TV Updates Intro for August 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Emmys voting is now underway and will continue until next Wednesday 27 August. As I mentioned earlier this week, this is a competitive year across pretty much all the major categories, including Outstanding Drama Series. In its freshman year, The Pitt has come out to challenge high-profile favourites By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “Life moves pretty fast…” Some of you should be able to finish this sentence, or add another one to it: “If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Here are Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in Vancouver, working together for the first time since Ferris By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 04:12 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 20, 2025 Taika Waititi celebrated his 50th birthday this past weekend and he and Rita Ora celebrated it in Ibiza along with a list of celebrity friends that included Matt Damon, Kate Moss, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joel Edgerton, and cigarettes. We’ll come back to the cigarettes shortly. Instead of nicotine, let’ By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s new dance partner: Tonatiuh The first full trailer for Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman was released today ahead of the film’s theatrical release on October 10 which, of course, positions it as an award season hopeful. And that also means that Jennifer Lopez will be spending the fall campaigning. But By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Splitsville… on and offscreen Dakota Johnson and the cast and crew of Splitsville, which includes Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Kyle Marvin, and Nicholas Braun, were at the premiere and after-party last night in LA. The movie is about a man who finds out his wife By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 01:29 pm
Quiveration Austin, Zoë, and a Canadian Cat Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz were in matching black and white last night in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, opening on August 29. This casting combo is the selling feature, especially for the internet, which in some corners has been theorising that these two By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 11:52 am
TV Updates Fallout’s sci-fi escape hatch I really enjoyed the first season of Fallout, Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game series. In fact, I like it so much, I will go out on a limb and say that Walton Goggins should have gotten an Emmy nomination for Fallout, not The White Lotus. His By Sarah • Aug 20, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, We’re just about a week away from the start of the Venice Film Festival and then Telluride and TIFF right after, so trailers and other promotional materials for projects that will be premiering and, perhaps, kicking off their Oscar campaigns are now being released. That includes Edward By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 09:34 am
Style Gaga and her Labubu Lady Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polanski were photographed in Malibu yesterday picking up coffee. She’s had a few days off from touring and is enjoying her downtime – dressed lowkey and minimal makeup if any. But not without the huge engagement ring. The ring is not the accessory of By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 04:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 19, 2025 Nicolandria Nation – are we good?! Keke Palmer released her episode with Nic and Taylor today and it was recorded at least a couple of weeks ago so it didn’t hit, for me, the way I was hoping. Social media is blowing up a few cute moments, like when Nic By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 03:13 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Beats of KAYTRANADA When KAYTRANADA burst onto the music scene in 2010, he became known for remixing his favourite hits through his own hypnotic beats. It wouldn’t take long before the masses fell in love, with his Montreal Boiler Room set being one of the key moments in his rise. One of By MC • Aug 19, 2025 02:25 pm
BFFs Jen and Jim: Slow Dating Just over a month ago, Jennifer Aniston’s love life made its return to gossip when she went on holiday with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka accompanied by her new plus one, hypnotist Jim Curtis. Since then she and Jim went on another double with Jason and Amanda in New By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 12:11 pm
Music Sabrina Carpenter: Is it Pedro? Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, comes out August 29. A new billboard showed up yesterday and… the internet has a theory. I was made aware of this at our morning meeting today by some of our younger even-more-extremely-online colleagues whose feeds are dominated by the western By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell on the prowl Not really, I just liked the rhyme. Glen Powell is very busy, having finally launched into the stratosphere following the double whammy of Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You. Some of us—me—were predicting his big fame in the latter half of the 2010s, off the backs of By Sarah • Aug 19, 2025 10:19 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, There were some interesting numbers in the Puck newsletter on Monday for someone who loves numbers and her fans: Taylor Swift. This is related to her appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, last week. And the ratings are in. Per Puck: “The NFL brothers’ By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 09:24 am
What Else Weekly Rihanna Update Rihanna stepped out in LA yesterday and her main (and only) goal was to run errands and spend time with RZA but the unintended but appreciated update is to let us know she hasn’t yet given birth to her third child. RiRi did not join Rocky at the Highest By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 04:02 pm
