Well, I assume it’s a rom-com. Issa Rae will be starring in a movie called American Princess about an American woman who moves to London and falls in love “in a very unexpected way”. I assume that means she falls in love with a royal. And I assume it’s a romantic comedy because we need something to provide relief from the horror—existential and actual—of life right now. Full Story

If you don’t already know Stephan James, you will soon. He’s at the point in his career I like to call the Oprah Burn. You know the Oprah quote. The one she says Quincy Jones said first but no one remembers that.  “Your future is so bright it burns my eyes.”  Stephan James is staring down a blindingly bright future. Full Story

Marvel is recovering nicely following the clusterf-ck firing of James Gunn, hiring new directors including a pair of women, Cate Shortland and Chloe Zhao, and now they have locked down Ryan Coogler Full Story

Have you read Bradley Cooper’s NYT profile, written by the inimitable Taffy Brodesser-Akner? It’s complicated and insightful – thanks to Taffy. She does all the heavy lifting here. She has to justify the value of her work vs his idea that his work is so important and precious it will only be sullied by her interpretation of it. Full Story

Noah Centineo owes all of the love he’s been getting to two women: Jenny Han for creating Peter Kavinsky and Lana Condor for making him look so good by being so damn good herself. In the aftermath of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before hype, Noah Centineo’s stock has risen at exponential rates. Full Story

Once upon a time, Marvel was called cheap, largely because they didn’t pay their actors massive contracts (and also famously serving Subway sandwiches at their press junkets). Then, The Avengers happened and RDJ pulled in $50 million. So the story became that Marvel was cheap, except for RDJ, who gets the GDP of a small country just for showing up. Full Story

I was wrong. Princess Kate did not recycle today for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbanks’s wedding. This pink dress is McQueen, her favourite designer and wedding designer. Great colour on her. Again, not entirely out of her style wheelhouse but the strong shoulder is basically Kate’s version of a push-forward. Full Story

I’m thinking of Duana right now, for two reasons. First, at the beginning of the year, when it was announced that there would be a red carpet blackout at the Golden Globes to launch Time’s Up, Duana predicted that since the celebrities wouldn’t be able to go all out with fashion, the makeup and the accessories would be the headliners. Full Story