Jennifer Lawrence Gossip

With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which was supposed to be the start of a new branch of X-movies, is now a truncated offshoot. Full Story

David O Russell was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival Talks Directors series on Saturday in a discussion with Jennifer Lawrence. He’s directed her in three films: Silver Linings Playbook, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar; American Hustle, for which she was nominated for an Oscar; and Joy, for which she received yet another nomination. Full Story

“Squad”-ing got annoying in 2016/17, due in part to Taylor Swift. And the fact that it had to be named. But we’ve always been obsessed with celebrity friendships, from Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy to Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, to the Rat Pack, to the Brat Pack, to Friends, to Oprah and Gayle, to Matt and Ben and Winona and Gwyneth and Gwyneth and Cameron and Cameron and Drew and Destiny’s Child and whatever it was that Taylor was doing during the 1989 era. Full Story

Jennifer Lawrence stayed away from LA on Oscar weekend. I wonder if they called her though, if the Academy invited her to present this year and she was like, nah, I’m all about the New York life right now. She’s on an extended break from acting. There may be some promo to be done for X-Men, but as we’ve seen, Jennifer’s kept it pretty low key – she’s one of the few who means it when they say want to be out of the spotlight. Full Story

It’s not really an engagement walk, they just went out for dinner in New York last night, after it was confirmed that they are engaged. So it’s the first time the public has seen them since the news. Full Story

Page Six was on this first – they reported late yesterday that Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney were seen at a restaurant recently and she was wearing a “massive ring”. Shortly after, her reps confirmed to Page Six Full Story

This is a thing in Hollywood, something you can count on reliably to generate gossip. In Hollywood, where everyone knows everyone and social circles are small, and friends dates each other’s exes, and there’s a premiere or a party or an award show every weekend, the logistical management of lovers and former lovers and arrivals on red carpets and seating arrangements etc is a tricky task. Full Story

Earlier this year, Taylor Swift released a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September”. She changed the first lyric from “Do you remember the 21st of September” to the “28th of September”, which all her fans took to mean that that’s the anniversary of when she and Joe Alwyn started dating. Full Story

There were supposed to be two X-Men movies this year. They both got pushed back to 2019. The New Mutants—the horror-flavored teen one—and X-Men: Dark Phoenix—the grown up one—both needed reshoots, though reports vary on how extensive they really are. From what I’ve been able to gather, New Mutants is getting a pretty significant overhaul and it’s pushed back the farthest, to August 2019. Full Story

Emma Stone, ahead of the release of Netflix’s Maniac, covers the new issue of ELLE and specifically requested to be interviewed by her close friend Jennifer Lawrence. Emma Stone + Jennifer Lawrence? It would have been an instant sell for the magazine, obviously. Full Story

It was two months ago that we found out that Jennifer Lawrence was dating Cooke Maroney, an art dealer. Since then they’ve kept it pretty quiet. Until this week as they were papped hand in hand in Paris. This is what I always come back to with celebrities and relationships – the speed at which romances can develop because of their extra time and resources. Full Story