Idris Elba Gossip

Hobbs and Shaw is the spinoff franchise partly responsible for my favourite Boy Sh-t of 2016/2017. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Vin “Difficult To Work With” Diesel could barely stand each other enough to be on set Full Story

We were told this morning on an embargo until they arrived that Oprah would be showing up. There have been rumours that Oprah is doing an interview with Doria Ragland. Those rumours haven’t been confirmed but, clearly, there’s some kind of relationship.  Note Oprah and Idris’s arrival time. Full Story

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. They’re based in London. It was London Fashion Week this past weekend. So they attended a couple of fashion week events together, making the social rounds for the first time as an engaged couple. Full Story

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. It happened on Saturday in London at a screening for his film Yardie at the Rio Cinema. Yardie is Idris’s directorial debut. So he must have been all into his feelings, with a major career achievement, and his love by his side. This is what happened:    A post shared by David Marsden (@agentmarsden) Full Story

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, during an uncertain period in the industry. Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold—indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating “business as usual” this year, but it could very well be their last—and Netflix, driver of big deals in the recent past, has 80 films of their own slated already, so no one knows how much they’re really looking to acquire (they were relatively quiet at TIFF last fall). Full Story

Arguments for: - Every single f-cking one you can think of.  - Molly’s Game will be in limited release at Christmas and will open wide in January. That’s an award season schedule. Most of that awards attention will be on Jessica Chastain but as Sarah wrote in her review of the film Full Story

I’m that asshole who forces her birthday onto people. Today is my birthday. You’re actually lucky though, because this is only the first time I’ve mentioned on the site while all my colleagues have been enduring it for 24 hours. Through the press release I personally delivered yesterday, on camera, at top volume. Full Story

After promoting two films at TIFF this weekend and introducing us to his “girlfriend” Sabrina, Idris Elba Full Story

Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, but it’s Jessica Chastain’s movie from start to finish. Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir as the mastermind of the world’s most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly’s Game is mostly a series of flashy monologues characters spit at each other like they’re in a particularly classy rap battle. Full Story

Today is Idris Elba’s birthday. He’s 45 years hot as f-ck. Last night he pre-celebrated at the GQ Men of the Year party in London where he hung out with Pele. Oh and Rita Ora. That’s the only way Rita Ora makes it onto the site now – when she gets in on a photo with someone notable. Full Story