even been two weeks since former president/current guy who thinks Hannibal Lecter is a real person Donald Trump selected Vance as his running mate (seemingly because he was enchanted by the author and senator’s “beautiful blue eyes”), yet Vance has already found himself in the middle of a headline-dominating scandal concerning a rumor that he once went full “Andrew from Big Mouth” on a couch.

The couch-humping thing was clearly just a joke, stemming from a social media post claiming that the salacious confession was printed in the pages of Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy. While this story was easily debunked with a simple scan of the book, it nonetheless sparked countless memes, and was given further oxygen when the Associated Press deleted its article “No, Jd Vance Did Not Have Sex with a Couch,...

Thank the Midwest for the stunning “Twisters” box office turnout over the past weekend: The movie’s middle-American appeal helped Lee Isaac Chung‘s disaster movie whip up more than $80 million at the opening weekend box office. As of writing, the Glen Powell star vehicle has grossed over $113 million in the United States.

Plus, a “Super Bowl” trailer always goes a long way with heartland audiences who feel underrepresented or devalued by Hollywood. Ditto an NBCUniversal-backed NASCAR spot featuring Powell himself hocking the film, and a production shot on location in Oklahoma, and a movie about the very disasters affecting states in America’s Tornado Alley. Rival studios should take note of how Universal Pictures has tapped into a rural sensibility here with a movie both fresh and also familiar given its expansion of the IP established by Jan de Bont’s 1996 blockbuster, “Twister.”

IndieWire spoke with exhibitors in...

In “Widow Clicquot,” Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, who was only 27 years old when she took over her husband’s (Tom Sturridge) vineyard after his untimely death in the late 1700s. She went on to become known as the Grande Dame of Champagne for her bubbly innovations, including creating the first vintage champagne in 1810.

All the while, Barbe-Nicole faced pushback as her father-in-law (Ben Miles) tried to take over the business.

The Thoms Napper-directed film — based on Tilar J. Mazzeo’s New York Times bestseller “The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It” — has been in development in various stages over many years. Bennett, who also serves as a producer, was set to start shooting when their budget was suddenly cut in half after an investor expectedly pulled out. They quickly tweaked the script to keep the entire film based at...

Vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance would like to be having a brat summer, but he is instead facing accusations of pushin’ the cushions of an unfortunate sofa.

Social media has been inundated with jokes and memes suggesting Vance once pleasured himself between two couch cushions.

What goes on between a man and his couch is between him, God, and whatever sexy sectional he chooses to victimize. While we can’t definitively state that Donald Trump’s running mate has never engaged in some furniture fornication, the viral allegation that Vance...

TV and film were neck and neck for eyeballs last week on Netflix. Cobra Kai Season 6A stole the No. 1 spot for series and eked out a win for most-viewed title with 14.8M views.

This is a decent showing for the first five episodes of the final season, though Netflix is surely hoping it will grow over the 91-day premiere window. There are two more parts to Season 6, with more episodes coming in November and in 2025. Such a lengthy wait between new episodes is likely hurting early viewership as some audiences will wait until more episodes are available before it debuts, meaning a more impressive debut week for the final episodes is more than possible.

Vikings: Valhalla took over this week after Season 3 debuted in second place with 6.4M views. Season 1 broke back onto the list at sixth with 2.4M views, and Season 2 managed tenth with 1.9M views.

As audiences prep for the 2024 Paris Olympics,...

The new season of “Cobra Kai” debuted as Netflix’s most-watched TV show of the week.

After Netflix dropped Part 1 of the sixth and final season — Parts 2 and 3 debut on Nov. 15 and in 2025, respectively — on Thursday, July 18, “Cobra Kai” tallied up 14.8 million views through its first several days on the streamer.

Viewership for “Cobra Kai” Season 6 more than doubled that of the week’s second most-watched TV show, “Vikings: Valhalla” Season 3, which logged 6.4 million views during the week of July 15. Docuseries “Simone Biles: Rising” debuted in the No. 3 spot on the most-watched English TV list in its first week on the streamer with 4.7 million views, while “Homicide: Los Angeles” took fourth place with 4.3 million views and “Supacell” took fifth place with 4.2 million views.

The July 11 release of “Vikings: Valhalla” Season 3 also boosted viewing for its previous installments, with Season 1 taking sixth place with 2.4 million views and Season 2 sitting in the No.

Veep is seeing a sudden surge in viewership following the announcement that VP Kamala Harris is likely the Democratic presidential nominee, after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out the race and endorsed his second-in-command.

Viewership of the HBO series’ first season on Max was up 353% yesterday, July 22, with 2.2 million total minutes watched, following word that Harris had clinched enough delegates to claim the nomination. That’s compared to 486,000 total minutes watched on Sunday, July 21.

The circumstances are remarkably similar for Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer and Harris. In Veep, Meyer (Dreyfus), a U.S. Senator from Maryland, jumps into the ring for President but loses the nomination to Stewart Hughes (who is never depicted on screen). She later joins the Hughes ticket and is elected Vice President to Hughes. In Season 2, Hughes abruptly resigns due to his wife’s poor mental health and Meyer becomes President.

Many fans have taken...

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear ripped into Sen. J.D. Vance, who former President Trump has selected to be his running mate. Vance, who framed himself as a child of Appalachian Kentucky in his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, does not speak for that community, Beshear argued.

“I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like,” Beshear told the MSNBC hosts. “Because let me just tell you that J.D. Vance ain’t from here.”

If it sounded like a stump speech, that might not be a coincidence. In the days since President Biden announced his plans to end his reelection bid and put his support behind Harris, Morning Joe has become the platform of choice for those in the mix to be Harris’ VP nominee.

Beshear was asked by Willie Geist whether it was a job that would interest...

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Kamala Harris appears to be gaining momentum after President Joe Biden’s news that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Harris as the Democratic Party nominee. In the days since Biden’s announcement, Democrats have seen both fundraising numbers and political allies lining up behind the Vice President, as she prepares to face off against Donald Trump in November.

The momentum is crossing over...

Vindication for critics who thought Kevin Costner’s epic “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1″ (Warner Bros.) felt more like a TV drama: It was an immediate #1 on VOD top 10 lists.

The first of a planned four-film series, with the second already completed (and now delayed after the postponement of its August release), it showed poorly in theaters with $28.5 million in U.S./Canada after its fourth weekend. Its rapid transition to home viewing after 18 days (standard for Universal beyond its biggest hits) looks like a smart move: It suggests there is an audience, although perhaps not one eager to watch the 181-minute epic in a theater.

This could help the troubled project gain traction, get it out of the red, and increase interest for “Chapter 2,” wherever/whenever it plays.

Military rescue thriller “Land of Bad” — starring Luke and Liam Hemsworth with Russell Crowe — leads at Netflix. For the second straight week,...

The two most-watched streaming originals in the U.S. during the week of July 12-18 were Peacock’s “Love Island USA” Season 6 and Disney+’s “Descendants: The Rise of Red,” topping Luminate’s TV and film charts, respectively, with 1.1 billion minutes watched.

This was the second week at No. 1 for "Love Island." Season 6 viewership improved slightly from last week's 919 million minutes watched after the release of Episodes 28 through 33. "The Rise of Red" debuted on the the first day of this viewing window, giving it a full week to accrue its total.

In their first full weeks of availability on Netflix, Season 3 of "Vikings: Valhalla" was second-most-watched (1 billion minutes) and docuseries "Receiver" took third place (886.5 million minutes). "The Boys" Season 4 took fourth place with 577.8 million minutes watched in the first full week of availability of its penultimate episode and the first few hours of availability of its finale.

Peacock had a...

On Saturday July 13, 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks borrowed his father's Ar-15 style rifle and parked himself atop a building near the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, from which he fired eight bullets in the direction of former President Donald J. Trump. This being 2024, we can reasonably conclude from the myriad of cameras present — television, phone, and whatnot — that this happened. We also know for a fact that Trump's ear was bloodied by something, that three other people were struck by Crooks' bullets, and that one of these bullets killed 50-year-old Corey Comparatore. Finally, it is an incontrovertible fact that Thomas Matthew Crooks is dead.

Why Crooks did this is still under investigation, though it does appear he acted alone. How he evaded Secret Service to claim such an advantageous perch has prompted furious finger pointing within the long-embattled agency. What, if anything, this means for the upcoming presidential...

There’s been a little too much talk about Hillbilly Elegy of late. Las Culturistas’ Matt Rogers speculated that if we’d only given Amy Adams her Oscar for Arrival, she never would have done Hillbilly, and then maybe we wouldn’t be dealing with Jd Vance as our potential Vice Presidential nominee.

Jd Vance spoke on day three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, where the junior senator from Ohio officially accepted his nomination as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate.

After introducing himself to the nation, Vance squarely addressed the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. Four days ago, the former president was inches away from being killed or gravely wounded by a 20-year-old man with an automatic rifle who was shot dead at the scene by Secret Service snipers.

“As we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been so much different instead of a day of celebration,” Vance said at the podium. “This could have been a day of heartache and mourning.”

Vance used his first primetime address as Trump’s running mate to share his story of his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, describing the town as “a place...