Style WICKET Last night site manager Emily emailed me a photo list and she called Wicked “Wicket” and that is all I am thinking about. WICKET. I am seeing WICKET on Sunday, an unusual day for a press screening, but there are so many screenings right now as critics groups get ready By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 10:24 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, At the end of October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences laid off 16 employees, all from the AMPAS archive and the Margaret Herrick Library, which houses millions of film artifacts. Now, filmmakers from the indie space are sounding the alarm about the potential harm to By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Red One What is Red One? Red One is a Christmas themed action “comedy” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, and JK Simmons as super jacked Santa. It is directed by Jake Kasdan, who also directed Walk Hard and has been coasting ever since (Jake Kasdan Exert By Sarah • Nov 14, 2024 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s next big thing In purely coincidental timing, yesterday The Hollywood Reporter, er, reported that Lupita Nyong’o is the latest A-lister to sign up for Christopher Nolan’s mysterious new film. Coincidental because Lupita is, of course, linked to John Krasinksi through the Quiet Place franchise, though he did not write or By Sarah • Nov 13, 2024 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Sadvengers Over the weekend, Disney held a D23 fan event in Brazil, which included releasing two new trailers for the 2025 Marvel movies, Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Let’s start with Brave New World. First of all, this looks better than the first trailer. Like physically, it looks By Sarah • Nov 12, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Final Reckoning Last week, I wrote about Mission: Impossible 8 and Tom Cruise’s desire to do this until he dies, and now, behold, the trailer for M:I 8 is here, officially titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. After Dead Reckoning underperformed last year, they’ve done away with the “part By Sarah • Nov 12, 2024 09:36 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, November 11, in observance of Remembrance Day. Lashana Lynch is promoting her new series, The Day of the Jackal, which co-stars Eddie Redmayne as a deadly assassin. …Sure. Anyway, Lynch wore a interesting sweater dress to a press stop. It has By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 04:03 pm
Star Wars New New New Star Wars Here we go again: Lucasfilm has hired Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new (new new) trilogy of Star Wars films, which will allegedly consist of Episodes X-XII of the franchise. These films may or may not be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, Deadline’s Mike Fleming By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle AND Chris on set Earlier this week, Halle Berry was seen on set, filming Bart Layton’s new heist thriller, Crime 101. Yesterday, she was back at work but this time with co-star with Chris Hemsworth, the largest man. You know intellectually that Chris Hemsworth is a big dude, but then you see By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 12:11 pm
Amazingness Paul Mescal in Dublin (and grumpy Ridley Scott) When I was in Dublin last year, I stayed just down the street from Trinity College and met several people who were quick off the cuff to tell me they went to school with Paul Mescal. The local pride in Mescal for making it big was palpable, and yesterday he By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s time again for the semi-annual conversation about whether or not an animated film will be taken seriously as a Best Picture contender. The short answer: no. The longer answer: still no, because of deep-seated genre bias and a tendency to see animated films as By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 08:57 am
What Else What Else? What in the jean skirt hell. (Go Fug Yourself) Inevitable. Jack Smith has begun the process of ending the federal cases against Trump. Consequences for thee, none for me. (Celebitchy) Olivia Rodrigo said her red flag question for men is whether or not they want to go into space. People By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Grant in Heretic Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of A Quiet Place, are back with a new vision of horror—missionaries. Together they write and direct Heretic, a horror film about the ghastliness of guests, or the misery of being forced to talk to people, depending on how you look at By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle stressed on set Crime writer Don Winslow is about to have a moment. Sony is building a franchise around Austin Butler with his series City on Fire, and there is already an adaptation of his novella Crime 101 in production in Los Angeles. Halle Berry was seen filming on Venice Beach yesterday, sporting By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 02:43 pm
Theatre Nerd Katie and Zoey on Broadway Katie Holmes is currently starring alongside Jim Parsons in a revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town on Broadway. She’s getting pretty good reviews, which makes me happy for her. Katie Holmes’ talent and ability as an actor have never really been the focus of her fame, but starring By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 01:24 pm
Style Professor Evans is back The Red One press tour is happening now, in advance of the film’s November 15 release date. (I’m seeing it next week. hoo raaaaay) The cast turned up in London for a photocall yesterday, including Lucy Liu in a great red pantsuit—jumpsuit? Either way, she looks great. By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 10:03 am
