Celebrity Buzz with Taika Waititi and Taylor Swift
Director Taika Waititi attacked film critics on Instagram after his new film Klara and the Sun received a 26% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. He called negative reviewers “sad lost souls” who “couldn’t achieve their dreams of becoming artists.” The Jenna Ortega film opened to just $701K domestically on a $20M budget. Sony cut it to 880 theaters. (Story URL)
HBO Max surprised fans with a special 30-minute episode of It: Welcome to Derry on Halloween. Titled “A Story of Derry,” the installment is set hundreds of years before Pennywise, following three youngsters who encounter a terrifying ancient spirit in the Western Wood. The drop comes weeks after HBO renewed the series for a second season, set in 1935. (Story URL)


