Movie Reviews and Previews Priscilla by Sofia Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film, Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me”, comes out in October and the first trailer dropped yesterday. This of course is just a year after Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis was released – the film would go on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including By Lainey • Jun 22, 2023 12:39 pm
TV Updates Kaia and Austin’s engagement denial As Maria mentioned in Celebrity Social Media late last week, there was rumour going around that Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler are engaged. The rumour started at DeuxMoi and a tip about Austin proposing in April and the couple trying to keep it low-key. TMZ followed up with a report By Lainey • May 30, 2023 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The less boring Dune The first trailer for Dune: Part Two (sadly, not titled Dune: Part Deunx) dropped today, showing off the return of Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya as desert would-be lovers Paul Atreides and Chani, as well as new cast additions Florence Pugh, as imperial Princess Irulan, and Austin Butler as the bald By Sarah • May 03, 2023 02:35 pm
Michael B Jordan The TIME 100: A Met Gala Appetizer? As mentioned in today’s open, even though there are always a lot of celebrities in New York on any given day, it feels extra loaded right now because the Met Gala is coming up soon. There was also the TIME 100 event last night which brought a lot of By Lainey • Apr 27, 2023 02:12 pm
Faux Gossip Austin Butler & Vanessa Hudgens: Oscar Strangers I included Vanessa Hudgens yesterday in my post about Austin Butler’s award season experience and how he was interviewed on the Oscar carpet by her co-host Ashley Graham instead. Twitter, not surprisingly, was full of jokes about their avoidance. Austin Butler and Vanessa Hudgens seeing each other on the By Lainey • Mar 14, 2023 11:50 am
Oscars 2023 Austin, Vanessa, Paul, and Brian Austin Butler told Ashley Graham on the red carpet that being at the Oscars "feels like a dream come true, I can't believe I'm here right now. It's just celebrating with all these beautiful people. The thing that I didn't realize By Lainey • Mar 13, 2023 07:20 am
Award Season Campaigning Brendan and Austin are tight too Sarah just wrote in the previous post about the Best Actress Oscar race and how it’s pretty much a dead heat between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett now after the SAG Awards. On the Best Actor side, it’s tight too. Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan is By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 11:10 am
Award Season Campaigning The big BAFTA weekend We are getting down to the wire in awards season, with the BAFTAs and the Directors’ Guild Awards occurring over the weekend. Because of their recent voting changes, the BAFTAs aren’t as central to the Oscar race as they used to be; for instance, despite both giving excellent performances, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 11:06 am
Quiveration Austin Butler Handles the Heat Austin Butler has been at the Santa Barbara Film Festival the last few days, participating in panel events and interviews, as one of the recipients of the Virtuosos Award, recognising the best performances of the last year. This has been the major Oscar campaign stop this week, as several Oscar By Lainey • Feb 17, 2023 12:02 pm
Selena Gomez The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2023 This is probably the most highly anticipated Vanity Fair issue of the year: the annual Hollywood Issue. Typically the actors who are featured in the Hollywood Issue are the ones with the most buzz, the ones around whom the industry will orbit for years. For many years, Vanity Fair got By Lainey • Feb 15, 2023 11:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Gorgessity Austin and Kaia after the Globes Austin Butler’s date for the Golden Globes was his sister, Ashley. His girlfriend, of course, is Kaia Gerber, who met up with Austin and Ashley at the after-party. Here they are leaving hand-in-hand, after celebrating his first major win. It was 330am, and Kaia was seen falling asleep in By Lainey • Jan 12, 2023 10:40 am
Golden Globes 2023 Austin Butler: Elvis Tabulation Golden Globes Edition Colin Farrell and Austin Butler were the two winning lead actors in the film categories last night. As Sarah wrote in today’s open, there’s a three-way race right now for Oscar Best Actor and both had the stage at the Golden Globes to make their case to the By Lainey • Jan 11, 2023 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out in By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
