Christopher Nolan The Odyssey in China Earlier this week, I posted about Christopher Nolan’s popularity in China. Even though his films often feature an ensemble of A-listers, including The Odyssey, for a large segment of the Chinese audience, he’s the actual superstar. Which is why almost all IMAX screens in China will be By Lainey • Jul 31, 2026 11:30 am
Tom Holland Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day Even as Marvel has struggled with the unwieldy MCU post Avengers: Endgame, one remaining bright spot are the Spider-Man films fronted by Tom Holland. In 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home saddled Peter Parker with almost unbearable circumstances, to sacrifice not his life but his heart, by allowing the By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 10:49 am
Kristen Stewart Ladies in LA Kristen Stewart will be hitting the press circuit soon for her new film, The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy written and directed by her wife, Dylan Meyer. But first: coffee. Here she is in Los Angeles on a coffee run. Her hair lately is bringing me back to the days By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:55 am
Katie Holmes Intro for July 31, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Shards, a Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, is coming to the FX/Hulu/Disney+ conglomerate next week. Lainey wrote about it here, it’s notable in part because the series stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, the children By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:02 am
What Else Spider-Man Epikase I mentioned last week all the press that Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon have been doing to promote Spider-Man: Brand New Day – and that one of those interviews was with Epik High, aka Tablo, Mithra, and Tukutz. The full video just dropped today…and it’s hilarious. In By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 04:03 pm
Sandra Bullock Sandy in the City This is very exciting for those of us, and it’s not just a few, who can’t wait for Practical Magic 2. Not that we need September to be here any sooner than it needs to be, but the release of the movie in September, just after Labour Day, By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 03:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 30, 2026 JLo is making her way through Italy and charming the locals. I hope she is eating, praying, loving her way around (eating pasta and getting her back blown out by a handsome stranger). That’s my birthday wish for her. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Official By Maria • Jul 30, 2026 02:37 pm
Rami Malek Rami Malek and striped shorts There were parts of the internet that were obsessed last week with photos of Rami Malek and his twin brother Sami walking around London. It’s the twin thing. People have always been fascinated by twins, especially identical twins. Duana, for example, has an unofficial PhD in twins, like she By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 12:29 pm
Scarlett Johansson Scarjo’s UK summer There was a joke going around social media after Comic-Con last weekend about Avengers: Doomsday and how big the cast is but also the OG Avengers who are coming back, like Chris Evans and Hemsworth at Steve Rogers and Thor respectively. Many jokes, actually. One of them being that By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 12:00 pm
Zoe Saldana Nicole and Zoe: Lioness 3 Lioness season three premieres next week on Paramount. This is a Taylor Sheridan show, and Taylor Sheridan is big business. And Paramount’s television business is basically Taylor Sheridan, so it’s not surprising that there are now three seasons of this series even though I’m not sure it’ By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 11:10 am
Zendaya Coleman Intro for July 30, 2026 Dear Gossips, I can’t be alone in this – like still not over Zendaya’s makeup in London last night for the final Spider-Man: Brand New Day red carpet. As I said in my post yesterday, how much more of this can we handle? It’s been relentless, it’ By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 09:45 am
What Else What’s on the playlist? Julia Roberts was in Idaho for Emma Roberts’s wedding the other day and has since been seen a few times in New York, which is also where she was before the wedding. It’s been weeks, actually. She has a home there but we don’t typically associate Julia By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 04:42 pm
Zendaya Coleman Tomdaya: at home at last? My bad, I was wrong, I’m the problem… when I said that the LA premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the last because I actually thought they were already in London, and they were, but for The Odyssey, three weeks ago. There have been so many By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 03:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 29, 2026 The Biebers are having a strong work summer, with Hailey’s Gap collaboration instantly selling out and Justin’s World Cup performance. Hailey sold Rhode in May of last year (she still serves as COO) and it continues to dominate at Sephora. And Hailey isn’t even 30. View this By Maria • Jul 29, 2026 03:02 pm
BTS BTS Transcends The Recording Academy introduced several new Grammy categories last month – among them the Best Asian Pop Music Performance award, better known as the BTS Grammy. Let’s not pretend that the award wasn’t created for BTS, because as I wrote at the time, even in the description of the By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 01:13 pm
Zac Efron Zac Efron’s celebrity storyline(s) Zac Efron was on holiday in Sardinia recently, seen by the pool, and it’s been a while. For someone as famous as he was in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Zac has kept a much lower profile over the last decade. But he is making interesting performance choices, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 11:32 am
