What Else The Carters in the Hamptons Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, and Jay-Z were in the Hamptons this weekend and, along with Kelly Rowland and other family, like Angie Beyincé, were seen at Ms Lauryn Hill’s acoustic show at The Club House. At one point Wyclef joined for a five-song jam which we got to By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 04:03 pm
Intro for July 27, 2026 Dear Gossips, Most people, at least the ones who know what they’re talking about and not just social media trolls, were expecting The Odyssey to do well during its second weekend at the box office. Preliminary numbers are now in – only a 30% drop from the first weekend for By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 09:28 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 27, 2026 The problem with Charlie Hunnam playing these vile characters in Ryan Murphy productions is that goddamn he’s fine. He’s an artist, I get it, but would it kill him to do a rom-com just once. An entertainment tax, if you will. View this post on Instagram A By Maria • Jul 27, 2026 02:40 pm
Business of Hollywood The Paramount-WBD merger is on hold A couple of weeks ago I checked in on the state of the fakakta Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which has been snarled up in court as multiple state attorneys general have filed anti-trust suits against Paramount. At that time, I said, “We’ll see how that shakes out, By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 02:07 pm
Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman: Witching season begins Nicole Kidman might have a new boyfriend. But first, let’s backtrack a bit to why she has a new boyfriend which, a little more than a year ago, she may not have ever expected. It was in the fall 2025, not even a year ago, that news first broke By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 01:11 pm
Hudson Williams Get spooky and horny with Yaga Sure enough, as Comic-Con got going over the weekend, new footage being released died instantly, with one notable exception. Crave and AMC+ released the teaser for Yaga, the upcoming mystery/thriller series starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo (Letterkenny’s one and only Rosie, a great gal) By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 11:48 am
Zendaya Coleman Tomdaya: almost there Tonight is the Hollywood red carpet premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the final red carpet stop on what’s been a worldwide press tour. And for Tom Holland and Zendaya, it’s between two press tours, happening concurrently, since they’re also in The Odyssey, currently the #1 By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 10:54 am
David Jonsson Marvel bounces back with good news Marvel’s Hall H presentation happened Saturday night, and though Kevin Feige was focused on the future of the MCU, it felt like a blast from the past, with stunts and a huge assemblage of famous people to promote upcoming films. Kayleigh Donaldson called it a “recession indicator” in the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 10:19 am
What Else 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
Zendaya Coleman Tomdaya: almost there Tonight is the Hollywood red carpet premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the final red carpet stop on what’s been a worldwide press tour. And for Tom Holland and Zendaya, it’s between two press tours, happening concurrently, since they’re also in The Odyssey, currently the #1 By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 10:54 am
David Jonsson Marvel bounces back with good news Marvel’s Hall H presentation happened Saturday night, and though Kevin Feige was focused on the future of the MCU, it felt like a blast from the past, with stunts and a huge assemblage of famous people to promote upcoming films. Kayleigh Donaldson called it a “recession indicator” in the By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 10:19 am
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
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
Tom Holland 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
Tom Holland 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
Top Reads 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
Movie Reviews and Previews 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
Movie Reviews and Previews 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
Top Reads 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
What Else 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
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
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media for July 24, 2026 Promotion for a film usually stops abruptly as soon as it opens. Going into its second weekend, though, there is still so much about The Odyssey it feels like it hasn’t premiered yet; not just because certain cast members continue to make appearances and do interviews, but also because By Lainey • Jul 24, 2026 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 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 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
Business of Hollywood 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
What Else 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
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 23, 2026 Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat were out for dinner at Giorgio Baldi last night. Their movie, The Wrong Girls, directed by KStew’s wife, Dylan Meyer, is coming out August 14 so we should be getting seeing a promotional push for that soon. Here’s some unofficial promotion though – a By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 02:06 pm
