LAS VEGAS — Veteran crooner Wayne Newton’s latest “Danke Schoen” for his longtime friend President Ronald Reagan took form on a nippy night in an area recording studio. There, amidst an array of electronics and under the watchful eyes of a producer, an engineer and Newton’s wife, attorney Kathleen McCrone, the 82-year-old known as Mr. … Read more
Now that’s winning one for “The Gipper” — the late actor and President Ronald Reagan. The film “Reagan” has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5. “Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list overall Monday for DVD, Blu-ray and digital download sales. It was … Read more
The “Ghost with the most” has done it again. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” was No.1 at the Friday box office for the second straight week, its eighth day in theaters, earning $14.4 million, according to The Numbers. The long-awaited sequel, which has star Michael Keaton repeating his role along with several other members of the original cast, … Read more
The second time’s a charm for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” The dark fantasy comedy-horror, which The Post called “pointless” and “belabored,” earned $41.5 million on Friday, its first day in theaters, according to The Numbers. The Tim Burton film, which serves as a sequel to the 1988 cult classic “Beetlejuice,” is expected to take in at least … Read more
I love Ronald Reagan, the man. So I expected to eat up “Reagan,” the new biopic that opened last Friday. Playing the 40th president, Dennis Quaid is affable and charming. However, the movie — which clocks in at 2 hours and 15 minutes — was not the complex portrait I was expecting, but a hagiographic highlight reel. … Read more
Just like in the movies, Deadpool can’t be killed. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” one of the defining movies of the summer, ruled the box office on a weekend with quiet openings and low theater attendance as the summer movie season came to an anticlimactic close. For the second weekend in a row, “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Marvel’s smash … Read more
It’s a Marvel-ous run. In its fifth week in theaters, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is still leading at the box office. The Marvel flick raked in just over $3.6 million on Friday, according to The Numbers. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman star in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which The Post called a “fantastic buddy comedy.” Walt Disney … Read more
It was the 1980s, the so-called “decade of greed.” Ronald Reagan was in the White House and the American economy was booming. On “Wall Street,” the Hollywood version, a character named Gordon Gekko, played by a slick-backed Michael Douglas, infamously proclaimed: “greed is good,” and “money never sleeps.” Start your day with all you need … Read more
On May 1, 2011, President Obama, his staff and military brass watched the raid to on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound while crowded tightly together in the Situation Room, the sequestered complex in the White House basement. Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured the iconic moment, but it only happened because of technical difficulties. … Read more