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Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in Sony and Columbia's 'Bad Boys For Life'.
Oscars: Chris Rock Pokes Fun At Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Brad Pitt Oscars Acceptance Speech, Jabs Senate For Trump Impeachment Acquittal
Despite not having an offi- cial host, the 92nd Oscars still featured a mini-mono- logue from previous hosts Chris Rock and Steve Martin.
Following the show’s open- ing music number from Janelle Monáe, Rock and Martin, after some self-dep- recating, had some fun at the expense of some of the night’s attendees, including Martin Scorsese and Ma- hershala Ali.
“I loved the first season of ‘The Irishman,'” Rock joked, in reference to the Netflix
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drama’s 3.5-hour run time. “Mahershala Ali is a
two-time Oscar winner,” Rock said. “Do you know what that means if he is pulled over by cops in LA? Nothing.”
But it was Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who got the night’s biggest roasting.
“Jeff Bezos is here,” Rock announced. “He’s got cash, when he writes the checks, the bank bounces.”
He continued, “Jeff is so rich, he got divorced and he’s still the richest man in the world. He saw ‘Marriage Story’ and thought it was a comedy.”
Will Smith’s ‘Bad Boys 3’ Races Toward More Box Office Milestones
With Birds of Prey ($33.25 million domestic and $81 million worldwide) stumbling out of the gate, the holdovers had mostly decent legs over Oscar weekend. Leading the pack of non-openers was Bad Boys For Life. The $90 mil- lion Will Smith/Martin Lawrence action comedy earned another $12 million (- 32%) in weekend four. That gives Sony and Columbia’s third Bad Boys movie a $166.327 million domestic cume. The film has now earned over $336 million worldwide. At this rate, it’ll flirt with becoming the first “new” January release (American Sniper was an Oscar platformer) to top $200 million domestic and
become one of the biggest R- rated actioners ever.
Random fact, once it gets past $191 million, it’ll be be- hind only Rush Hour 2 ($226 million in 2001) and Men in Black ($250 million in 1997) among all “buddy cop action comedy” offerings in unad- justed domestic earnings. Once it gets past $193 mil- lion, it’ll have passed the un- adjusted domestic earnings of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ($88 million in Janu- ary of 1992) and Bad Boys II ($138 million in July of 2003) to have sold more tickets than Bad Boys II and be the sec- ond (unless I missed one) biggest “tickets sold” January release behind M.A.S.H. ($81 million back in 1970).
After winning the first award of the 2020 Oscars, Brad Pitt took a shot at Re- publican senators who voted against calling witnesses at President Trump’s im- peachment trial.
The four-time Academy Award nominee won the best- supporting actor accolade for his role as a stuntman in “Once Upon a Time in Holly- wood.” The win marked his first-ever Academy Award win for acting. He immediately took the stage and got politi- cal by taking a jab at senators who voted against Democrats’ requests to call new witnesses in the impeachment trial, specifically former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who claimed he was willing to testify.
“They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is
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45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week,” Pitt said. “I’m thinking maybe Quentin [Tarantino] does a movie about it. In the end, the adults do the right thing.”
No new witnesses were called in Trump’s impeach- ment trial, for which he was ultimately acquitted by the Senate in a vote across party lines, with the exception of a
lone Republican vote to con- vict coming from Sen. Mitt Romney.
Pitt had been expected to win the category after scoop- ing up a series of honors this year, including at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Pitt’s politi- cally driven tone was signifi- cantly different than previous wins, where he kept it light with jokes and breezy speeches.
Speaking backstage, the actor explained why he in- cluded a political jab in his Os- cars acceptance speech.
"I was really disappointed with this week," he told re- porters (via IndieWire). "And I think when gamesmanship trumps doing the right thing, it’s a sad day and I don’t think we should let it slide, and I’m very serious about that”.
Snoop Dogg Attempts To Clarify Harsh Remarks Aimed at Gayle King: 'I Didn't Threaten Her'
Snoop Dogg has made an effort to explain his nasty comments toward Gayle King in wake of her contro- versial interview with Lisa Leslie.
On Saturday, Snoop took to Instagram to clarify that he didn't make violent threats aimed at the 65-year-old CBS This Morning co-host.
“I’m a non-violent per- son,” Snoop said in the clip. “When I said what I said, I spoke for the people who felt
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like Gayle was very disre- spectful towards Kobe
Bryant and his family.” “Now with that being said,“ the rapper continued, “what I look like wanting some harm to come to a 70- year-old woman? I was raised way better than that. I don’t want no harm to come to her and I didn’t threaten her, all I did was said, ‘check it out, you outta pocket for what you doing and we watching you. Have a little more respect for Vanessa, her babies, and
Kobe Bryant’s legacy.’”
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