The Hollywood Foreign Press Association held its first Golden Globes awards ceremony under a new and supposedly improved organization under new ownership. Organizers scrambled to find both a network to broadcast this year’s show, not to mention a host. In the end, the winners weren’t surprising with “Oppenheimer” and “Succession” each taking home five, but the show itself was incredibly bland.
Realistically, neither the Golden Globes or groups like the National Society of Film Critics are good predictors of which films will be favorites at this year’s Academy Awards.
Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including the best selling books of 2023, a major radio station operator files for bankruptcy and Prince’s “Purple Rain” heads to Broadway.
125 Best Romance Books Of All Time
https://parade.com/books/best-romance-books-of-all-time
‘Wonka’ On Way To $500M WW, ‘Wish’ Tops $200M; ‘Taylor Swift: Eras Tour’ Overtakes ‘This Is It’
https://deadline.com/2024/01/wonka-aquaman-2-wish-taylor-swift-eras-tour-global-international-box-office-1235698776/
Box Office: ‘Night Swim’ Opens to $12M, ‘Wonka’ Leads Overall as Post-Holiday Doldrums Begin
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/night-swim-box-office-wonka-1235780767/
‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Will Go On Without Nigel Lythgoe Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-01-05/nigel-lythgoe-sytycd-sexual-assault-so-you-think-you-can-dance
These Are the Bestselling (New) Books of 2023
https://lithub.com/these-are-the-bestselling-new-books-of-2023/
Radio Giant Audacy — Owner of KROQ and KCBS — Files for Bankruptcy
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/audacy-kroq-wfan-files-bankruptcy-1235781045/
Prince Movie Classic ‘Purple Rain’ Becoming a Stage Musical
https://variety.com/2024/legit/news/prince-movie-purple-rain-stage-musical-branden-jacobs-jenkins-1235863878/
David Soul, ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Star, Dies at 80
https://variety.com/2024/tv/obituaries-people-news/david-soul-dead-starsky-hutch-1235862532/
Glynis Johns, Tony Winner for ‘A Little Night Music,’ Dies at 100
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/theater/glynis-johns-dead.html
MGMT’s “Mother Nature.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDzIO5ahGE8
