The film Triangle of Sadness was nominated for three Oscars at the 2023 Academy Awards. In a sad turn of events, the lead actress of the movie, Charlbi Dean Kriek, died unexpectedly this past August (2022.) Why was she left out of the In Memorium segment of the awards show?
Hugh Grant attended the 2023 Oscars to present with Andie MacDowell for Best Production Design, but he didn’t exactly seem thrilled to be there.
A TikTok by @truestory page claims that the Minions franchise story and characters are based on disturbing true events from 1903. The TikTok includes an old photo of people looking a lot like the popular characters. Is this really a true story? Let’s fact check.
It’s been 24 hours since The Slap, and Will Smith has apparently made up with Chris Rock. But has Chris Rock apologized to Jada Smith yet?
The 2022 Oscars were a pretty lackluster affair – that is, until the onstage drama took over the entire show. But what did Will Smith say to Chris Rock? And had the bad blood between them been bubbling for way longer than just the Academy Awards show?
Before Tom Girardi’s fall from grace, he was a celebrated lawyer supposedly fighting for the vulnerable and victimized. Part of this hero clout came from his work in the historic “Erin Brockovich case.” He stepped in to help Ed Masry and his assistant Erin Brockovich take on Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1993 for contaminating the groundwater of Hinkley, California. The case was settled in 1996 for $333 million, a record-setting amount.
In the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich, the main character finds love with a biker neighbor named George who, honestly, had a number of red flags (like his eagerness to take care of her young kids as a stranger.) In real life, their love didn’t have a happy ending. The man who the movie love interest was based on, Jorg Halaby, joined forces with her ex-husband Shawn Brown to try to extort money from her boss at the time: lawyer Ed Masry.
The Dude abides, but how does he subsist in order to perpetually “take it easy for all us sinners”?
The film Zola is a nonstop dangerous adventure of a Detroit waitress and part-time stripper who is way too trusting of a new friend. It’s based on a true story told via a Twitter thread in 2015. The pimp depicted in the Twitter thread and movie has sexually trafficked other women, and is currently serving time in prison for his actions.
Coyote Ugly was released almost 21 years ago and is still a beloved classic about singer-songwriter Violet who finds her voice and gains confidence while working at an iconic performance bar. It turns out that this story about carving out your own life is based, (at least a little bit) on real life.
Now that we know Kanye West’s Star Wars houses are a thing — and that he’s evidently going to solve homelessness with them — we have some unanswered questions.
A new adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary premieres this Friday, 30 years after the first adaptation, which debuted in 1989. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly King reveals that that “everything in the book up to the point of the supernatural stuff is true.” So, what is the true story behind Pet Sematary?