Business of Hollywood It’s a strike Monday night, amidst all the Met Gala madness on the East Coast, the West Coast was the site of the final hours of negotiation before the strike deadline between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), aka the studios that produce movies By Sarah • May 03, 2023 10:42 am
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala Thom Browne(s) It was a big night for Thom Browne at the Met Gala. He dressed: Bella Ramsey, Olivia Rodrigo, Baz Luhrmann, Teyana Taylor, Jenna Ortega, and Janelle Monae. Good luck picking the “best”! It’s all down to a matter of personal taste. For example, for me the best Thom Browne By Sarah • May 02, 2023 03:35 pm
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala Cat People For one split second I thought someone was having fun at the Met Gala, dressing up in a full-blown costume as Karl Lagerfeld’s famous cat, Choupette. Was someone gate crashing? Was this an unusual moment of levity at the Met Gala? Did Anna Wintour hobnobbing with Pete Davidson finally By Sarah • May 02, 2023 12:37 pm
Met Gala 2023 The Met Gala Oscar Club They are all Oscar winners, and they were all at the Met Gala last night. Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Yeoh, and Nicole Kidman all stepped out, and they all looked amazing. Viola wore a hot pink be-plumed Valentino, which I like by virtue of being my favorite color. Also, By Sarah • May 02, 2023 11:25 am
Met Gala 2023 The Pink Ladies at the Met Gala Pink is one of Chanel’s marquee colors, so there was a LOT of pink to go with the black and white at the Met Gala, referencing Karl Lagerfeld’s history of working with the color. Ashley Graham, for instance, wore a pink and black Harris Reed gown that is By Sarah • May 02, 2023 09:16 am
What Else What Else? Beyoncé is arguing with the IRS. Normally, I would say no one wins against the IRS, but there are two people to whom I give the advantage: Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Neither one f-cks around about money. There is a complication, though. Beyoncé and Jay-Z file their taxes separately (not By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Hampshire in The End of Sex Movies about monogamous hetero couples closing in on middle age and having an intimacy crisis about it are nothing new. Stanley Kubrick trod this ground in Eyes Wide Shut to great effect, and The End of Sex follows a familiar path, albeit in a suburban Canadian setting, which means that By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 03:25 pm
India Amarteifio Queen Charlotte arrives Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story drops next week on Netflix, and the premiere was this week in Los Angeles. I’ll have a full review next week, but in short: it’s mostly good, and problematic exactly where I thought it would be. Why Shonda Rhimes and the Bridgerton team By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 11:32 am
Rihanna Rihanna went to Vegas Yesterday, Lainey wondered where Rihanna was jetting off to just days before the Met Gala, and now we know—she went to Las Vegas for CinemaCon. There, she appeared on stage during the Paramount presentation to announce her involvement in a new animated Smurfs movie. She is a producer, and By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 09:13 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, A strike is looming. Those of us old enough remember the writers’ strike of 2007-08 and all the weird entertainment that grew out of it have been through this before. Some of the strike-era productions were good—like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (although many of us may By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 08:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Next Goal Wins looks charming* CinemaCon rolls on, and one of the (few) trailers released is for Next Goal Wins, Michael Fassbender’s return to acting since taking a break (technically a “retirement”, but come on, no one really believed he was never going to act again) following 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It’s By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 03:08 pm
TV Updates John Mulaney survived Once and future internet darling John Mulaney returns with a new standup special after a wild couple of years. His flameout was well-documented: relapse, rehab, divorce, surprise baby with Olivia Munn. The internet had Many Opinions on all of it, but in his new, super-sized special, Baby J, Mulaney mostly By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 11:37 am
Douchebags The Flash hype train is now boarding CinemaCon is ongoing in Las Vegas, and The Flash was the centerpiece of the Warner Bros. Discovery presentation yesterday, dropping a new trailer—which was released online—and screening the whole film for an audience of press and theater owners. The Flash hype train is officially leaving the station, and By Sarah • Apr 26, 2023 12:21 pm
TV Updates Jury Duty is 2023’s first must-watch show Earlier this month, a show quietly debuted on Amazon Prime’s Freevee channel called Jury Duty. The final episodes dropped last Friday, and over the three weeks Jury Duty aired, it introduced us to Ronald Gladden, aka America’s Sweetheart. Jury Duty is a high-concept comedy series from Gene Stupnitsky By Sarah • Apr 25, 2023 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians have to pass the test Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 comes out in just two weeks. Chris Pratt is still riding high from the bonanza success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is only a week or so away from hitting one billion dollars. But he’s already onto the next blockbuster, promoting By Sarah • Apr 25, 2023 11:12 am
Top Reads Jonathan Majors: Situation Unchanged It has been one month since Jonathan Majors was charged in relation to a domestic violence incident involving his now ex-girlfriend. In that time, his management company and publicist have dropped him (though he is still, at present, represented by the talent agency WME). The US Army also reconfigured a By Sarah • Apr 24, 2023 12:13 pm
