Jon Hamm Gossip

Bad Times at the El Royale, Drew Goddard’s follow-up to The Cabin in the Woods is at once completely like that movie and nothing like that movie. Getting into the specifics of how El Royale works would spoil it, but one important thing to know is that despite the ominous trailer and Goddard’s previous genre work, El Royale is not a horror movie. Full Story

Top Gun casting news: Jay Ellis, who played Lawrence on Insecure, has been cast in Top Gun: Maverick. Which is fine. Because nobody misses Lawrence. Why would we miss Lawrence when we get to snack on Daniel? Ed Harris has also been confirmed and my immediate thought about that was hey, who’s the new Jester? There’s a tiny, tiny resemblance between Ed and Michael Ironside, right?  And then there’s Jon Hamm. Full Story

A high-concept comedy based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of middle-aged dudes who play tag is not a sure thing, to say the least. But Tag, the movie based on that article, is, surprisingly, not bad. It’s not great, like most studio comedies it’s too broad for that—Popstar is the only recent studio comedy Full Story

While Justin Theroux spent the week in super cool New York with his “arty” and “edgy” friends, walking around the city in his Eazy-E tee and showing off his NYC (spray) tan, Jennifer Aniston was at WE Day California yesterday, supporting youth activism. Full Story

Beirut is a period piece political thriller that doesn’t need to be period and is weirdly unconcerned with how its politics read in 2018. With a script by Tony Gilroy (of the Bourne franchise, Rogue One’s infamous reshoots, and, most importantly, THE CUTTING EDGE), and directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist), it’s a good-looking film that calls back to the 1970s heyday of political thrillers, before that was just a tonal beat for action movies. Full Story

One of the more high-concept (mainstream) comedies in the works is Tag, based on the idiotic but true story of a bunch of guys who played a game of tag for thirty years. Any story that wacky is destined to be optioned, and indeed, the rights were snapped up and now we have the first trailer for Tag, the movie about a bunch of guys playing tag. Full Story

Jenny Slate has a new movie with Zachary Quinto and Jon Hamm. Though these are all people capable of being funny, this does not look like a funny movie. It’s called Aardvark—everyone loves a noun title with no context—and it’s about a therapist (Slate) who starts boning her client’s brother (Quinto and Hamm, respectively), who may or may not be psychologically torturing her client. Full Story

Kathleen just mentioned in her post previous to this the great Twilight truther conspiracy theory – that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are together IRL with babies. Fifty Shades Of Grey was based on Twilight. And did you know that there are also Fifty Shades truthers? It’s a smaller army but their passion is the same: they believe that Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan too are together IRL. Full Story

A few years ago Jon Hamm starred in an episode of Black Mirror (“White Christmas”), and now he is taking the creepy technology act on the road, as it were, with Marjorie Prime, a Sundance favorite and possible Oscar contender. Full Story

I didn’t list Ansel Elgort in the title because Ansel Elgort is not the best thing about Baby Driver. The latest film from Edgar Wright—the film he made after his Ant-Man deal fell apart at Marvel—Baby Driver is slightly more plotty than films like John Wick and Free Fire Full Story

I missed these pictures from last week until a reader called Nancy pointed them out to me. Thanks Nancy! Last week Jenny Slate and Jon Hamm Full Story