Movie Reviews and Previews Down but not out This was not the way the week was expected to go for Angelina Jolie. No Golden Globes. And she gets implicated in the Sony email leak. AND Jennifer Aniston gets a SAG nomination and an invitation to the Beverly Hilton by the HFPA. It’s rare. Because the way the By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake’s in again at the Golden Globes SAG nomination yesterday, Golden Globe nomination today – Jake Gyllenhaal’s chances at an Oscar nomination are looking better and better. Bradley Cooper’s are not. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has given us a lot of WTF moments over the years. I’m not sure if the Brange and Unbroken By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 10:12 am
Media Manipulation Brange: a double shutout SAG nominations yesterday, no Unbroken. Golden Globe nominations today…. NO UNBROKEN. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association SHUT OUT Brange. They SHUT OUT Angelina Jolie. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They nominated her for The Tourist! And they SHUT DOWN Unbroken! ANNNNNND… They nominated Jennifer Aniston! It’s her greatest victory By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 09:37 am
Hook Ups Taylor Swift is “happily single” Yesterday US Weekly reported exclusively that Taylor Swift is “secretly” dating Matty Healy of The 1975. I don’t know how “secret” it is if we’ve been talking about it for over two weeks now. They’ve been wearing each other’s t-shirts. She’s been to several By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 09:08 am
Intro for December 11, 2014 Dear Gossips, Big snow this morning in Toronto. I took my time in the car on the way to work and it was a lot more enjoyable because it’s Thursday. Serial Day. The penultimate Serial Day. Sarah Koenig says there’s only one more episode. But…I’m not By Lainey • Dec 11, 2014 08:57 am
Amazingness The Summer of Tom Hardy Sarah messaged me right when I was coming off The Social this afternoon OMGing about the new Mad Max trailer. I pressed play as soon as I got back to my desk and wrote her back: Holy sh-t. HOLY SH-T. This is the best looking and best sounding By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 04:54 pm
Quiveration Skins meets Bond The redband trailer for the upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Service has been released. Colin Firth plays a Bond type. He recruits and trains a new member of the Secret Service – a punk kid who looks like he could have been in Skins. It’s a comedy. And … I’m into By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 03:45 pm
Media Manipulation The prescient George Clooney There’s more and more coming out from this Sony email leak giving us one of the biggest days of gossip in a long, long time. Between that and the SAG nominations and trailer releases, I’ve been walking around with a permanent boner. Anyway, there’s also an email By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 03:16 pm
Sit DOWN I Can’t can’t walk Here to ruin the high we’ve all had from the Sony email leak, check out these shots of I Can’t Ariana Grande at Disney World yesterday performing for a pre-taped Christmas special. If there was no darkness, there would be no light. We all need balance. We By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The nominees, Eddie & Felicity Check out Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones at the premiere of The Theory Of Everything in London last night, an early celebration for their double SAG nominations this morning. Triple, actually, because the film was also nominated for Best Ensemble. Have you seen it? SEE IT. I love this movie. By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 12:44 pm
Media Manipulation “Minimally talented spoiled brat” covers PEOPLE Oh but the timing of this… She timed it, obviously, with the upcoming release of Unbroken. This is PEOPLE’s year in review Best of 2014 issue. They’re hoping it’s big numbers in circulation. Perhaps the last issue of the magazine that people will pick up before the By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 11:41 am
TV Updates Jake’s in – SAG Nominations announced We’ve been speculating for weeks about that fifth Best Actor spot, assuming that Michael Keaton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, and Steve Carell would be in for four. And we’ve seen Jake Gyllenhaal surging. Well, he’s almost there. The Screen Actors have sent him an invitation. He deserves By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 10:55 am
Media Manipulation Jen’s big SAG day Did Jennifer Aniston stay up late last night, reading and re-reading every email leaked in the Sony hack, especially the parts where Scott Rudin sh-ts on Angelina Jolie? Did it get even better when she woke up this morning – or maybe she didn’t sleep at all – to By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 10:18 am
Media Manipulation The Roadkill The latest Sony leaked emails exposed the manipulative nature of the Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin relationship and gave us some insight into the Angelina Jolie playbook. There were others though who were caught in the crossfire. Sarah has already addressed the Jobs mess – click here for a refresher. Michael By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 10:04 am
Media Manipulation Amy Pascal & Scott Rudin: a love story After we all huddled in our own corners, frantically consuming the leaked Sony emails, Duana texted me: F-ck Jolie, f-ck Jobs. I want a movie about the Pascal Rudin friendship. It’s true. I know that most of you today are drawn to the Angelina Jolie headline but By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 09:46 am
Media Manipulation They’re all crazy “Insanity” “Spoiled” “Minimally talented” Just some of the words Scott Rudin used to describe Angelina Jolie to Amy Pascal in those leaked Sony emails. And that’s likely your main focus because she’s ANGELINA JOLIE. So you’re like, OMG, she must be such a f-cking crazy bitch. By Lainey • Dec 10, 2014 09:15 am
