Jon Hamm Gossip

It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, move on.) This year’s late entry is Richard Jewell, a biopic of the man falsely accused of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing. Full Story

The new Natalie Portman film Lucy in the Sky is not the simmering astronaut love triangle movie you're probably expecting to see. Instead, it's a disorienting look at life after space, raising a question of how "rocket lag" can permanently alter your desires and relationships with your "earth families. Full Story

Mad Men concluded its run in 2015. At the Emmys that year, the expected favourite for Best Drama Actor was Jon Hamm. He’d never won up to that point and, well, it seemed like it was time, time for Don Draper to finally get up on stage. But there was a slim chance of an upset: Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul. Full Story

Like I said earlier in the post about Brad Pitt and John Mayer being at Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday party, it was the most impressive A-list guest list of any event this year, more than any award show. Full Story

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