TV Updates Amandla Stenberg’s Star Wars fit The Acolyte premieres next week, the latest entry into New New Star Wars which looks back to a time before Skywalkers. It looks promising, and I can’t wait to see if creator and showrunner Leslye Headland found a story path for Star Wars free of Skywalkers and original trilogy By Sarah • May 29, 2024 01:21 pm
As Seen on Social Media As Seen On Social Media: Dakota Johnson in Ralphcore, Millie Bobby Brown in gingham Dakota Johnson on set Yesterday, Lainey posted some photos of Dakota Johnson on set and then I was asked about other photos of her on set in a blue baseball cap. That’s two Dakota Johnson posts back-to-back. What is this, Jacek Week???? Here is that hat in question, it’ By Maria • May 29, 2024 12:07 pm
Hook Ups Couples Updates: Bennifer, Kendall, and Benito Jennifer Lopez was seen yesterday leaving a meeting in Beverly Hills. The paps got a shot of her in the car as she was lifting her hand and apparently she didn’t have her wedding band on. Meanwhile, Ben Affleck was on the set of The Accountant 2 looking very By Lainey • May 29, 2024 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy-Bob on set Timothée Chalamet is currently at work on James Mangold’s latest music biopic, A Complete Unknown. The film is adapted from Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! and depicts the moment in Bob Dylan’s career when the young folk singer switched from acoustic to electric guitars. Mangold has By Sarah • May 29, 2024 10:05 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, I wrote about the (many) ills plaguing theatrical exhibition of films at home, on their nice big TVs with their nice sound systems. I get it! Especially when you add in overall comfort, lower cost, optimal snack options, and lack of rude people. Watching movies at home By Sarah • May 29, 2024 09:10 am
What Else What Else? I LOVE hot dogs so I love this piece about hot dog season by Olivia Craighead. That said, the hot dog they use in the photo is not my ideal hot dog. The wiener should not be shorter than the bun. The tips of the wiener should stick out just By Lainey • May 28, 2024 04:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 28, 2024 Chrissy Teigen went from the Mayor of Twitter to social media enemy #1 and now is somewhere in between. Her fans are her fans and her haters are her haters and there’s probably not much she can do to move the needle either way. But there is a pattern By Maria • May 28, 2024 03:30 pm
Top Reads Angelina in Japan Angelina Jolie covers the new issue of Vogue Japan. The photos are exquisite – because no matter what changes, Angelina Jolie can take a f-cking photo. This shoot, however, is different from many of the shoots we’ve seen of Angelina over the years. And the difference, of course, is in By Lainey • May 28, 2024 02:34 pm
Break Ups Is Dakota Johnson single? Jacek is posting today in lieu of Emily so it seems like the gossip gods are giving him with some Dakota Johnson content. As I mentioned a couple of months ago, Dakota Johnson, Lori Harvey, and Anne Hathaway are his faves. Here she is in New York, continuing to work By Lainey • May 28, 2024 12:22 pm
Equality Issues Chris Pratt's money moves Chris Pratt recently opened up about his early acting days and the struggles he had keeping his earnings in his bank account. During an interview on ’s Sway In The Morning, he revealed that he blew through his first acting paycheck, a whopping $75,000 that he earned from a By Stephanie • May 28, 2024 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The dismal holiday box office It was Memorial Day weekend in the US, a three-day weekend that often signals the start of summer. For film fans, though, Memorial Day is usually a big movie weekend, dominated by a blockbuster release. Well, not this year. 2024 is the worst Memorial Day box office in almost 30 By Sarah • May 28, 2024 10:47 am
Books Intro for May 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s beach read season and there are few novelists right now who are better at giving beach read than Kevin Kwan whose new book, Lies and Weddings, was just released last week. You know the style if you’ve read the Crazy Rich Asians series. Yes, of By Lainey • May 28, 2024 10:07 am
What Else What Else? I’m not breaking any new ground when I say that Inside the NBA is the best sports panel show in the business, in any sport. Shaq, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson can obviously talk ball. But television is also entertainment, and this is LIVE entertainment, so from By Lainey • May 27, 2024 04:01 pm
Jennifer Lopez Celebrity Social Media, May 27, 2024 Cosmetic procedures have become a lot more normalized and widely available, but there’s still little discussion about quality and price. It seems there’s a whole subculture built on seeking out affordable procedures, leading to some very shady and unqualified people who are injecting, pricking, pulling and performing complex By Maria • May 27, 2024 03:09 pm
Cannes 2024 Payal, Viola, and Elle More history happened in Cannes this weekend as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, the first Indian film in competition in 30 years, wins the Grand Prix, making Payal the first Indian female director to screen in Cannes and receive this honour…which was presented by Viola Davis, By Lainey • May 27, 2024 02:21 pm
Cannes 2024 Karla, Zoe, Selena, Adriana: The Best Cannes Actresses There’s been a lot of eyerolling at all the standing ovations in Cannes and how many minutes the ovations last for – so many and so often that the ovations have, arguably, become meaningless. That, however, is not the case for Jacques Audiard’s film Emilia Pérez which received a By Lainey • May 27, 2024 12:54 pm