TV Updates Christina Ricci and the Yellowjackets Today in Hadn’t This Happened Already news, Christina Ricci received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Seems like she would have gotten one back in her Nineties teen icon days, but apparently not. Ricci has had something of a renaissance recently, with the returning popularity of By Sarah • Mar 07, 2025 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine, Poolman and Director Chris Pine was photographed yesterday in LA with a full beard and his hair much longer than when we saw him last. Looks like this is for a role. It was announced this week that Chris will be making his directorial debut and starring in a film he co-wrote called By Lainey • Feb 11, 2022 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman Nineteen Eighty-Ugh Well, this is disappointing. After a terrific opening sequence in Themyscira, once again featuring Lilly Aspell as the young Diana, Wonder Woman 1984 just disintegrates. The problems all stem from the script, written by Patty Jenkins, who also directed, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham, though I’m not here to By Sarah • Dec 28, 2020 10:26 am
Business of Hollywood Patty Jenkins gets a Star War Among all the news coming out of the Disney investor day, one big hit is that Patty Jenkins will be directing a Star Wars spin-off titled Rogue Squadron for Lucasfilm, making her the first woman to head up a Star Wars film. She shot an introduction video for it, explaining By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 1984 has friends and Steve Trevor With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out in a couple weeks, all the big summer 2020 movies are starting to drop trailers which will be attached to Skywalker in theaters. It is also CCXP, the giganti-huge Brazilian comic con, which means this is the perfect time for Wonder By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman shines Yesterday, a surprising piece of news came out that Warner Brothers will be skipping Hall H at Comic-Con next month, which means no DC Films panel, as has been the case the last several years. That means no Joker (I REALLY wanted to see Joaquin Phoenix cope with Hall H) By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 11:36 am
Patty Jenkins Chris Pine starts the day (again) We kicked off the site yesterday with photos of Chris Pine heading to New York for promotional appearances for I Am the Night. Here he is yesterday on Good Morning America. He decided on an oatmeal clingy-ish sweater tucked into brown pants. The sweater is textured but it reads more By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 09:25 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Patty Jenkins made the Best Chris As noted last week a couple of times in What Else, we wanted to take some time to process and reflect before addressing Lifetime’s Surviving R Kelly docuseries. Thanks for your emails and tweets about it. We want to be sensitive about how to contribute and add to the By Lainey • Jan 16, 2019 11:27 am
Quiveration Colourful Chris at Comic-Con The last time my attraction to Chris Pine was tested, it didn't go so well. He was driving a glorified station wagon I hated and so many of you strongly defended (yeah yeah vintage Grand Wagoners are cool, stop @ing me). Now, it's time to get By Kathleen • Jul 23, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1980s Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 2 began production today and to mark the occasion Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins tweeted out first-look images of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor. The sequel is titled Wonder Woman 1984—GREAT title—and so this is 1980s fashion for Diana and Steve. It’s not completely By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 12:27 pm
Gorgessity Gal Gadot’s close-up Gal Gadot was presented with the #SeeHer Award at Critics’ Choice last night. In, like, 2 years or whatever, when hashtags aren’t used anymore, how are they going to feel about naming an award and styling it like this with a hashtag? In 25 years, will that look stupid By Lainey • Jan 12, 2018 10:37 am
Douchebags Sit DOWN, James Cameron James Cameron famously invented the Strong Female Character when he made Terminator, and there has never been another Strong Female Character since Sarah Connor. As the leading expert on Strong Female Characters and the only person in the world whose opinion matters on the topic of women in action cinema, By Sarah • Aug 25, 2017 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Patty Jenkins gets PAID A lingering question in the wake of Wonder Woman’s success— biggest movie of the summer, first film directed by a woman to cross $400 million domestically—is when Patty Jenkins would be announced as the director of Wonder Woman 2. She didn’t have a multi-picture deal with Warner By Sarah • Aug 18, 2017 01:16 pm
BFFs Emma Stone, Diane Keaton, and Patty Jenkins I’m not imagining it when I say that Emma Stone has been compared to Diane Keaton, right? I know that she herself has talked openly many times about her admiration for Diane. But, like, people have called Emma an actress in the mold of Diane Keaton, right? Yes, yes, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2017 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Coppola & Patty Jenkins: from festivals to the box office – but will Hollywood notice? Sofia Coppola won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend and became just the second-ever female filmmaker to receive that honour. It’s a big deal. And if you ask her The Beguiled star Nicole Kidman, she’ll probably say it’s an even bigger By Joanna • May 29, 2017 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s hard out there for a female director A couple months ago, Marvel Studios announced that Patty Jenkins, director of Monster, would be in charge of Thor 2, which was very exciting as it was only the second time a woman would be in charge of a superhero tent pole project (Lexi Alexander was the first to do By Sarah • Dec 15, 2011 11:20 am
