Business of Hollywood Amazon MGM drops Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI movie Today in Burn It All Down News, Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film about Sam Altman and OpenAI. The news first broke Friday via Puck, and The Hollywood Reporter confirms that not only has Amazon MGM dropped the film—the third from Guadagnino that they were By Sarah • Jun 22, 2026 01:23 pm
Lexi Minetree It’s Lexi Minetree’s Elle World Elle, the television series prequel to Legally Blonde, premieres on Prime Video on July 1. Hard not to be cranky with Amazon/Prime Video right now, but we’ll get to that in a minute. First, we must take notice of the “Elle World” event hosted in New York to By Sarah • Jun 22, 2026 12:15 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 22, 2026 Dear Gossips, For the entire history of Netflix releasing original films, I have been a straight up hater on the idea of them ever investing in the theatrical business in a meaningful way. This comes after multiple conversations over many years with different people of increasing levels of power within By Sarah • Jun 22, 2026 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The power of imagination in Toy Story 5 Thirty-one years and five films deep, the Toy Story franchise somehow keeps finding new ways to justify its existence. Seven years after Toy Story 4 asked what it means to live purposefully, the toys are back in Toy Story 5, which asks us to choose imagination when screens and By Sarah • Jun 19, 2026 11:55 am
TV Updates Welcome to Widow’s Bay, see you next year! Spoilers for Widow’s Bay season 1 There are hungry places in the world; places that devour, yet humanity cannot resist infringing upon the maw of something dark and terrible we do not understand. It is summer, people will insist on swimming in Lake Lanier. Every spring, thousands line up By Sarah • Jun 18, 2026 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gross things are happening to Peter Parker With the Spider-Man: Brand New Day press tour underway, it’s time for a new trailer…which already leaked online. Sony is having a really hard time keeping Brand New Day under wraps, the first trailer leaked during the holidays, and now the second trailer leaked, too. (This is By Sarah • Jun 18, 2026 10:30 am
What Else Tomdaya ARE married Tom Holland and Zendaya are on the press circuit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Today, they’re in Amsterdam. Zendaya looks like she’s got a parade to lead (compliment), Tom looks happy to be there (compliment). I never, ever get tired of these two because of their palpable By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hopscotching Shrek Four months after a teaser in which everyone collectively rejected the look of NuShrek, the teaser for Shrek 5 is here and bullying didn’t work this time, Shrek still looks different. The teaser, er, teases a new adventure with Shrek and Donkey, the teaser also shows off Princess Fiona By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 03:17 pm
Angelina Jolie Angelina’s unchanging style Last year, I reviewed Alice Winocour’s film Couture, starring Angelina Jolie, at TIFF. The film is fine, mostly notable for Angelina Jolie’s sensitive performance. But Couture is now being released into theaters at the end of the month, so Angelina is outside, doing promotion. She was in New By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 09:52 am
Taylor Swift Intro for June 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, I’ve been making jokes about Taylor Swift’s Madison Square Garden wedding, because that just sounds made up. Like if someone set a creative writing assignment and the prompt was “pop star mega wedding” someone would run with “Madison Square Garden wedding”. It sounds almost like a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 09:02 am
What Else Olivia Wilde’s return Olivia Wilde’s third feature film, The Invite, opens next week. She has started doing press rounds in New York, including a screening event last night, and earlier yesterday she was out in a cool suit ensemble—she is the exact right height and degree of lankiness for a wide- By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Lee and Wagner Moura can’t leave The 2018 double whammy success of A Quiet Place and Bird Box has ushered in a wave of “families at home but imperiled” movies. This year we have two prominent examples, The End of Oak Street, which is part of Anne Hathaway’s Big Year, and now we also have By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 03:28 pm
TV Updates The Bear prepares its final meal The Bear’s fifth and final season debuts on June 25. There was an event yesterday with the whole cast in New York called the “Final Family Meal”. I will harp forever on The Bear not being a comedy, but it is a good show, a show that has been By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 12:41 pm
Colin Farrell Colin Farrell, the gossip genie free space Let us now partake in a Cheesy Corn palate cleanser: Colin Farrell, looking handsome as hell, going into Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday. He’s promoting season two of Sugar on Apple TV+. I know some people got really into Sugar, ultimately, I couldn’t roll with it, but season two By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 10:04 am
Katy Perry Intro for June 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s summer, which means it’s celebrity coupling season. It kind of always is celebrity coupling season, but there is something about summer that brings out the celebrity weddings, celebrity date nights, and celebrity pairings that fuel gossip for weeks and months (except in the summer of By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 09:06 am
What Else Supergirl is also outside Spider-Man isn’t the only superhero currently outside, hyping the masses for a new movie. Milly Alcock is also doing the rounds for Supergirl, starting in Rio. There was a premiere and a photocall, and I REALLY like her photocall outfit. The red leg warmers(?) and shoes are weird— By Sarah • Jun 15, 2026 04:12 pm
