Cannes 2025 Cannes 2025: The Final Carpet And that’s it for Cannes 2025 as the festival wrapped up last night with the traditional award ceremony celebrating this year’s honourees. The Palme d’Or went to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident. He's been sent to prison twice in Iran for criticising By Lainey • May 26, 2025 11:40 am
Business of Hollywood Stitch ate the box office (Ethan Hunt helped) Following Sinners’ super-powered spring box office (now at $339 million), the 2025 Memorial Day weekend box office ushers in summer with a record-breaking $322 million four-day holiday haul, beating the previous record set on Memorial Day weekend in 2014, when Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, and Star By Sarah • May 26, 2025 10:21 am
Seth Rogen Intro for May 26, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s a holiday weekend in the United States but the work will pick up almost immediately afterwards, not only because there are some other major summer blockbuster releases that are about to come out but because these are the final two weeks before Emmy nomination voting begins By Lainey • May 26, 2025 10:03 am
What Else Saoirse and Ayo step out Saoirse Ronan was in Avignon, France yesterday for Louis Vuitton. She’s been an ambassador since January 2024 and fronted the SS25 campaign that dropped a few months ago. Saoirse looks great in this slip dress but the fashion wasn’t the conversation – or, rather, speculation. We don’t have By Lainey • May 23, 2025 03:38 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: Mormon wives, summer goodbye, dammit Janet It’s been confirmed that Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania is headed to Real Housewives of Rhode Island in a casting shakeup. Who knows what this means for her original franchise. Word on the street is that Erika Jayne joined the ranks of Luann De Lesseps in By Stephanie • May 23, 2025 02:45 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 23, 2025 Jacquemus parlayed its itty bitty bag into It Brand stardom, then fell into serious financial trouble. But it only takes one piece to turn a house around and they may have just dropped the sneaker of the summer. This is very Bella Hadid, and I think we will see multiple By Maria • May 23, 2025 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennial nostalgia in Lilo & Stitch In 2002, the Hawaiian-set animated adventure Lilo & Stitch proved a surprise hit for Disney. Just past the peak of the Disney Renaissance that drove animated films in the Nineties, including such films as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch came at By Sarah • May 23, 2025 12:43 pm
Top Reads The Taylor Swift Subpoena: Volunteer or Nothingburger? “Another day, another drama, drama…” But also… “I swear I don’t love the drama, it loves me” I don’t believe that lyric from Taylor Swift all of the time, but I do believe in the case between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. As I’ve been saying, Taylor By Lainey • May 23, 2025 12:08 pm
Cannes 2025 A smattering of Cannes fashion The Cannes Film Festival ends this weekend, which means it’s time for that annual end-of-Cannes event, the amFAR Gala. As we’ve mentioned several times over the last couple weeks, the fest’s new dress code rules, targeting “naked and voluminous” dresses, has maybe contributed to a rather boring By Sarah • May 23, 2025 11:38 am
BTS Jin in New York: Hi-Ten to Countdown After lighting up the Empire State Building earlier this week, Jin has continued to promote his album, Echo, in New York the last couple of days. There was an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and yesterday he was at a fan event. Tickets to Hi Seokjin were By Lainey • May 23, 2025 10:20 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, For a while now, the already fractious relationship between movie studios and film critics has been worsening as studios lean harder and harder on influencers to promote their movies. It’s one thing when they’re using influencers to fill a marketing void left by the devaluing of By Sarah • May 23, 2025 09:53 am
What Else Sabrina Carpenter’s new dog? Sabrina Carpenter is currently on break from touring until she plays two shows in London in July before breaking again until the fall when she’ll hit several cities in North America before finally wrapping up Short n’ Sweet just before American Thanksgiving. Here she is hanging at a park By Lainey • May 22, 2025 04:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 22, 2025 Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson cover Variety and of course, despite the expansiveness of their work (particularly Kaitlin), the headline is their support of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Rob’s quote on it is quite direct; he is trying to do show support in a way that doesn’t By Maria • May 22, 2025 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning As the potentially final film in Tom Cruise’s long run as super spy Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning has the unenviable task of giving Ethan an appropriate send-off, just in case it IS the last time Cruise plays this character, and wrapping up the story begun in By Sarah • May 22, 2025 12:14 pm
Top Reads Janet Jackson’s Top 5 AMA Moments It’s been three years since the last American Music Awards, and since the show is making its big return on Monday, they are pulling out the big guns by announcing that none other than Janet Jackson will be receiving the ICON Award. This is a newer award introduced in By MC • May 22, 2025 11:45 am
Cannes 2025 Paul Mescal in Cannes These are fresh photos of Paul Mescal in Cannes today at the photo call for The History of Sound which premiered last night but it’s not his gala look that’s doing it for me, it’s Paul Mescal in the daylight. Honestly, the original point of this post By Lainey • May 22, 2025 10:24 am
