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The Lion King Is Now Disney’s Highest Grossing Animated Movie Ever
Disney’s remake of The Lion King has paid off. The film is now the studio’s highest- rated animated movie ever— insofar as one considers it to be an “animated” movie. Re- leased on July 19, the remake has already grossed $1.3 bil- lion worldwide, notching its latest record over the week- end after scooping up an ad- ditional $20 million.
The Lion King has defied easy genre categorization. It’s not live-action, nor is it strictly considered anima- tion, per director Jon Favreau: “It’s neither, re- ally,” he told SlashFilm in May. “It depends what stan- dard you’re using. Because there’s no real animals and there’s no real cameras and there’s not even any perform- ance that’s being captured that’s underlying data that’s real. Everything is coming through the hands of artists.” While the film may not fit perfectly into the definition
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of either genre, it is highly lu- crative—one of Disney’s biggest hits in a year when the studio has seen multiple films hit the billion-dollar mark. Its $1.3 billion cumula- tive take places the film ahead of previous animated record-holder Frozen, which earned $1.276 billion. Per- haps the upcoming ice- princess sequel will bump The Lion King from the throne once it hits theaters this November.
The Lion King was one of the studio’s safer bets this
year. The blockbuster, basi- cally a beat-for-beat retread of the original 1994 film, stars Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé as Nala, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, and Billy Eichner as Timon. While it’s technologically im- pressive, the movie has also been criticized for its lack of emotional depth and for los- ing out on the quirky benefits of hand-drawn animation. Still, audiences haven’t seemed to mind, flocking to screenings of the film all over the world.
Drake Is Officially The First Solo Artist To Have More Than 200 Appearances On Billboard Hot 100
The Canadian artist and De- grassi: The Next Generation alum, 32, hit the major mile- stone on the Aug. 17-dated charts thanks to his new album, Care Package — a com- pilation of never-released sin- gles.
The LP, which dropped on Aug. 2, yielded six tracks on the Hot 100, upping Drake’s grand total to 203 entries, ac- cording to Billboard. Only the Glee cast has accumulated more on the charts with 207 songs.
Care Package also hit No. 1, making it Drake’s ninth LP to top the charts. The songs from the album that pushed him to his new record are “Trust Is- sues” (No. 58), “How About Now” (No. 60), “The Motion” (No. 61), “Dreams Money Can Buy” (No. 68), “Club Paradise” (No. 85) and “Days in the East” (No. 95).
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Other rappers that have come close to Drake’s Hot 100 record include Lil Wayne, who has 163 entries, Nicki Minaj who has 103, and JAY-Z, who has 100.
Presley is the highest of the legendary musical acts on the list, with 109 tunes, while iconic artists like Franklin boasts 73 — just two more than the Beatles, who have 71 en- tries.
‘Black-Ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Files For Divorce From Wife Of 20 Years
Apparently, things aren’t going well in Barris town. The union of the creator of “Black- ish” and his wife is over.
After twenty years of mar- riage to Dr. Rania “Rain- bow” Barris, the man behind “Black-ish” and “Grown-ish,” Kenya Barris, filed for di- vorce in LA on Friday, accord- ing to The Blast.
At this time, a specific reason has not been given for the di- vorce action. The couple shares six children.
Dr. Barris is an anesthesi- ologist affiliated with Cedars-
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Sinai Medical Center. She also has an office in Encino, CA.
Porsha Williams And Her Ex-Fiancé Reconcile And Renew Proposal After Nasty Breakup
Porsha Williams and her baby's father, Dennis McKinley, are reportedly back together after a brief breakup, and the two report- edly reconciled in a pretty major way.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star confirmed they were back on in a recent episode of Dish Nation.
"We're taking it one day at a time and we're working on it," she said.
Radar Online further re- ports that Dennis was at Porsha's side during the
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cast trip to Toronto for Caribana. Sources close to the reality starlet revealed that a reconciliation in a
form of a re-proposal will be taped at her house this week. It will reportedly air on the next season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Toronto social columnist Shinan Govani claimed Dennis surprised Porsha during a party and asked for her hand in marriage, once again.
According to insiders close to the mother of one, he reportedly proposed with "the same ring as before, but she is happy to have it back and be wearing it again."
Cosby Lawyers Ask Appeals Court To Toss #MeToo Conviction
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday questioned why actor Bill Cosby never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his lawyers asked the panel to overturn his sexual assault conviction.
Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term for drugging and molesting a woman at his home in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
The three-judge panel asked why Cosby’s top-shelf lawyers didn’t follow the
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norm and get an immunity agreement in writing, and ap-
proved by a judge, when ac- cuser Andrea Constand first came forward in 2005.
“This is not a low-budget operation. ... They had an un- limited budget,” said Supe- rior Court Judge John T. Bender. “Could it be they knew this was something the trial court would never have allowed?”
Cosby’s lawyers have long argued that he relied on the promise before giving testi- mony in Constand’s 2005 lawsuit that proved incrimi- nating when it was unsealed a decade later.
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