‘Supergirl’ Stars Play the Villain at Fan Festival

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Every business understands the importance of keeping customers happy – but maybe someone at CBS never gave that memo to the cast of “Supergirl.”

The stars of the TV show were booed off stage at last week’s PaleyFest, a TV fan festival that took place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.

While many cast members who attend the annual festival follow their panels by signing autographs for fans in the front rows, the stars of “Supergirl” rushed straight off stage faster than a speeding bullet, ignoring the jeering fans who were surrounded by a cordon of security guards.

Calista Flockhart, who stars as a media mogul in the show, also responded curtly to a question posed by one little girl in the crowd regarding which superhero she would like to play onscreen.

“I don’t know superheroes at all, I mean, whatever,” Flockhart responded.

“Supergirl,” which stars Melissa Benoist as the titular heroine, is in its first season on CBS. The network has not announced whether it will be renewed for a second.

The rest of the festival, organized by the Paley Center for Media, went off without a hitch, with stars from “Empire,” “Better Call Saul” and “Scream Queens” in attendance.

Amusing Owner

With funnyman Will Ferrell among the owners of new Major League Soccer franchise Los Angeles Football Club, soccer fans should be in store for some laughs.

In one of his first interviews since joining the ownership group, he jokingly told NBC Sports, “I’m going to be a cold and distant owner who shows up at very inopportune times to berate players in the middle of games.”

The team will kick off in 2018 on the site of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, which will be demolished in June to make way for a new stadium.

“We will have a brand-new, soccer-only stadium adjacent to downtown,” Ferrell said. “But it’s going to take a while because I have to build it and I don’t know much about construction.”

Magical Earnings

Would you pay $150 to watch a magic show?

Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse is banking on the fact that plenty of people will.

Tickets for the upcoming illusion act by L.A. magician Derek DelGaudio at the venue’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater will cost $100 and $150, plus booking fees.

But the price point has worked before. DelGaudio’s previous show at the same 149-seat theater, called “Nothing to Hide,” ran for 144 performances in 2012. A similar pricing structure helped it gross more than $1 million. His new show, “In & of Itself,” will open May 3.

Jetting Off

Now that awards season is over, many wealthy entertainment executives have headed out of town by private jet to chase the sun.

A new study shows that the weeks immediately after the Oscar and Grammy ceremonies are when most of L.A.’s wealthy residents fly off on vacation or to second homes around the world.

Findings from the Knight Frank Wealth Report, released earlier this month in conjunction with Net Jets Inc. and smartphone app WingX, revealed the seasonal populations of major world cities and showed a spike in late winter departures from Los Angeles.

Entrepreneurial Actor

Santa Monica actor Ryan Devlin has been seen in hit TV shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Veronica Mars” and “Jane the Virgin.” But he is also making a mark in the business world.

When he’s not on the set, Devlin works as chief executive of This Bar Saves Lives, a socially conscious snack bar company he formed three years ago.

The Venice firm just struck a deal for its products to be sold in 1,000 Target Corp. stores nationwide. That’s more than twice the number of retail outlets stocking his all natural, non-GMO, gluten-free, fair-trade snack bars, which are also sold at select Whole Foods and Starbucks.

The expansion in business means an increase in donations the company makes to charity. For each item sold, This Bar Saves Lives makes a donation to charities helping starving children around the world.

“That was inspired by a trip I took to Liberia,” said Devlin, 35. “Touring refugee clinics and seeing the devastating effects of severe malnutrition made me decide we needed to take action.”

This Bar Saves Lives sells a range of different flavors of snack bars in boxes of 12 for $25.

On Demand

West L.A. company Fandango is continuing its expansion beyond selling movie tickets by launching a video-on-demand service. FandangoNow, which will go live on March 30, will offer movies and TV shows for purchase or rental on mobile devices and the Web.

Managing editor Sandro Monetti can be reached at [email protected] or (323) 549-5225, ext. 200.

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