BFFs Cyndi’s farewell Cyndi Lauper was honored with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater yesterday. Bebe Rexha and Cher turned up to support her. Iconic friendship! Cher and Cyndi have been turning up for each other for decades, including Cyndi singing for Cher at the Kennedy Center Honors in By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 10:15 am
TV Updates Intro for June 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, Today in What PLANET Are You ON news, Alec Baldwin and his wife, notable Spanish Bostonian Hilaria, announced they are filming a reality series for TLC focused on their home life with their seven young children. The show is tentatively called The Baldwins and is tentatively slated to By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom is the little franchise that could We have talked plenty about Sony’s attempts to launch an MCU-adjacent, live-action “Spider-Man Universe of Marvel Character” (SPUMC, lol), with films such as Morbius and Madame Web, and how it never goes well for them…except in the case of Venom. In 2018, Tom Hardy’s passion project—seriously, By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another batch of Marvel reshoots Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth Cap film in which Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over as Captain America, wrapped principal photography last spring. But then post-production got dinged by the dual labor strikes last summer—presumably chiefly affecting their ability to do reshoots—so the Marvel brain By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No one wants the Trump movie Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his business daddy, Roy Cohn, The Apprentice, debuted at Cannes to generally good reviews. The film stars Jeremy Strong in his first post-Succession screen role, Sebastian Stan, and Maria Bakalova, plus Abassi is a generally admired filmmaker whose last film, By Sarah • Jun 03, 2024 11:29 am
What Else What Else? Bad Boys 4 is coming, and the premiere was last night. I have very little interest in this movie (change my mind, Bad Boys!), but I am SO interested to see how the general public reacts to it. This is his first film release since The Slap. (Go Fug Yourself) By Sarah • May 31, 2024 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Expanding the Knives Out 3 fantasy cast Knives Out 3, officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, continues casting apace. On top of recent additions Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor, and Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close has joined the cast—will she play a patrician matriarch or a kook?—as have Jeremy Renner and Mila By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s Chris’s turn Filming of Celine Song’s Materialists continues in New York, and I thought I was the only one salivating over maybe-single Dakota Johnson’s character’s wardrobe, but apparently, a bunch of you asked Maria to source her fits, so I am not alone in wanting all of these clothes. By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Jodie hit the road The Bikeriders comes out in a month, and as I said yesterday, Focus Features is hoping this will be a summer sleeper, a bit of adult-oriented counterprogramming to the summer tentpoles. We’ll see! For now, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer have started their press tour, alongside director Jeff Nichols. By Sarah • May 31, 2024 11:19 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina and Vivienne strike again Angelina Jolie and her youngest daughter, Vivienne, got involved as producers of the musical adaptation of The Outsiders at least in part because Vivienne is, apparently, a musical theater nerd. Well, the theater kid strikes again as Angelina and Vivienne went to the premiere of a revival of Reefer Madness By Sarah • May 31, 2024 10:16 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 31, 2024 Dear Gossips, I promise one day we will get through an entire week without talking about AI but the movie people won’t stop talking about it, which means we have to, as well. The latest is from Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who told investors in Japan that at By Sarah • May 31, 2024 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Today’s good vibes only are courtesy of celebrities posing happily with the residents of Sesame Street. (Go Fug Yourself) Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians Of A Certain Age Who Can’t Stop Destroying Their Own Legacy” Tour continues. This time, he misses “dominant masculinity”. Is dominant masculinity when a man By Sarah • May 30, 2024 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Shyamalan nepo summer Dakota Fanning is currently in the UK doing press for her new film, The Watchers, which appears to be called The Watched in the UK. It’s a horror movie and the feature film debut of writer/director Ishana Night Shyamalan, M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter. It certainly looks like By Sarah • May 30, 2024 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clooney and Pitt redux Someone complained about the number of trailer writeups on this site, and I’m SORRY, but today is NOT helping. It’s not my fault! I mean, I have editorial control today, so it IS, but also, a million trailers dropped at once and I am FIGHTING for my LIFE. By Sarah • May 30, 2024 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively at work If that name means nothing to you, watch A Simple Favor and fix your life. Blake Lively is in Rome, filming A Simple Favor 2. Last month, she was in Capri with Anna Kendrick and new co-star Michele Morrone. Lainey wondered if A Simple Favor qualifies as a cult classic, By Sarah • May 30, 2024 12:33 pm
Photo Assumption Natalie and Paul, new couple alert? When last we heard from Natalie Portman, she was attending the Dior show at Paris fashion week. Then, she finalized her divorce from Benjamin Millepied in March. Now, Natalie is in London, living her best single gal life with Paul Mescal. Or maybe not single? Time for everyone’s favorite By Sarah • May 30, 2024 11:45 am
