Movie Reviews and Previews Will you be entertained? As Paramount and Skydance finally agree to a merger, here comes the first trailer for what will be the last big film of the Paramount Pictures era, and it’s a doozy. Gladiator is a nearly perfect film, one of Ridley Scott’s true opuses, which splits the difference between By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 10:30 am
Quiveration Intro for July 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s Tuesday. And right now, for a certain corner of the internet, Tuesdays are for Manny Jacinto. You know exactly what I mean if you’ve been watching The Acolyte. New episodes drop Tuesdays at 9pm ET/6pm PT. And for the last two weeks especially, social By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 09:25 am
What Else What Else? Serena Williams has cast her vote for Song of the Summer, and she’s also taken a side in the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. The G.O.A.T. is from Compton and she’s staying with Compton – “Not Like Us” is her jam. It’s now been two By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 8, 2024 Flip to the third photo in this album to see Emma Roberts (who reposted this in her stories). There’s already a fight brewing over this between online menace Bethenny Frankel and professional delulu artist Luann De Lesseps. Emma Roberts is a huge fan and knows how these women move By Maria • Jul 08, 2024 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers reassembled in Lakota Over the weekend, Marvel dropped a video online showing only some of the 15-month process to create a Lakota-language dub of The Avengers, reuniting the original cast to re-record their roles in the Lakota language. This is a HUGE step for Indigenous language preservation. As Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 02:08 pm
Music The Tears of TNT? Travis Kelce was at Taylor Swift’s show in Amsterdam on Saturday and, well, just as it’s been for weeks during The Eras Tour, there’s a moment that’s gone viral between the two of them. It feels like we’re back on TNT episodic television again. It By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 01:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie: Venice… soon? After spending much of the year in New York working on The Outsiders, Angelina Jolie had been in LA the last couple of weeks, which is where she spent the Fourth of July weekend, seen on Sunday with son Knox at the pet store. This is our latest installment of: By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 12:13 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Tom avoids the Pitt stop? In the previous post to this one, Sarah wrote about Brad Pitt’s new racing movie– basically Top Gun but make it F1. Thirty-four years ago it was called Days of Thunder, although motorsport nerds will tell you in a know-it-all voice that that was NASCAR. Whatever, you get the By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 11:24 am
Jock Smut Brad Pitt goes vroom Over the weekend we got our first look at Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie, now officially titled F1. It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski, and stars Pitt as a veteran racecar driver who comes out of retirement to show a younger driver, played by Damson Idris, the ways of By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 10:42 am
Jock Smut Intro for July 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Get in there, Lewis!” Silverstone was like a movie yesterday, a cinematic experience with a Hollywood script (as cameras continued to roll on an actual film being produced – we’ll talk about that later), and a star that seems like he could only exist on the big screen. By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 09:51 am
What Else What Else? PROGRAMMING NOTE: As mentioned in today’s open, we are living on the edge – not posting tomorrow, the site will be dark, and regular gossip schedule will resume on Monday. HOWEVER, a new mailbag will be posted at The Squawk… and we’re coming with swag! Now for your weekend By Lainey • Jul 04, 2024 04:27 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Celebrity Social Media, July 4, 2024 July 4th is a significant celebrity anniversary – Julia Roberts and Danny Moder. And if you say you knew it would last, I would side-eye you. Julia was a wonderfully chaotic love tornado. This relationship brought us “A Low Vera” and honestly, all these years later, I still don’t understand By Maria • Jul 04, 2024 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Nicholson in Janet Planet Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her feature directorial debut with Janet Planet, a film in which “nothing happens” except, probably, the most consequential summer of a young girl’s life. Set in 1991 in rural Massachusetts, the film follows eleven-year-old Lacy (newcomer Zoe Ziegler) and her mother, Janet (Julianne By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds's Korean Appreciation The Deadpool & Wolverine press tour has kicked off in East Asia. As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and director Shawn Levy were in Shanghai and today they’ve stopped in Seoul where Ryan, at this point, is no stranger to the entertainment system. As we By Lainey • Jul 04, 2024 03:28 pm
Business of Hollywood A Paramount merger is back on (probably) This is starting to feel like Wayne and Garth shouting “game off” and “game on” as cars interrupt their street hockey. I know I am dating myself with this reference, but it feels the most apt for the start-stop nature of whatever the f-ck is happening at Paramount. Just last By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 12:59 pm
BFFs A Turd in the Baccarat Crystal Punchbowl When Lainey and I were texting about me writing this story, I said I would do it in the voice of Lady Whistledown but honestly, who has time for this sh-t? And I truly mean “sh-t”! About three weeks ago, I received a letter from a dearest gentle reader that By Maria • Jul 04, 2024 11:53 am
