Paul Dano Gossip

First and most important the “animal endangerment” warning: Okja can be hard to watch. While it’s not as bloody as it could be, it’s frank about the slaughterhouse and the treatment of animals raised to slaughter in agri-business abattoirs. It’s not exploitative, but there are a couple scenes that could be tough if you’re sensitive to animals in danger. Full Story

Jake Gyllenhaal was photographed in London today heading to BBC Radio presumably to promote Nocturnal Animals. The film will be released in November but it will screen at the London Film Festival next week. Full Story

Swiss Army Man screened at Sundance to mixed reviews. It stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe as two guys stranded on an island, except one of them is dead. Full Story

The Sundance Film Festival begins this tomorrow, which means we’re officially eyeballing movies for the 2017 award season. As always, narrowing this down to just ten movies was a son of a bitch. There are a lot of interesting and good-looking movies at Sundance this year, but here are a few that are worth keeping an eye on for one reason or another. Full Story

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man. Full Story

Very exciting pictures coming out today from the Malibu set of the new Beach Boys movies. What we can see are Paul Dano (yay!), Kenny Wormald (hubba hubba), Brett Davern and Graham Rogers (Lucy Hale’s boyfriend) as the young band in the 60s, horsing around on the beach. They’re recreating those iconic imagines you can’t help but think of whenever you hear the words “Beach Boys” – cute guys, sand and surf, everyone dressed in their best California Mod. Full Story

Hi Duana, I love your name-nerd column! My husband and I have hit the name-nerd jackpot: we're expecting twins soon! A boy and a girl. We have a long, hard to pronounce last name, so we want to keep our babies names on the simpler side. We also want their names to match without being too matchy. Full Story

What’s the Katniss equivalent for the boys? Has to be Jason Bourne in Tony Gilroy’s Bourne Legacy. Everyone is said to be gunning for it – Jakey, Josh Hartnett (well there’s a long lost name!), Pettyfer…and Shia LaBeouf who I hear may have the best shot, though we’re certainly not as close here as we are for The Hunger Games. Full Story

Remember Tawny Kitaen? I mean the original Tawny Kitaen. Here I go again on my own… Katie Holmes worked some Tawny Kitaen in the hair last night in New York. I’m actually kinda into it. Sucker for the 80s. Still, now in her 30s, that fringe is not a feng shui advantage for Robo. I also don’t understand why she decided to wear Office Heels with this dress. Full Story

Katie Holmes on set in New York of The Extra Man yesterday shooting a scene in which she had to put on an extra sad face. I laughed. Are you laughing? I’m especially laughing at Paul Dano’s photo assumption expression, like he’s thinking to himself: What the f-ck am I doing here??? Having said that, they do kinda look hot together. Full Story

How will Katie Holmes stack up against Paul Dano? He’s too good for her. Katie is in New York shooting a new movie called The Extra Man costarring Dano and Kevin Kline. Dano could sleep through a scene and still send her back to Dawson’s Creek. This is why we’re playing Photo Assumption: Doesn’t Paul look impatient? Almost insulted that he’s gone from Alan Arkin and Daniel Day Lewis to … KatE Holmes? Love Paul Dano. Full Story