Barry Sonnenfeld, director of the 1997 smash hit blockbuster “Men in Black,” made headlines this week when he shared a rather embarrassing story about his film’s star, Will Smith, having such a bad case of flatulence that the movie set had to be vacated for three hours.
The 2019 reboot/sequel of “Charlie’s Angels” just opened to a catastrophic $8 million, making it the fifth man-hating, woketard franchise to get wiped out at the box office.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and “Shaft.”
Another bomb is Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, which was sold as woke-female-of-color-lecture, because we all go to the movies to get talked down to. Oh, wait — actually we don’t.
This oppressive approach gives the movie a suffocating sense of puritan sterility where it could have really used a little Will Smith-swagger and a whole lot of cleavage.
NEW YORK (AP) — The “Men in Black” franchise has a new recruit who isn’t a man, but actress Tessa Thompson is fine with keeping the masculine-centered film title — for now.
Social media users are now demanding that actor Liam Neeson be digitally scrubbed from the upcoming film Men in Black after he made controversial comments about having a racist impulse some 40 years ago.
