Business of Hollywood Intro for September 29, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oh no, the worst possible unintentional outcome occurred—the studios/streamers banded together to form a lobbying group. Far from AMPTP splitting up—damn, I was hoping for that, honestly—Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and other studios with streaming interests have formed the Streaming Innovation Alliance (SIA) By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree Folk horror describes a sub-genre of horror cinema rooted in folklore and fairytale. At one end of the spectrum stands the graphic horrors of Midsommar, on the other the environmental haunting of Robert Eggers’ The Witch. Closer to The Witch end of the spectrum, in fact, even subtler and more By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 02:54 pm
Assy Hair WTF Timothy Timothy Olyphant is my last forever love standing. He would have to try very hard to make me not like him anymore, or to find him anything less than extremely hot in all circumstances. I mean, my crush survived the introduction of his midlife earring, it’s a pretty bulletproof By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon is coming The New York premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon was last night. Martin Scorsese turned up accompanied by journalist David Grann, who wrote the book, and prominent members of Osage Nation, including Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and his wife, Julie Standing Bear; artist Addie Roanhorse, who worked behind the By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: Jackdaw Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman currently star in the Prime Video series Wilderness together, and they’re reteamed in Jackdaw, a blistering thriller set in the bleak, industrial landscape of northern England. It’s like someone said, “Make the motorcycle scene in Under The Skin an entire movie,” and then By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for more age gap discourse Age gap discourse is having a moment. First, Chris Evans stans infantilized Alba Baptista when they got married—he is 42, she is 26—and then everyone let out a collective yikes when Dane Cook married “longtime” girlfriend Kelsi Taylor this past weekend—he is 51, she is 24, and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 11:30 am
Business of Hollywood It’s the actors’ turn The writers’ strike officially ended at midnight, as the WGA West and East leadership voted to recommend the tentative agreement reached with AMPTP over the weekend. Next comes ratification by the guild membership, which will occur from October 2-9. The new mutual bargaining agreement is effective from September 25, 2023, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 09:15 am
What Else What Else? Jessica Chastain went to the San Sebastian Film Festival—her new film has a SAG waiver—dressed in a bright yellow suit. At first glance, I really liked it, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like something out of Dick Tracy. The color, the splash By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: There’s Something in the Barn Fantastic Fest is a film festival focused on genre films, hosted annually at Austin’s famed Alamo Drafthouse theater (and was founded by the same people behind the Drafthouse). While everyone else is focused on prestige and awards come autumn, Fantastic Fest brings audiences horror, mystery, cult and the occult, By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 03:00 pm
TV Updates Strike cleanup As we wait for the WGA to ratify their tentative new mutual bargaining agreement, here are some housekeeping notes as the writers’ strike winds down. First, while scripted shows, and films, will be slower to come back, with production delays likely to continue for at least another month as the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 01:49 pm
Assy Style Anya in Paris Paris fashion week is happening, and the Dior show is today. Here is Dior brand ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy getting ready, photographed yesterday leaving Dior HQ after, supposedly, a fitting before their show. To date, Anya and Dior have been a very successful partnership, with some unforgettable style moments featuring the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 12:17 pm
TV Updates Selena update Selena Gomez is still in Paris, still hanging out with Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham. I am fascinated by what they talk about. They are obviously close friends, this is an inner circle we are witnessing, but like…what do they talk about? To be quite frank, I had no opinion By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 11:03 am
TV Updates Your latest JAW thirst trap It seems like every week there’s a new Jeremy Allen White thirst trap. It so seems like it, I actually checked our archives and the photo agencies’ archives, and while JAW gets photographed a lot in the post-Bear world, the blatant thirst traps are more of a weekly, maybe By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 09:26 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, An interesting interview popped up in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter this week (elsewhere in Puck, Belloni name-checked writers who spoke out unabashedly during the strike, questioning if this will make them un-hire-able going forward. Do not consider this an endorsement of Puck, I just like this one By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 09:01 am
Top Reads Half the strike is over After five days of negotiations, following 146 days of striking, the WGA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year mutual bargaining agreement between screenwriters and the studios. The deal is still “subject to drafting final contract language”, per a statement WGA leadership sent to their By Sarah • Sep 25, 2023 09:34 am
What Else What Else? There is something so dystopian about turning Squid Game into an actual challenge reality show. (Popsugar) Emilia Wickstead’s new fashion campaign is big on stripes, so expect to see stripes on Princess Kate soon. (Go Fug Yourself) Howard Stern thinks being woke is a compliment. I have been alive By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 04:00 pm
