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Comic Con picks up steam

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Comic Con picks up steam

It’s Comic Con Friday, so things in San Diego are picking up steam. Tonight: Spaceballs. Right now: Coyote vs Acme. As a lifelong Looney Tunes fan, I am just so, so happy this movie was saved from David Zaslav’s weird anti-toon agenda, and that it is being

By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 04:18 pm

Intro for July 24, 2026

Intro for July 24, 2026

Dear Gossips, As we sprint toward August for no reason that makes sense except somehow it must be the sun’s fault, lineups for the fall film festivals are being unveiled. Venice’s lineup is out, and similar to Cannes earlier this year, it has almost no films from Hollywood

By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 09:27 am

Courtney Stodden’s Next Act(ivist)

Courtney Stodden’s Next Act(ivist)

In 2011, Courtney Stodden rocketed to tabloid infamy as the child bride of actor (“actor”) Doug Hutchinson, best known for playing stretchy serial killer Tooms in the first season of The X-Files. 2011 doesn’t seem like THAT long ago, and when we talk about pop culture history, we

By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 03:22 pm

A Comic Con Clayface surprise with bonus vampires

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A Comic Con Clayface surprise with bonus vampires

In my Comic Con preview, I mentioned that DC Studios is not doing a big Hall H presentation, but they still snuck in a San Diego surprise on day one of Comic Con. Tom Rhys Harries, the star of Clayface, dropped into the “DC’s Jim Lee and Friends” panel

By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 11:49 am

Dua back at work

Dua Lipa

Dua back at work

A month after marrying Callum Turner in Italy, Dua Lipa is back at work. She’s been in and out of Electric Lady Studios in New York, including yesterday, popping up in a polka dot dress and tall boots. I presume she’s working on new music, two years after

By Sarah • Jul 24, 2026 10:21 am

Tracee Ellis Ross’s perfect blunt pony

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Tracee Ellis Ross’s perfect blunt pony

Tracee Ellis Ross is having the best summer. For her 40th birthday in 2012, she performed a one-woman show that she arranged herself, booking out stages in NYC and LA for her friends – that’s how much she wanted to be in a one-woman show. And now she’

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 04:12 pm

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Fourteen years ago this summer, the scandal that had the gossip ecosystem in a chokehold was the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce. It was a bombshell – not just on the public but, reportedly, on him too, because she exited herself out of his life with the stealth of a

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 01:13 pm

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Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Fourteen years ago this summer, the scandal that had the gossip ecosystem in a chokehold was the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce. It was a bombshell – not just on the public but, reportedly, on him too, because she exited herself out of his life with the stealth of a

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 01:13 pm

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

There are so many storylines related to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – within the film itself and orbiting the film if you expand the conversation to include its cast, and the gossip, whether it’s about the box office or Tomdaya or award season chances. Probably not surprising given the

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 02:58 pm

Tom Holland on his wife and his tenure

Tom Holland on his wife and his tenure

Before we get to the ooey gooey, let’s talk about where Tom Holland is right now, metaphorically. As Telemachus in The Odyssey, he’s just given the best we’ve seen of his career so far. Which means I vehemently disagree with Variety’s cast and character ranking of

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 12:04 pm

Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

The Odyssey just opened, it continues to be the talk of the film industry, with Matt Belloni noting in his latest Puck newsletter that “45% of American moviegoers this weekend saw The Odyssey in Imax or another premium format when the usual share for a film on opening weekend is

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 11:38 am

BTS, Bieber, and Speed

BTS, Bieber, and Speed

Many of the football purists hated the existence of the first ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show and the performance itself didn’t change their mind. On the other side of that conversation, there are people who watched the event just for halftime. And still others who argue that

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 11:18 am

Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

No one in modern cinema loves a dead wife more than Christopher Nolan, whose oeuvre is littered with dead women, haunting their men, sometimes literally, from the beyond. These spectral spouses—in the case of Oppenheimer, it is a dead mistress—drive Nolan’s protagonists through his timey-wimey narratives

By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 11:12 am

Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory

Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory

I really, really liked Matt Reeves’ The Batman when it came out in 2022, since then, it has only risen in my estimation. I think it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made, and arguably the best Batman movie ever made. The film, released into the only-just-

By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 12:10 pm

Beyoncé & Rihanna on the same stage

Beyoncé & Rihanna on the same stage

Jay-Z’s three shows at Yankee Stadium this week featured what could also be described as a major mega celebrity wedding guest list and giving us one of the rarest occurrences in pop culture: Beyoncé and Rihanna in one show? It’s a unicorn event. But let’s start

By Lainey • Jul 13, 2026 11:02 am

Cardi B: The Best Kind of Heatwave

Cardi B: The Best Kind of Heatwave

The heat has been an issue during Paris Fashion Week but here’s a heat story that has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with gossip… good gossip. The gossip that’s been lighting up so many timelines and algorithms has to do with Cardi B

By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 03:14 pm

Madonna’s Studio Albums, Ranked

Madonna’s Studio Albums, Ranked

Madonna has been a pillar in pop music for more than 43 years, creating timeless hits and opening doors for countless performers that have followed the path she laid out for them. We’ve known her as “queen of pop” but we should remember that a title like that is

By MC • Jul 08, 2026 11:37 am

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Fourteen years ago this summer, the scandal that had the gossip ecosystem in a chokehold was the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce. It was a bombshell – not just on the public but, reportedly, on him too, because she exited herself out of his life with the stealth of a

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 01:13 pm

13 Going on 2027

Jennifer Garner

13 Going on 2027

It’s been known for a while that Netflix is doing a remake of 13 Going on 30 with Emily Bader and Logan Lerman in the lead roles originally played by Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. Yesterday however they made additional casting confirmations. I haven’t watched the movie in

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 12:06 pm

Dork Storm 2026: Dorkrooms

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Dork Storm 2026: Dorkrooms

Comic-Con begins today. I knew it was coming but at the same time, it took me a little bit by surprise, in part because it seems like July has just flown by, but also because the run up to Comic-Con feels…muted, compared to what it was a

By Sarah • Jul 23, 2026 10:57 am

Intro for July 23, 2026

Hudson Williams

Intro for July 23, 2026

Dear Gossips, Hudson Williams has been on holiday in Greece with a group of friends and his girlfriend, Katelyn Rose Larson, living his best life. As we’ve seen since he became famous, not even a year ago, Hudson loves to party, and there are all kinds of videos that

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 09:59 am

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Erling Haaland’s birthday upgrade

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Erling Haaland’s birthday upgrade

The World Cup has been over for three days. Some people are happy they don’t have to hear about football anymore, and some people are in withdrawal that there’s no more wall-to-wall football coverage. No matter how you feel about all that football though, it’s

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 04:04 pm

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

Travis Scott

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

There are so many storylines related to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – within the film itself and orbiting the film if you expand the conversation to include its cast, and the gossip, whether it’s about the box office or Tomdaya or award season chances. Probably not surprising given the

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 02:58 pm

Beckham yacht time

David Beckham

Beckham yacht time

The Beckhams are always on a yacht in the summer, it’s basically a tradition. This year their yacht time was delayed a bit, because of the World Cup, of course, but they will eventually find their way onto the yacht and now here they are, floating in the waters

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 12:52 pm

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