Hollywood Flashback: Original 'Dolittle' Bombed So Hard, It Nearly Sank Fox in 1967

Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter accomplished their mission with the latest episode of their He Said, Ella Dijo podcast. The A-list pair shared the personal details about their years-long journey to parenthood and the IVF process.

The film that gave Al Pacino — an Oscar nominee in this year's best supporting actor race for The Irishman — his first starring role was 1971's The Panic in Needle Park.He wasn't the only participant in the film who went on to big things.Park was produced by Dominick Dunne, who decades later would become famous for his writing in Vanity Fair.

Exactly 100 years ago, animation took a huge leap forward: Walt Disney scored his first job as a cartoonist.On Jan. 29, 1920, Disney, then 18, saw an ad for a $40-a-week ($500 in today's dollars) position at the Kansas City Film Ad Co.

While awards season has The Two Popes and HBO has The New Pope (it premiered Jan. 13), Hollywood had one old pope visiting Sept.

When American Beauty bowed in September 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter wasn't quite sure what the public would make of the pitch-black dramedy.While THR's review acknowledged the "charismatic power" of the performances by its actors — singling out not just stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening but also Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari — it wondered whether audiences might not "tire of [director Sam] Mendes' arch and often condescending style.

Harriet Frank Jr., the two-time Oscar nominee forHudandNorma Raewho partnered with her husband, the late Irving Ravetch, to form one of the great screenwriting teams in Hollywood history, has died. She was 96.Frank died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her nephew, Michael Frank, told The New York Times.Frank and Ravetch worked on 17 features together, including eight directed by Martin Ritt over a 32-year span and three that were adapted from William Faulkner novels.

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Eve is set to host the 13th annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards, which celebrates "women owning, expanding and transforming the art of storytelling" as part of the Essence brand's 50th anniversary.

Manchester United fans have been making the same joke about Alexis Sanchez following the latest update regarding his future at the club.

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had no update to provide on Bruno Fernandes and claims Alexis Sanchez would prove his critics wrong.

Fifty-two years ago, The Hollywood Reporter described Patrick Stewart — who stars in Star Trek: Picard, launching on CBS All Access on Jan. 23 — as "dashing" in the role of Duke Senior in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.

It's been more than 50 years since Mel Brooks' The Producers wrestled with the challenge of courting Oscar for a film offering a comic version of Adolf Hitler, something Jojo Rabbit is facing this year."There are many to whom this brand of humor is more an opening of wounds that can never heal," THR said in its Dec. 28, 1967, review.

At one point in Dolittle, Robert Downey Jr.'s titular character tells his four-legged friends: "We have no choice but to embark on this perilous journey."If only Downey and Universal could take back those words in the wake of the family pic's dismal launch at the North American box office, where it earned an estimated $29.5 million for the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday frame.

Dolittle has officially bombed at the box office. Hoping to cash in on the four-day Martin Luther King Jr.

Jack Frost may still be nipping at our noses, but summer is basically right around the corner. And Golden Globe-nominated “New Girl” alum and current “The Neighborhood” star Max Greenfield and his longtime wife, Fox Broadcasting VP Tess Sanchez, are keenly aware of that. The couple recently closed on an offbeat L.A. cottage that enjoys ocean breezes and is “just steps to the sand,” per the listing.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – It’s been more than half a century since Rex Harrison spoke (and sang!) to animals as author Hugh Lofting’s eloquent veterinarian (Richard Fleischer’s 1967 musical film was nominated for nine Oscars, including best picture), and just over two decades since Eddie Murphy gave his own goofy modern portrayal.

It’s been more than half a century since Rex Harrison spoke (and sang!) to animals as author Hugh Lofting’s eloquent veterinarian (Richard Fleischer’s 1967 musical film was nominated for nine Oscars, including best picture), and just over two decades since Eddie Murphy gave his own goofy modern portrayal. That’s enough time for Dr.