Rooney Mara Gossip

Bradley Cooper was not on the list of expected attendees at last night’s TIFF premiere of Joker, which just won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an Oscar contender in several categories, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. There are many layers to this Bradley Cooper relationship with Joker. Full Story

Following the Joker world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, Joaquin Phoenix is now officially a contender for Best Actor Oscar. Up to this point, which is early, but not as early as you think considering the Oscars are at the beginning of February in 2020 which shortens the season, experts had Antonio Banderas as a frontrunner for his performance in Pain and Glory. Full Story

OK none of these women are actually dressed like nuns, but let’s go with it. First, Alicia Vikander (who, to me, has very low energy on the red carpet) and Jennifer Connelly, who I was semi-excited about seeing. Both are in Louis Vuitton and both designs clearly had a nun mood-board. It’s the features around the shoulders I’m most interested in – Google tells me that part of a nun’s habit, the white fabric around the shoulders, is called a guimpe. Full Story

The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John Callahan—sample of work here Full Story

Filmmaker David Lowery’s last two feature films, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon, could not be more different. Saints is a crime drama infused with Southern Romantic flare, and Pete’s Dragon is a live-action remake of the Disney cartoon. Full Story

Joaquin Phoenix was named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for his performance in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. It was one of the last films to screen at the festival. Full Story

There’s not much to say here so I’ll keep it short. Joaquin Phoenix was photographed walking his dogs the other day. The last we heard from Joaquin it was about how he and Rooney Mara Full Story

Yesterday it was announced that Sony will finally make the sequel to their 2011 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Sony is skipping the other books in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, though, and going right to the new book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz. That’s maybe not a bad idea. Full Story

Kate and Rooney Mara were both papped yesterday. Let’s start with Kate: her reps confirmed yesterday Full Story

See? Gossip is comin’ at us from all over the place this year. Page Six reported that Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix Full Story

While standing in line for Una, the film adaptation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, earlier this week, one of the PR reps for the film told me she had already noticed an audience divide forming around it—men almost uniformly hated it, but women were moved by it. Then, during the screening, the man sitting next to me audibly scoffed and said Full Story