Business of Hollywood The IATSE Strike: What to know Over the weekend, IATSE, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees, voted by an overwhelming 98% majority to authorize a strike, which will shut down virtually all film and television production across the US (and it could affect some Canadian productions, which often have a portion of American crew, especially By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 09:45 am
What Else What Else Britney Spears’s father has been suspended as her conservator, bringing her one step closer to being #FreeBritney. To celebrate, she freed herself—of everything—on Instagram. Seriously, though, why are we still censoring nipples in the year of our lady 2021? Popsugar has some pop-culture inspired ideas for By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson in Venom: Let There Be Carnage Venom was a mess, so let’s be honest, the bar for its sequel is low. But Venom: Let There Be Carnage not only clears the bar, it actually raises it. It is not a mess, and by leaning into the accidental magic of Venom, chiefly that alien symbiote Venom By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 02:39 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson and Disney settle And just like that, the tectonic lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney has settled, just two days before the two-month mark. ScarJo and Disney have brought an end to hostilities, having reached a settlement agreement yesterday. In a statement, ScarJo said: “I am happy to have resolved our differences By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm
Theatre Nerd Daniel Craig after Bond Macbeth is having a moment. Joel Coen’s filmed version of the Scottish play is sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the New York Film Festival, and now there is a new version coming to Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga as the ill-fated power By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig in No Time To Die Like the entire Daniel Craig era of Bond, No Time To Die, Craig’s final performance as James Bond, is a mixed bag. It’s a very silly movie wrapped in serious clothes, it wants to be another link in the Bond chain while also serving as Craig’s swan By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 09:14 am
Daniel Craig Intro for October 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, With No Time To Die (finally) hitting theaters today—it opens in North America next week—Daniel Craig’s time as 007 is coming to an end. It’s been quite a run—Craig has been 007 in three different decades. He was Bond so long he went By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 08:35 am
TV Updates Cowboy Bebop evades Netflix knows what the people want, and that is a trailer for Cowboy Bebop starring John Cho. So, of course, we did not get that during their “Tudum” fan event on Saturday. Why bury Cowboy Bebop, one of their biggest projects coming this year, amidst the content avalanche of the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Harder They Fall looks cool as hell One of the coolest looking movies this year is The Harder They Fall, a Western starring Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors. It’s from director Jeymes Samuel, aka the musician The Bullitts, and it’s due on Netflix on November 3. Man, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper revisits A Star Is Born (kinda) After posting about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza¸ Southern California gossips wrote in to let us know that Licorice Pizza was a record store in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. Cool, it’s still word salad to the rest of the world. I don’t By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 01:54 pm
TV Updates The Sandman cometh One of the most tortured projects stuck in development hell is The Sandman, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s classic comic. Efforts to adapt The Sandman began in the 1990s, when the comic was not only a hit, but also reshaping the look and feel of comics. Along with comics By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Extraction 2: Sure, why not Do you remember Extraction? It’s that Netflix action movie starring Chris Hemsworth as a frowny mercenary. It wasn’t even bad, and I have a hard time recalling anything about it beyond Golshifteh Farahani, who I recall being WAY better than her under-written character deserved. Well, it was By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 09:22 am
TV Updates Stranger Things Dream Home Netflix’s “Tudum” preview continues with a new teaser for Stranger Things season four, which is now titled Stranger Things 4 in the style of a movie franchise. The teaser shows off the “Creel House”, an obviously haunted Victorian mansion in the woods. It’s my dream home! When can By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio The first teaser for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up gave us a glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio in rare comedy mode, and the new “Tudum” teaser doubles down, giving us even more of comedy Leo D in action. He’s sweaty, nervous, he has a stupid haircut and an By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 03:58 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton season two first look: Kate dismantles Anthony On Saturday, Netflix hosted a three-hour virtual fan event called “Tudum”, which is supposed to be onomatopoeia for the sound that plays when you start a program on Netflix. It’s more of a “da-dum” sound than a “tu-dum” sound, but whatever. Here’s something to put By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 02:32 pm
What Else What Else? The Brangelina divorce drags on over issues of assets and custody. In the latest development, Angelina Jolie has been granted permission to sell her shares of their winery, Miraval. But Brad Pitt is unhappy because he once sold Angelina a 10% stake in the company for €1. He did this By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 04:11 pm
