Paul Rudd Gossip

Two and a half weeks to go until Avengers: Endgame opens and we find out how they’re going to take out Thanos and reverse the Snap. So the final press push begins. Which is interesting because even though, in theory, we know that most of them will somehow be un-dusted (obviously Spider-Man and Black Panther, at least), as it stands now, half of them are ashes – so how do those  Avengers show up to promote the movie without having to explain why they’re promoting a movie they may or may not be in?  There was a press conference this weekend. Full Story

The trailer for Avengers 4, officially titled Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived and we have some things to discuss. First, that title. After much overdone secrecy, it is revealed to be “Endgame”, a reference to Doctor Strange’s line in Infinity War. It’s fine. It hardly justifies the amount of cloak-and-dagger around its reveal because it is a f-cking TITLE. Full Story

Paul Rudd is an established movie star, but he has done a ton of television in his career, and even as his profile in movies has risen steadily since the 1990s, he has never stopped popping up on TV. Of course, on the small screen he is best known as Mike “Crap Bag” Hannigan, husband of Phoebe Buffay. Full Story

Look, no one is going to argue that Ant-Man and/or the Wasp are Marvel’s most beloved, most important, or most well-known characters. No one is going to defend the Ant-Man franchise as one of the jewels of Marvel’s crown. I’m not even going to defend Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, as one of Marvel’s best movies. Full Story

Selena Gomez met up with Paul Rudd, his wife Julie Yaeger, and some other friends in New York yesterday to see Billy Crudup in the off-Broadway play Harry Clarke. Among those friends: Justin Theroux and Petra Collins. Full Story

Marvel is currently dominating the box office. Avengers: Infinity War is the biggest domestic and global opening weekend ever, and will undoubtedly accrue a massive box office haul (they will definitely be blamed for some other tent pole blanking this summer, because they hogged all the money or whatever), and Black Panther is still in theaters, still sitting in the TOP FIVE Full Story

Taika Waititi, as far as we know, is not directing another Marvel movie. He directed the third installment in Chris Hemsworth’s reign as Thor, and unless Hemsworth renegotiates, he’ll be done after Avengers 4 next year, so it’s not like there’s already another Thor movie in development for Waititi to jump into. Full Story

It’s time for the LaineyGossip Hotness Litmus Test! Picture Paul Rudd on top of you. Anything? I got nothing. I know that Paul Rudd does it for many of you and that he has for a long time. I get it. He’s not new. Paul Rudd has been that dependable, generically handsome comedic relief for decades. Full Story

Riding the high of the Black Panther premiere, Marvel has released the first trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp, and it lands with a resounding, “Sure, that’s a movie.” Ant-Man got by on Paul Rudd Full Story

I’ve never seen Ant-Man, the Paul Rudd version (is there another movie version? I don’t actually want to know), and I barely paid attention to him in Captain America: Civil War so I have no idea what to call him, how to refer to him. Which is why I’m calling him Ant. Which is probably not at all close to what they call him but I think you get my point. Full Story

Sean Lennon thinks the term mansplaining is sexist… towards men. And then he explained why. The term 'mansplaining,' is sexist. — Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) September 10, 2016 Cartoon villain Martin Shkreli threatens to beat up Captain America. Full Story