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Oprah Winfrey is so proud of her bestie. The billionaire, 71, cried when her BFF Gayle King took off into space on the Blue Origin mission Monday morning alongside five others, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez. Winfrey was on scene at the launch site in West Texas and told a reporter during the livestream that she wore yellow because King, 70, is “sunshine.”

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket has just taken an all-female crew of celebrity astronauts to space in a history-making event not seen in 60 years. Jeff Bezos's fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, and popstar Katy Perry headlined a crew of six noteworthy women who blasted off from West Texas Monday morning on a nail-biting 11-minute suborbital flight during which the crew could be heard screaming on the broadcast. The New Shepard rocket only took its famous passengers beyond the threshold of Earth's atmosphere and into space for roughly three minutes before returning home safely.

Six women, including pop star Katy Perry, are scheduled to be launched into space for about 11 minutes on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket, a lift-off that would mark the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company. The window for the latest New Shepard rocket launch is expected to open on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. CDT, according to Blue Origin. long with Perry, the crew includes Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos' journalist fiance, Lauren Sanchez, who is also a helicopter pilot. Journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil...

Disnet is believed to be reassessing the potential of other live-action movies in the wake of Snow White’s poor performance at the box office. The film, starring Rachel Zegler as the titular princess and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, failed to replicate the magic of the 1937 original, grossing just $69 million (£53 million) domestically and $145 million (£111 million) worldwide. This is against a production budget of $270 million (£203 million), leaving Disney significantly in the red.

Experience a joyous after-hours event at Disneyland Park—June 16 and 18, 2025—celebrating the diversity that makes us unique. Save the Date! Starting April 16, 2025, Magic Key holders will have the opportunity to purchase from a select amount of pre-sale tickets ahead of the general public. General admission tickets go on sale April 17, 2025 (no earlier than 9:00 AM Pacific Time). Tickets are $169 per Guest (ages 3+).

Almost no one sues Disney and wins. That is, until now. Actress Gina Carano has joined former ESPN host Sage Steele in winning a major victory against the media company after a discovery motion has been granted in the former “Mandalorian” star’s wrongful termination suit. According to Glenn Beck, Walt Disney created “the nastiest attorney firm in the history of the world.” “I don’t think there’s any corporation that is more nasty than the Disney Corporation,” he explains on “The Glenn Beck Program,” adding, “The last time I saw somebody win was Sage Steele. That’s two women that have beaten...

Rachel Zegler should be patting herself on the back for all her dumb comments that have led to Snow White bombing so big at the box office that it might not hit $100M domestically and is looking likely to be one of the biggest bombs ever put out by Disney. Disney certainly isn’t happy but hey, it’s on them for casting Zegler who looks nothing remotely like the original character and who $#!+ all over the original and its near century worth of fans. Disney should have replaced Zegler a long time ago. How’d that work out? Fans have voted...

“Snow White” is pretty much dead now. No friends from the forest can save her. Yesterday, the Disney debacle finished in third place, losing to two new releases, “Working Man” and “The Chosen.” These two are B movies at best, but managed to trounce “Snow White,” which now has just $56 million in the till. Everything about “Snow White” is cursed at this point. Disney’s only shot is to somehow revive the Pasek/Paul songs next winter for the Oscars. But it will probably be too late for that

President Donald Trump’s FCC commissioner said Friday he’s opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced the probe in a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger on Friday. The company said it was reviewing the letter and looking forward to answering the commission’s questions. Carr has pushed the Federal Communications Commission into an activist role since Trump appointed him as its leader. For example, the FCC currently has open investigations into ABC, CBS and NBC News. “For decades, Disney...

Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland. The 'Denmarkification' campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources. President Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in making Greenland - an autonomous territory of Denmark - part of the US, citing its strategic importance and mineral wealth. He has not ruled out using military or economic power...

Disney's live-action remake of "Snow White" is out in theaters, and with a miserable $42.2 million opening weekend, it's already proven to be a historic flop. The film, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, cost at least $270 million to make, with tens of millions, if not more, spent on advertising. Given distribution and exhibition costs, it's likely Disney needed the film to make at least $800-850 million globally to break even. With the importance of the domestic market, US grosses needed to reach at least $400 million to give the entertainment giant a chance at profitability. It might not...

After watching its latest feature Snow White suffer a disastrous opening weekend at the box office, executives at Disney have decided to quietly cancel the studio's live-action version of Pocahontas starring Dylan Mulvaney. Studio executives notified Mulvaney that the project would not be moving forward after audiences resoundingly ridiculed Snow White, blasting every aspect of the film, from its poor production quality to its pushing of a "woke" agenda. "We thought we really had a winner with this one, but we may have slightly miscalculated," said one Disney executive who asked to remain anonymous. "After the way the public reacted...

The crisis facing the Walt Disney Company over its controversial Snow White reboot deepened today amid pictures of empty cinemas and screens with no bookings in primetime slots following a poor opening weekend. Studio bosses had hoped that the reboot of the 1937 original, which had a budget of more than $270million (£210million), would launch with at least £79million ($100million) in ticket sales. But the movie starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot took just $87.3million (£67.4million) globally including $43million (£33million) in the US after a slow start followed a slew of negative reviews. Meanwhile, in mainland China, Snow White ranked...

I don’t keep up with what Disney is doing. What they did to the Star Wars franchise is unforgivable. Yet, the new Snow White movie starring Rachel Zegler, a pro-Hamas clown, is getting bombed harder than Gaza right now, as critics and theater-goers are decidedly not watching this movie:

Even Snow White wouldn't want to wake up to this nightmare that she created. In the latest example of Gen Z realizing that words have consequences, Disney's real-life Snow White debuted on Friday to horrific numbers, with the $209 million budget film bringing in a reported measly $15.5 million to kick off its expected $40-$50 million box office weekend. The pathetic turnout comes after lead actress Rachel Zegler's controversial comments disparaging the original 1937 movie as being "extremely dated" with its views about women "and a stalker Prince," to wishing "no peace" to Trump supporters after the President's reelection in...

Disney's live-action 'woke' remake of Snow White is shaping up to be one of the iconic franchise's worst-performing movies in recent years, according to initial box office figures. Snow White has been mired in controversy due to comments from its star Rachel Zegler and the absence of the iconic song 'Someday My Prince Will Come.' The first results from theaters have been revealed, and they're not great. The movie made just $3.5 million in Thursday previews and is projected to earn a disappointing $45 to $55 million during its opening weekend. That places the film below Disney's Little Mermaid remake,...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which “Snow White” stars aren’t friends at all? Rachel Zelger has “nothing in common” with fellow “Snow White” actress Gal Gadot — and tensions are allegedly mounting ahead of the release of their live-action Disney remake. An unnamed insider dished on the duo in an interview with People on Friday, saying the stars live completely different lives. Zegler, 23, is a young up-and-comer, while Gadot, 39, is a mom-of-four who has been married to husband Jaron Varsano since 2008 “On top of that, their political views differ, adding to the tension,” the insider added. Both...

All signs are pointing to a box office catastrophe for Disney’s new Snow White, and Hollywood is in full-blown panic mode. It’s not just Disney feeling the heat—Tinseltown, already drowning in a sea of big-budget flops, can’t afford another messy release. But that’s exactly what’s coming, as early signs suggest this woke remake is heading straight for a long, grim, and very unprofitable sleep.Of course, casting a Hispanic liberal to play a white, German fairytale icon was one of Disney’s dumbest moves—right up there with ditching the dwarfs for diversity hire hobos, only to backtrack and digitally add the little...

When culture warriors become literal corporate sell-outs, they shouldn’t be surprised when the laws of economics come and bite them in the ass. There’s a reason ‘go woke go broke’ has become axiomatic. Even institutions as big as Disney and Bud Light have learned they are not too big to feel the sting of a spurned public returning the favor. As for politics, there aren’t many corporate political attention whores louder than Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s sold their company to Unilever in 2000, with the expectation that they could continue their political grandstanding. It looks like,...

Promotional Image Courtesy of Disney I have been watching the drama over Disney's reboot of "Snow White" with both fascination and dismay. It's not the good kind of fascination either. It's more like viewing a train derailment from a high rise building a couple of blocks away — you don't want to see it, but you can't stop looking. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is one of the most famous adages that we all seem to learn very early in adulthood, if not earlier. It's not universally applicable, of course. A misapplication of that idea could lead to...