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| | Da?Vine Joy Randolph: 'It's ironic' that Angelina Jolie is playing an opera singer | | Added 5 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Throughout the 2023-24 awards season, Da?Vine Joy Randolph floated through nearly every awards show, picking up supporting-actress awards for her role in The Holdovers. I loved that movie and I loved Da?Vine in it. She was basically a lock early on, so much so that it didn?t even feel like she had to do a big Oscar campaign or do a million self-promoting interviews. All of which to say, I had no idea that she is a classically-trained opera singer? Did you guys know that? Da?Vine has been known primarily as a stage actress and a musical actress, but I didn?t know she could do opera. Well, there?s an opera-
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| | How much does Mariah Carey make in royalties for 'All I Want for Christmas?' | | Added 5 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Periodically throughout my childhood, my mother would randomly turn to me and say, ?Write a hit song and you?ll be rich for life.? Oh, how I wish I had listened. Perhaps no singular case proves the wisdom of my mother?s words better than that of Mariah Carey and her annual chart-topper, ?All I Want for Christmas Is You.? The song, which was released on her Merry Christmas album in 1994, dominates the airwaves from November 1 through Christmas, what many refer to as Mimi Season. According to People Mag, which cites reporting from Forbes, Ms. Carey made $60 million when the song first came out in 1994, and has made an estimated $2.5 million per year in royalties since. So, $2.5M x 30 years + $60M = I really wish I?d heeded my mother?s advice. Here?s more on all the money-making and record-breaking Mimi is earning off of the tune where she croons about not wanting any material gifts:
On Dec. 13, ?All I Want for Christmas Is You? became the first holiday song to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify.
?This is beyond incredible,? Carey said in a statement to PEOPLE. ?I?m so grateful to all Spotify listeners around the world who?ve made the song part of their holiday tradition year after year.?
?When the song was first released in 1994, Carey made $60 million. Now, according to Forbes, Carey earns around $2.5 million in annual royalties based on calculations from The Economist. The outlet reported that The New York Post estimated the number to be even higher, at $3 million.
?All I Want for Christmas Is You? was part of Carey?s fourth album, Merry Christmas, and was instantly a global success, topping the charts in 26 countries. Three decades after its release, it continues to climb back up the Billboard Hot 100 ladder and Spotify?s streaming numbers as soon as the holiday season comes around.
The tune has consistently been among the most-streamed holiday songs, per Forbes, and became the first holiday single to ever receive the coveted RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) Diamond Award in 2021.
To earn the prize, ?All I Want for Christmas Is You? had to reach 10 million sales and streams.
Two years later, the song was inducted into the Library of Congress? National Recording Registry.
?I?m honored beyond belief!? Carey wrote of the achievement on X. ?I definitely did not even imagine this would happen when writing and recording this song!?
According to Spotify, ?All I Want for Christmas Is You? has grown 120% globally on the platform since 2019, becoming the most streamed holiday song of all time both globally and in the U.S.
While Carey has yet to beat Bing Crosby?s ?White Christmas,? the highest-selling single of all time with 50 million copies sold worldwide, the Christmas tune is well on its way.
At least on Spotify, Carey?s classic has been the No. 1 song globally on Christmas Day every year since 2016. In 2024, its streams have continually increased throughout the season, growing 860% globally and 1,100% in the U.S. since Nov. 1.
On Dec. 17, ?All I Want for Christmas Is You? notched its 20th week at the top spot on Billboard?s streaming songs chart, tying it with Lil Nas X?s ?Old Town Road? for most weeks at No. 1. At that point, it had also spent 16 weeks in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list.
[From People]
As much as all these streams and royalties add up to, it still doesn?t account for everything! Mariah Carey also collects touring income this time of year from her seasonal Christmas Time Tour (you know, the one where people kept getting into fights but then ended on a high note with Mimi signing RiRi?s boob?), where ?All I Want for Christmas Is You? is front and center. Not to mention merch deals Mimi lines up, like the Xmas goods she did for Amazon this year, partly to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Merry Christmas, the album that brought us the song that changed the holiday season forever. I don?t think a feat like this, writing and performing a song that becomes synonymous with an annual holiday, can ever be replicated. I mean, Mariah Carey?s initials are literally the same as Merry Christmas (a fact which took me way too long into adulthood to put together). So Miss Mimi becoming the Queen of Christmas feels somehow ordained, fated, destined to be. Or, dare I say it, KISMET!
Happy Holidays, whichever music you listen to, and may we all become millionaires like Mimi. That?s all I want.
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| | Pregnant Princess Beatrice will spend Christmas at Sandringham after all | | Added 5 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, Prince Andrew pulled out of the pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace, and his people announced that Andrew and Sarah Ferguson would skip Christmas at Sandringham. King Charles absolutely invited Andrew and Fergie, and they were due to stay at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate, as they have done for the past two Christmases. Alongside that announcement, we heard that the York princesses, Eugenie and Beatrice, would also skip Sandringham this year and spend the holidays with their in-laws. Eugenie would spend Christmas with Jack Brooksbank?s family for the first time in years, and Beatrice had plans to spend the holiday with Edo Mapelli Mozzi?s family, probably in Italy. Only now there?s been another switch-up Beatrice and Edo are apparently going to Sandringham after all.
Pregnant Princess Beatrice has been ordered by doctors to stay home in the UK for Christmas in case travelling endangers her baby. The late Queens granddaughter was planning to spend Christmas overseas with her property tycoon husbands family for the first time since their marriage in 2020. But Buckingham Palace announced last night that the Princess, 36, who is in the final months of her second pregnancy, has changed her festive plans following medical advice that she should not travel for long distances.
On October 1, the Palace announced Princess Beatrice was expecting the baby in early spring. She is now in the third trimester of her pregnancy, which starts from 28 weeks. Dr Ellie Cannon, Mail on Sunday columnist and GP, said: There are a whole host of reasons why somebody in their third trimester may not be able to fly. Different acute issues might be something common such as a chest infection or even a viral illness, which can be quite serious in pregnancy. Flying can make this worse because of dehydration and sitting still for hours which can also raise the risk of blood clots. More long-term issues could be high blood pressure or diabetes. Travelling long distance can be dangerous in this scenario because of the ongoing monitoring needed.
The Princess will now celebrate at Sandringham with the Royal Family, alongside husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 40, her stepson Wolfie, eight, and daughter Sienna, three. She is not expected to join the family in their walk to church on Christmas morning. The Princess has attended other public events recently, including the pre-Christmas Lunch at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
It is not known exactly where Beatrice was planning to travel to spend Christmas, but it was reported that she had been planning to celebrate with her in-laws. Her husband Mr Mapelli Mozzi, known as Edo, is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis. The family owns an 18th Century mansion an hour from Lake Como in northern Italy.
[From The Daily Mail]
That makes sense to me Beatrice was told not to fly, so she and Edo updated their Christmas plans once again. I?m surprised that there are no plans for Bea and Edo to do the Christmas church-walk, but that might be health-
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| | Justin Baldoni was dropped by WME hours after Blake Lively sued him | | Added 18 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Back in August and September, the drama of It Ends With Us?s promotional tour was dominating blogs and entertainment sites. Blake Lively was being widely criticized for promoting a film about domestic violence while barely referencing the topic, and while simultaneously promoting her booze line. People were also circulating video clips of Blake?s older interviews in which she came across as rude and unpleasant. It was a real thing, where social media people (especially TikTokers) really turned their ire on Blake. We knew at the time that Justin Baldoni hired a crisis management team the same team used by Johnny Depp, Drake and Brad Pitt and that he was ?fighting back? against what seemed like Blake?s attempts to turn public perception against him. Well, Blake is now suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and ?social manipulation.? From what I can see, Blake has good documentation and evidence of Baldoni?s harassment and Baldoni?s toxicity. But it turns out that she also has extensive documentation on the social manipulation part of her claims too she subpoenaed records from Baldoni?s production company and his crisis management team and it?s BAD. Magically, the NY Times had a big exclusive about it.
Last summer, as the release of ?It Ends With Us? approached, Justin Baldoni, the director and a star of the film, and Jamey Heath, the lead producer, hired a crisis public relations expert. During shooting, Blake Lively, the co-star, had complained that the men had repeatedly violated physical boundaries and made sexual and other inappropriate comments to her. Their studio, Wayfarer, agreed to provide a full-time intimacy coordinator, bring in an outside producer and put other safeguards on set. In a side letter to Ms. Lively?s contract, signed by Mr. Heath, the studio also agreed not to retaliate against the actress.
But by August, the two men, who had positioned themselves as feminist allies in the #MeToo era, expressed fears that her allegations would become public and taint them, according to a legal complaint that she filed Friday. It claims that their P.R. effort had an explicit goal: to harm Ms. Lively?s reputation instead. Her filing includes excerpts from thousands of pages of text messages and emails that she obtained through a subpoena. These and other documents were reviewed by The New York Times.
?He wants to feel like she can be buried,? a publicist working with the studio and Mr. Baldoni wrote in an Aug. 2 message to the crisis management expert, Melissa Nathan. ?You know we can bury anyone,? Ms. Nathan wrote.
In the following weeks, Ms. Nathan, whose clients have included Johnny Depp and the rappers Drake and Travis Scott, went hard at the press, pushing to prevent stories about Mr. Baldoni?s behavior and reinforce negative ones about Ms. Lively, the text messages show. Jed Wallace, a self-described ?hired gun,? led a digital strategy that included boosting social media posts that could help their cause.
An attorney for Wayfarer said in a statement to The Times that the studio, its executives and public relations representatives ?did nothing proactive nor retaliated? against Ms. Lively, and accused the actress of ?another desperate attempt to ?fix? her negative reputation.?
Mr. Freedman did not address her allegations about misconduct during the filming by Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath. He alleged that Ms. Lively planted ?negative and completely fabricated and false stories with media? about Mr. Baldoni, which he said ?was another reason why Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis professional.?
The effort to tarnish Ms. Lively appears to have paid off. Within days of the film?s release, the negative media coverage and commentary became an unusually high percentage of her online presence, according to a forensic review she sought from a brand marketing consultant. Ms. Lively ? who is married to the actor and entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds of ?Deadpool? fame, and is close with Taylor Swift ? experienced the biggest reputational hit of her career. She was branded tone-deaf, difficult to work with, a bully. Sales of her new hair-care line plummeted.
Mr. Baldoni, by contrast, emerged largely unscathed. This month, he was honored at a star-studded event celebrating men who ?elevate women, combat gender-based violence and promote gender equality worldwide.? On Saturday, however, after this article was published, the talent agency William Morris Endeavor stopped representing Mr. Baldoni, said Ari Emanuel, chief executive of Endeavor, the agency?s parent company.
In a statement, Ms. Lively said, ?I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.? She also denied that she or any of her representatives planted or spread negative information about Mr. Baldoni or Wayfarer.
[From The NY Times]
It?s true that WME has now dropped Baldoni, they did so hours after Blake filed her complaint on Friday with the California Civil Rights Department. WME also represents Blake. According to Deadline, WME?s leadership decided to dump Baldoni on Saturday morning due in part to Blake?s complaint. As I said, it looks like Blake has ample evidence of what Baldoni?s crisis management team did to her, and how they boosted certain negative stories about her. To be fair? um, there was a lot of material for Baldoni?s crisis management team to work with and I genuinely believe that some (but not all) of the backlash against Blake was organic. Anyway, I?m glad Blake is fighting back against Baldoni, his production company and those crisis managers. It feels like this could have larger repercussions for a lot of other toxic men who use crisis managers to attack women.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment & 'social manipulation' | | Added 18 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few days ago, I finally watched It Ends With Us, and it is quite easily one of the worst movies I?ve ever seen in my life. A nonsensical plot, one-dimensional characters, actors who are incapable of acting their way out of a paper bag it was like a Lifetime movie with a bigger budget. The worst part was the ending, in which a victim of domestic violence uses logic to try to convince her abuser to leave her and their daughter alone and ? it works?? Yeah, that would totally happen in real life. All I can say is that this abhorrent film does not deserve the months of drama swirling around it. Everyone involved in IEWU should be deeply ashamed and they all should have made a pact to never speak of it again. Instead, we got months of drama over the summer, and now Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni, who directed IEWU and starred as Ryle Kincaid. Blake is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and waging a PR campaign against her during and after the films promotion.
Blake Lively is suing her It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment. Months after rumors of behind-the-scenes discord on the set of the adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, the actress, 37, said in the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, that Baldonis alleged behavior caused her severe emotional distress. (Baldoni, 40, also served as It Ends with Us director.)
Per the outlet, the lawsuit states there was a meeting held to address Livelys claims and her demands for working on the film. It was attended by various figures, including Livelys husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Some of the demands that were addressed, according to the lawsuit cited by TMZ, included no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldonis alleged previous pornography addiction, no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crews genitalia, no more inquiries about Blakes weight, and no further mention of Blakes dead father.
No more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project, were other demands mentioned in the lawsuit, according to TMZ.
According to TMZ, the lawsuit states that Sony Pictures, who distributed the film, approved of Livelys requests. However, Lively claims in the lawsuit that Baldoni then took part in a social manipulation campaign to destroy her reputation soon after.
Bryan Freedman, Baldonis lawyer, tells PEOPLE in a statement that Livelys lawsuit was to fix her negative reputation. He also said that her allegations are false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt.
Freedman added that Lively caused problems on set of the film, which is currently streaming, threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release. Representatives for Lively, Baldoni and Sony did not immediately respond to PEOPLEs request for comment.
[From People]
Some of Lively?s accusations against Baldoni were previewed months ago, when well-informed sources insisted that everyone on set hated Baldoni (for unspecified reasons) and that Blake was hurt that Baldoni asked someone how much Blake weighed (Baldoni apparently has a bad back). We were also told that Blake thought Baldoni ?lingered too long? during a kissing scene. I?ll admit, back in August and September, it felt like Blake and Ryan Reynolds were the ones targeting Baldoni. But if Baldoni was doing even some of the sh-t she?s now accusing him of, he absolutely created a toxic work environment. His on-set behavior was absolutely inappropriate, if any of this is true. It also feels like this might answer the questions I had about why Sony was going above and beyond to make Blake happy and give her everything she wanted, including allowing her to bring in her own editor to create a ?Lively Cut? of the film.
As for the social manipulation part of Blakes legal action more information came out in the NY Times, which I will cover separately. All Ill say in this post is that it looks like Blake has a really good case against Baldoni and his production company.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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