OSCAR GATE!

OSCARGATE!!!
The conspiracy theories abound.

Last night now, without question, one of the strangest events in Hollywood history played out on LIVE TV for the world to see.. a movie announced as the winner. And the winner announcing another as disarray filled the stage.

This reporting from BUSTLE on the conspiracy theories that are abounding online:

According to Marc Snetiker of Entertainment Weekly Emma Stone said she had her Best Actress card on her person the entire time. “I also was holding my Best Actress in a leading role card that entire time, so whatever story… I don’t meant [sic] to start stuff, but whatever story that was, I had that card,” she reportedly said backstage after the Oscars.

An explanation from The Academy could also explain some things. As Bustle’s Lia Beck wrote: “There are two people who knew the winners before they were named, Brian Cullinan and Martha L. Ruiz, from the accounting firm PwC.” Jarett Wieselman of Buzzfeed pointed out on Twitter that Cullinan told MarketWatch before the show:

From a security perspective, we double up everything. That’s why there’s two of us. We have two briefcases, that are identical, and we have two entire sets of winning envelopes. Martha carries one of those briefcases, I carry the other.

With two sets of awards, no wonder things got a little chaotic. But envelopegate, as it has now been dubbed, may require a more creative explanation. Because if Twitter is good for anything, it’s showcasing the best — and worst, and craziest, and most unbelievable, and… you get it — conspiracy theories on the web.

The high degree of celeb strangeness has been at the top of the fold on Drudge all day..

Welcome to LA LA LAND

WARREN BEATTY BLEW IT

Hollywood snaps at Oscars and calls it the biggest disaster in award history..


The presenters for the final award — Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway — were incorrectly given the best actress award envelope. A confused Beatty saw Emma Stone’s name and “La La Land,” and handed the envelope to Dunaway, who then announced the musical as the Best Picture winner.

The “La La Land” cast took the stage and producers began their speeches. But they stopped midway when they realized their error.

“There’s a mistake. ‘Moonlight’ you guys won best picture,” Jordan Horowitz said to the shocked Dolby Theater audience. “This is not a joke, come up here” the producer added. “Moonlight has won best picture.”

Beatty then returned to the microphone to explain: “I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, ‘La La Land.’ That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny.”

Here is the video while it lasts..

LA TIMES lead Sunday: Will this year's Academy Awards see a repeat of #OscarsSoWhite backlash?

Glenn Whipp writes,

Their fear: The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite will be trending on social media again.

The academy found itself on the defensive last year when white actors earned all 20 of the nominations in the lead and supporting categories. The topic came to define the Academy Awards so much that host Neil Patrick Harris opened the ceremony by quipping: “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest. Sorry, brightest.”

The good thing to remember, all: The Oscars are completely and utterly meaningless when it comes to what is actually a good film.

Why should we exist watching movies that are validated by people often under a cloud of movie suspicion.. 

LA TIMES lead Sunday: Will this year's Academy Awards see a repeat of #OscarsSoWhite backlash?

Horrifying times for making Hollywood horror movies?

This article details the apparent lack of interest in Hollywood horror.
The article is right..
The newest PARANORMAL ACTIVITY flick is a sure sign of the big budget failures..

But there’s hope. And it’s not Hollywood. Independent horror makers (and all genres for that matter) are sorting things out and spicing things up far stronger than the known actors guild and pious studios ..

There’s hope.
Just look beyond what’s spoon fed and find your own meal..

Horrifying times for making Hollywood horror movies?

The Liz Smith files: 92 years of gossip revealed in new interview

At 92, the famed writer is revealing secrets.. Bridges about to be burned. And she's burning them while there is time..

Welcome to Hollywood.. where apparently even the Oscar statue snorts cocaine..

It is actually a message of art being sent by the artist PLASTIC JESUS..

More from the LA TIMES:

"The piece is intended to draw attention to Hollywood’s hidden problem of drug addiction that affects hundreds of people in the showbiz industry and is largely ignored until the death of a high profile A list celebrity," Stern said in a statement on Plastic Jesus’ behalf to LAist.

George Lucas sounds off: Disney didn’t use any of his ideas in new STAR WARS movie.. 

But while some fans may seen this as a shot at Lucas, let’s get real.. the ‘newest’ STAR WARS movies were basically a triplet of trash, some of the worst films I have ever seen.

Especially the PHANTOM MENACE.. should we really ponder why Disney didn’t use the ideas?

Sure, a young George Lucas gave us Darth Vader.

But the modern Lucas gave us Jar Jar Binks..

I think a new direction was quite appropriate when considering that..

Two thumbs and a bum

The Latino Post has reported before that Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are rumored to make a comeback in the Transformers movie franchise..

It’s all good, and all. I actually really liked the first TRANSFORMERS .. and of course Megan Fox’s cheered on scene of bending over a car hood still is iconic in the history of movies..

But so much as changed since then..

Megan Fox now believes in Bigfoot and Shia often looks like one..

BUT IT’S ALL GOOD..

Slick rollout on hold: Megan Fox Tells Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Haters To F**k Off

A big thumbs down on the haters from Megan Fox.. the extra-shiny Fox said the colorful language during a press conference today .. the run up to the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES may be getting a bit stressful.. perhaps Michael Bay has been putting on the pressure for Fox to get even skimpier and skinnier.. Not sure .. 

But the truth is this: She hates you if you hate her new movie..

She said this about the newfound online bashing of the newest TMNT: 

Let me tell you something about those people. How much money didTransformers 4 make? Exactly. Those people can complain – they all go to the theater. They’re gonna love it – and if they don’t love it, they can fuck off, and that’s the end of that

Critics who have already been critical were quick to criticize and critique.. especially thumb raising is how quick Fox was to use some interesting language and express such raw emotions so few days before the well oiled rollout of the movie occurs..

Fox has been going throughout the world to promote the film.. She’s the star. She’s the face..and the body. 

And now she’s the sailor, cussing on stage and hatin’ on haters. 

Slick rollout on hold: Megan Fox Tells Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Haters To F**k Off

THE EXTINCTION IS HERE

….in box offices. And as some scientists say, in real life too.. but real life doesn’t make as much money as TRANSFORMERS AGE OF EXTINCTION will..

$104 mil + for the weekend? Apparently that is what experts are expecting or at least craving.. big money for HOLLYWOOD baby, let’s let the good times roll. And go extinct.

The heat of the summer is here.. no better time than the present to make oodles of cash off of people on dates and yearning for a cool seat in a heat wave. 

But this is amazing: TRANSFORMERS made $81 mil internationally on Friday night for the opening day extravaganza. 

Nothing can stop it now. 
Not even 22 JUMP STREET.  Whatever that is.

Marshall Fine Journalist, Movie Critic, writes: Farewell to horror films

He is done with them.. He makes a few points I can agree with.. for example, this: 

Vampires? Werewolves? Zombies? Again, sorry — it’s less that I don’t believe in them (I don’t) than that they have become such tired concepts or conceits, full of familiar tropes. I simply can’t summon the energy to care about them.

Even those, however, are preferable to the kind of torture-porn that seems to dominate the genre. Special effects have evolved so far that you can find a way to graphically depict any sadistic act you can imagine, from disembowelment to decapitation, and worse.

I have found a few gems that actually are good stories mentally scary.. One movie recently I saw was HAUNTER.. I am not in favor of the sadistic torture porn, and have written a number of articles against it over the years..

Fine also writes that age itself may have done in his horror experience.. he opines:

When you’re young — which I’m defining as under 30 — you crave sensation. It can come from thrill rides or extreme sports (participating or watching) or horror movies. The more exaggerated the sensation, the better — it’s a way of expanding your boundaries, testing yourself against extremes, figuring out your own limits.

After 30, however, there’s an increasing awareness of just how brutal, random and arbitrary life can be. Bad things do happen to good people; there are people out there who do commit these acts and you simply hope you never cross paths with them.

I fondly recall long summer nights with my friends all together mocking and jesting about badly made B horror films.. we laughed way past midnight and often saw the sunrise after a night of  movie watching.. And in a sense, I’d like to do that again.

I don’t quite think I ever watched horror movies for the storyline.. There have been a few ‘paranormal’ entries into the genre that have thrilled me for other reasons—SIXTH SENSE, SIGNS, THE RING, JEEPERS CREEPERS (1) and even the CONJURING were all good for the right reasons.. other films were good only because they were fodder for the teenage sense of humor..

Now, as I crossed into the my 30s three years ago, I can attest to with Marshall Fine is saying. Horror sort of comes and goes.. I am more afraid of reality than fiction—bloodbaths in real life happen every day.. 

Fine writes in his conclusion:

Yes, yes – I can hear the arguments already. Horror films allow us to confront our fears and, perhaps, deal with them in a non-threatening way. Or: Horror films serve as metaphors for (A) our lack of control over the world at large or (B) specific real-life horrors like nuclear holocaust, racism, environmental catastrophe, etc. Or they’re a harmless diversion, a catharsis in which the powerless ultimately overcome the powerful.

I get that. But I don’t need horror movies to make me think about those things. And really, only critics parse horror films in that way. Most of the mass audience is simply looking for a cheap thrill.

I suppose that’s all true.

But ‘horror movies’ aren’t the only torture porns out there.. PASSION OF THE CHRIST was almost as bad as HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.  Which is why I have long thought the new breed of sadism in some films need their own genre—and I don’t think fans of that sort of movie would disagree. I argue that they’d be much happier going to a Rob Zombie section of Netflix and finding all of the blood and gore that they yearn to consume.. 

Horror movies can still be new and fresh, inventive and scary. 

Where Mr. Fine is right is in his broad perception that most horror movies are not good and fresh.. instead sadistic and without merit. 

Thoughts anyone?

Marshall Fine Journalist, Movie Critic, writes: Farewell to horror films

New Sex Abuse Lawsuit Targets Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard

An anonymous UK citizen has filed suit against Bryan Singer and Gary Goddard, alleging that they both sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager.

It’s probably not what anyone in the production team or advertising and marketing department of X-MEN want to hear.. but this Hollywood wasteland news is getting only deeper. 

The DAILY BEAST had a amazingly graphic account of the lawsuit details yesterday.. This new lawsuit is separate from that filed Michael Egan..

The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER writes on the allegations:

Singer had sex with the plaintiff at a Superman after after party in a London hotel room when the plaintiff was 17, according to the suit. (This is presumably a reference to Singer’s Superman Returns, which had its U.K. premiere July 13, 2006.) The boy resisted, the suit continues, but Goddard brought in a “large, musclebound man” who smacked the teenager around, holding him while Singer grabbed him and Goddard, naked on the bed, watched. Singer then allegedly attempted to rape the plaintiff. The complaint, although a civil matter, states or suggests that Singer and Goddard violated federal and state criminal law.

Marty singer is Bryan Singer’s lawyer—no relation though. Team Singer is doing its best to resuscitate the image of the X-MEN director and deny all allegations.. 

But now, as the movie release date comes closer, it will be interesting to see how they affect the film’s entrance onto the box office scene.. will people see it without concern, or will others be completely offput by the thoughts of SUPERMAN sex and rough looking muscle bound goons slapping a young teenage boy who did not want to have sex with a Hollywood hit?

Sordid tales of Hollywood are not new..
But these allegations—and an upcoming documentary being made by the same person who exposed the Catholic church--promises more explosive fireworks.

With the never ending drip of allegations against Singer and others in Hollywood, it will be interesting to see what other storms brew.. 

New Sex Abuse Lawsuit Targets Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard

Bryan Singer has an alibi: He was NOT in Hawaii during the sex orgies, he says..According to what TMZ knows, he has credit cards to prove he was filming X-MEN in Toronto.. 

BUT…

But this may be big coming tomorrow: Easter Eggs are going to be flowing as the Bryan Singer accuser, Michael Egan III, will apparently be filing MORE Hollywood sex lawsuits Monday.. Other Hollywood ‘insiders’ will be sued as a statute of limitations date looms Thursday.. The Hollywood sign  may be rocked by scandal..

Egads Egan! It's XXX-MEN

Update: Michael Egan, Bryan Singer’s accuser, alleges a number of rapes by Hollywood moguls..  

Egan said the FBI and police were made aware of the allegations in 2000, but nothing came from those cases.. and something similar to what Corey Feldman has been saying for years: Allegations are being made in this case that Egan and other minors were ‘passed around like pieces of meat’ at the supposed sex orgies.. 

For now: Singer and his lawyers are doing what they can to besmirch the person accusing.. this is something that undoubtedly is going to play out big time in the media. . 

The other monetary question: What does FOX do now about the release of X-MEN?  It’s release date is next month.. And FOX is left scrambling and Singer has skipped this weekend’s WonderCon Fanfest..  the joke already is being made: X-MEN 2 should be renamed XXX-MEN ..  

Fanboys and fanmen are already debating the movie release—and the Singer allegations. Just look at how heated the comments thread is becoming on AINT IT COOL.. 

Also check some of the comments on my original story posted yesterday on this matter.. 

People laughed at Corey Feldman.. but he may have been right..

X-MEN director Bryan Singer accused of sexually abusing a teenage old boy at his California mansion..  The story is disturbing if true: The federal lawsuit alleges that Singer drugged and raped the boy in 1999..  the WRAP obtained information and published the name of the accuser—though the lawyers issued a press release actually publishing the accused name themselves.. And releasing next month: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Looks like the past may be haunting Snger this month.

When I read or hear stories in relation to what Bryan Singer may have done (or any other Hollywood star for that matter), I always think back to the words uttered on numerous occasions by Corey Feldman and the pedophile industry in Hollywood..  I always found what Feldman has been saying on this subject to have merit..

And you probably always know what I am wondering about Peaches Geldof.. 

Yes indeed people can be sick..

The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood

A great article.. Anghus Houvouras on the zombiefication of Hollywood.

I have known Anghus for years and have followed him.. he used to write a column for my other site, HORRORREPORT.COM, and he continues to be a great and outspoken commentator on the current times of Hollywood.

He writes this;

The entertainment landscape is starting to look like an episode of The Walking Dead.  Originality is a dwindling number of survivors making their way through an unforgiving apocalyptic landscape where the threat of being devoured by rapidly multiplying zombie franchises seems inevitable. 

How true that is..

The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood

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Get ready for heroes in a half shell. My son is already enthralled by the minute plus trailer for the NINJA TURTLES movie with Megan Fox coming out this summer.. Although I have read a few sources that are not as excited as today’s youth are with the Michael Bay rethink of the TURTLES..

And others are providing harsh commentary on Megan Fox’ abilities to transform into April O’Neill. The only thing I really noted about the trailer was the lack of substance, but instead the reliance on big action bombs and blasts and Megan Fox’s face. Not three seconds of the trailer went by without seeing Megan Fox ..

It seems that every time the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES come around, they get bigger. This one is no different. It appears that Michael Bay made them absolutely huge, as though they were steroid-using weight lifting heroes in a half shell .. Maybe too big?

As a student of the 1980s and 90s, the cartoon featured turtles who were short and fun.. As a matter of fact, even April O’Neill was taller than them. Not this go around, though.. Michael Bay made them ugly and huge.. They looked more like alligators than turtles.

And Megan Fox looks more like Megan Fox than April.

And Michael Bay looks like Michael Bay.

But does TMNT look more like Pearl Harbor than a hit? Time will tell, this summer…

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Horror Hit ‘The Grudge’ Going Reboot Route

I just don’t get it..

The GRUDGE is getting a reboot—seriously?? DEADLINE reported it, so it’s probably true..

But remember this: The 2004 movie cost about $10 mil to make and grossed almost $200 mil worldwide that year—and they are going to do a reboot?

When they don’t have to?

Insane in the membrane.

Horror Hit ‘The Grudge’ Going Reboot Route

Oscar Voter Reveals Brutally Honest Ballot

The Hollywood Reporter tells all..

Oscar Voter Reveals Brutally Honest Ballot

Woody Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow details how he sexually abused her in open letter

Woody Allen’s adopted daughter, in a wrenching letter, describes in stomach churning detail how the iconic film director sexually abused her.

He’s been called a genuis. He’s been called cutting edge.. he’s been called one of the funniest men of all time.

And now he’s being called a sexually abusive and revolting human being from his adopted daughter..

Even sicker:

“He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me.”

“He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies,” Farrow wrote.

Sure sorry in advance it this offends anyone.. but in my eyes Woody Allen is a horrifying creature, as bad as Roman Polanski .. And if Dylan Farrow’s allegations are even partially true, any respect he gained over the years should be disregarded and instead he should be viewed as the monster he is.

The news being reported on Allen today gives a whole new ‘creep factor’ to the bizarre moment when Diane Keaton sang to him in a child’s voice at the Golden Globes.

Woody Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow details how he sexually abused her in open letter