TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
Gorgessity Halle Berry’s pre-Birthday Premiere Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg are in a new Netflix movie together called The Union that’s releasing on Friday. His name comes before her in the credits in the trailer. I just made a face writing that line. In addition to Halle and Mark, JK Simmons and Lorraine Bracco By Lainey • Aug 13, 2024 03:15 pm
Pharrell Williams Jewels and Jimin at Tiffany & Co As I mentioned a couple of days ago, one of the biggest events on the New York social calendar this week was the reopening of The Landmark at Tiffany & Co on Fifth Avenue. It’s been under renovation for four years, LVMH has now taken over the brand, and By Lainey • Apr 28, 2023 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Best Picture frontrunner is… After the SAG Awards last night, Everything Everywhere All At Once is officially the Best Picture frontrunner. Sure, Top Gun: Maverick won the stunt ensemble award, but EEAAO won four awards, taking three of the four individual acting awards for motion pictures, including Ke Huy Quan for Outstanding Performance by By Sarah • Feb 27, 2023 10:05 am
Relationship Assumption Jessica Simpson’s gossip sliding doors Jessica Simpson’s Open Book is referenced a lot around here because it is a really solid celebrity memoir. It’s dishy and Jessica has had so many lives in entertainment (virgin pop star, early adopter reality TV star, influencer and mogul before that was really a thing) and it By Maria • Feb 02, 2023 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted Well, it’s happened. After thirty years of trying, video games movies have finally reached the middle. Uncharted, the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-riff adventure game, comes to the big screen at last, starring Tom Holland as a young, just-starting-out adventurer, Nathan Drake, and Mark Wahlberg as his shady mentor, Sully. It By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Uncharted makes its final push Uncharted opens in three weeks, and tickets go on sale this weekend, so Sony is here with a final trailer to try and convince people that THIS is the movie that will break the video game curse. Tom Holland is currently the reigning box office champ, so maybe? And it’ By Sarah • Jan 28, 2022 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland goes on baby’s first adventure The popular video game series Uncharted has been stuck in development hell since 2008, when a film adaptation was first announced. After years of false starts—including David O. Russell being attached to direct for a while in the early 2010s—Uncharted finally got off the ground, only to get By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 01:05 pm
Douchebags Mark Wahlberg, Black Lives Matter, allyship, and forgiveness On June 4th, superstar actor and producer Mark Wahlberg tweeted in support of Black Lives Matter against the murder of George Floyd: The murder of George Floyd is heartbreaking. We must all work together to fix this problem. I'm praying for all of us. God bless. #blacklivesmatter ❤🙏❤ pic. By Melayna • Jun 08, 2020 10:35 am
Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg’s Quiet 2019 It’s been a low-key year for Mark Wahlberg – this is our first post about him in 2019! Mark hasn’t had a movie release since 2018’s Instant Family. That will change in 2020. It was announced last month that he will co-star with Tom Holland in the film By Lainey • Dec 30, 2019 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg in Mile 22 Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have enjoyed a productive and mostly successful creative partnership. Berg likes making movies about macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the nerds around them make no meaningful contributions, and Wahlberg likes playing macho All-American Heroes who Get Things Done while the nerds around By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 01:14 pm
Douchebags Marky Mark vs the Asians As I noted this morning in the open, they were projecting a five-day total of $20 million, on the high side, for Crazy Rich Asians. That number has now been adjusted. According to Variety, it’s now climbed to $26 million and its fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes has gotten By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 04:48 pm
Top Reads Michelle Williams and the new Wolf Pack When it comes to celebrities and the term “Wolf Pack”, Leonardo DiCaprio comes to mind. Men come to mind. Women weren’t considered wolves. Are we sure about that? As I mentioned yesterday in my post about Michelle Williams’s marriage revelation in Vanity Fair, there is so much more By Lainey • Jul 27, 2018 01:22 pm
Business of Hollywood Mark Wahlberg on the “marketplace” A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million for reshoots on All The Money In The World while Michelle Williams got per diem. His initial salary for the film was $5 million and she was paid $650K. Eventually he and WME, the talent agency By Lainey • Feb 26, 2018 11:23 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Written Word Edition There was never any doubt that we would discuss the 1.5 million dollar pay disparity between Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, but in a development that *never* happens, the longer we put off talking about it, the better the story got. The USA Today article with all the details By Duana • Jan 15, 2018 03:25 pm
Douchebags The Michelle Williams/Mark Wahlberg pay gap Today in Burn It All Down News, USA Today is reporting that for the eleventh-hour All the Money in the World reshoots, Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million, while Michelle Williams was paid less than one thousand dollars. Yes, that’s right, Michelle Williams, who received a Golden Globe By Sarah • Jan 10, 2018 09:35 am
