Patty Jenkins Gossip

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), no Birds of Prey, and no Wonder Woman 1984. Full Story

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 casual, to me at least, than it might in person. Full Story

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. Full Story

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). Full Story

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 tragic? Observe Steve Trevor in his 1980s glory: Welcome to WONDER WOMAN 1984, Steve Trevor! #WW84 Full Story

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 on a trophy? Or is this an old person’s question?  Anyway. Full Story

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, The Guardian asked Cameron about Wonder Woman, and Cameron, the only person capable of creating Strong Female Characters, said no, she isn’t as Strong as Sarah Connor, because Sarah Connor is an inscrutable badass and a sh*tty mom and ugly to boot. Full Story

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 Full Story

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. Full Story

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 deal because, like she noted at the press conference: “Still only about four percent of women directed the major motion pictures of 2016. Full Story

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 so with Punisher: War Zone—this would’ve been the first time a woman was in charge of a superhero movie with the potential to actually be good). Full Story