We’re back again. The second installment of our look-back at the moments Hollywood would love to forget. (If you missed Part 1, catch up here).
Here it is then: the flubs, misfires, snafus, gaffes and bad ideas that made 2023 the worst of times for this business. Counting down the remaining top 55 all the way to number 1! Here you go:
The MoviePass Reboot attempt. How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
Warners Paramount Begin Merger Talks. If the merger happens, it will bring David Zaslav in complete control of the entire Robert Evans historic physical plant, having bought his house — Woodlands — and now, his office.
LAYOFFS AND CUTBACKS AND EFFICIENCIES. For many, many people in Hollywood, 2023 was the greatest of all disasters: the year a meteor hit their career as across the board companies big and small let go of employees on a massive scale, the industry-wide pullback leaving few good options for those whose positions were eliminated.
Here is a little collection of the headlines, a glimpse of the real brutal face of this year.
Just an extremely small taste of what the headlines felt like in 2023. Here’s hoping the worst is behind us (but I’m suspecting it is not).
Coming right off his highly charged civil trial with ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp signs the biggest men’s fragrance endorsement deal in history, for $20 million with Dior for the not-at-all ironically named “Sauvage.”
