Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts isn’t done wasting its potential Because franchise death is slow and grinding, we still have to get through Fantastic Beasts 3, officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The first trailer dropped yesterday—one day after JK Rowling wrote some new transphobic sh-t in The Times that I won’t link to because By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 03:19 pm
Keanu Reeves Meme on Keanu As I mentioned yesterday, this will happily be a week of Keanu Reeves content as we approach the release of The Matrix Resurrections. Keanu stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. Do you remember the last time Keanu was on Colbert? It was during the press tour By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 02:41 pm
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill is keeping busy The Witcher season two drops on Netflix this Friday, and Henry Cavill is out doing the publicity rounds. I do not love the outfit going into The Late Show, something about the pocket square and shirt with no collar is bugging me. Or maybe it’s the entirely too dad By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 01:29 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch, Skater Boy Up until last night, Benedict Cumberbatch hasn’t been much of a presence on the Spider-Man: No Way Home press tour, even though Doctor Strange is a big factor in the movie. Most of his press appearances the last few months have been connected to The Power of the By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 12:31 pm
Tom Holland The Mask of Zendaya This is what it was all building to – the big Hollywood premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home happened last night and as far as Zendaya’s looks have been concerned the last few weeks, it was the one we were all waiting on. Custom Valentino. Slinky. And, yes, a By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 12:04 pm
Ryan Gosling Ryan’s quick hair change To another Canadian Ryan, one we don’t see often – here are some shots of Ryan Gosling still working on The Gray Man in Los Angeles the other day. The production schedule for this film, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, etc), is like a By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 10:36 am
Business of Hollywood And Just Like…Ryan Reynolds Yesterday in my post about Ryan Reynolds, Peloton, and And Just Like That, I wrote about the turnaround time for Ryan’s agency, Maximum Effort, to produce the new Peloton ad that came out this weekend that basically fixed the company’s crisis following the premiere of the Sex and By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 10:15 am
Sandra Oh Intro for December 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, Simu Liu was at the Hollywood premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home last night. That’s not a surprise. Shang-Chi is part of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it’s assumed that Peter Parker and Shang-Chi will eventually unite in some way By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 09:49 am
What Else What Else? As we’ve seen, it’s a big moment for Rachel Zegler right now. She received her first acting nominations today and there may be more to come. Which means more red carpets. She was at a CNN event the other day wearing what I think is her best look By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 04:15 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 13, 2021 Miss this awful bunch of people. It’s unfortunate that the overwhelming content churn makes shows like this disappear so quickly because it really was a standout of 2021. It wasn’t underrated by any means, just forgotten about very quickly. Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Aaron Sorkin should have By Maria • Dec 13, 2021 03:39 pm
TV Updates Succession: What’s love got to do with it? Now that we’ve all Googled “what is a holding company” we can celebrate and mourn this brilliant season finale. There are two pivotal moments that happened last week that were overshadowed by the pool scene: Kendall’s publicist mentioning a podcast on Roy scandals, including the drowning of a By Maria • Dec 13, 2021 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics’ Choice nominations: As expected, no Green Knight The Critics’ Choice Association just announced their film nominations, on the heels of the HFPA announcing the Golden Globes nominations earlier this morning. Full disclosure, I am a member of the CCA, so I get to nominate films, and while I didn’t expect all my nominations to line up By Sarah • Dec 13, 2021 02:21 pm
Keanu Reeves Keanu & Alex: Bill & Ted’s Double Date Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter gave Bill & Ted fans a little reunion this weekend – the two met up for dinner with their respective partners. Keanu was accompanied by artist Alexandra Grant, his long-time girlfriend and Alex was with his wife, Ramsay Ann Naito. They were out for pizza By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 01:29 pm
Jennifer Lopez Bennifer: A Pre-Holiday Red Carpet See?! Bennifer Weekend Updates! The trend continues! This weekend, they Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez walked a carpet – it was the premiere of The Tender Bar with JLo showing up to support Ben in one of the strongest performances of his career. And this relates to Sarah’s post on By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 12:53 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Golden Globe nominations The Golden Globe Awards will not be broadcast in January, because of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past f-cksh-t. The organisation claims it has undergone sweeping changes but even getting to the point of agreeing to change seemed like such a challenge, right now there’s a By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:19 am
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds… and the City Over the last year or so we’ve been watching Ryan Reynolds killing it – not on camera, as an actor, but off-camera, as the head of perhaps one of the most innovative creative agencies in the industry, Maximum Effort. Just last week, I posted about Ryan and Maximum Effort By Lainey • Dec 13, 2021 11:01 am
