Chris Lee

1 week ago | latimes.com | Harriet Ryan |Chris Lee |Scott Gold

Michael Jackson, an incomparable figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than half a billion copies, died Thursday, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his rented Holmby Hills mansion. He was 50. He spent much of his life as one of the most famous people on the planet, and to many, his untimely death felt both unthinkable and, oddly, inevitable.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

“I kept expecting there to be more resistance,” director Jake Schreier tells Vulture. “But we never heard, ‘Take this out of the movie!’” Jake Schreier expected at least some pushback from Marvel Studios for wanting to portray characters struggling with feelings of worthlessness, depression, and isolation in Thunderbolts*, a Suicide Squad–esque comic-book caper in which members of a ragtag band of mismatched superheroes seem to flirt with thoughts of suicide.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

Trump’s plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on movies produced abroad is raising questions — and panic — in Hollywood.

1 week ago | upstatebusinessjournal.com | Chris Lee

Ask the Fool: Price isn’t valueQ: How can a $10 stock be more overvalued than a $100 stock? — T.H., Charleston, South CarolinaA: A stock’s price alone doesn’t reflect the company’s value. Consider that $15,000 could be a bargain price for a Rolex watch, while a drugstore watch might be overvalued at $25. To sense whether a stock is overvalued or undervalued, you’ll need to evaluate the share price based on something else, such as the company’s earnings per share, revenue or free cash flow.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Chris Lee

According to a source close to the production, Sinners will only need to earn $170 million to recoup its upfront costs — not $300 million as previously reported. Over its opening weekend in theaters, Ryan Coogler’s sexy, Mississippi-in-the-‘30s-set vampire-musical survival-thriller Sinners received the dual sainthood of an A Cinemascore — the highest audience-approval rating for an original, R-rated horror movie ever — and stronger-than-expected box-office returns.